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Primates of Park Avenue: ‘The Post found many factual errors that will result in future editions of the book’

June 8, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

Author Wednesday Martin — whose real first name is Wendy — claims in the memoir to have spent six years “doing field work” with her two kids on the Upper East Side conducting an armchair anthropological study.

But Martin only lived there for three years, with one kid, and mentions stores and services that didn’t exist, calling into question the scenes and ­behaviors she describes.

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