other books by the author of i am number four

An Easter Egg in the I Am Number Four novel includes 'James Hughes' and 'Jobie Frey' as fake ID names for Number Four, created by Henri.Nan Talese of Doubleday also admitted that her company failed to check the veracity of the memoir before publicizing it as such. He received a lot of controversy for deliberately lying to his audience, after being loving to his book 'A Million Little Pieces'.įrey first denounced The Smoking Gun and defended his book, but as the accusations began to escalate, he was forced to make a televised apology on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The investigative web site reported that much of the book had been fabricated, including critical details about Frey's criminal record and rehab experiences. The hype surrounding the book led to increased scrutiny over its contents, most notably by The Smoking Gun, which released a report discrediting Frey and the book in 2006.

In 2005, A Million Little Pieces was selected by Oprah Winfrey for her monthly book club, causing it to become an overnight triumph with over two million copies sold. In the article, Frey is accused of abusing and using MFA students as cheap labor to churn out commercial young adult books.The Rise of Nine, hinting that he was the new ghostwriter of the series.

The article details how Frey removed Hughes from the project, allegedly during a screaming match between the two authors. A New York magazine article entitled 'James Frey's Fiction Factory' gave more details about the company, including information about the highly successful ' Lorien Legacies' series, a collaboration between MFA student Jobie Hughes and Frey. The contract allows Frey license to remove an author from a project at any time, does not require him to give the author credit for their work, and only pays a standard advance of $250. In November 2010, controversy arose when an MFA< student who had been in talks to create content for the company released her extremely limiting contract online.

In 2009, Frey formed Full Fathom Five, a young adult novel publishing company that aimed to create highly commercial novels like Twilight<. Frey continued to write the series under the same pseudonym (Pittacus Lore) with at least one unknown ghost writer. James Frey wrote I Am Number Four and The Power of Six under the collective pseudonym Pittacus Lore.

He is the writer of Lorien Legacies, that’s it.

1.3 Scandal and 'The Oprah Winfrey Show'.

Other books by the author of i am number four