1.0link89713<![CDATA[Author Margaret P. Jones Admits She Faked Gang Memoir]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/03/author-margaret-p-jones-a_n_89713.htmlNEW YORK — A memoir by a white woman who claimed she was raised in poverty by a black foster mother and sold drugs for a gang in a tough Los Angeles neighborhood has turned out to be pure fiction, a newspaper report says.
In "Love and Consequences," published last week by Penguin Group USA imprint Riverhead Books, author Margaret B. Jones writes about growing up as a half-white, half-Native American girl in South-Central Los Angeles in the foster home of...