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The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world’s greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is serving a life sentence for double-murder.
When the author sets out on the trail of a forged Emily Dickinson poem that has mysteriously turned up for sale at Sotheby’s in New York, he finds himself drawn into a world of deception and murder. The trail eventually leads, via the casinos of Las Vegas, to Utah and the darkly compelling world of Mark Hofmann, ex-Mormon and one of the most daring literary forgers and remorseless murderers of all time. As the author uncovers Hofmann’s brilliant, and disturbing, career, he takes the reader into the secret world of the Mormon Church and its controversial founder, Joseph Smith.
Deeply researched but with the narrative pace of a novel, Worrall’s investigation into the life and crimes of this charismatic genius is a real-life detective story you simply won’t be able to put down. On the way, you will meet an eclectic cast of characters: undercover detectives and rare book dealers, Dickinson scholars, forensic document experts, hypnotists, gun-dealers and Mormons.
As the story reaches its gripping climax, Hofmann becomes trapped in the web of his own deceptions … and turns to murder.
Simon Worrall's The Poet and the Murderer centres around the auction at Sotheby's in 1997 of the manuscript of a hitherto unknown poem by the reclusive 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson. The buyer was the Jones Library in the poet’s home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. The poem was not written by Emily Dickinson. It was the work of Utah-born Mark Hoffman who has some claims to be the most remarkable literary forger in history. Before he turned to classic American poets, Hoffman had specialised in conning the Mormon Church into believing that documents he had concocted in his home laboratory were original records of its early, beleaguered history in the 1820s and 1830s. His Mormon forgeries, and his later literary forgeries, were so skilful that platoons of experts queued up to vouch for their authenticity. Hoffman, however, was an arrogant chancer who could not resist playing one group of people off against another. Eventually his scheming became so convoluted that the only way out of the maze he had created for himself was murder.He was much less successful as a murderer than as a forger. He was arrested, convicted and imprisoned years before his Dickinson poem was bought by the Jones Library. More through luck than anything else, the Dickinson forgery was discovered. There is no knowing how many other Hoffman forgeries are in libraries and collections around the world, assumed to be the real thing. By any standards, this in an extraordinary story and Simon Worrall, despite occasional lapses into clichéd tabloid journalese, tells it well. His book is a riveting account of greed, gullibility and the warped talents of a man driven to re-write Mormon and literary history.--Nick Rennison
The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world’s greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is serving a life sentence for double-murder.
When the author sets out on the trail of a forged Emily Dickinson poem that has mysteriously turned up for sale at Sotheby’s in New York, he finds himself drawn into a world of deception and murder. The trail eventually leads, via the casinos of Las Vegas, to Utah and the darkly compelling world of Mark Hofmann, ex-Mormon and one of the most daring literary forgers and remorseless murderers of all time. As the author uncovers Hofmann’s brilliant, and disturbing, career, he takes the reader into the secret world of the Mormon Church and its controversial founder, Joseph Smith.
Deeply researched but with the narrative pace of a novel, Worrall’s investigation into the life and crimes of this charismatic genius is a real-life detective story you simply won’t be able to put down. On the way, you will meet an eclectic cast of characters: undercover detectives and rare book dealers, Dickinson scholars, forensic document experts, hypnotists, gun-dealers and Mormons.
As the story reaches its gripping climax, Hofmann becomes trapped in the web of his own deceptions … and turns to murder.
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