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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Janet Leslie Cooke is an American former journalist who became infamous when it was discovered that a Pulitzer Prize-winning story that she had written for The Washington Post had been fabricated.In 1980, Cooke joined the Weeklies section staff of the Washington Post under editor Vivian Aplin-Brownlee. Cooke falsely claimed she had a degree from Vassar College, a master's degree from the University of Toledo, and had received a journalism award while at the Toledo Blade. While Cooke had attended Vassar for a year, she had only received a bachelor's degree from Toledo. In an article titled Jimmy's World , which appeared in the Post on September 28, 1980, Cooke wrote a gripping profile of the life of an 8-year-old heroin addict. She described the needle marks freckling the baby-smooth skin of his thin, brown arms.

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