The past month has not been kind to literary fabricators. The self-proclaimed half-Native American/foster child/South Central gangster Margaret B. Jones turned out to be Margaret Seltzer, a white girl from the leafy suburb Sherman Oaks.

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After an author confessed to making up her memoir, the focus turned to her publisher and the news media.

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A memoir by a white woman who claimed she was raised in poverty by a black foster mother and sold drugs for a gang in a tough Los Angeles neighborhood has turned out to be pure fiction, a newspaper report says.

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One day after the author of "Love and Consequences" confessed that she had made up the memoir about her supposed life as a foster child in gang-infested South-Central Los Angeles, the focus turned to her publisher and the news organizations that helped publicize what appeared …

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The gripping memoir of "Margaret B. Jones" received critical raves. It turns out it should have been reviewed as fiction.

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In "Love and Consequences," a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.

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"Love and Consequences," the critically acclaimed memoir published last week, was completely fabricated, and the real author, Margaret Seltzer, not Margaret B. Jones, has come clean.

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In a tearful telephone interview from her home, Margaret Seltzer admitted that the personal story she tells in "Love and Consequences" was entirely fabricated.

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