The New York Times posts intricate speculation that the writer who so starkly portrays prostitution, drug addiction and homelessness is a concoction both in public persona and authorship. But can it ever be said that an author is exactly who we think they are from reading them (and would we want that?).
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The book, originally published in 2003 by the Nan A. Talese imprint of Doubleday, soared to the top of the best-seller lists in the fall after it was chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her television book club. Ms. Winfrey’s enthusiastic endorsement helped the book to sell more than two million copies last year, making it the second-highest-selling book of 2005, behind only Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. A Million Little Pieces currently tops the New York Times paperback best-seller list; Mr. Frey’s second book, My Friend Leonard, is on the paper’s hardcover best-seller list.
Mr. Frey has repeatedly stated that his book is true. But a lengthy article posted Sunday by The Smoking Gun Web site (www.thesmokinggun.com) quotes Mr. Frey as saying that events “were embellished in the book for obvious dramatic reasons.”” (New York Times )
