Hasn’t got a patch on Alex Hailey and his phony Kunta Kinte crapola.
Alex Hailey of “Roots” was a fraud too.
NT Times article I came across: “Alex Haley acknowledges and regrets that vatious materials from ‘The African’ by Harold Courlander found their way into his book ‘Roots.”
“Mr. Haley had conceded that parts of “Roots” were fictionalized, but he denied that he had knowingly made any factual errors. He defended his book about his ancestors as “a symbolic history of a people.”