Dept. of fakes

In an interview on Book Standard, a Vanity Fair photographer who took a picture of "JT LeRoy" (i.e. Savannah Knoop who, it has been revealed, merely played the non-existent author in public) says she knew it was a girl all the time, and furthermore could tell the person she was photographing was not the product of the troubled background as told in the "LeRoy" bio.

In other fakery, the publisher of an upcoming children's book will not release the book after all, since early readers discovered the author lifted the title and part of the text from a 1983 book. Strangest thing? The author and publisher are the same person.

JT Leroy, Savannah Knoop, hoaxes, fakes, plagarism