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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. 25 April 2019. By Kaleem Aftab,Features correspondent. Getty. Two decades ago, a transgender sex worker-turned-novelist became a sensation – but he...
Jul 20, 2016 · In the late 90s, JT LeRoy’s autobiographical tales of abuse as a young man became cult hits, beloved of celebrities from Lou Reed to Winona Ryder. Then the baffling story of the author’s true...
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JT LeRoy is a 2018 biographical drama film directed by Justin Kelly based on the memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy by Savannah Knoop. It stars Kristen Stewart , Laura Dern , Kelvin Harrison Jr. , Diane Kruger , James Jagger, Dave Brown, Jim Sturgess and Courtney Love .
- Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy, by Savannah Knoop
- Justin Kelly
- Bobby Bukowski
- Aaron I. Butler
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, until...
Apr 23, 2019 · He was a rags-to-riches writer adored by everyone from Bono to Madonna. But JT LeRoy was actually Savannah Knoop in a wig. As the scam becomes a film, the performer tells all.
Jan 9, 2006 · Jan. 9, 2006. It has been one of the most bizarre literary mysteries in recent memory: Who, exactly, is the novelist JT Leroy? An answer, at long last, is taking shape. Mr. Leroy's tale was...
