![]() ![]() Rich socialites on the east coast who knew “Clark Rockefeller” as a loving father. He interviews a hairdresser who knew “Christopher Chichester” as a charmer who swept through the well-off community of San Marino, California. Seal helps us get to know Gerhartsreiter and all his many identities without ever talking to the man himself. "Clark Rockefeller" appears in municipal court in Boston. He couldn’t have found a more interesting or complicated story to tell, but he easily navigates the twisted and complex details. It’s long-well over 10,000 words-but Seal does such a remarkable job seamlessly moving from false identity to false identity, weaving us deeper into the con story, that it never felt like a task to plow through the story. ![]() Seal drops us into the life of the man born Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter near the end of his time as “Clark Rockefeller,” then takes us on a suspenseful journey through all of Gerhartsreiter’s many identities, spinning the reader into the personas of a professional faker. ![]() Last semester, her Advanced Writing students at Missouri chose stories they liked and gave them the Storyboard treatment. Jacqui Banaszynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who now is an endowed Knight Chair professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Tomorrow’s journalists exploring the masters of today ![]()
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