There have been so many “Memoirs” lately that have been published then proven to be all false, or exaggerated. As a graduate student in courses like memoir and creative-nonfiction I’ve learned the fine line writers have when writing about their own lives. But, when you are published and go through all that just to be proven wrong, I think there is a flaw in the system. It’s funny because somehow people want to hear about “real” events, rather than fiction. And so publishing a book as a memoir can be better selling, but now we’re seeing writers ruining their reputations over that one word.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/books/05fake.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin