Falsehoods in popular memoir raise controversy
by editors@theworld.org (Hannah Chanatry) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6YKD1)
"The Salt Path" is a best-selling memoir and major film. And now, an investigation by The Observer has revealed several of the central claims in the story are false, and the reality includes accusations of criminal conduct. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler spoke with the director of the Oxford Center for Life Writing about the expectation of truth in memoir - and when creative license crosses the line.