JT LeRoy Never Existed, But He Lived

There was nothing in contemporary literature quite like JT LeRoy’s first book, Sarah, when it was published in 2000. It was somewhere at the crossroads of surrealism and memoir, written at the behest of a therapist LeRoy met in an adolescent psychiatric unit when he was fifteen years old. LeRoy had a difficult life, and perhaps his pain was the type that could only be explored through literature.