About James Frey
James Christopher Frey ( FRY; born September 12, 1969) is an American writer and businessman. His first two books, A Million Little Pieces (2003) and My Friend Leonard (2005), were bestsellers marketed as memoirs. Large parts of the books were later found to be exaggerated or fabricated, sparking a media controversy. His 2008 novel Bright Shiny Morning was similarly a bestseller. Frey is the founder and CEO of Full Fathom Five. A transmedia production company, FFF is responsible for Lorien Legacies, a young adult adventure/science fiction series of seven books written by Frey and others, under the collective pen name Pittacus Lore. Frey's first book of the series, I Am Number Four (2010), was made into a feature film by DreamWorks Pictures. Frey is also the CEO of NYXL, an esports organization based in Manhattan, New York. Significant parts of the two books, initially promoted as factual, later were revealed to have been invented by Frey (see § Controversy). On October 7, 2014, Endgame: The Calling, the first book in a trilogy of novellas by Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton, was published by HarperCollins.
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