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Filmmaker [[Michael Arias]] claimed LeRoy for his inspiration in translating [[Taiyo Matsumoto]]'s [[manga]] ''Sunny''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/18/general/the-sunny-side-of-taiyo-matsumoto/#.Uyfctq1dVvC|title=The 'Sunny' side of Taiyo Matsumoto |newspaper=The Japan Times}}</ref> At a 2013 symposium with filmmaker [[J. J. Abrams]] and [[Doug Dorst]] in New York, actress and writer [[Lena Dunham]] said that LeRoy "co-opted my imagination for a full year of my life. [...] It was pretty remarkable. And then you also go, 'This person isn't who they claim to be, but they still wrote this book that captured all of our imaginations, so then why does the identity of the author even matter when you're reading fiction and engaging with it in a really personal way?'"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2fQoBOJX0|title=JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst w/ Lena Dunham discuss S. #whoisStraka (2/4)|first=|last=CuInAnotherLifeBro|date=November 29, 2013|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref> That same year, Laura Albert told ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'', "You know, JT LeRoy does not exist. But he lives. That's what a famous film historian once said about [[Bugs Bunny]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/laura-albert/#page3|title=Laura Albert|publisher=interviewmagazine.com}}</ref> Another interviewer insisted, "Albert had ingeniously hacked the literary establishment."<ref name="corp.lastlookapp.com">{{cite web|url=http://corp.lastlookapp.com/posts/five-questions-for-laura-albert/|title=5 Questions for Laura Albert |publisher=LASTLOOK}}</ref> In March 2014 the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' reported that the Academy of Friends Oscar Party in San Francisco invited JT LeRoy – played by [[genderqueer|gender fluid]] fashion model [[Rain Dove|Rain Dove Dubilewski]] – to walk the runway as part of its HIV/AIDS fundraiser.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/garchik/article/Long-lost-Ukrainian-uncle-has-left-you-5-million-5304867.php|title=Long-lost Ukrainian uncle has left you $5 million|publisher=www.sfgate.com}}</ref>
Filmmaker [[Michael Arias]] claimed LeRoy for his inspiration in translating [[Taiyo Matsumoto]]'s [[manga]] ''Sunny''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/18/general/the-sunny-side-of-taiyo-matsumoto/#.Uyfctq1dVvC|title=The 'Sunny' side of Taiyo Matsumoto |newspaper=The Japan Times}}</ref> At a 2013 symposium with filmmaker [[J. J. Abrams]] and [[Doug Dorst]] in New York, actress and writer [[Lena Dunham]] said that LeRoy "co-opted my imagination for a full year of my life. [...] It was pretty remarkable. And then you also go, 'This person isn't who they claim to be, but they still wrote this book that captured all of our imaginations, so then why does the identity of the author even matter when you're reading fiction and engaging with it in a really personal way?'"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2fQoBOJX0|title=JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst w/ Lena Dunham discuss S. #whoisStraka (2/4)|first=|last=CuInAnotherLifeBro|date=November 29, 2013|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref> That same year, Laura Albert told ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'', "You know, JT LeRoy does not exist. But he lives. That's what a famous film historian once said about [[Bugs Bunny]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/laura-albert/#page3|title=Laura Albert|publisher=interviewmagazine.com}}</ref> Another interviewer insisted, "Albert had ingeniously hacked the literary establishment."<ref name="corp.lastlookapp.com">{{cite web|url=http://corp.lastlookapp.com/posts/five-questions-for-laura-albert/|title=5 Questions for Laura Albert |publisher=LASTLOOK}}</ref> In March 2014 the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' reported that the Academy of Friends Oscar Party in San Francisco invited JT LeRoy – played by [[genderqueer|gender fluid]] fashion model [[Rain Dove|Rain Dove Dubilewski]] – to walk the runway as part of its HIV/AIDS fundraiser.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/garchik/article/Long-lost-Ukrainian-uncle-has-left-you-5-million-5304867.php|title=Long-lost Ukrainian uncle has left you $5 million|publisher=www.sfgate.com}}</ref>


As part of the artist [[Lynn Hershman Leeson]]’s 2014 exhibition "How To Disappear," she premiered her video ''The Ballad of JT LeRoy'',<ref>http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/2016/08/03/laura-albert-on-lynn-hershman-leeson-and-author-the-jt-leroy-story/</ref> examining [[Laura Albert]]'s use of the literary persona JT LeRoy. Reflecting on the parallels between JT LeRoy and her own alter ego Roberta Breitmore, Hershman Leeson has commented:<ref name="KubaParis Interview"/>
