Originally Posted by
SoCalDukeFan
The
New Yorker this week has a long article on Dan Mallory, a Duke grad who wrote a best seller "The Woman in the Window." Evidently he has a long history of lying about his health and other issues. I saw something in LA Times where he acknowledged it.
Wondered if anyone has any comments. I graduated way before he was on campus and have not read the book. Can not figure out why anyone who would say make these false statements about themself.
Thanks
SoCal
That article ends my "what is the most bizarre thing I've read today" contest. Wow.
One of the crazier snippets (and like how is it possible to choose among them?). It sounds like this one may have been true, but who knows.
This strategy apparently failed with Princeton. In the article, Mallory recalled writing to Fred Hargadon, then Princeton’s dean of admissions. “You heartless bastard,” the letter supposedly began. “What kind of latter-day Stalin refuses admission to someone in my plight? Not that I ever seriously considered gracing your godforsaken institution with my presence—you should be so lucky—but I’m nonetheless relieved to know that I won’t be attending a university whose administrators opt to ignore oncological afflictions; perhaps if I’d followed the example of your prized student Lyle Menendez and killed my mother, things would have turned out differently.”
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."