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Can I See Your I.D.?
From the impoverished young woman who enchanted nineteenth-century British society as a faux Asian princess, to the sixteen-year-old boy who "stole" a subway…
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Philosophy Books
True Stories
Frank Abagnale
Graphic Panels
Subway Train
Love Reading
Great Books
Mind Blown
Teenagers
Believe In You
Ten
"A great book I discovered that I can't wait to share with students is Can I See Your I.D.? It contains stories of ten imposters, many who are teenagers. I think students will love reading about these famous cons!"
Fake Magazine Covers
Fake Identity
See You
Old Boys
Boys Who
"This is a fake magazine cover I made for one of my characters in the book Can I See Your I.D.? The book is a collection of stories about fake identities."
Short Stories
Info
Book
People
Book Illustrations
"This is my info graphic that I made for the book Can I See Your I.D.? I focused on explaining three of the short stories that the book has on about people faking their identities."
16 Year Old
A Train
Vignettes
Thomas
New York's A train, famously (and literally) taken by 16-year-old masquerader Keron Thomas.
Fanboys
Waldo
Ferdinand
Life Magazine
"I’ve been postponing writing the post about Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr., aka The Great Impostor. There are so many directions this fanboy post could take that I was afraid I would just write a long, babbling rant. But let’s take a few of those directions."
Wakeman
Union Army
Battlefield
Masquerade
New Orleans
Soldier
"Thinking of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, who joined the Union army during the Civil War, fought, died, and was buried, all as a man, 'Lyons.' She is buried at the Union cemetery at the Chalmette Battlefield."
The Third Reich
Solomon
World War Ii
Solomon Perel -- known then as "Josef Perjell" -- with some of his Hitler Youth classmates.
James Frey
Double Life
Reconstruction
Limelight
Oprah
"The story of Asa Carter was well known at different times in history. He was a household name in the mid '70s, in the '90s when his novel, The Education of Little Tree (the book was published as a new paperback edition) resurfaced and when Oprah brought to the limelight James Frey's A Million Little Pieces. When the topic of fake memoirs is fresh, his character reappears."
Wells
Famous Princesses
Rejected Princesses
19th Century England
Phoebe Cates
Jobs For Women
English Village
Beggar
Woman Back
"Princess Caraboo" Drawn and engraved by N. Branwhite
Us History
History Facts
Black History
African American Weddings
African American History
The Great Escape
African Diaspora
Indian Hairstyles
Prom Hairstyles
"One of the most ingenious escapes from slavery was that of a married couple from Georgia, Ellen and William Craft."
John Howard
Black Like Me
Banned Books
Jim Crow
I John
Cute Cats And Dogs
Yesterday And Today
New People
"John Howard Griffin, left in New Orleans in 1959, asked what 'adjustments' a white man would have to make if he were black."
Independent Music
Baby Music
Music Store
Debut Album
Weston
Feature Film
In Hollywood
"Riley Weston inspired a brief stretch of soul-searching in Hollywood about the bias toward younger talent and why some sorts of showbiz deceptions are more acceptable than others." -- from Can I See Your I.D.?
Government Agencies
Forgery
Financial Advice
Financial Institutions
"Frank W. Abagnale is one of the world's most respected authorities on the subjects of forgery, embezzlement and secure documents. For over thirty years he has lectured to and consulted with hundreds of financial institutions, corporations and government agencies around the world."
Identity Theft
Credit Card Numbers
Attorney General
Leonardo Dicaprio
"Glossy 10 x 8 photo of Frank Abagnale as a game show contestant, signed and inscribed in black felt tip, “To Juli, F. W. Abagnale, 7/5/06,” over a Frank W. Abagnale Secure Documents Consultant pressed seal. In very fine condition. Accompanied by a color promotional postcard for Catch Me if You Can, the feature film he inspired."
Chris Barton
100 Book
Reading Levels
Nassau
Young Reader
Summer Reading
Can I See Your I.D.? True Stories of False Identities: True Stories of False Identities By Chris Barton; Paul Hoppe (Illustrator) (Dial, Hardcover, 9780803733107, 144pp.) Publication Date: April 14, 2011
Tooth Pulled
Black And White Illustration
Illustrations for the profile of Frank W. Abagnale Jr., of "Catch Me If You Can" fame.
Mug Shots
News Online
Book Making
Browsing the new online repository of photos from LIFE magazine’s archives, which includes the above shot of my current subject, impostor Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr.
Keep To Myself
Chris Paul
Hoppe
Fire Trucks
Galleys — “advance, uncorrected proof[s], not for resale” — for my next book arrived this week! The real deal has a publication date of next April, but I’ve already begun sending these early versions out into the world. Paul Hoppe’s illustrations are too good to keep to myself…
Pretend
The book -- and the bookmarks!
Amanda Jones
Book People
Disguise
I also spent some time on fakecrap.com — not in any sort of official authorial capacity, but as a shopper for giveaways for my May 14 launch of Can I See Your I.D.? at Austin’s BookPeople. If you’re one of the first 30 people there, well, if the disguise works, we’ll have no way of knowing…
Democrats
The Past
Books
A few questions were answered, a few books were signed...
Philosophy Books
Book Festival
Last Saturday, Austin’s favorite indie bookseller BookPeople hosted my launch celebration for Can I See Your I.D.? True Stories of False Identities.
Real People
Author Chris Barton talks with Kathi Appelt about his new book, "Can I See You ID?" which is a collection of essays about real people who have donned false identities. The book is illustrated by Paul Hoppe and published by Dial Books for Young Readers.