by Chris Barton
Thomas, Keron. Telephone interviews with author, October 26, 2009, and December 18, 2009.
Thomas, Robert McG. Jr. “Lawbreakers We Have Known and Loved,” The New York Times, May 16, 1993.
Weir, Richard. “Fame, Fleeting Fame, Found These New Yorkers. Then What Happened?” The New York Times, December 27, 1998.
“Youth gets probation for train joy ride,” Buffalo News (Associated Press), July 15, 1993.
FERDINAND WALDO DEMARA JR.
“All at Sea,” Time, December 3, 1951.
Allen, Mel. “Notable New England Fraud; The man who broke North Haven’s heart,” Yankee Magazine, September 1989.
Burton, Sarah. Impostors: Six Kinds of Liar. Viking, London, 2000.
Chance, Peter. “Dentistry by Proxy,” Starshell, Summer 2007.
———. Telephone interview with author, November 18, 2008.
Coleman, James C. Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life. Scott, Foresman, Glenview, Illinois, 1976.
Crichton, Robert. The Great Impostor/The Rascal and the Road. Avon Books, New York, 1968.
Doyle, Bill. Telephone interview with author, November 19, 2008.
Federal Bureau of Investigation records provided via Freedom of Information Act on March 26, 2009.
“Ferdinand the Bull Thrower,” Time, February 25, 1957.
“Ferdinand Waldo Demara, 60, an impostor in varied fields,” The New York Times (Associated Press), June 9, 1982.
“Ferdinand Waldo Demara; Impostor acted as RCN surgeon,” The Globe and Mail (Associated Press), June 9, 1982.
“Ferdinand ‘Waldo’ Demara: The Great Impostor,” CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum, accessed at http://www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org/resource_pages/chars/demara.html on November 17, 2009.
Heinz, W. C. “The man with a life in his hands,” Life, January 20, 1961.
Hotchin, Beatrice. Telephone interview with author, December 15, 2008.
Hurt, Raymond. The History of Cardiothoracic Surgery from Early Times. Parthenon Publishing, New York, 1996.
Gaffen, Fred. Cross-Border Warriors: Canadians in American Forces, Americans in Canadian Forces. Dundurn Press, Toronto, 1995.
Gardam, John. Korea Volunteer: An Oral History from Those Who Were There. General Store Publishing House, Burnstown, Ontario, 1994.
“‘He’s a Tremendous Man’; Great Imposter Now in Pulpit On San Juan Isle,” Daily Colonist, January 8, 1970.
Horton, David M. and George R. Nielsen. Walking George: The Life of George John Beto and the Rise of the Modern Texas Prison System. University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas, 2005.
“Impostor here for reunion,” Daily Colonist, September 2, 1979.
MacAdam, Pat. “The Great Impostor’s last victim: Fred Demara lived his life in a blur of impersonations—a doctor, a teacher, a Catholic brother and more,” The Ottawa Citizen, April 11, 1999.
McCarthy, Joe. “The master impostor: an incredible tale; Expert at hoaxes tops colorful career by becoming famous Canadian naval surgeon,” Life, January 26, 1952.
“‘A man bitten by an imp’; Great Impostor dies at 60,” Times-Colonist, June 9, 1982.
Medical Department, United States Army. Surgery in World War II: Thoracic Surgery, Volumes 1 and 2. Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., 1963.
Meissner, Dirk. “Man who discovered doctor was Great Imposter dies at 70,” Times-Colonist, February 6, 1991.
Melady, John. Korea: Canada’s Forgotten War. Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1983.
Meyers, Edward C. Telephone interview with author, December 2, 2008.
———. Thunder in the Morning Calm. Vanwell, St. Catharines, Ontario, 1992.
Peate, Les. “The Case of the Spurious Sawbones,” Korea Veterans Association of Canada (Esprit de Corps Magazine), accessed online at http://www.kvacanada.com/stories_lpimposter.htmon November 17, 2009.
“The Persistent Phony,” Newsweek, February 25, 1957.
Pollio, Howard R. Behavior and Existence. Brooks/Cole, Monterey, California, 1982.
