If you take a look at his Wikipedia page, you will find the kind of defacement he discusses in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Las

If you take a look at his Wikipedia page, you will find the kind of defacement he discusses in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Lasdun&diff=191599529&oldid=191539044 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Lasdun&d... "He has no integrity. He sells students' fiction to half-assed writers for personal profit and political reasons and makes it obvious because he's a psychotic who hates women and loves money. He is a rapist and sadist." Now, while there's always the slim chance that he could have defaced his own page back in 2008 just to make it support a fake memoir about being stalked, it sounds a lot more likely that the stalking was real. This is a promotional excerpt from his book, designed to entice you to buy it. Yes, he leaves out the ending in order to get you to buy the book. That doesn't mean that the book is a work of fiction.