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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 ...
Sep 16, 2016 · Entertainment. Movies. The Woman Who Invented Literary 'It Boy' JT Leroy Finally Speaks Out About Hoax That Fooled Winona Ryder, Courtney Love and More. Laura Albert reveals how she managed to...
Aug 22, 2016 · August 22, 2016. Author: The JT LeRoy Story - Official Trailer. Jeremiah “Terminator” LeRoy is real, but he isn’t. He’s dead, but he isn’t. He never existed, or he’s always existed,...
The public role of JT Leroy is played by Savannah Knoop, Geoffrey Knoop's half sister, who is in her mid-20's. A photograph of Ms. Knoop at a 2003 opening for a clothing store in San...
Apr 25, 2019 · The pen name of author Laura Albert, "JT" was an androgynous former truck-stop sex worker who supposedly channeled his sordid upbringing into raw, autobiographical fictions that captivated...
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Aug 1, 2016 · 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....
