Simon Dumenco

Kurt discusses fraud novelists with Simon Dumenco and forged paintings with Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum. Hoving was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 10 years. An international authority on art fraud, he's the author ...

LeRoy's novels drew heavily on his own grim past as a drug abuser and teenage truckstop prostitute. He achieved critical success and rare literary stardom -- until it turned out he didn't exist. Kurt trades tales with Simon Dumenco, a magazine editor who knew "him" (in person, ...