Profile
Simon Worrall
Simon Worrall has published articles in the Sunday Review, New Yorker, Paris Review, The Times Weekend Review and National Geographic Magazine, among others. He is the author of The Poet and the Murderer (2003), a true story about a murderer who forged an Emily Dickinson poem. He lives in East Hampton, New York.
THE POET AND THE MURDERER: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery
The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America, to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world’s greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is serving a life sentence for double murder.
Publication date: UK 4th Sep 2009
