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Clifford Michael Irving
(born November 5, 1930) is an American investigative reporter 
and author of best-selling novels and works of nonfiction, but best known for his hoax 
"autobiography" of reclusive and eccentric businessman Howard Hughes in the early 1970s. 
After Hughes denounced him and sued McGraw-Hill, the publisher, Irving confessed the hoax 
and was subsequently sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison, serving 17 months. 
Irving grew up in New York City, the son of Dorothy and Jay Irving, a 
Collier's
 cover artist 
and the creator of the syndicated comic strip 
Pottsy
, about a fat and friendly New York City 
policeman.
[1]
After graduating in 1947 from Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Irving 
attended Cornell University, graduated with honors in English, and worked on his first novel, 
On a 
Darkling Plain
(Putnam, 1956), while he was a copy boy at 
The New York Times
. He completed his 
second novel, 
The Losers
(1958), as he traveled about Europe. He led an adventurous life, basing 
himself for many years on the then relatively unknown Spanish Mediterranean island of Ibiza. In 
1957, he sailed on a three-masted schooner from Mexico to France; in 1958, he spent many months 
in Marrakech and Fes working on a CBC-BBC documentary film production about vanishing 
aspects of Moroccan culture. On Ibiza, he met an Englishwoman, Claire Lydon, and they married in 
1958, moving to California, where she was tragically killed at Big Sur, while shopping, in an 
automobile accident.
[2]
 Irving was later married to English author Maureen "Moish" Earl from 1984 

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to 1998 while living much of the time in the mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, 
Mexico. 
On a Darkling Plain
and 
The Losers
were not financially successful but received excellent 
reviews. 
On a Darkling Plain
was sometimes compared with another novel set at Cornell, Charles 
Thompson's 
Halfway Down the Stairs
(1957). John O. Lyons, in an addendum to his 1962 survey 
"The College Novel in America: 1962-1974" (
Critique
, 1974), saw a tendency toward pranks and 
put-ons in Irving's early work (a critical analysis Irving then dismissed as "nonsense" but now 
admits may have some merit) 

On a Darkling Plain
(1956) 

The Losers
(1958) 

The Valley
(1960) 

The 38th Floor
(1965) 

The Battle of Jerusalem
(1967) 

Spy
(1968) 

Fake: the story of Elmyr de Hory: the greatest art forger of our time
. McGraw-Hill. 1969. 

Autobiography of Howard Hughes
(1971) 

The Death Freak
(1976) 

The Sleeping Spy
(1979) 

The Hoax
 (1981) 

Tom Mix and Pancho Villa
(1981) 

The Angel of Zin
(1983) 

Trial
(1987) 

Daddy's Girl: The Campbell Murder Case A True Tale of Vengeance, Betrayal, and Texas 
Justice
(1988) 

Final Argument
(1990) 

The Spring
(1995) 

I Remember Amnesia
(2004) 

Jailing: the Prison Memoirs of 00040
(2012) 

Bloomberg Discovers America
(2012) 

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