The JT LeRoy scandal is a story of our times. In January 2006, the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy. A media frenzy ensued as JT’s fans, mentors, and readers came to terms with the fact that the gay-male-ex-truck-stop-prostitute-turned literary-wunderkind was really a girl from San Francisco, whose sister-in-law wrote the books.\ Girl Boy Girl is the story of how Savannah Knoop led this bizarre double life for six years, trading a precarious...
The mysterious girl who led a double life for six years as celebrated author JT LeRoy.