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Savannah Knoop (born 1981) is an American artist and filmmaker. From 1999 to 2005, Knoop performed the public role of literary hoax JT Leroy.
Jan 22, 2019 · Savannah Knoop, the star of one of the biggest literary hoaxes of our time, is having a solo art debut at Essex Flowers.
Savannah Knoop is an NYC-based multi-disciplinary artist, and writer. They received their BA at CUNY under the mentorship of Vito Acconci, and their MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in Sculpture+Extended Media.
Apr 2, 2019 · Savannah Knoop, the artist and writer who personified author Laura Albert's literary persona, JT LeRoy, visited the BFI Reuben Library for a Q&A session and reading from...
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Savannah Knoop. EXHIBITIONS. FILM + PERFORMANCE. OBJECTS. SELECTED PRESS, WRITING, and PUBLIC SPEAKING.
Apr 26, 2019 · No doubt this adage applies to the remarkable story of Savannah Knoop, who as a young woman assumed the persona of J.T. LeRoy, an adolescent author admired for his gut-wrenching semi-autobiographical books with themes of childhood abuse and prostitution. In actuality, LeRoy didn’t exist.
May 3, 2019 · In 2005, a New York Magazine story exposed that Leroy’s books were actually written by Laura Albert, a 35-year-old punk musician and sometime phone-sex operator, and that an entirely different person, named Savannah Knoop, had been acting as the face of the shy, androgynous, and profoundly talented runaway named Jeremiah ...
