literary forgery
literary work which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author
Hitler Diaries
series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau
Cohen Plan
1937 Brazilian military forged document
My Sister and I
book by Friedrich Nietzsche
Mussolini diaries
forged diaries that were purported to have been written by Benito Mussolini
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
antisemitic hoax text
Naked Came the Stranger
1969 novel
fake memoirs
type of literary forgery
Letters to the Heretics: Correspondence with the Leaders of the New Italian Left
1977 satirical forgery, an epistolary apocryphally attributed to Enrico Berlinguer (head of the Italian Communist Party) and presented as a text by Einaudi Editore, with an apocryphal preface of Giulio Einaudi, founder of the publisher Einaudi
The Franklin Prophecy
Antimsemitic canard falsely attributed to Benjamin Franklin