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Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy, or simply JT LeRoy, is a literary persona created in the 1990s by American writer Laura Albert. LeRoy was presented as the author of three books of fiction, which were purportedly semi-autobiographical accounts by a teenage boy of his experiences of poverty, drug use, and emotional and sexual abuse in his ...
Apr 25, 2019 · But the most brazen, bewildering and bombastic hoodwinking of them all is surely that of JT LeRoy, the transgender HIV-positive teen who, at the turn of the millennium, became a worldwide...
Jan 9, 2006 · JT Leroy has published three critically acclaimed works of fiction noted for their stark portrayal of child prostitution and drug use.
Aug 1, 2016 · In a new documentary, ‘Author: The JT LeRoy Story,’ Laura Albert, who posed as a teenage male-prostitute-turned-novelist in the late ’90s, finally tells her side of the story. Here, she ...
Feb 7, 2006 · JT LeRoy, a purported former male prostitute and drug addict, was a hoax by Laura Albert, a 40-year-old woman who wrote the novels under a pseudonym. Geoffrey Knoop, her estranged partner, revealed the truth after 16 years of deception.
JT LeRoy was a fictional character created by Laura Albert, a writer and performance artist. She posed as JT for years, communicating with editors, agents, and celebrities by phone and e-mail, while wearing wigs and sunglasses in public.
Aug 22, 2016 · The backlash was instant—LeRoy’s story was dubbed one of the greatest literary hoaxes of all time. The L.G.B.T. community accused Albert of exploiting issues like AIDS for literary profit,...
