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![]() James Frey was publicly shamed by Oprah Winfrey when his memoir turned out to be A Million Little Fibs. Constance Briscoe’s mother sued her over the claims she made in her memoir, Ugly. Hanif Kureishi’s sister made a big fuss about the way her brother portrayed his family in his work. ![]() We know what happens when it all goes wrong. Should whales benefit from the pain of your relatives? Should that money go towards the airfares of Greenpeace’s international programme director, who commutes from Luxembourg to Amsterdam? But the question of what writers owe their families is as old as the squiggles on papyrus in Tutankhamun’s tomb. “We got money,” he said in a newspaper interview this week, “and it scared me … I said to, Linda, maybe we should give it away to Greenpeace or something, because it came from an unethical project … “She just looked at me,” he added, “and said no.”Īs ethical dilemmas go, it certainly makes a change. He has had so much hate mail he’s moved to Sweden. Half of Knausgaard’s family won’t speak to him. Global success hasn’t, it seems, made the “struggle” easier. ![]()
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