Photo of Laura Albert and Savannah Knoop courtesy of VICE Films
"The book says clearly on the jacket 'fiction.' The rest is extra." Laura Albert says this in the VICE Films-produced, Jeff Feuerzeig-directed documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story while holding a copy of Sarah, the first novel she published under the pseudonym JT LeRoy in 2000. While Albert wrote, she recruited her sister-in-law Savannah Knoop to appear as LeRoy at book readings and meetings; armed with sunglasses and a blonde wig, Knoop brought LeRoy to life and kept her that way for nearly seven years.
That is, until 2006 when the resulting essay, "The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams," was published in the June 1999 issue of Esquire, was chosen as a National Magazine Award finalist, and resulted in a book deal with Houghton Mifflin. Seven years and two award-winning memoirs later, revealed Margaret B. Jones to be Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer, a private school-educated woman raised by her biological parents in the affluent, Sherman Oaks neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley.
James Frey
If nothing else, the author of 2003's A Million Little Pieces serves as a reminder to never, ever lie to Oprah Winfrey. The 2003 memoir documented Frey's rabid drug addiction, following the author as he bounced from hospital, to jail, and finally to rehab. Oprah selected A Million Little Pieces for her book club and book sales skyrocketed; three years later, reporters at The Smoking Gun repay her publisher a staggering $22 million.
Stephen Glass
At 25, Stephen Glass was a journalistic wunderkind, a reporter with bylines appearing in the most reputable publications across the nation. By 1998 was an associate editor at The New Republic. His story "Hack Heaven" caught the attention of Forbes investigative journalist Adam Penenberg, who unanimously ruled that he would not be licensed to practice law thanks to his disgraced reputation in journalism.
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