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You may not recognize Laura Albert's name (No. 54 on my list), though you've probably seen some of her work ... as JT LeRoy.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that LeRoy, a young and mysterious literary phenomenon, was really the creation of Albert, a 40-year-old woman living in San Francisco. In an interview with the Paris Review earlier this year, Albert discussed her reasons for creating LeRoy, whom she does not consider a "hoax" but a mechanism for coping with childhood abuse -- not unlike the abuse described in LeRoy's novels.
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