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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"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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