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Being John Hughes: Inside literature’s plagiarism scandal

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John Hughes was once hailed as a young Australian literary genius. He found himself back in Australia working as the librarian and teacher at the elite private school Sydney Grammar. A strange web of inconsistencies, borrowing and copying struck one reader, Anna Verney. Today, they share their story on how they first discovered the borrowings of John Hughes.

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