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Irving, Clifford

LC control no.n 50029414
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3559.R79
Personal name headingIrving, Clifford
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Variant(s)Irving, Klifford
Ирвинг, Клиффорд
See alsoFor works of this author written in collaboration with Herbert Burkholz, search also under: Luckless, John.
Luckless, John
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Birth date1930-11-05
Death date2017-12-19
Place of birthManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Place of deathSarasota (Fla.)
Field of activityLiterary forgeries and mystifications
Profession or occupationAuthors
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated
Found inSledstvie zashchity, 1996: t.p. (Klifford Irving)
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1930)
b. Nov. 5, 1930, New York, NY
New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 21, 2017 (in obituary published Dec. 20: Clifford Irving; b. Clifford Michael Irving, Nov. 5, 1930, Manhattan; d. Tuesday [Dec. 19, 2017], Sarasota, Fla., aged 87; perpetrated one of the biggest literary hoaxes of the 20th century in the early 1970s when he concocted a supposedly authorized autobiography of the billionaire Howard Hughes based on meetings and interviews that never took place)
Associated languageeng
Invalid LCCNn 78027612