PW: WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT TO VERIFY BOOKS?DO YOU THINK PUBLISHERS SHOULD HAVE FACT-CHECKERS?
KE: Certainly after this experience, I have to wonder if there is such a thing as a "nonfiction memoir." One can fact-check facts, but how do you fact-check memory and perception? I'm less clear on whether or not I think publishers have a responsibility to carefully check nonfiction works of a journalistic nature.Ultimately, I feel an author should be responsible for his or her own work, but I leave that to the legal minds.
This is a bunch of semantic hooey. Certainly in a memoir, the author's interpretation of events is subjective. Whether those events actually happened is not.
