Posted on 03/04/2008 12:17:23 PM PST by pissant
In "Love and Consequences," a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.
The problem is that none of it is true.
Margaret B. Jones is a pseudonym for Margaret Seltzer, who is all white and grew up in the well-to-do Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley, with her biological family. She graduated from the Campbell Hall School, a private Episcopal day school in the North Hollywood neighborhood. She has never lived with a foster family, nor did she run drugs for any gang members. Nor did she graduate from the University of Oregon, as she had claimed.
Riverhead Books, the unit of Penguin Group USA that published "Love and Consequences," is recalling all copies of the book and has canceled Seltzer's book tour, which was scheduled to start on Monday in Eugene, Oregon, where she currently lives.
In a sometimes tearful, often contrite telephone interview from her home on Monday, Seltzer, 33, who is known as Peggy, admitted that the personal story she told in the book was entirely fabricated. She insisted, though, that many of the details in the book were based on the experiences of close friends she had met over the years while working to reduce gang violence in Los Angeles.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
More Snake Oil from Oprah.
You’d think someone would have looked at her and realized that pasty complexion was not half Indian.
“Al Sharpton, pick up the white courtesy phone - the white courtesy phone please.”
But it is her sincerity that counts!
Well of course you had to resort to fiction. Look lady, get career in journalism. Then you can write fiction but pass it along as relayed by "confidential sources", and weave all the left-wing self-loathing perpetual-victimhood whitey-made-me-do-it BS every day!
False, but accurate? Future selection of the Dan Rather book club?
Yes, I lied, but it was for a good reason.
Author? if she had written a novel........as it is I would all her a liar.
GUILTY!
She meant to be a gang-banger and that should be enough. She’s a vicim.
You would think at least Dan Rather would come out and support this poor girl who is being presecuted by the Evil Bush Administration.(TM)
Key novels are considered declasse and the authors given a dismissive sneer.
She told liberal racists exactly what they wanted to hear and they bought her book as penance.
Lotta money in that.
Do you think that there might be some humor in this, I can see a Flashman.
Come now, one mustn’t be too harsh on the young woman. The American public doesn’t demand honesty from politicians, preachers, and professors. Arguably these might have a greater effect upon one’s life than some “How I Rose Above
My Origins” sob story.
After “12 Steps to Recovery” and sufficient rehabilitation on Dr. Phil’s Circus of the Lame the author will be able to return from the darkness of literary invisibility healed and
ready to write of her restoration to the light of Oprah’s smile. (p.s., I’m 1/6,000,000,000th. Native-American.)
Yep. She’s running for Nobel Prize for Peace a la Menchu.
Right now, Seltzer needs an Alka-Seltzer.
She may be a lying prevaricator, but she's not physically ugly.
Maybe not, but it won't be long.
Movie of the Week guaranteed.
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