The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “The 10 biggest literary hoaxes in history.”
- James Macpherson’s “Ossian”: Tall Tales and the Celtic Literary Revival
- Collection Highlight: Chatterton’s Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol
- Shakespeare Forgeries
- A Million Little Pieces
- Stern Presents Hitler’s Diaries (April 1983)
- Educating with Little Tree: Reshaping The Education of Little Tree’s Cultural and Pedagogical Value in English Classrooms by Chris Drew
- Forging lesbians: Sappho and The Songs of Bilitis
- Spectra: The Poetry Movement That Was All a Hoax
- In Search of the Authentic Other
- The Boy Who Cried Author