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The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby's in 1997. The author's detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world's greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is serving a life sentence for double-murder. When the author sets out on the trail of a forged Emily Dickinson poem that has mysteriously turned up for sale at Sotheby's in New York, he finds himself drawn into a world of deception and murder. The trail eventually leads, via the casinos of Las Vegas, to Utah and the darkly compelling world of Mark Hofmann, ex-Mormon and one of the most daring literary forgers and remorseless murderers of all time. As the author uncovers Hofmann's brilliant, and disturbing, career, he takes the reader into the secret world of the Mormon Church and its controversial founder, Joseph Smith. Deeply researched but with the narrative pace of a novel, Worrall's investigation into the life and crimes of this charismatic genius is a real-life detective story you simply won't be able to put down. On the way, you will meet an eclectic cast of characters: undercover detectives and rare book dealers, Dickinson scholars, forensic document experts, hypnotists, gun-dealers and Mormons. As the story reaches its gripping climax, Hofmann becomes trapped in the web of his own deceptions ... and turns to murder.… (més)
certain parts were fascinating. Enjoyed the details of how the forger worked and the parts that dealt with Dickinson's history and the history of forgery and Mormonism. the parts about the psychology of the forger were less appealing, I felt a few times like the author was repeating things the manipulative cold blooded killer had shared as truths, his difficulty with his parents and with the church, it's really all their fault that this guy was willing to let a woman or child he had no interaction with be shredded by a pipe bomb. That was a little off putting, but in general a really interesting and enjoyable read ( )
An interesting tale of the dogged pursuit to uncover what might be a forgery. It bashes a few sacred cows such as Sotheby's and the Mormon Church, exposing both duplicity and incompetency. The research necessary to uncover the truth about an Emily Dickinson poem uncovers many other falsehoods, and, the book is informative about handwriting analysis and the art and the science of reproducing pages that were created in the past. What would seem to be a dry and bland subject becomes an intriguing account of the hunt to unearth the truth. ( )
Not quite as dramatic as the main title would suggest. The murderer and forger was Mark Hofmann, known primarily for his extensive forging of documents purporting to be from the early period of the Church of Latter Day Saints. He also forged quite a number of documents attributed to important American historical and literary figures. This book is about one of those - an alleged manuscript of a poem by, and in the hand of, Emily Dickinson.
An interesting, narrative accounts of the crimes of Mark Hoffman, forger and bomber, through the lens of an Emily Dickinson poem he faked. Thus it serves as a breezy, but thorough introduction to Hoffman and his crimes as well as Emily Dickinson and her poetry. It is a good book for many readers and is accessible for a wide audience. Two problems, though. First, less important, there is no bibliographic matter. No footnotes, no citations, no bibliography. And no index. But this is meant to be for a wide readership, not a scholarly tome. But the second problem is glaring, there are only two images. There is only a picture of the forged Dickinson poem at the end and one legitimate Dickinson poem at the end. If any book begged to have dozens of images, this is it. Pictures of Dickinson, Hoffman, the poems, Lombardo, Hoffman's various forgeries, the bomb damage, the forensic evidence of Hoffman's forgery, etc. But, no, two crummy pictures. That knocks this down a star. You must turn to Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders and other books for better images of Hoffman and his work. Not a replacement for books on Hoffman's crimes or Dickinson's life, but a nice appetizer.
Fun fact, Walter McCrone, who is praised for "proving" the Shroud of Turin was painted, failed to recognize a Hoffman forgery. ( )
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"The Heart wants what it wants -- or else it does not care --" Emily Dickinson
"We have the greatest and smoothest liars in the world, the cunningest and most adroit thieves, and any other shade of character that you mention....I can produce Elders here who can shave their smartest shavers, and take their money from them. We can beat the world at any game." Brigham Young
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To my parents, Nancy and Philip, and my beloved wife, Kate
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It was a cold, crisp fall day as I walked up the driveway of the Emily Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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"I've picked up my father's mandolin," he wrote at the end of his letter, "and I'm learning to play the songs he played."
The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby's in 1997. The author's detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world's greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is serving a life sentence for double-murder. When the author sets out on the trail of a forged Emily Dickinson poem that has mysteriously turned up for sale at Sotheby's in New York, he finds himself drawn into a world of deception and murder. The trail eventually leads, via the casinos of Las Vegas, to Utah and the darkly compelling world of Mark Hofmann, ex-Mormon and one of the most daring literary forgers and remorseless murderers of all time. As the author uncovers Hofmann's brilliant, and disturbing, career, he takes the reader into the secret world of the Mormon Church and its controversial founder, Joseph Smith. Deeply researched but with the narrative pace of a novel, Worrall's investigation into the life and crimes of this charismatic genius is a real-life detective story you simply won't be able to put down. On the way, you will meet an eclectic cast of characters: undercover detectives and rare book dealers, Dickinson scholars, forensic document experts, hypnotists, gun-dealers and Mormons. As the story reaches its gripping climax, Hofmann becomes trapped in the web of his own deceptions ... and turns to murder.
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