William Donati says:
May 3, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Noted hoax biographer Charles Higham is dead.
For decades Higham feasted on the corpses of dead celebrities: Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes, Cary Grant, and others were victims of Higham’s degenerate imagination.
I proved that Higham engaged in the most heinous crime a non-fiction writer can perpetrate: he engaged in literary fraud to prove his thesis. Higham rewrote and published a government surveillance document to lie to readers that Flynn had been identified by authorities as a Nazi spy. The Los Angeles Times published my findings in “Shadows on a Legend” by Garry Abrams, March 24, 1989. Higham crowned himself as the worst hoax biographer in modern times.
William Donati
-Special Thanks to Karl Holmberg
— David DeWitt
Robzak
May 4, 2012 at 3:39 pm
And Tony Thomas finished the job–forever–with his “The Spy Who Never Was.”
timerider
May 5, 2012 at 4:11 pm
After much research I can see now that Charles had a very full career over the years as a prolific writer. It seems in the last half of his writings he veered off into another dimension. To Robzak I apologize for being overly judgmental and everyone has a place to fill even in the negative. It seems that some of this controversy about Charles can be proven that he was criminal in many of his
assertions of Errol as a spy.
smoothdub
June 30, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Hello –
My name is Louis Chalif, son of Sonny (Selmer) Chalif. I am looking for William Donati. louischalif@yahoo.com…
Thanks