tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407956.post3696990091927503641..comments2022-05-29T09:10:27.852+00:00Comments on Rough Version: JT LeroyFrancesca Gavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219874478356114067noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407956.post-68276967696765632222009-04-01T02:08:00.000+00:002009-04-01T02:08:00.000+00:00Hi Francesca, Thanks for what you say about the...Hi Francesca, <BR/> Thanks for what you say about the stories. Novelist - novels - are fiction - as all the books are labeled. How is a novelist fraudulent? Jt LeRoy was a pseudonym, a way for me to explore issue I could not have otherwise. <BR/>Here is a posting written by someone else about the issue. <BR/>Take care,<BR/>Laura (Jt LeRoy) <BR/><BR/>Laura's previous works were published as fiction. It is because people<BR/>ignored that simple fact, perhaps too lazy to notice, that a whole<BR/>host of inappropriate and nasty comments have been rained on her. Yes,<BR/>it is true that she created a different persona, JT, as a back-story,<BR/>but to tell the truth that is hardly unique. Writers have done the<BR/>same for centuries. Let's remember that Samuel Clemens, p/k/a Mark<BR/>Twain, created a whole alternative history for himself. Not to be<BR/>outdone, Bob Dylan, whose real name escapes me now, actually has at<BR/>various times created seven different "histories" to comport with<BR/>various phases of his development. In France, Roman Gary, after<BR/>winning an award and being written off as incapable of writing in a<BR/>different genre, actually wrote and put a relative up as the author<BR/>(sound familiar), only to have that relative win the same prestigious<BR/>award. The difference is that the French celebrated their talented<BR/>author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05331990600284584968noreply@blogger.com