In 1971, McGraw-Hill was about to publish Hughes's autobiography when it learned that the book was an elaborate hoax for which its authors, Clifford Irving and Richard Suskind, would later go to jail.

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Readers of Packard's 1995 autobiography, The HP Way, or Michael Malone's 2007 book Bill and Dave will find familiar vignettes.

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That is not only because Mr Brillstein's book, unlike the others, is a (ghostwritten) autobiography.

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