NEW YORK --- An Italian man admitted Friday to stealing more than 1,000 unpublished manuscripts, including from distinguished authors, solving a mystery that had rocked the literary world for years. Filippo Bernardini, 30, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, federal prosecutors in New York announced in a statement. Bernardini, who worked in London for publisher Simon & Schuster, impersonated agents and publishers over email to obtain novels and other works from writers and their representatives. The scam had been known in literary circles for several years with Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, and Sally Rooney among the novelists reportedly targeted. It became publ...
Keep on reading: Italian pleads guilty to manuscript scam that shook literary world
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