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In the late 1990s, a major new literary voice broke onto the scene, quickly emerging as one of the most exciting writers of his generation. His name was JT LeRoy—the T was for “Terminator”—he was a possibly transgender teenager, his mother was a truck-stop call girl, and it was rumored that he might have AIDS. LeRoy was immediately embraced by Hollywood and the music world, with Billy Corgan, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, and Winona Ryder as just a few of his many celebrity admirers. Except, as it turns out, JT LeRoy was actually the penname of Laura Albert, a near forty-year-old mother and former phone sex operator from San Francisco. Author: The JT LeRoy Story tells Albert’s incredible true story from her own perspective, identifying the series of real-life experiences that led to her accidental creation of a literary world superstar.
Director Jeff Feuerzeig 2016 United States 110 minutes R (for language throughout, sexual content, some drug material, and violent images) DCP
