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18/10/2005
Novelist JT LeRoy may be fictional
Cult American novelist JT LeRoy, whose graphic account of his drug-soaked upbringing has became a publishing legend, may not really exist.
This week New York magazine ran a story that suggested that LeRoy, the acclaimed 24-year-old of Sarah and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, is not a real person.
Brooklyn-based Laura Albert, a former rock singer and 39-year-old mother, has been fingered by Professor Stephen Beachy, a professor of creative writing at the University of San Francisco, as the person most likely to have been writing or co-writing the work attributed to LeRoy.
According to Beachy, LeRoy’s reclusiveness and preference for conducting telephone or email interviews has enabled Albert to pull off a great literary prank.
Since he burst onto the scene in October 1997, LeRoy has been lionised by the literary elites of New York and California as well as celebrities including Bono, Tom Waits and Winona Ryder.
Bibliofemme reviews: Sarah by JT LeRoy
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