In the early on 1990s, Lee Israel, a biographer with a modicum of writing success, has fallen on hard times largely of her ain doing. Her choice of subjects is in full general non of involvement to today'south volume buying public, and she, in her only truthful friends beingness her aged cat Jersey and a scotch and soda in not really liking people and people in plow non really liking her, has burned bridges with everyone her agent Marjorie has built for her. She will have to start from the ground up again if she wants a writing career, as, hiding backside her subjects, the book buying public will not buy a "Lee Israel" on the force of her name in not knowing who she is as a writer or person. This situation has led to her being months behind in rent as she spends whatsoever little money she has on alcohol and Jersey'south medical needs. In doing research for her latest book on Fanny Brice - with no advance from Marjorie - and selling a cherished personal memento of a handwritten letter from Katharine Hepburn in needing the coin, Lee discovers in that location is a market place for such glory memorabilia, and in the procedure decides, with her writing talent, to become into the fraudulent business of creating and selling false personal documents purportedly past dead celebrities, especially of writers with strong public personas, such as Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. She ends up befriending a gay past acquaintance from her literary circles, Jack Hock, likewise having fallen on hard times, Jack, non only becoming her drinking buddy, but her partner in crime. As they are able to get out of their financial holes in this business, Lee may begin to have second thoughts in likewise befriending Anna, 1 of the rare bookstore owners who likes Lee for Lee, an unusual position for her. But as the fraud looks like information technology may catch upward specifically to Lee, she, feeling like these fakes are at to the lowest degree stretching her writing muscles, only becomes more resolute in at least the artistic pursuit of what she'due south doing. —Huggo
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