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- A few months later, Stephen Beachy, in an October 2005 article in New York magazine, revealed that LeRoy was indeed a fictional creation, invented by writer Laura Albert, and that LeRoy's purported public appearances in wig and sunglasses were made by an actor.
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Because almost no one had ever met him in person, some people thought novelist Dennis Cooper was actually the author, or maybe Ewert himself, Cooper’s ex-boyfriend.
Without bookstore readings or in-person interviews, speculation about LeRoy’s true identity ran rampant. Some said he was Van Sant, other said he was author Dennis Cooper.
Writers like Dennis Cooper, Mary Gaitskill and Mary Karr were among those who offered support to Mr. Leroy's literary career, as did several prominent editors at Manhattan publishing houses,...
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 ...
Mar 10, 2006 · Dennis Cooper was a JT LeRoy booster, as was Dave Eggers, who vowed that both ''The Heart Is Deceitful'' and the similarly themed LeRoy novel ''Sarah'' would ''prove to be among the most ...
Apr 29, 2008 · This was true: almost from the day J.T. dipped a toe in public waters there were rumors that he was an invention of Dennis Cooper’s or Mary Gaitskill’s or, later, Gus Van Sant’s.
Apr 17, 2019 · That dance lasted a good six years, in which time LeRoy gathered a following that turned the author into a sensation. Author Dennis Cooper was an early champion. Filmmaker Gus Van Sant asked him to write an early script for his film, Elephant. Garbage’s Shirley Manson wrote a song about him.
