She grew up half black in South Central L.A., spent time in a gang, witnessed horrendous violence, then wrote a book about it…..

Except none of it is true.

The New York Times reports today that Margaret Seltzer,33, who wrote a critically acclaimed memoir “Love and Consequences” under the pseudonym Margaret B. Jones:

“…. is all white and grew up in the well-to-do Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley, with her biological family. She graduated from the Campbell Hall School, a private Episcopal day school in the North Hollywood neighborhood. She has never lived with a foster family, nor did she run drugs for any gang members. Nor did she graduate from the University of Oregon, as she had claimed.”

No doubt, this incident will earn her great respect in Hollywood and open a future of lucrative job offers pouring in from Malibu and Beverly Hills…..