Literary forgeries

antisemitic hoax text

British writer, poet, translator and politician (1736-1796)

late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman Emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers of the period 117–284; much of its content is regarded as fictional

English poet and forger (1752-1770)

thumb|upright=1.2|Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787

series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau

1996 hoax accepted by an academic journal

English writer (1910-1981)

American writer

Spanish rabbi and Kabbalist (c. 1240 – 1305)

Welsh antiquarian and poet (1747–1826)

literary forgery

1973 film by Orson Welles

Scottish writer (1855–1905)

possibly hoax manuscript

Belgian writer

American writer

Karaite scholar (1786–1874)

American author and convicted fraudster (1930-2017)

literary work which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author

2018 group of bogus academic papers

collection of French erotic lesbian poetry in the manner of Sappho by Pierre Louÿs, 1894.

autobiography by Chris Kyle, written with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice

fictious Roman historian

Moldovan and Italian writer

British merchant

1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks

1920 novel by Erich Scheurmann

novel by Vernon Sullivan

Collection of folksongs (faked)

French rabbi

book denying all three Abrahamic religions

1976 novel by Forrest Carter

French writer (1714-1803)

Disgraced American writer (1941–2002)

supposed author of the forged Poésies de Clotilde, which were actually written in the early 19th century

American author and forger (1939-2014)

central document of a conspiracy theory

Holocaust survivor (1929-2015)

work by Lobsang Rampa

1969 novel

literary persona adopted by writer Laura Albert

Hebrew author and publisher

Jordanian American writer

intentionally bad 2004 collaborative novel

19th century Czech forgeries

ancient Japanese literature, ancient literature written in Woshite script

Polish politician

Turkish forgery

Fictional Nazi Poet Created by Anti-Putin activists

purported Lenape historical narrative

fictional French philosopher created in 1995 as part of a literary hoax

book by Misha Defonseca

play written by William Henry Ireland

Turkish-American statesperson (born 1966)

poem

German rabbi

Purported and unproven colonial declaration of independence document

humanist, poet laureate, Classical philologist, Ovidian impersonator, and putative rogue.

2003 novel by James Frey