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Lee Israel, born Leonore Carol Israel (December 3, 1939 – December 24, 2014) was a noted author, literary forger and thief. Israel was born in New York City and graduated from Midwood High School, and in 1961 from Brooklyn College. She was the daughter of Jack and Sylvia Israel. She had a brother, Edward.〔(Family Census records ) accessed 5/19/2015〕 ==Journalist and author== She began a career as a freelance writer in the 1960s. The November 1967 edition of ''Esquire'' (magazine) ran her profile of Katharine Hepburn for which Israel had visited California shortly before the death of Hepburn's boyfriend Spencer Tracy in his apartment in Beverly Hills. Israel's magazine career continued into the 1970s. In the 1970s and 1980s she wrote biographies of actress Tallulah Bankhead, journalist and game show panelist Dorothy Kilgallen and cosmetics tycoon Estée Lauder. The biography of Kilgallen was well received and made it onto The New York Times Best Sellers List. In her memoir ''Can You Ever Forgive Me?'' published decades later, Israel claimed that in 1983 she had received a publisher's advance to begin a project on Lauder, "about whom Macmillan wanted an unauthorized biography -- warts and all. I accepted the offer though I didn't give a shit about her warts." Israel made the additional claim that a series of attempts were made by Lauder to bribe her into dropping the project, which Israel said were refused.〔(newspaper in Lodi, California covers both Lauder's book and Israel's book in the same review and confirms Lauder tried to bribe Israel )〕 In the book Israel discredited Lauder's public statements that she was born into European aristocracy and attended church regularly in Palm Beach, Florida.〔(Lauder profile in 1986 issue of newspaper in Glasgow, Scotland reports Lauder's false public statements )〕 When Lauder realized that Macmillan planned to publish Israel's book, Lauder herself wrote a memoir that her publisher timed to coincide with Israel's book in the fall of 1985.〔(confirmation that Lauder's memoir was published within a very short time of publication of Israel's biography of her )〕 Israel's book was panned by critics and proved a commercial failure. Israel had this to say about the impact of this episode with Lauder, "I had made a mistake. Instead of taking a great deal of money from a woman rich as Oprah, I published a bad, unimportant book, rushed out in months to beat (own memoir ) to market." Following her failure with the Lauder biography, Israel's career went into decline, compounded by alcoholism and a personality that some found difficult. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lee Israel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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