After a little searching of the Internets - thank you Google - I've come up with the following on Janet Cooke, who infamously fabricated "Jimmy's World" and won a Pulitzer.
- After she resigned from the Washington Post in 1981, Cooke appeared on the Phil Donahue show, claiming that people told her there was a person like Jimmy but that she was unable to actually find him.
- Staying in the Washington area, she worked as a salesclerk until marrying a D.C. lawyer and moving to Paris.
- She returned to the U.S. in 1996, moving to Kalamazoo, Michigan, to work for $6 an hour at Liz Claiborne.
- In June 1996, she was interviewed for a GQ article, which led to her life story being purchased by Columbia TriStar Pictures for a cool $1.6 million. But the movie has yet to be produced, which is important to Cooke and the author of the article because they only get half of the money until principle filming begins.
- According the LA Times, Cooke hoped to use some of the money she did collect to jump start a freelance career, which I personally don't believe she'll ever have an opportunity to do.
- According to the author of the GQ article, Mike Sager, who spoke to Romenesko in 2000, he last talked to Cooke during 1999 when she was studying for a fine-arts degree at the University of Michigan.
Links:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_/ai_62024141
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/janet-cooke/
http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/06-96/06-05-96/c04li109.htm
http://www.observer.com/term/28668
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