Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016)

Directed by

Jeff Feuerzeig

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

15

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the true story of Laura Albert, who wrote acclaimed books under the fictional identity JT LeRoy. It covers how the literary world celebrated the work and the fallout when the actual author was revealed. The film features Albert herself speaking about the persona and the controversy.

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What happens

Author: The JT LeRoy Story is a 2016 American documentary film about American writer Laura Albert and her literary persona JT LeRoy. It examines the critical acclaim given the JT LeRoy books and their international popularity, and the subsequent scandal when it was revealed that LeRoy did not exist and Albert had written the books. Jeff Feuerzeig, the film's writer/director, told Kevin Lally of Film Journal International, “I thought it was the wildest story about story I had ever heard,” and noted, “one voice glaringly missing from all these accounts [was] the voice of the author of the fiction on and off the page, Laura Albert. She had held her story back, and I said: Wow! That’s the voice I would like to hear.” The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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