Margaret B Jones

Mar 21 2008

npr discusses memoirs and free reads

NPR this morning discussed the fake memoir and the online previews of books. The acclaimed but fake memoir of Margaret B. Jones aka Peggy Seltzer came under attack by writers who actually did live the gang life. Needless to say, the writers feel disrespected by Seltzer’s attempt to profit off of their lives. But more [...]

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Mar 4 2008

Yet Another Fake Memoir (YAFM): Love and Consequences by Margaret B Jones

It only took a week to debunk supposed memoir Love and Consequences by Margaret B Jones. L&C was a story about Margaret’s “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 author, Margaret Seltzer, is a) all white b) [...]

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