While the brouhaha over the truth of James Frey's 2004 best-selling memoir
A Million Little Pieces grabbed nationwide front-page headlines two years after the fact, a far more elaborate — and interesting — literary hoax went relatively ignored. In January 2006 the
New York Times confirmed nagging suspicions about celebrated young writer J. T. Leroy: Not only was he
not the author of the two novels and numerous short stories attributed to him, but Leroy didn't even
exist. Both his writings and the outrageous details of his shocking life, including a childhood spent as a cross-dressing child prostitute pimped out by an abusive mentally ill m...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins