Yep. One such example, later proved ta be a total fabrication, even sounding really, really real... That our prez, Barrack Obama was taken in, and sent the author $100,000 of his Nobel Peace Prize bucks. )Anything ta get Pakistan ta be our pals, methinks...):

In another example, adventurer Greg Mortenson was exposed for writing a bestseller that partially faked his experiences among Pakistani villagers. He was hardly the first faux memoirist; indeed, you could sense Guardian journalists shaking their heads sadly as they typed: "The troubled world of book publishing has become almost wearily accustomed to receiving yet more bad news of a critically acclaimed memoir that turns out to have been partly or entirely fabricated."

Mortenson is author of the bestselling Three Cups of Tea, a memoir so convincing and moving that not only did the book sell 4m copies, but Barack Obama gave $100,000 of his Nobel prize to Mortenson's Central Asia Institute. It tells of how he stumbled into the village of Korphe, where locals saved his life and inspired him to give something back by devoting himself to building schools in the area. Only one problem: according to fellow adventurer Jon Krakauer, who has written an ebook called Three Cups of Deceit, none of that happened. "The first eight chapters of Three Cups of Tea are an intricately wrought work of fiction presented as fact," Krakauer said, accusing Mortenson of "fantasy, audacity and an apparently insatiable hunger for esteem". The extent of the fake is still being unravelled.