An 11-year hoax?JT LeRoy Jeremiah "Terminator" LeRoy was a pen name of American writer Laura Albert. The name was used from 1996 on for publication in magazines such as Nerve[1]. After the publication of LeRoy's first novel, Sarah, LeRoy started making public appearances. was just 14 in 1994 when he sent a fax to gay novelist Dennis Cooper Dennis Cooper (born 1953) is a poet, writer, and performance artist, most noted for transforming the visual/verbal aesthetic of punk into its written counterpart. Career Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Pasadena, California. and launched a literary career that includes a first novel, Sarah, published at age 19, and a short-story collection adapted as a film. Now Cooper doubts whether LeRoy even exists--at least in the form of a former boy prostitute turned writer. A recent New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of magazine article reported that LeRoy--who is seen in public only in a wig and dark glasses--may be the construct of a husband-and-wife team who call themselves Astor and Speedie, with whom LeRoy has supposedly lived since 1993. Writer Joel Rose Joel Rose has co-authored graphic novels, his journalism has appeared in the New York Times and he has written for several television shows including Kojak and Miami Vice. He established and co-edited (with Catherine Texier) the legendary literary magazine Between C & D. , a former LeRoy ally, said to journalist Stephen Beachy, "I have deep mourning for someone who never existed." Somebody claiming to be LeRoy told Beachy by telephone simply, "I don't have any burning desire to be proven to be real." |
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