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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 ...
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...
Now 10 years after the scandal broke and Albert was labeled the mastermind of one of the entertainment’s most elaborate hoaxes (a word she adamantly refutes), the Brooklyn native is telling her...
Frequently referred to as one of the greatest literary hoaxes of the 20th century, JT LeRoy’s books were filed under fiction, but they more than winked at memoir—especially as JT himself...
But the new film smartly illuminates what's been missing from other accounts: Why someone like Knoop would agree to, and even enjoy, taking part in someone else's hoax. Opinion The Truth About...
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,...
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