Erratum:
In the Summer 2015 issue of Academic Questions (volume 28, number 2), an article by Ashley Thorne, “Common Reading Programs: Trends, Traps, Tips,” included the following paragraph:
Several common reading choices have been exposed as wildly inaccurate—an embarrassment for the schools that assigned them. Recent examples include Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson, who lied about building schools for girls in Pakistan; Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, a story glowing with praise for a man who turned out to be violent toward his ex-wife and landed in jail for trying to kill her; and The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard, by Stephen Jimenez, the details of which are now seriously in question.
The last line in the last sentence should read instead, “and books on the murder of Matthew Shepard (such as The Laramie Project and My Son Matthew), the details of which are now seriously in question.” Stephen Jimenez played a major role in bringing the details of Shepard’s murder into question through evidence he published in The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard.
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