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Richard Suskind (May 2, 1925 – September 14, 1999) was achildren's author who participated with authorClifford Irving in creating a fraudulentautobiography of the reclusive entrepreneurHoward 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 filmThe Hoax byAlfred Molina.
Richard Suskind was born inNew York City and attended public schools there. In 1943, he joined the Army and served in the8th Armored Division as a machine gunner in theBattle of the Bulge, in the Netherlands and in Germany. After the war he continued his education on theG.I. Bill in such schools asColumbia University, theUniversity of Florence, theUniversity of Paris, theJuilliard School of Music, and theParis Conservatory of Music.
In 1948, Suskind served with theIsraeli Army during theArab–Israeli War. He then joined the merchant marine, and in the next two years traveled around the world twice. He spent two years inItaly, five inParis, and seven years on the Spanish island ofIbiza, part of the Balearic group in the Mediterranean.
A writer since the age of fifteen, Suskind was the author of twelve books and more than one hundred articles and short stories. He was married and had one son.
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