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 and adolescence from rural West Virginia to California. Albert wrote these works, and communicated with people in the persona of LeRoy via phone and e-mail. Following the release of the first novel Sarah, Albert's sibling-in-law Savannah Knoop began to make public appearances as the supposed writer.[1] The works attracted considerable literary and celebrity attention, and the authenticity of LeRoy has been a subject of debate, even as details of the creation came to light in the 2000s.
^What to Stream Now (June 2, 2008). "Laura Albert Versus Savannah Knoop: Who Is the Real Fake JT LeRoy?". Vulture. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy, or simply JTLeRoy, is a literary persona created in the 1990s by American writer Laura Albert. LeRoy was presented as the author...
persona JTLeRoy, whom Albert described as an "avatar." She published various works of purportedly autobiographical fiction under the LeRoy name before...
filmmaker. From 1999 to 2005, Knoop performed the public role of literary hoax JTLeroy. Knoop grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, born to artist and acupuncturist...
shortly after Laura Albert was revealed to be the actual author of the JTLeRoy books. The film concerns a tattered relationship between Sarah, a drug...
Beast (2016), Geostorm (2017), Kidnapping Freddy Heineken (2018), and JTLeRoy (2018), Berlin, I Love You (2019), The Other Me (2022), and Alone Together...
(March 22, 2017). "Laura Dern In Talks To Join Justin Kelly's Biopic 'JTLeroy'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on August 21, 2017. Retrieved...
Feuerzeig to the story of writer Laura Albert, who had used an avatar, JTLeRoy, as the credited author of her fiction Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful...
Step J.T. Martin, a character in the TV sitcom Silver Spoons JTLeRoy, a literary persona created in the 1990s by American writer Laura Albert J.T. Yorke...
same year, she starred in two biographical drama films, Trial By Fire and JTLeRoy as the author Laura Albert. In 2019, Dern reprised her role of Renata Klein...
2019). "Jim Sturgess brings hoax with a painful legacy to life in new JTLeRoy biopic". Evening Standard. Retrieved 10 April 2021. Official Myspace Dina...
In 2018, Love made a supporting appearance in director Justin Kelly's JTLeRoy. Love has also appeared in a multitude of documentary films as both an...
2016 Maxim's "Hot 100 List". She had an uncredited role in the 2018 film JTLeRoy. In 2020, Maxwell became an ambassador for Pride Live's Stonewall Day events...
film, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004), based on a book by JTLeRoy. In addition to her cinematic accomplishments, Argento has written a number...
adaptation of the JTLeRoy novel 'Sarah', to be directed by Steven Shainberg. According to The New York Times, when Shainberg learned that JTLeRoy was a literary...
speaking out." In the same year, Love was cast in Justin Kelly's biopic JTLeRoy, portraying a film producer opposite Laura Dern. In March 2018, she appeared...
author Laura Albert under the pseudonym of JTLeRoy. "I took a bit of poetic license, but I wrote it for JT. It's easily the most uplifting thing we've...
replaced Eva Green in the role of Marie Antoinette in the French-language film, Les Adieux à la Reine. In 2012, she was named as a member of the Jury for the...
inspiration from authors such as Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, and JTLeRoy, as well as rappers such as Lil Wayne, who he described as his primary...
previously published articles, interviews with cast and crew, new essays by JTLeRoy and Amy Taubin, a 1991 article by Lance Loud, and reprinted interviews...
Tiptree, Jr who was actually a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon, and likely JTLeRoy). Some seem to want to avoid the "limelight" of popularity and to live...
bikers, petty criminals, and prostitutes (e.g. the "lot lizards" in the JTLeRoy novel Sarah). This may be an outdated stereotype, as most modern truck...
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