Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu has some explaining to do. A new book by David Stoll alleges that much of her autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchu is phony. A New York Times investigation seems to back up the claims, too. Among them: Menchu's family was never in a land dispute with rich European descendants; a brother who supposedly starved to death never existed; and she wasn't the uneducated peasant she purported to be.
I, Fabricator?
Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu has some explaining to do. A new book by David Stoll alleges that much of her autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchu is phony. A New York Times investigation seems to back up the claims, too. Among them: Menchu's family was never in a land dispute with rich European descendants; a brother who supposedly starved to death never existed; and she wasn't the uneducated peasant she purported to be.
