Richard suskind biography

Children's author

For the legal technology writer, see Richard Susskind.

Richard Suskind (May 2, 1925 – September 14, 1999) was a children's author who participated with author Clifford Irving in creating a fraudulent autobiography of the reclusive entrepreneur Howard Hughes.

Suskind was incarcerated for five months of a six-month prison sentence for his role in collaborating with Irving on the hoax. He died in 1999, aged 74.

He was portrayed in the 2007 film The Hoax by Alfred Molina.

Biography

Richard Suskind was born in New York City and attended public schools there.

A pioneer in the field of information technology and law, Richard has been the IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales since

In 1943, he joined the Army and served in the 8th Armored Division as a machine gunner in the Battle of the Bulge, in the Netherlands and in Germany. After the war he continued his education on the G.I. Bill in such schools as Columbia University, the University of Florence, the University of Paris, the Juilliard School of Music, and the Paris Conservatory of Music.

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