JT LeRoy
JT LeRoy is a literary character and persona created by writer Laura Albert. LeRoy was said to have been the writer of three fictional books that were meant to be semi-autobiographical. Savannah Knoop, Albert’s sister in law, pretended to be LeRoy in public. While the works attracted much literary and celebrity attention, it was then discovered that everything was made up. Knoop later published her own memoir about the experience called Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy.
JT Leroy
Mavis Beacon
Typing teaching software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing was released in 1987 and become one of the most popular software programs of its kind. People assumed that the woman on the cover of the box was Mavis Beacon herself, but it turns out that the woman was actually Caribbean model Renee L’Esperance.
Mavis Beacon