As part of the artist [[Lynn Hershman Leeson]]’s 2014 exhibition "How To Disappear," she premiered her video ''The Ballad of JT LeRoy'',<ref>http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/2016/08/03/laura-albert-on-lynn-hershman-leeson-and-author-the-jt-leroy-story/</ref> examining Laura Albert's use of the literary persona JT LeRoy. Reflecting on the parallels between JT LeRoy and her own alter ego Roberta Breitmore, Hershman Leeson has commented:<ref name="KubaParis Interview"/>
<blockquote>The concept of an alter ego is not new at all. Writers have been protecting themselves in that way for centuries. [[Mary Shelley]] did it. Of course Laura took this practice further and I think that was very smart and I do not think she deserves the kind of condemnation that she got. If I had done the Roberta thing ten years later, I would have faced the same problems.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The concept of an alter ego is not new at all. Writers have been protecting themselves in that way for centuries. [[Mary Shelley]] did it. Of course Laura took this practice further and I think that was very smart and I do not think she deserves the kind of condemnation that she got. If I had done the Roberta thing ten years later, I would have faced the same problems.</blockquote>


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'{{About||the film|JT LeRoy (film)}} {{COI|date=December 2016}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2014}} [[File:Sarah signed by JT LeRoy.jpg|thumb|''[[Sarah (LeRoy novel)|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 rural West Virginia to California. Albert wrote these works, and communicated with people in the persona of LeRoy via phone and e-mail. Following the release of the first novel ''[[Sarah (LeRoy novel)|Sarah]]'', Albert's sister-in-law [[Savannah Knoop (filmmaker)|Savannah Knoop]] began to make public appearances as the supposed writer.<ref>{{cite web|author=What to Stream Now |url=http://www.vulture.com/2008/06/laura_albert_vs_savannah_knoop.html |title=Laura Albert Versus Savannah Knoop: Who Is the Real Fake JT LeRoy? |publisher=Vulture |date= |accessdate=2017-03-05}}</ref> The works attracted considerable literary and celebrity attention, and the authenticity of LeRoy has been a subject of debate, even as details of the creation came to light in the 2000s. ==Published works== Albert originally published as '''Terminator''' and later '''JT LeRoy.'''<ref name="PARISREVIEW">{{cite web|url=http://www.jtleroy.com/images/TPR178_JTLeroy.pdf |title=Laura Albert |website=Jtleroy.com |date=2014-06-20 |accessdate=2016-11-20}}</ref> *''[[Sarah (LeRoy novel)|Sarah]]'' (1999)<ref name="sarah">LeRoy, JT. ''[[Sarah (LeRoy novel)|Sarah]].'' Bloomsbury USA (June 9, 2000) {{ISBN|1-58234-146-X}}.</ref> :By turns magical and realistic, the novel ''Sarah'' is narrated by a nameless boy whose mother Sarah is a [[lot lizard]]: a prostitute who works the truck stops in West Virginia. She can be abusive and abandoning, yet he longs for her love and tries to follow in her world, working for a pimp who specializes in "boy-girls". * ''[[The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (novel)|The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things]]'' (1999)<ref name="heart">LeRoy, JT. ''[[The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things]].'' Bloomsbury USA Hardcover (June 9, 2001) {{ISBN|1-58234-142-7}} Paperback (June 1, 2002) {{ISBN|1-58234-211-3}}.</ref> :Ten short stories that form a novel about the childhood of LeRoy, torn from his foster parents at age four when his emotionally disturbed mother reclaims him and then runs away with him. She alternately clings to LeRoy and abandons him, subjecting him to patterns of abuse and exploitation she has suffered throughout her life. *''Harold's End'' (2005)<ref name="harold">LeRoy, JT. ''Harold's End''. Last Gasp (January 30, 2005) {{ISBN|0-86719-614-9}}. Originally in ''[[Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern#7|McSweeney's Quarterly Concern]]'' Issue 7. Italian translation ''La fine di Harold'' by Martina Testa. Fazio Editore 2003. {{ISBN|88-8112-387-8}}.</ref> :The novella follows a young heroin addict who is befriended by Larry, an older man, from whom he receives an unusual pet. Illustrations are by Australian artist [[Cherry Hood]]. Published by [[Last Gasp]]. ===Contributions to other written works=== Work credited to LeRoy was published in literary journals such as [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s ''[[Zoetrope: All-Story]]'', ''[[Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern|McSweeney's Quarterly Concern]]'', ''Memorious'', and ''[[Oxford American]]'' magazine's Seventh Annual Music Issue. LeRoy was listed as a contributing editor to ''[[BlackBook Magazine|BlackBook]]'' magazine, ''[[i-D]]'' and ''[[7x7 Magazine|7x7]]'' magazines, and is credited with writing reviews all of which include the character Justin Wayne Dennis, articles and interviews for ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Times]]'' of London, ''[[Spin magazine|Spin]]'', ''[[Film Comment]]'', ''[[Filmmaker (magazine)|Filmmaker]]'', ''[[Flaunt]]'', ''[[Shout NY]]'', ''[[Index Magazine]]'', ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'', and ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', among others. LeRoy's work has also appeared in such anthologies as ''The [[Best American series|Best American]] Nonrequired Reading 2003'', [[MTV]]'s ''Lit Riffs'', ''XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits'', [[Nadav Kander]]'s ''Beauty's Nothing'', and ''The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes''. LeRoy is also listed as guest editor for ''Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2005''.