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Ex-Voice Writer Admits She Fudged Facts

By AAN Staff
august 1, 2003  11:08 am
Ex-Voice Writer Admits She Fudged Facts
Vivian Gornick told a "stunned" audience at a creative nonfiction seminar that she used "composite" characters for some of her pieces that ran in the Village Voice, reports Terry Greene Sterling. Gornick, who wrote for the Voice from 1969 to 1977, also admitted making up scenes and conversations in "Fierce Attachments," a memoir chronicling her relationship with her mother. Voice Editor Don Forst says Gornick "wouldn't do that under my editorship. If she did it once that would be the end of it."
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