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Sarah signed by "JT LeRoy". 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 ...
Laura Victoria Albert (born November 2, 1965) is an American author who invented the literary persona JT LeRoy, whom Albert described as an "avatar." [1] She published various works of purportedly autobiographical fiction under the LeRoy name before being revealed as the true author.
The book was adapted into the 2004 feature film of the same name by director/co-writer Asia Argento, who also starred as Sarah. Jeremiah was played by Jimmy Bennett and by Dylan and Cole Sprouse . In 2021 Blackstone Audio released an audiobook of The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things along with eleven additional JT LeRoy stories.
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Sarah is a novel by Laura Albert, written under the name JT LeRoy, a persona that she has described as an "avatar," [1] asserting that it enabled her to write things she could not have said as herself. Sarah is narrated by an unnamed boy whose mother Sarah is a lot lizard: a prostitute who works the truck stops in West Virginia. She can be ...
Author: The JT LeRoy Story is a 2016 American documentary film about American writer Laura Albert and her literary persona JT LeRoy. [2] 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.
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The screenplay by Argento and Alessandro Magania is based on JT LeRoy's novel of the same name. The film received a limited release in North America on March 10, 2006, shortly after Laura Albert was revealed to be the actual author of the JT LeRoy books.