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Clifford Michael Irving was born in New York City. He is an American investigative reporter and novelist who has written and published twenty books under his own name. Irving's 1981 book titled The Hoax is the author's version of events surrounding the fake autobiography. The book was made into a 2006 biopic of the same name starring Richard Gere as Clifford Irving. After graduating in 1947 from Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Irving attended Cornell University, graduated with honors in English, and worked on his first novel, On a Darkling Plain, while he was a copy boy at The New York Times. He completed his second novel, The Losers, as he traveled throughout Europe. Irving's third novel, The Valley, is a Western, published by McGraw-Hill.