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Armistead And 'Tony'; A deception travels from life to novel--to big screen.(Interview)(Brief article)
Byline: Devin Gordon
In 1993, author Armistead Maupin befriended, via telephone, a 14-year-old boy named Tony who'd written a memoir about being sexually abused. Gradually, however, Maupin began to suspect that "Tony" was the woman who was claiming to be the boy's foster mother. (He was right.) In 2001, he wrote a novel about the experience called "The Night Listener." The film, starring Robin Williams, hits theaters this week. Maupin spoke with Devin Gordon.
The parallels between your novel and the recent hoax involving JT Leroy, another "kid author" who wrote about his abuse, are downright eerie.
I felt a certain--I don't know what to call it--smug satisfaction when all those other writers were bamboozled by JT ...
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