Editing Forgery (section)

==In popular culture==
* The 1839 novel by [[Honoré de Balzac]], ''[[Pierre Grassou]]'', concerns an artist who lives off forgeries.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Ruth Yeazell|last=Yeazell |first=Ruth Bernard |year=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ka4Ox67dy_cC&pg=PA88 |title=Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=88 |isbn=978-0691127262}}</ref>
* [[Alexander Howland Smith]] was a prominent forger in the [[1880]]'s, including of the writings of [[Robert Burns]]' [[Scotland|Scottish]] poetry.
* The [[Orson Welles]] documentary ''[[F for Fake]]'' concerns both art and literary forgery. For the movie, Welles intercut footage of [[Elmyr de Hory]], an art forger, and [[Clifford Irving]], who wrote an "authorized" autobiography of [[Howard Hughes]] that had been revealed to be a [[hoax]]. While forgery is the ostensible subject of the film, it also concerns art, film making, storytelling and the creative process.<ref>{{cite book |last=McBride |first=Joseph |year=2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gFp8S8Tf-dQC&pg=PA245 |title=What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |pages=245–250 |isbn=0813124107}}</ref>
* The 1966 heist comedy film ''[[How to Steal a Million]]'' centers around Nicole Bonnet ([[Audrey Hepburn]]) attempting to steal a fake [[Cellini]] made by her grandfather.<ref>{{cite book |last=Casper |first=Drew |year=2011 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=atUheFt_xSQC&pg=PA1927 |title=Hollywood Film 1963-1976: Years of Revolution and Reaction |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |page=1972 |isbn=978-1405188272}}</ref>
* The 1964 children's book ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' written by [[Roald Dahl]] revealed the "golden ticket" in Japan was a forgery.
* The 1972 novel by [[Irving Wallace]], ''[[The Word (novel)|The Word]]'' concerns archaeological forgery, the finding and translation of a supposed lost [[gospel]] by [[James the Just]], close relative of [[Jesus Christ]], as part of a large project to be published as a new Bible that would inspire a Christian revival, but which is possibly a forged document.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cawelti |first=John G. |year=1977 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-LiRHxXOHYEC&pg=PA281 |title=Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture |publisher=University of Chicago Press |page=281 |isbn=0226098672}}</ref>
* The 2002 film ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'', directed by [[Steven Spielberg]], is based on the claims of [[Frank Abagnale]], a [[confidence trick|con man]] who allegedly stole over US$2.5 million through forgery, imposture and other frauds, which are dramatized in the film. His career in crime lasted six years from 1963 to 1969.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wight |first=Douglas |year=2012 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxEt4Rw-IYkC&pg=PT72 |title=Leonardo DiCaprio: The Biography |chapter=Owning December |publisher=John Blake Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-1857829570}}</ref> The veracity of most of Abagnale's claims has been questioned.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lopez |first1=Xavier |title=Could this famous con man be lying about his story? A new book suggests he is |url=https://whyy.org/segments/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/ |access-date=26 June 2022 |work=WHYY |agency=PBS |publisher=WHYY |date=23 April 2021 |archive-date=8 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208051727/https://whyy.org/segments/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The graphic art novel ''[[The Last Coiner]]'', authored by Peter M. Kershaw, is based on the exploits of the 18th century English counterfeiters, the [[Cragg Vale Coiners]], who were sentenced to execution by hanging at [[Tyburn]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2006/10/24/the_last_coiner_feature.shtml |title=Telling the Coiners' story |publisher=BBC North Yorkshire |date=3 June 2008 |access-date=9 November 2012 |archive-date=27 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227211601/http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2006/10/24/the_last_coiner_feature.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>