http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/6042/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/times-gets-taken-another-fabulist <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Meet &quot;Margaret B. Jones,&quot; author of a gang memoir about her days as a half-white girl in the hood that turned out to be totally fabricated. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Last Thursday, the Times' <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/garden/28jones.html?ref="books" " target="_self">Motoko Rich </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/garden/28jones.html?ref="books" ">profiled Margaret B. Jones</a>, author of the gang memoir "Love and Consequences," for the Times' Home & Garden section. But the real drama came in Rich's shocking front-page follow-up - both the book publisher and the Times has been taken in by "Margaret B. Jones," whose life story turned out to be a lie.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/times-gets-taken-another-fabulist" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Books Fake Gaffes Gangs MargaretB.Jones memoir MotokoRich NewYorkTimes NicholasConfessore NYTimes RacialIssues TimesWatch TimesWatch.org Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:52:00 +0000 admin 6034 at http://archive2.mrc.org