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LeRoy Clarke (7 November 1938 – 27 July 2021) [1] was a visual artist, poet, lecturer/inspirationalist, philosopher and Orisha Leader, [2] who was born in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things is a novel-like book of ten related short stories written by Laura Albert under the name JT LeRoy, a persona that she has described as an "avatar," [1] asserting that it enabled her to write things that she was incapable of expressing as Laura Albert.
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 ...
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (titled The Worst Kids in the World in Australia, New Zealand and the UK) is a children's novel written by Barbara Robinson in 1972.It tells the story of six misfit children who volunteer to star in their town's Sunday school Christmas pageant, and end up teaching the town the true meaning of Christmas.
Austin Clarke, Night and Morning, Irish poet published in Ireland; A. R. D. Fairburn, Dominion, New Zealand poet; Robin Hyde, New Zealand: Nor the Years Condemn; The Godwits Fly; Ewart Milne, Forty North Fifty West, Irish poet published in Ireland; W. B. Yeats, New Poems, including "Lapis Lazuli", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Clarke was born in Austerfield, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire.He was, in the words of his Who's Who entry, educated "badly during World War II". [2] His jobs before becoming a writer included a teacher, a policeman, a taxi driver and a salesman, in addition to being a soldier in the Royal Corps of Signals of the British Army.
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.
In addition to his career as an author, Clarke has had a career in academia, holding faculty positions at Clemson University, the University of Cincinnati, and Bowdoin College. He is currently the A. Leroy Greason Professor of English at Bowdoin College, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2010. Clarke lives in Portland, Maine. [1]