<ref name="capo">LeRoy, JT (ed). ''Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-hop, Jazz, Pop, Country & More''. Da Capo Press (October 30, 2005) {{ISBN|0-306-81446-3}}</ref> Additionally, LeRoy was credited with liner notes and biographies for musicians [[Billy Corgan]], [[Liz Phair]], [[Conor Oberst]], [[Ash (band)|Ash]], [[Bryan Adams]], [[Marilyn Manson]], [[Nancy Sinatra]] and [[Courtney Love]] and profiled award-winner [[Juergen Teller]]. ==Circumstances of LeRoy's creation== Calling a suicide hotline in the 1990s, Albert reached Dr. Terrence Owens, a psychologist with the McAuley Adolescent Psychiatric Program at St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/books/07lero.html|title=Figure in JT LeRoy Case Says Partner Is Culprit|date=February 7, 2006|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Owens did not know her as Laura Albert at the time, but as "Jeremiah" or "Terminator". Owens is credited with encouraging "Jeremiah" or "Terminator" to write during their phone therapy sessions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Soul-baring-fiction-author-J-T-LeRoy-plays-with-2556606.php |title=Soul-baring fiction author J.T. LeRoy plays with gender—and identity. Does it really matter who he is?|publisher=[[SFGate]]|accessdate=2017-03-05}}</ref> The writings that "LeRoy" shared with Owens eventually made their way into the collection of short stories in 1998. Albert also recorded conversations without Owens' consent, and these illegally recorded phone calls made their way into the documentary ''Author''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/movies/asia-argento-and-others-are-angry-about-being-in-jt-leroy-documentary.html|title=Argento and Others are angry About it Being in JT Leroy Documentary|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=2017-03-05}}</ref> Albert explained the circumstances of LeRoy's existence in a Fall 2006 ''Paris Review'' interview with Nathaniel Rich. She attested that she could not have written from raw emotion without the right to be presented to the world via LeRoy, whom she calls her "phantom limb". At her trial, Albert described LeRoy as her "veil".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/aug/01/news |title=JT LeRoy author ordered to pay triple-sized costs &#124; Books |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date= |accessdate=2017-03-05}}</ref> == Exposure== Throughout the 1990s, virtually no one had ever glimpsed the reclusive author. Then, in 2001, a person wearing a wig and sunglasses began appearing in public, claiming to be LeRoy. In August 2005, journalist John Nova Lomax published the article "Coal Miner Mother of a Mess" in the ''Houston Press'', casting doubt on the particulars of LeRoy's story. Lomax recounted his frustrated attempts to contact LeRoy by e-mail, pointed out several obvious discrepancies of fact, and cast doubt on LeRoy's existence.<ref>[http://www.houstonpress.com/music/coal-miner-mother-of-a-mess-6548530 John Nova Lomax, "Coal Miner Mother of a Mess", ''Houston Press'' (August 25, 2005).]</ref> A few months later, [[Stephen Beachy]], in an October 2005 article in ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine, revealed that LeRoy was indeed a fictional creation, invented by writer Laura Albert, and that LeRoy's purported public appearances in wig and sunglasses were made by an actor.<ref name=":1" /> Beachy asserted that Albert had been posing as LeRoy's caretaker and spokesperson, calling herself "Speedie", and LeRoy lived with Albert and her husband Geoffrey Knoop, who used the pseudonym "Astor".<ref name=":1" /> In January 2006, journalist [[Warren St. John]] revealed his finding<ref name=":2" /> in ''[[The New York Times]]'' that the person posing as LeRoy in a wig and sunglasses for six years was 25-year-old [[Savannah Knoop]], Geoffrey Knoop's sister.<ref name=":3">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/books/the-unmasking-of-jt-leroy-in-public-hes-a-she.html|title=The Unmasking of JT Leroy: In Public, He's a She|author=Warren St. John|date=2006-01-09|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=2017-03-05}}</ref> In a subsequent article, St. John published details of an interview with Geoffrey Knoop, in which Knoop confirmed that LeRoy did not exist, and that his sister was LeRoy's public face.<ref name=":0" /> Knoop also admitted to St. John that Laura Albert had written the works published as LeRoy's.<ref name=":0" /> In 2008, Savannah Knoop published a memoir, ''Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy'', about her six-year career as an impersonator.