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Author: The JT LeRoy Story is a 2016 American documentary film about American writer Laura Albert and her literary persona JT LeRoy. It examines the critical acclaim given the JT LeRoy books and their international popularity, and the subsequent scandal when it was revealed that LeRoy did not exist and Albert had written the books.
Sep 9, 2016 · Jeff Feuerzeig’s “Author: The JT LeRoy Story,” a documentary, offers a complex and deeply fascinating account of a decidedly unusual chapter in recent American cultural history. Its subject was purportedly an HIV-positive teenage male prostitute in San Francisco who became a minor literary celebrity about 15 years ago.
Sep 19, 2020 · An inside account of a scandal that duped celebrities and the literary world. Former homeless youth JT LeRoy become an 'it boy' beloved by stars like Madonna...
Jul 29, 2016 · Author: The JT LeRoy Story: Directed by Jeff Feuerzeig. With Laura Albert, Bruce Benderson, Terrence Owens, Ira Silverberg. The story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, the fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert.
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- Documentary, Biography
- Jeff Feuerzeig
- 2016-07-29
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...
Jan 22, 2016 · JT LeRoy was a literary sensation in the late 1990s and early 2000s, his energetic, incantatory prose painting vivid portraits of horror and abuse in a rough, dead-end world.
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Sep 8, 2016 · The lively documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story purports to explain and defend the phenomenon that was “Jeremiah ‘Terminator’ LeRoy,” the socially phobic, southern-accented, homeless ...
