I guess she's no fan of the work of the great American author James A. Mitchener, who wrote several works of historical fiction about other peoples and races. And there's a strong parallel here in that Mitchener in his novel 'Caribbean' wrote about the history of the Caribs and Arawaks, aboriginal peoples of the Caribbean. (Quelle horreur!) It's a bizarre prejudice indeed to hold that to be credible or "authentic" one can, and indeed must(!), only write about one's own group, nationality or race. Operating under such a restriction, much of the world's literature would be rendered illegitimate. Why Boyden might have embellished his personal backstory is a bit of a mystery to me. But I can't help but wonder if he might have done this because he believed that unless he was thought to be aboriginal his work wouldn't be taken seriously by this country's identity-focused cultural and media doyens? If so, maybe we need to examine the artificiality of the culture we've created.