![]() Her story is the inspiration for Can You Ever Forgive Me? A new film, starring Melissa McCarthy as Israel, which traces the authors ascent from struggling biographical writer to a renowned fraud being chased by the FBI. She got so good at this, in fact, that she began fraudulently writing letters as different literary icons or famous actors and selling them for a profit. She became renowned for her celebrity biographies, tracing the lives of people like Katherine Hepburn and Estee Lauder, but what really sets her apart from other middling biographers is that she mastered the very specific art of knowing her subjects so well that she could imitate them. The incredible story of Lee Israel is almost too wild to believe. ![]()
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