When The New York Times revealed in 2006 that literary wunderkind JT LeRoy was a hoax, it rocked the entertainment establishment. JT did not exist, but was instead a creation of writer Laura Albert, ...

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In the early 2000s, a damaged 15-year-old street kid named JT LeRoy took the literary world by storm, publishing sexually charged, avant-garde and heart-wrenching books that describe his traumatic ...

“Author: The Story of JT LeRoy” details the rise and fall of title literary star — the HIV-positive, transgender, teenage abuse survivor whose books wowed the media and celebrity world, but who was, ...

To the general public, the name JT LeRoy probably rings only the vaguest of bells, if any at all. It didn’t for this particular critic. But that innocent ignorance is all the more reason to seek out ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The myth of JT LeRoy, the literary avatar of writer Laura Albert, is alive and well in Jeff ...

The novelist JT Leroy, who was once thought to be a man, is actually a woman: Laura Albert. The literary hoax was unmasked earlier this year. And now Albert is talking more about the experience. She ...

The festival also announced a period drama with Chris Pine as its opening night film. By Mekado Murphy “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” has excerpts from phone calls a hoaxer secretly recorded while ...