ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Manhattan, Clifford Irving graduated from
the High School of Music & Art as an art major
and then Cornell University (with honors in English).

He has traveled throughout the world, sailed the
Atlantic in a 3-masted schooner, lived on a
houseboat in Kashmir, in a prison cell in
Connecticut, for many years on the
Mediterranean island of Ibiza, and twice served
as a correspondent to the Middle East. He taught
for a time at UCLA and has lectured in three
continents on subjects as diverse as Howard
Hughes, the art market, and the justice system.

He has three sons, two ex-wives, and is married
now for the last time to his beloved Julie, from
Sydney, Australia. They live on the Pacific coast
of Mexico and on a Colorado mountainside,
where Julie imports silks from Asia and cooks
haute cuisine, and Clifford hikes, skis, practices
yoga, hugs trees, writes and paints. He describes
his life as "blessed."

Brief excerpts from reviews of published books
can be found in the link to the left.