“Lost Boy” Novelist J.T. LeRoy

Profile of the author, age 24, whose works include “Sarah,” an autobiographical tale about life among a group of young truck stop prostitutes who call themselves “lot lizards”, and “The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things”.

The latter title is a collection of raw, diaristic tales about LeRoy’s horrific childhood. His mother was a drug addict and prostitute and he spent his youth as a cross-dressing hooker, turning tricks in truck stop parking lots.

From the NYTimes.