Robertson, Ian. “James Plomer,” County Magazine, Winter 1979.
——. “‘Victim’ fondly remembers Great Imposter,” The Whig-Standard, June 9, 1982.
Saxon, Don. Telephone interview with author, November 19, 2008.
Thorgrimsson, Thor and Edward C. Russell. Canadian Naval Operations in Korean Waters, 1950–1955. The Naval Historical Section, Canadian Forces Headquarters, Department of National Defence, Ottawa, 1965.
Tonight Starring Jack Paar, November 16, 1962. The Jack Paar Collection. Sony Shout, 2004. DVD.
Weber, Tom. “The Great Impostor; One man’s years of brilliant deception came to an end on small Maine island,” Bangor Daily News, June 7, 1997.
Wolfendon, Irene. Telephone interview with author, April 28, 2010.
PRIVATE WAKEMAN
Blanton, DeAnne and Lauren M. Cook. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War. Vintage Books, New York, 2003.
Burgess, Lauren Cook. An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862–1864. Oxford University Press, New York, 1995.
Krick, Robert K. Civil War Weather in Virginia. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 2007.
McPherson, James M. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. Oxford University Press, New York, 1997.
Tsui, Bonnie. She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War. TwoDot, Guilford, Connecticut, 2003.
Wiley, Bell I. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Book-of-the-Month Club, New York, 1994.
SOLOMON PEREL
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow. Scholastic Nonfiction, New York, 2005.
Bartov, Omer. Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich. Oxford University Press, New York, 1991.
Diehl, Jackson. “The Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing; Solomon Perel’s Double Life as Jew And Nazi, and the Film It Became,” The Washington Post, March 25, 1992.
Dobroszycki, Lucjan. The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941–1944. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1984.
Elkin, Michael. “My life as a Nazi,” Jewish Exponent, March 5, 1993.
Engelberg, Stephen. “A Life Stranger Than the Movie, ‘Europa, Europa,’ Based on It,” The New York Times, February 19, 1992.
Glantz, David M., editor. The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front 22 June–August 1941. Frank Cass, New York, 1993.
Hershenson, Sarah, Kolja Raube, and Andrzej J. Koszyk. “A Life of Two Souls,” The Jerusalem Post Magazine, August 31, 2001.
Johnson, Eric A. and Karl-Heinz Reuband. What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany. Basic Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995.
Kaplan, Marion A. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press, New York, 1998.
“Solomon Perel, At BU, Talks Of Survival,” The Jewish Advocate, April 1, 1993.
Katz, Leslie. “Real-life hero of Europa Europa to speak in Bay Area,” Jewish Bulletin of Northern California, October 22, 1993.
Perel, Solomon. Europa, Europa. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997.
Vancheri, Barbara. “His personal tragedy led to ‘Europa, Europa,’” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 17, 1993.
“Volkswagen Unveils Plaque to Jewish Hitler Youth Member,” Deutsche Welle, May 11, 2006.
Yaakov, Yosef. “A Survivor,” Jerusalem Post, October 1, 1997.
FORREST CARTER
Aicher, Julie. “University Press Gets Bargain From $500 Purchase of Rights to Best Seller,” The Associated Press, October 1, 1991.
Barra, Allen. “The education of Little Fraud,” Salon.com, December 20, 2001.
Bledsoe, Bob. “Book reviews,” Tulsa World, December 5, 1990.
Browder, Laura. Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities. The University of North Carolina
Press, Chapel Hill, 2000.
———. Telephone interview with author, December 15, 2008.
Carter, Dan T. The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1995.
———. “Southern History, American Fiction: The Secret Life of Southwestern Novelist Forrest Carter,” Rewriting the South: History and Fiction. Francke, Tübingen, Germany, 1993.
———. “The Transformation of a Klansman,” The New York Times, October 4, 1991.
Carter, Forrest. The Education of Little Tree. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2004.
———. Gone to Texas. Delacorte Press, New York, 1975.
Davis, Dick. “The Little Tree in Forrest,” Writer’s Digest, May 1977.
