Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Janet Cooke
Standard Name: Cooke, Janet
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September 1980: The Washington Post carried a report by Janet...
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September 1980
The Washington Post carried a report by Janet Cooke
about an eight-year-old heroin addict in a poor part of Washington, DC; the story (for which Cooke won a Pulitzer Prize) turned out to be fabricated.
O’Hagan, Andrew. “Who’s sorry now?”. London Review of Books, 2 June 2005, pp. 10-12.
