JT LeRoy

Jeremiah "Terminator" LeRoy is a literary persona created by American writer Laura Albert. After the first novel Sarah was published, Laura Albert started hiring her sister-in-law Savannah Knoop to make public appearances as JT LeRoy. In a January 2006 article in The New York Times, LeRoy's agent, manager, movie producer, as well as several journalists, declared that the person acting as LeRoy in public was Savannah Knoop. Soon after, it was revealed that Laura Albert had written all of JT LeRoy's works, and had done all of the correspondence of "JT LeRoy," in email and on the phone in the voice of a damaged boy from West Virginia for over ten years.

Albert originally published as Terminator and later JT LeRoy.

Work credited to LeRoy was published in literary journals such as Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Memorious, and Oxford American magazine's Seventh Annual Music Issue. LeRoy was listed as a contributing editor to BlackBook magazine, i-D and 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, Film Comment, Filmmaker, Flaunt, Shout NY, Index Magazine, Interview, and Vogue, among others.

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