<ref name=":2">[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/02/savannah-knoop-jeremiah-jt-leroy This is the woman who played the man who became a transsexual and fooled the world for six years], ''[[The Guardian]]'', November 2, 2008</ref> == Film option and lawsuit== [[Antidote International Films, Inc.]], and its president [[Jeff Levy-Hinte|Jeffrey Levy-Hinte]] announced plans for a film adaptation of ''Sarah'' to be directed by [[Steven Shainberg]]. According to ''The New York Times'', when Shainberg "learned who had truly written ''Sarah'' an inspiration came to him to make a 'meta-film', a triple-layered movie that would blend the novel with the lives of its real and purported authors in a project he took to calling ''Sarah Plus''."<ref>{{cite news|last=Feuer |first=Alan |title=In Writer's Trial, a Conflict Over Roles of Art and Money |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900EFDF113FF931A15755C0A9619C8B63 |work=The New York Times |accessdate=2013-09-10}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' also reported that this new project "required the rights to Laura Albert's story, rights that she in no uncertain terms refused to grant".<ref name=":23">{{cite news|author=Feuer, Alan|title="Judge Orders Author to Pay Film Company $350,000 in Legal Fees"|date=August 1, 1007|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=2016-11-20|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/nyregion/01leroy.html?_r=0}}</ref> In June 2007 Antidote sued Laura Albert for fraud, claiming that a contract signed by Albert in LeRoy's name to make a feature film of ''Sarah'' was null and void.<ref name="NYT07">[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/20/nyregion/20cnd-writer.html?ex=1339992000&en=dd65fdd75ca5b238&ei=5088 Writer Testifies About Source of Nom de Plume] By Alan Feuer, ''[[The New York Times]]'', Published: June 20, 2007.</ref> A jury found against Albert in the sum of $116,500, holding that the use of the pseudonym to sign the film rights contract was fraudulent.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/2007-06-23-4245882828_x.htm |title=Jury: novel bought by company fraudulent |first=Amy |last=Westfeldt |date=June 23, 2007 |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=USA Today}}</ref> == In art and popular culture == Filmmaker [[Michael Arias]] claimed LeRoy for his inspiration in translating [[Taiyo Matsumoto]]'s [[manga]] ''Sunny''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/18/general/the-sunny-side-of-taiyo-matsumoto/#.Uyfctq1dVvC|title=The 'Sunny' side of Taiyo Matsumoto |newspaper=The Japan Times}}</ref> At a 2013 symposium with filmmaker [[J. J. Abrams]] and [[Doug Dorst]] in New York, actress and writer [[Lena Dunham]] said that LeRoy "co-opted my imagination for a full year of my life. [...] It was pretty remarkable. And then you also go, 'This person isn't who they claim to be, but they still wrote this book that captured all of our imaginations, so then why does the identity of the author even matter when you're reading fiction and engaging with it in a really personal way?'"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2fQoBOJX0|title=JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst w/ Lena Dunham discuss S. #whoisStraka (2/4)|first=|last=CuInAnotherLifeBro|date=November 29, 2013|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref> That same year, Laura Albert told ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'', "You know, JT LeRoy does not exist. But he lives. That's what a famous film historian once said about [[Bugs Bunny]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/laura-albert/#page3|title=Laura Albert|publisher=interviewmagazine.com}}</ref> Another interviewer insisted, "Albert had ingeniously hacked the literary establishment."<ref name="corp.lastlookapp.com">{{cite web|url=http://corp.lastlookapp.com/posts/five-questions-for-laura-albert/|title=5 Questions for Laura Albert |publisher=LASTLOOK}}</ref> In March 2014 the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' reported that the Academy of Friends Oscar Party in San Francisco invited JT LeRoy – played by [[genderqueer|gender fluid]] fashion model [[Rain Dove|Rain Dove Dubilewski]] – to walk the runway as part of its HIV/AIDS fundraiser.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/garchik/article/Long-lost-Ukrainian-uncle-has-left-you-5-million-5304867.php|title=Long-lost Ukrainian uncle has left you $5 million|publisher=www.sfgate.com}}</ref> As part of the artist [[Lynn Hershman Leeson]]’s 2014 exhibition "How To Disappear," she premiered her video ''The Ballad of JT LeRoy'',<ref>http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/2016/08/03/laura-albert-on-lynn-hershman-leeson-and-author-the-jt-leroy-story/</ref> examining [[Laura Albert]]'s use of the literary persona JT LeRoy. Reflecting on the parallels between JT LeRoy and her own alter ego Roberta Breitmore, Hershman Leeson has commented:<ref name="KubaParis Interview"/> <blockquote>The concept of an alter ego is not new at all. Writers have been protecting themselves in that way for centuries. [[Mary Shelley]] did it. Of course Laura took this practice further and I think that was very smart and I do not think she deserves the kind of condemnation that she got. If I had done the Roberta thing ten years later, I would have faced the same problems.