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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.
Laura Albert is known for The Town (2010), Shameless (2011) and The Italian Job (2003).
Laura Albert was born on 2 November 1965 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Elephant (2003), The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) and Radiance (2014).
Oct 11, 2012 · Laura Albert won international acclaim writing fiction as JT LeRoy. She is the author of the novels Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, reissued by HarperCollins, and the novella Harold’s End, with illustrations by Cherry Hood.
Aug 1, 2016 · In a new documentary, ‘Author: The JT LeRoy Story,’ Laura Albert, who posed as a teenage male-prostitute-turned-novelist in the late ’90s, finally tells her side of the story. Here, she...
Aug 12, 2021 · When Laura Albert revealed JT LeRoy as her literary persona, some readers took it as a punch to the gut, a dupe. Yet for many of her devoted fans, she is a literary hero. For Albert, the language to describe a queer experience was missing.
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 ...
Oct 14, 2014 · Avenue A skinhead-turned-notorious-author Laura Albert (aka JT LeRoy, aka “Literary Outlaw” ). Can we love someone who does not exist? Here’s Laura’s connection to Manti Te’o. Jovy Skol offers his insights into “The JT LeRoy Experience.”
Aug 19, 2016 · In a 2005 New York Magazine feature, writer Stephen Beachy unmasked LeRoy as a fictional creation by a much older woman, wife, and mother named Laura Albert in what some consider one of the greatest hoaxes of modern-day literature.
Apr 16, 2016 · An A&E IndieFilms and RatPac Documentary Films presentation of a Vice production, Author: The JT LeRoy Story combines archival footage, new sequences, animation, home movies, phone messages, and extensive interviews with Laura Albert.
