A Cambridge University professor with an unbelievable story of overcoming systemic oppression skyrocketed to stardom.
Then, people started to realize his story actually was unbelievable — in the true sense of the word — and his fabulist tales and academic record fell apart days before his memoir’s publication.
“Great and Unfortunate Things” has hit shelves in the US, published by Simon & Schuster — a deal that, at least according to Arday, was valued at $1.4 million.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2026/08/10/opinion/plagiarist-prof-jason-ardays-life-story-is-published-tomorrow-and-it-gets-more-unbelievable-by-the-page/
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