Apocryphiar

Martha Gellhorn made a long list of such incidents, concluding that as an "apocryphiar. . . Miss Hellman ranks sublime."

Became a shameful embarrassing apocryphiar about himself, which I believe damaged him as a man, but he was not like that in Spain nor in China . . . never in my hearing.

There's no denying that Hemingway was, to use a polite term invented by Gellhorn, an “apocryphiar”—not just a liar, but a man who invents stories about himself, casting himself in the best possible light.

How could he be so true in his craft and be a self-aggrandizing apocryphiar who cheated on his wives in his everyday life?

The trend toward “apocryphism, a meld of apocryphal story and apocryphiar,” was growing at an alarming rate—in other words, the telling of stories by the famous about the famous who in the same breath make themselves more famous.