The Guardian

My mentor John Hughes taught me how to write. Then he plagiarised my work

In 2022, the acclaimed Australian author was found to have plagiarised whole sentences from Leo Tolstoy and F Scott Fitzgerald. When a former student discovered he was among those greats, his reaction was complicated
January 30, 2023 • Joseph Earp
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