![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is how to get it there, because Clark Rockefeller doesn't drive and his plane is in China with his wife that summer. Walter Kirn's novels include Up in the Air, Mission to America and The Unbinding.īeowulf Sheehan/Courtesy of Liveright Publishing He spoke with NPR's Scott Simon about Rockefeller's eccentricities, the most egregious lies and what made the impostor so successful. Kirn has chronicled this story in his new book Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade. ![]() How did Kirn fall for the fraud? Was Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter - aka "Clark Rockefeller" - extraordinarily compelling? Or was the novelist, like a lot of other people drawn to the imposter, duped by his own desire to have an attachment to a famous name? They became friends.īut over the years Kirn began to learn that the man who called himself Clark Rockefeller was none of that - not even a dog lover. When Kirn was just starting his novel-writing career, he met a man who was a bold financier, an art collector, a fussy eccentric, a dog lover and a Rockefeller. So why did he fail to see the signs of falsehood in real life? Walter Kirn has written insightful, best-selling novels - including Up in the Air and Thumbsucker, which were made into movies. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Blood Will Out Subtitle The True Story of A Murder, A Mystery, and A Masquerade Author Walter Kirn ![]()
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