found: New York times, 8 January 2015(Leonore (some sources spell it Lenore) Carol Israel; born Dec. 3, 1939 in New York City; died in Manhattan, Dec. 24, 2014; aged 75; a reasonably successful author in the 1970s and '80s, writing biographies of the actress Tallulah Bankhead, the journalist Dorothy Kilgallen, and the cosmetics magnate Estée Lauder. In the early 1990s, with her career at a standstill, she became a literary forger, composing and selling hundreds of letters that she said had been written by Edna Ferber, Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Lillian Hellman, and others.)