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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 ...
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.
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. The film concerns a tattered relationship between Sarah, a drug addict , and her young son, Jeremiah.
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.
More than 30 years ago, Rob Lowe's reputation was in the gutter — and he's better for it. Reflecting on the infamous 1988 sex tape that ground his career to a halt, Lowe said on SiriusXM's "The ...
Telling his story. Leroy Garrett decided to retire from The Challenge after competing on Double Agents earlier this year. However, his decision to leave had a lot to do with what happened between ...
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JT LeRoy is a 2018 biographical drama film directed by Justin Kelly based on the memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy by Savannah Knoop. It stars Kristen Stewart , Laura Dern , Kelvin Harrison Jr. , Diane Kruger , James Jagger, Dave Brown, Jim Sturgess and Courtney Love .