his reinvention as a best-selling "Native American" author. Radio programs about Carter Carter was the subject of a 2014 episode of the NPR radio program This American Life, titled "180 Degrees". See also Pretendian – the phenomenon of false claims of Native American ancestry Jamake Highwater (born as Jackie Marks) – another writer who faked a Cherokee identity William Luther Pierce – another white supremacist who wrote novels under a pseudonym References Bibliography (Articles cited about Carter faking his ethnicity) External links "Asa Carter", PBS's People and Events 1925 births 1979 deaths 20th-century American novelists Alabama Democrats Alabama Independents American speechwriters American Ku Klux Klan members People from Abilene, Texas People from Anniston, Alabama Writers from Birmingham, Alabama Novelists from Alabama Novelists from Texas People from Oxford, Alabama Western (genre) writers White separatists American male novelists American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers American anti-communists 20th-century far-right politicians in the United States American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent