It’s sometimes said that forgers of old-master paintings are accomplished artists in their own right. A successful fraud — even one that's ultimately uncovered — requires discipline, hard work and ...
(CBS Local)-- The JT LeRoy hoax is one of the wildest stories of this century and it has a San Francisco connection. Almost 20 years ago, Savannah Knoop came to San Francisco to live with her brother ...
Laura Albert is a middle-aged female author who, in the mid-’90s, fooled a lot of people into thinking she was a young male author. This is a centuries-old trick for ladies wishing to get published, ...
Yesterday, a Manhattan jury heard testimony from the mother of the Brooklyn Heights woman who created JT Leroy, the supposed truck stop hooker's son turned literary sensation revealed to be a hoax ...
Who doesn’t love a good imposter story? From the 1983 Gérard Depardieu drama “The Return of Martin Guerre” to Melissa McCarthy’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” to the Elizabeth Holmes saga of the HBO ...
To the general public, the name JT LeRoy probably rings only the vaguest of bells, if any at all, but that innocent ignorance is all the more reason to seek out the documentary “Author: The JT LeRoy ...
Who or what is Jt Leroy? In the new film Author: The JT LeRoy Story, a baker’s dozen descriptors are tossed out in an attempt to properly answer that question, most of them by Laura Albert, the writer ...
The literary world was a more interesting place with JT LeRoy around, even though he never was, really. The pen name of author Laura Albert, "JT" was an androgynous former truck-stop sex worker who ...