Donahue, Deirdre. “‘Little Tree’ grows into a best seller,” USA Today, October 1, 1991.
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. “‘Authenticity,’ or the Lesson of Little Tree,” The New York Times, November 24, 1991.
Gluck, Robert L. “Little House in the Mountains,” The Washington Post, August 5, 1990.
Gone to Texas: The Lives of Forrest Carter. Written by Laura Browder. Directed by Douglas Newman and Marco Ricci. ITVS, 2010. Incomplete edit on DVD.
“Is Forrest Carter Really Asa Carter? Only Josey Wales May Know for Sure,” The New York Times, August 26, 1976.
Lee, Felicia R. “Best Seller Is a Fake, Professor Asserts,” The New York Times, October 4, 1991.
McDowell, Edwin. “Book Notes,” The New York Times, February 27, 1991.
———. “Book Notes,” The New York Times, April 24, 1991.
Menninger, Karl. “Reading notes,” Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Fall 1990.
Moynihan, Mary M. Book review of The Education of Little Tree, Teaching Sociology, January 1991.
Reid, Calvin. “Widow of ‘Little Tree’ Author Admits He Changed Identity,” Publishers Weekly, October 25, 1991.
Roche, Jeff. “Asa/Forrest Carter and Regional/Political Identity,” The Southern Albatross: Race and Ethnicity in the American South. Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, 1999.
Rubin, Dana. “The Real Education of Little Tree,” Texas Monthly, February 1992.
St. John, Bob. “Little Tree’s spirit lives on in best seller,” The Dallas Morning News, September 17, 1991.
Stansberry, Rhonda. “Good Books Impact Young Imaginations,” The Omaha World-Herald, June 18, 1991.
PRINCESS CARABOO
Borsay, Peter. The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700–2000: Towns, Heritage, and History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 2000.
Gutch, John Matthew. Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, Practised Upon the Benevolence of a Lady Residing in the Vicinity of the City of Bristol, by a Young Woman of the Name of Mary Willcocks, alias Baker, alias Bakerstendht, alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, London, 1817.
“The Princess Caraboo,” Trewman’s Exeter Flying-Post, January 25, 1865.
Spaughton, Bernard. Correspondence with author, August 2, 2008.
———. “Princess Caraboo,” accessed at http://www.btinternet.com/~b.spaughton/caraboo.html on November 19, 2009.
Wells, John. Princess Caraboo: Her True Story. Pan Books, London, 1994.
Wilkinson, C. H. “The Unknown Foreigner,” Trewman’s Exeter Flying-Post , June 12, 1817.
ELLEN CRAFT
Blackett, R. J. M. Beating Against the Barriers: Biographical Essays in Nineteenth-Century Afro-American History. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1986.
Craft, William and Ellen Craft. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1999.
Dilts, James. The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore & Ohio, the Nation’s First Railroad, 1828–1853, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1993
Fradin, Judith Bloom and Dennis Brindell Fradin. 5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft’s Flight from Slavery. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 2006.
Harwood, Herbert H. Jr. Impossible Challenge II: Baltimore to Washington and Harpers Ferry from 1828 to 1994. Barnard, Roberts and Co., Baltimore, 1994.
Hendrick, George and Willene Hendrick, editors. Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad As Told by Levi Coffin and William Still, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004.
McCaskill, Barbara. “‘Trust No Man!’ But What about a Woman? Ellen Craft and a Genealogical Model for Teaching Douglass’s Narrative,” Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, James C. Hall, editor. The Modern Language Association of America, New York, 1999.
———. “‘Yours Very Truly’: Ellen Craft—The Fugitive as Text and Artifact,” African American Review, Volume 28, Number 4, 1994.
McInnis, Maurie D. The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2005.
Mencken, August. The Railroad Passenger Car: An Illustrated History of the First Hundred Years with Accounts by Contemporary Passengers. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1957.
Ripley, C. Peter, editor. The Black Abolitionist Papers, Volume 1: The British Isles, 1830–1865. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1985.
Stover, John F. History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1987.
Way, William. The Old Exchange and Custom House. Rebecca Motte Chapter, South Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, 1942.
