An orphan who never knew who his real parents were, he was brought up in Pennsylvania by Mabel Michener, a poor Quaker widow, who was given his date of birth as February 3rd, 1907.

ECONOMIST: James Michener

Alas, it turned out that Salomon had died childless and poor and that Demoody was a widow, who herself had filed for bankruptcy a decade earlier.

FORBES: The Fakes