</blockquote> Documentaries about LeRoy include ''Author: The JT LeRoy Story''<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278462/</ref> (2016) directed by [[Jeff Feuerzeig]], and ''The Cult of JT LeRoy''<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3756484/</ref> (2015) directed by Marjorie Sturm. [[Armistead Maupin]]'s ''[[The Night Listener (novel)|The Night Listener]]'' features the case of Anthony Godby Johnson, which is similar to that of LeRoy.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14718/index2.html |title=Who is JT LeRoy? The True Identity of a Great Literary Hustler |website=Nymag.com |date= |accessdate=2016-11-20}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} ==External links== *{{official website}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Leroy, Jt}} [[Category:Nonexistent people used in hoaxes]] [[Category:Literary forgeries]] [[Category:Fictional characters from West Virginia]] [[Category:Alter egos]]'
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'{{About||the film|JT LeRoy (film)}} {{COI|date=December 2016}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2014}} [[File:Sarah signed by JT LeRoy.jpg|thumb|''[[Sarah (LeRoy novel)|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 rural West Virginia to California. Albert wrote these works, and communicated with people in the persona of LeRoy via phone and e-mail. Following the release of the first novel ''[[Sarah (LeRoy novel)|Sarah]]'', Albert's sister-in-law [[Savannah Knoop (filmmaker)|Savannah Knoop]] began to make public appearances as the supposed writer.<ref>{{cite web|author=What to Stream Now |url=http://www.vulture.com/2008/06/laura_albert_vs_savannah_knoop.html |title=Laura Albert Versus Savannah Knoop: Who Is the Real Fake JT LeRoy? |publisher=Vulture |date= |accessdate=2017-03-05}}</ref> The works attracted considerable literary and celebrity attention, and the authenticity of LeRoy has been a subject of debate, even as details of the creation came to light in the 2000s. ==Published works== Albert originally published as '''Terminator''' and later '''JT LeRoy.'''<ref name="PARISREVIEW">{{cite web|url=http://www.jtleroy.com/images/TPR178_JTLeroy.pdf |title=Laura Albert |website=Jtleroy.com |date=2014-06-20 |accessdate=2016-11-20}}</ref> *''[[Sarah (LeRoy novel)|Sarah]]'' (1999)<ref name="sarah">LeRoy, JT. ''[[Sarah (LeRoy novel)|Sarah]].'' Bloomsbury USA (June 9, 2000) {{ISBN|1-58234-146-X}}.</ref> :By turns magical and realistic, the novel ''Sarah'' is narrated by a nameless boy whose mother Sarah is a [[lot lizard]]: a prostitute who works the truck stops in West Virginia. She can be abusive and abandoning, yet he longs for her love and tries to follow in her world, working for a pimp who specializes in "boy-girls". * ''[[The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (novel)|The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things]]'' (1999)<ref name="heart">LeRoy, JT. ''[[The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things]].'' Bloomsbury USA Hardcover (June 9, 2001) {{ISBN|1-58234-142-7}} Paperback (June 1, 2002) {{ISBN|1-58234-211-3}}.</ref> :Ten short stories that form a novel about the childhood of LeRoy, torn from his foster parents at age four when his emotionally disturbed mother reclaims him and then runs away with him. She alternately clings to LeRoy and abandons him, subjecting him to patterns of abuse and exploitation she has suffered throughout her life. *''Harold's End'' (2005)<ref name="harold">LeRoy, JT. ''Harold's End''. Last Gasp (January 30, 2005) {{ISBN|0-86719-614-9}}. Originally in ''[[Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern#7|McSweeney's Quarterly Concern]]'' Issue 7. Italian translation ''La fine di Harold'' by Martina Testa. Fazio Editore 2003. {{ISBN|88-8112-387-8}}.</ref> :The novella follows a young heroin addict who is befriended by Larry, an older man, from whom he receives an unusual pet. Illustrations are by Australian artist [[Cherry Hood]]. Published by [[Last Gasp]]. ===Contributions to other written works=== Work credited to LeRoy was published in literary journals such as [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s ''[[Zoetrope: All-Story]]'', ''[[Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern|McSweeney's Quarterly Concern]]'', ''Memorious'', and ''[[Oxford American]]'' magazine's Seventh Annual Music Issue. LeRoy was listed as a contributing editor to ''[[BlackBook Magazine|BlackBook]]'' magazine, ''[[i-D]]'' and ''[[7x7 Magazine|7x7]]'' magazines, and is credited with writing reviews all of which include the character Justin Wayne Dennis, articles and interviews for ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[The Times]]'' of London, ''[[Spin magazine|Spin]]'', ''[[Film Comment]]'', ''[[Filmmaker (magazine)|Filmmaker]]'', ''[[Flaunt]]'', ''[[Shout NY]]'', ''[[Index Magazine]]'', ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'', and ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', among others. LeRoy's work has also appeared in such anthologies as ''The [[Best American series|Best American]] Nonrequired Reading 2003'', [[MTV]]'s ''Lit Riffs'', ''XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits'', [[Nadav Kander]]'s ''Beauty's Nothing'', and ''The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes''. LeRoy is also listed as guest editor for ''Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2005''.