Mike Daisey’s rising fame in the theater world recently took a hit after the monologist’s popular The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs show was revealed to be partly a work of fiction. Daisey’s show, which detailed grueling working conditions at Apple’s Foxconn factory in China, was adapted and then retracted by the radio show This American Life, when its producers announced last Friday that Daisey’s story was largely fabricated. Daisey has since admitted to fabricating details and expressed regret over broadcasting his theater piece as journalism. From James Frey to Janet Cooke, see other writers who have been caught exaggerating.