Poets & Writers Theater

JT LeRoy is a biopic based on the book Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy (Seven Stories Press, 2008), Savannah Knoop’s memoir about her experience spending six years impersonating the celebrated author and literary persona of her sister-in-law Laura Albert. Directed by Justin Kelly, the film stars Laura Dern, Diane Kruger, Courtney Love, Kristen Stewart, and Jim Sturgess.

Directed by Jeff Feuerzeig, this documentary follows the rise and fall of JT LeRoy, a literary persona created by writer Laura Albert, who published two books, Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and was featured in a 2004 interview by Litsa Dremousis in Poets & Writers Magazine.