Novelist Laura Albert (Dern) writes as her "avatar", a disenfranchised young gay man named J.T. LeRoy. When her debut novel becomes a best-seller and J.T. becomes the darling of the literary world, ...
Fans of literary hoaxes and assumed identities should not miss the 2016 documentary "Author: The JT LeRoy Story" (8 p.m., A&E, TV-14). For more than a decade, LeRoy dazzled readers and the literary ...
I met Savannah Knoop at an art show in Los Angeles in the late 2000s. She told me how she was the person who played invented author J.T. LeRoy in public, but not the real invented author J.T. LeRoy.