Margaret Seltzer

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Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer , pseudonym Margaret B. Jones (born July 29, 1974 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American writer. She is best known for the scandal surrounding her alleged autobiography Love and Consequences .

Life

Seltzer was born in Los Angeles in 1974 to two wealthy, white parents and grew up with her sister Cindy in the middle-class world of Sherman Oaks . She was never a foster child, not a member of a gang, and had no contact with the drug community. She graduated from the Campbell Hall School, a private, church-based institution. In 2008 she published her alleged autobiography.

Contents of the autobiography

Margaret B. Jones is born to a white parent and an Native American parent. Since she is suspected of being mistreated and sexually abused in her family of origin , she is taken away from her parents and placed in a foster family . The book makes no mention of whether the suspicion turned out to be true or false. After going through a series of foster care, Jones is placed with Big Momma at the age of eight and a half . She is a single, impoverished black woman and lives in the ghetto of South Central Los Angeles . In addition to Jones, she also raises her four grandchildren, Terrel, Taye, NeeCee and Nishia, as well as various other foster children. Life in South Central is tough and characterized by poverty, violence and drug addiction. Jones and her siblings learn to sleep on the floor to avoid being hit by stray bullets. Jones is introduced to the Bloods gang by her brothers . At age 12, Jones begins selling drugs to help her family survive. She takes out funeral insurance from the first self-earned money because she does not expect to grow old. In the further course, Jones experiences the violent death of her role models - the OG (Original Gangster) Kraziak and her brother Terrel, who is shot by the Crips. She falls in love with a member of the Crips and realizes that Crips and Bloods are not enemies, but were only shaped by the circumstances.

Reactions

The alleged autobiography received rave reviews from Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times and Oprah Winfrey, among others . Seltzer appeared in several radio interviews, mimicking a ghetto accent. However, Seltzer was exposed by her own sister, Cynthia "Cyndi" Hoffman.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Motoko Rich. " Gang Memoir, Turning Page, Is Pure Fiction ". The New York Times. March 4, 2008
  2. ↑ Michiko Kakutani. " However Mean the Streets, Have an Exit Strategy
  3. ↑ msnbc: Oprah duped by another fabricated 'memoir'
  4. ^ Margaret Seltzer Joins List of Fabricating Writers
  5. ↑ Bob Pool. Author admits gang-life 'memoir' was all fiction . Los Angeles Times March 4, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Seltzer, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seltzer, Peggy (nickname); Jones, Margaret B. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California