Forging Fame

by Craig Abbott

If poets are liars by profession, Sharmel Iris was truly professional. Poet, plagiarist, imposter, and forger, Iris engaged in a lifelong campaign of self-promotion that linked him to a constellation of leading writers and public figures, among them T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Joyce Kilmer, Ezra Pound, Dame Edith Sitwell, Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Wrigley, and Woodrow...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875803768
• ISBN13: 9780875803760
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher