Popular male writer 'unmasked as woman'

The bizarre mystery surrounding the true identity of a writer claiming to be a 25-year-old former male prostitute and drug addict may have been solved.

JT LeRoy, whose purportedly semi-autobiographical tales about growing up as an HIV-infected child hustler won critical acclaim and a celebrity following, is now said to have been unmasked as a 40-year-old woman.