JT LeRoy
JT LeRoy is a literary persona that was created by writer Laura Albert. LeRoy was presented as the author of three fiction books that were supposed to be semi-autobiographical. Albert’s sister in law Savannah Knoop pretended to be LeRoy in public. The works attracted a lot of literary and celebrity attention even after it was discovered that the whole thing was made up. Knoop published a memoir called Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy about the experience.
JT LeRoy
Mavis Beacon
In 1987, typing teaching software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing was released and became quite popular. It was assumed that the woman on the cover was Mavis Beacon, but it turned out that the woman on the cover was of Caribbean born model Renee L’Esperance.
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Mavis Beacon
