Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger

I have read this having seen the film a couple of times and loved it. The book is almost funnier. Short of money, biographer Lee Israel, took to selling an original letter by Fanny Brice to a dealer that she'd stolen from a research library. She quickly learned the more interesting the content the higher the price and so she took to expertly forging typed letters by the likes of Dorothy Parker, Edna Furber and Noel Coward. So good were her forgeries that two of her Cowards ended up years later in a published collection of his correspondence which were removed by the second edition.
She was found out and narrowly avoided prison but while it brought an end to that particular trimester of her life as she refers to the stages of her forging career, she wasn't entirely repentant given the dishonesty of the dealers she sold to. A very short but highly entertaining and memorable read.