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Poetry and pretence: the phoney Native American who fooled Bloomsbury set – The Guardian
A new book reveals how the Canadian war poet Frank Prewett deceived his lover Siegfried Sassoon and the literary elite
He hoodwinked his lover Siegfried Sassoon into believing he was a Native American and convinced Virginia Woolf he would be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
Now, Canadian war poet Frank Prewetts traumatic life and the reasons he falsely claimed to be an Iroquois called Toronto are to be laid bare in a new book.
Prewett was recovering from shell shock in a psychiatric hospital in 1918 when he was encouraged to dress up and that is when he first began pretending to be an Iroquois, t…
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