Acknowledgments
Prologue: Genuine Articles
1. Thomas Chatterton’s Ghosts
2. "What King Forged I?": Fathers, Frauds, and the Works of William Fakespeare
3. Hideous Progeny: Forgery, Frankenstein, and Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake
4. Fuck It: Percival Everett’s Fake Book
5. Original Sins: Painting the Perfect Fake in The Recognitions
6. But Is It Art?: Orson Welles’s Cubist Portrait of the Forger in F for Fake
7. Misrecognizing Harry: The Blazing World’s Hermaphroditic Polyphony
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index