White, John H. Jr. The American Railroad Passenger Car. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1979.
JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN
Baker, James T. “John Howard Griffin: Christian in Grease Paint,” The Christian Century, December 22–29, 1982.
Bonazzi, Robert. Correspondence with author, October 16–20, 2008. ———. Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 1997.
Cargas, Harry James. “A Christian Hero,” The Christian Century, November 19, 1980.
Cook, Joan. “John H. Griffin Dead; White Novelist Wrote Book Black Like Me,” The New York Times, September 10, 1980.
Griffin, John Howard. Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition. Wings Press, San Antonio, 2006.
———. Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 2004.
Lott, Eric. “White Like Me: Racial Cross-Dressing and the Construction of American Whiteness,” from Cultures of United States Imperialism, Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, editors. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1993.
Sharpe, Ernest Jr. “The Man Who Changed His Skin,” American Heritage Magazine, February 1989.
RILEY WESTON
Adler, Jerry and Corie Brown with Esther Pan. “Teen Envy in Hollywood,” Newsweek, October 26, 1998.
Axelman, Arthur. “She Fooled Us, but Don’t Discount Her Writing,” Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1998.
Chetwynd, Josh. “A success story too good to be true? Well, yes,” USA Today, October 19, 1998.
Collins, Scott. “The ‘kid’ wants back in the picture; Riley Weston, who fell from sight after posing as a teen writer-actor, seeks a comeback,” Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2004.
de Moraes, Lisa. “‘Teen’ Writer Sensation Has One Big Wrinkle,” The Washington Post, October 16, 1998.
“Drawing the Line, Part 2.” Felicity: Freshman Year Collection (The Complete First Season). Writ. J. J. Abrams and Riley Weston. Dir. Joan Tewkesbury. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2002. DVD.
Epstein, Alex. Crafty TV Writing: Thinking Inside the Box. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2006.
“Felicity Flap,” All Things Considered, National Public Radio, October 16, 1998, transcript.
Flint, Joe. “The Life Of Riley; 32-year-old writer pretended to be 19 and wowed the cast and crew of ‘Felicity’ with her talent,” Entertainment Weekly, October 30, 1998.
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Ford, Luke. Interview with Riley Weston, October 16, 2007. Accessed at http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/rileyweston.htmon November 19, 2009.
Hontz, Jenny. “Old enough to know better; Writer created new teen ID for herself,” Variety, October 15, 1998.
———. “Older, chastened Weston speaks out; Writer: ‘age problem’ contributed to ruse,” Variety, October 16, 1998.
———. Telephone interview with author, January 4, 2010.
Lowry, Brian. “32-Year-Old Actress-Writer Admits Lying About Being 19,” Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1998.
Pope, Kyle. “Hollywood Falls for ‘Teen’ Scribe’s Tall Story,” The Wall Street Journal, October 16, 1998.
“Riley Weston,” The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923005/), accessed November 19, 2009.
“Riley Weston: The Life of Riley,” Entertainment Weekly, June 19, 1998.
Weinraub, Bernard. “The Girl Who Faked Out Hollywood and Then Got Caught,” Cosmopolitan, January 1999.
“The Young and the Restless,” 60 Minutes, CBS, February 21, 1999. Television.
Zeman, Ned. “Youth or consequences,” Vanity Fair, January 1999.
FRANK W. ABAGNALE JR.
20/20, ABC, November 22, 2002. Television.
Abagnale, Frank W. Address, National Automobile Dealers Association Convention, February 12, 2006. Accessed at http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/frankabagnalenada2006.htmon November 19, 2009.
———. Correspondence with author, October 23, 2009.
———. Telephone interview with author, July 30, 2008.
———with Stan Redding. Catch Me If You Can. Broadway Books, New York, 2002.
Baker, Bob. “Keeping it real; A con man’s story leads our hero to new heights of second-guessing,” Bob Baker’s News Thinking. Accessed at http://www.newsthinking.com/post-rehab-ii-keeping-it-real/ on November 19, 2009.
Rehm, Diane. Interview with Frank Abagnale, The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU 88.5 FM, Washington, DC, May 21, 2007.