<ref name="capo">LeRoy, JT (ed). ''Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-hop, Jazz, Pop, Country & More''. Da Capo Press (October 30, 2005) {{ISBN|0-306-81446-3}}</ref> Additionally, LeRoy was credited with liner notes and biographies for musicians [[Billy Corgan]], [[Liz Phair]], [[Conor Oberst]], [[Ash (band)|Ash]], [[Bryan Adams]], [[Marilyn Manson]], [[Nancy Sinatra]] and [[Courtney Love]] and profiled award-winner [[Juergen Teller]]. ==Circumstances of LeRoy's creation== Calling a suicide hotline in the 1990s, Albert reached Dr. Terrence Owens, a psychologist with the McAuley Adolescent Psychiatric Program at St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/books/07lero.html|title=Figure in JT LeRoy Case Says Partner Is Culprit|date=February 7, 2006|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Owens did not know her as Laura Albert at the time, but as "Jeremiah" or "Terminator". Owens is credited with encouraging "Jeremiah" or "Terminator" to write during their phone therapy sessions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Soul-baring-fiction-author-J-T-LeRoy-plays-with-2556606.php |title=Soul-baring fiction author J.T. LeRoy plays with gender—and identity. Does it really matter who he is?|publisher=[[SFGate]]|accessdate=2017-03-05}}</ref> The writings that "LeRoy" shared with Owens eventually made their way into the collection of short stories in 1998. Albert also recorded conversations without Owens' consent, and these illegally recorded phone calls made their way into the documentary ''Author''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/movies/asia-argento-and-others-are-angry-about-being-in-jt-leroy-documentary.html|title=Argento and Others are angry About it Being in JT Leroy Documentary|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=2017-03-05}}</ref> Albert explained the circumstances of LeRoy's existence in a Fall 2006 ''Paris Review'' interview with Nathaniel Rich. She attested that she could not have written from raw emotion without the right to be presented to the world via LeRoy, whom she calls her "phantom limb". At her trial, Albert described LeRoy as her "veil".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/aug/01/news |title=JT LeRoy author ordered to pay triple-sized costs &#124; Books |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date= |accessdate=2017-03-05}}</ref> == Exposure== Throughout the 1990s, virtually no one had ever glimpsed the reclusive author. Then, in 2001, a person wearing a wig and sunglasses began appearing in public, claiming to be LeRoy. In August 2005, journalist John Nova Lomax published the article "Coal Miner Mother of a Mess" in the ''Houston Press'', casting doubt on the particulars of LeRoy's story. Lomax recounted his frustrated attempts to contact LeRoy by e-mail, pointed out several obvious discrepancies of fact, and cast doubt on LeRoy's existence.<ref>[http://www.houstonpress.com/music/coal-miner-mother-of-a-mess-6548530 John Nova Lomax, "Coal Miner Mother of a Mess", ''Houston Press'' (August 25, 2005).]</ref> A few months later, [[Stephen Beachy]], in an October 2005 article in ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine, revealed that LeRoy was indeed a fictional creation, invented by writer Laura Albert, and that LeRoy's purported public appearances in wig and sunglasses were made by an actor.<ref name=":1" /> Beachy asserted that Albert had been posing as LeRoy's caretaker and spokesperson, calling herself "Speedie", and LeRoy lived with Albert and her husband Geoffrey Knoop, who used the pseudonym "Astor".<ref name=":1" /> In January 2006, journalist [[Warren St. John]] revealed his finding<ref name=":2" /> in ''[[The New York Times]]'' that the person posing as LeRoy in a wig and sunglasses for six years was 25-year-old [[Savannah Knoop]], Geoffrey Knoop's sister.<ref name=":3">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/books/the-unmasking-of-jt-leroy-in-public-hes-a-she.html|title=The Unmasking of JT Leroy: In Public, He's a She|author=Warren St. John|date=2006-01-09|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=2017-03-05}}</ref> In a subsequent article, St. John published details of an interview with Geoffrey Knoop, in which Knoop confirmed that LeRoy did not exist, and that his sister was LeRoy's public face.<ref name=":0" /> Knoop also admitted to St. John that Laura Albert had written the works published as LeRoy's.