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[Article] Writers these days have to watch their literary steps. James Frey famously got busted by Oprah last year for embellishing his memoir and now Laura Albert has lost a court case with a film company over her pseudonym's real identity.


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Writers have long embraced pen-names: George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Dr. Seuss. Women posing as men were historically treated better by the publishing world. Laura Albert took it one fictional chapter further when she invented not just a nom-de-plume but a whole persona. For several years JT Leroy...
This article was published Tuesday, 3 July, 2007 by AFP
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