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Recent examples of Famous Authors Who Have Been Accused of Plagiarizing or Misrepresenting Work:

• Romance Author -- Cristiane Serruya copy-and-pasted material from other famous authors in her works
• Dorris Kearns Goodwin (respected historian and scholar) -- accidentally copied quotes from note cards as her own ideas
• Rockefeller University -- scientist falsified lab data to support his theories 
• NYT journalist -- Jayson Blair forced to resign after he plagiarized and fabricated within his reporting
• James Frey -- lied in his memoire about his life as a recovering drug addict
• Duke University -- Erin Potts-Kant, a former researcher in the pulmonary, allergy, and critical-care departments of Duke Health, has had more than 12 scientific papers retracted since news broke of the allegedly falsified data