Apr 27, 2015
Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960 A 1998 fictional (hoax) biography by William Boyd.
Nat Tate was an imaginary person, invented by Boyd and created as "an abstract expressionist who destroyed '99%' of his work and leapt to his death from the Staten Island ferry. His body was never found."Karen Wright and David Bowie were all participants in the hoax. Boyd and his conspirators set about convincing the New York glitterati (social elites) that the reputation of this influential abstract expressionist needed to be re-evaluated. it appears that few were fooled and most of the big names in the arts world quickly realized that Nat Tate was a complete fake and that they had been the victims of an elaborate setup.