<ref name=":0" /> In 2008, Savannah Knoop published a memoir, ''Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy'', about her six-year career as an impersonator.<ref name=":2">[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/02/savannah-knoop-jeremiah-jt-leroy This is the woman who played the man who became a transsexual and fooled the world for six years], ''[[The Guardian]]'', November 2, 2008</ref> == Film option and lawsuit== [[Antidote International Films, Inc.]], and its president [[Jeff Levy-Hinte|Jeffrey Levy-Hinte]] announced plans for a film adaptation of ''Sarah'' to be directed by [[Steven Shainberg]]. According to ''The New York Times'', when Shainberg "learned who had truly written ''Sarah'' an inspiration came to him to make a 'meta-film', a triple-layered movie that would blend the novel with the lives of its real and purported authors in a project he took to calling ''Sarah Plus''."<ref>{{cite news|last=Feuer |first=Alan |title=In Writer's Trial, a Conflict Over Roles of Art and Money |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900EFDF113FF931A15755C0A9619C8B63 |work=The New York Times |accessdate=2013-09-10}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' also reported that this new project "required the rights to Laura Albert's story, rights that she in no uncertain terms refused to grant".<ref name=":23">{{cite news|author=Feuer, Alan|title="Judge Orders Author to Pay Film Company $350,000 in Legal Fees"|date=August 1, 1007|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=2016-11-20|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/nyregion/01leroy.html?_r=0}}</ref> In June 2007 Antidote sued Laura Albert for fraud, claiming that a contract signed by Albert in LeRoy's name to make a feature film of ''Sarah'' was null and void.<ref name="NYT07">[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/20/nyregion/20cnd-writer.html?ex=1339992000&en=dd65fdd75ca5b238&ei=5088 Writer Testifies About Source of Nom de Plume] By Alan Feuer, ''[[The New York Times]]'', Published: June 20, 2007.</ref> A jury found against Albert in the sum of $116,500, holding that the use of the pseudonym to sign the film rights contract was fraudulent.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/2007-06-23-4245882828_x.htm |title=Jury: novel bought by company fraudulent |first=Amy |last=Westfeldt |date=June 23, 2007 |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=USA Today}}</ref> == In art and popular culture == Filmmaker [[Michael Arias]] claimed LeRoy for his inspiration in translating [[Taiyo Matsumoto]]'s [[manga]] ''Sunny''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/18/general/the-sunny-side-of-taiyo-matsumoto/#.Uyfctq1dVvC|title=The 'Sunny' side of Taiyo Matsumoto |newspaper=The Japan Times}}</ref> At a 2013 symposium with filmmaker [[J. J. Abrams]] and [[Doug Dorst]] in New York, actress and writer [[Lena Dunham]] said that LeRoy "co-opted my imagination for a full year of my life. [...] It was pretty remarkable. And then you also go, 'This person isn't who they claim to be, but they still wrote this book that captured all of our imaginations, so then why does the identity of the author even matter when you're reading fiction and engaging with it in a really personal way?'"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2fQoBOJX0|title=JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst w/ Lena Dunham discuss S. #whoisStraka (2/4)|first=|last=CuInAnotherLifeBro|date=November 29, 2013|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref> That same year, Laura Albert told ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'', "You know, JT LeRoy does not exist. But he lives. That's what a famous film historian once said about [[Bugs Bunny]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/laura-albert/#page3|title=Laura Albert|publisher=interviewmagazine.com}}</ref> Another interviewer insisted, "Albert had ingeniously hacked the literary establishment."<ref name="corp.lastlookapp.com">{{cite web|url=http://corp.lastlookapp.com/posts/five-questions-for-laura-albert/|title=5 Questions for Laura Albert |publisher=LASTLOOK}}</ref> In March 2014 the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' reported that the Academy of Friends Oscar Party in San Francisco invited JT LeRoy – played by [[genderqueer|gender fluid]] fashion model [[Rain Dove|Rain Dove Dubilewski]] – to walk the runway as part of its HIV/AIDS fundraiser.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/garchik/article/Long-lost-Ukrainian-uncle-has-left-you-5-million-5304867.php|title=Long-lost Ukrainian uncle has left you $5 million|publisher=www.sfgate.com}}</ref> As part of the artist [[Lynn Hershman Leeson]]’s 2014 exhibition "How To Disappear," she premiered her video ''The Ballad of JT LeRoy'',<ref>http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/2016/08/03/laura-albert-on-lynn-hershman-leeson-and-author-the-jt-leroy-story/</ref> examining Laura Albert's use of the literary persona JT LeRoy. Reflecting on the parallels between JT LeRoy and her own alter ego Roberta Breitmore, Hershman Leeson has commented:<ref name="KubaParis Interview"/> <blockquote>The concept of an alter ego is not new at all. Writers have been protecting themselves in that way for centuries. [[Mary Shelley]] did it. Of course Laura took this practice further and I think that was very smart and I do not think she deserves the kind of condemnation that she got. If I had done the Roberta thing ten years later, I would have faced the same problems.