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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 childhood ...
Apr 25, 2019 · JT LeRoy: The US's greatest literary scam. Two decades ago, a transgender sex worker-turned-novelist became a sensation – but he didn’t exist. As a new film about the con is released, Kaleem ...
JT, or Jeremy, LeRoy, or “Terminator” (as he was first known), was a teenage hustler who’d been pimped out as a cross-dressed prostitute by his mother at truck stops throughout the South ...
Aug 22, 2016 · In the upcoming documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story, directed by Jeff Feuerzieg, Albert explains the truly curious and deeply moving original story of LeRoy, a homeless prostitute...
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 ...
Jan 9, 2006 · JT Leroy has published three critically acclaimed works of fiction noted for their stark portrayal of child prostitution and drug use.
Apr 25, 2019 · Laura Dern and Kristin Stewart star in the real-life tale of a frustrated author who created a false identity that captivated the literary world.
