Hoax letter writers
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[edit] Henry Root
Henry Root is the creation of writer William Donaldson who wrote to numerous public figures with unusual or outlandish questions and requests.
The books were published as Letters and Further Letters by Henry Root and a more recent The Complete Henry Root Letters by William Donaldson.
The Henry Root character inspired the ITV mini-series Root Into Europe, starring George Cole.
[edit] Henry Raddick
There is a lexical link between Henry Root and Henry Raddick (Raddick is an anglification of Radix, meaning root) who writes 'unusual' reviews (bordering on crank/prank territory). Nevertheless, speculation has been rife as to who Henry Raddick is. Besides Donaldson, suspects include Charles, Prince of Wales. This has been denied by royal staff.
The same person is also the author of various fake reviews purporting to be by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
[edit] External links
- Henry Raddick: man of letters - Amazon star
- "I am not Henry Raddick!" - HRH Prince of Wales
- Lloyd Webber web hoaxer unmasked
- Henry Raddick discussion at Metafilter
[edit] Others
Other prank mail and reviews include:
- Ted L. Nancy - possibly the creation of comedian Jerry Seinfeld
- Ed Broth - also possibly the creation of comedian Jerry Seinfeld
- Lazlo Toth - the creation of Don Novello, the actor who played Father Guido Sarducci on Saturday Night Live.
- W. Morgan Petty - the nom de plume of Brian Bethell.
- H. Rochester Sneath - the fictional headmaster of the fictional British public school Selhurst, created by Humphry Berkeley
- Francis Wagstaffe, the creation of Rev. Toby Forward and David Johnson, purported to be a candidate for the priesthood and wrote to several Church of England Bishops in 1995
- Edna Welthorpe was a prudish middle-aged housewife who was strongly opposed to her creator Joe Orton's plays
- Robin Cooper - the creation of Robert Popper.
- Sterling Huck, who wrote The Sterling Huck Letters, published in 2002.
- Mister Quickly, an anonymous writer who has been discussed in Meta-filter, the New York Observer, and numerous blogs.
[edit] See also
- Diary of a Nobody - a fictional diary written by George Grossmith