</blockquote> Documentaries about LeRoy include ''Author: The JT LeRoy Story''<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278462/</ref> (2016) directed by [[Jeff Feuerzeig]], and ''The Cult of JT LeRoy''<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3756484/</ref> (2015) directed by Marjorie Sturm. [[Armistead Maupin]]'s ''[[The Night Listener (novel)|The Night Listener]]'' features the case of Anthony Godby Johnson, which is similar to that of LeRoy.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14718/index2.html |title=Who is JT LeRoy? The True Identity of a Great Literary Hustler |website=Nymag.com |date= |accessdate=2016-11-20}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} ==External links== *{{official website}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Leroy, Jt}} [[Category:Nonexistent people used in hoaxes]] [[Category:Literary forgeries]] [[Category:Fictional characters from West Virginia]] [[Category:Alter egos]]'
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'@@ -46,5 +46,5 @@ Filmmaker [[Michael Arias]] claimed LeRoy for his inspiration in translating [[Taiyo Matsumoto]]'s [[manga]] ''Sunny''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/06/18/general/the-sunny-side-of-taiyo-matsumoto/#.Uyfctq1dVvC|title=The 'Sunny' side of Taiyo Matsumoto |newspaper=The Japan Times}}</ref> At a 2013 symposium with filmmaker [[J. J. Abrams]] and [[Doug Dorst]] in New York, actress and writer [[Lena Dunham]] said that LeRoy "co-opted my imagination for a full year of my life. [...] It was pretty remarkable. And then you also go, 'This person isn't who they claim to be, but they still wrote this book that captured all of our imaginations, so then why does the identity of the author even matter when you're reading fiction and engaging with it in a really personal way?'"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2fQoBOJX0|title=JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst w/ Lena Dunham discuss S. #whoisStraka (2/4)|first=|last=CuInAnotherLifeBro|date=November 29, 2013|publisher=|via=YouTube}}</ref> That same year, Laura Albert told ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'', "You know, JT LeRoy does not exist. But he lives. That's what a famous film historian once said about [[Bugs Bunny]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/laura-albert/#page3|title=Laura Albert|publisher=interviewmagazine.com}}</ref> Another interviewer insisted, "Albert had ingeniously hacked the literary establishment."<ref name="corp.lastlookapp.com">{{cite web|url=http://corp.lastlookapp.com/posts/five-questions-for-laura-albert/|title=5 Questions for Laura Albert |publisher=LASTLOOK}}</ref> In March 2014 the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' reported that the Academy of Friends Oscar Party in San Francisco invited JT LeRoy – played by [[genderqueer|gender fluid]] fashion model [[Rain Dove|Rain Dove Dubilewski]] – to walk the runway as part of its HIV/AIDS fundraiser.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/garchik/article/Long-lost-Ukrainian-uncle-has-left-you-5-million-5304867.php|title=Long-lost Ukrainian uncle has left you $5 million|publisher=www.sfgate.com}}</ref> -As part of the artist [[Lynn Hershman Leeson]]’s 2014 exhibition "How To Disappear," she premiered her video ''The Ballad of JT LeRoy'',<ref>http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/2016/08/03/laura-albert-on-lynn-hershman-leeson-and-author-the-jt-leroy-story/</ref> examining [[Laura Albert]]'s use of the literary persona JT LeRoy. Reflecting on the parallels between JT LeRoy and her own alter ego Roberta Breitmore, Hershman Leeson has commented:<ref name="KubaParis Interview"/> +As part of the artist [[Lynn Hershman Leeson]]’s 2014 exhibition "How To Disappear," she premiered her video ''The Ballad of JT LeRoy'',<ref>http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/2016/08/03/laura-albert-on-lynn-hershman-leeson-and-author-the-jt-leroy-story/</ref> examining Laura Albert's use of the literary persona JT LeRoy. Reflecting on the parallels between JT LeRoy and her own alter ego Roberta Breitmore, Hershman Leeson has commented:<ref name="KubaParis Interview"/> <blockquote>The concept of an alter ego is not new at all. Writers have been protecting themselves in that way for centuries. [[Mary Shelley]] did it. Of course Laura took this practice further and I think that was very smart and I do not think she deserves the kind of condemnation that she got. If I had done the Roberta thing ten years later, I would have faced the same problems.</blockquote> '
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