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Profile of James Ellroy
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James Ellroy |
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4th March 1948 |
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Los Angeles, California, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
James Ellroy (born Lee Earle Ellroy on March 4, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) is one of the world's best-selling crime writers and essayists with a unique "telegraphic" writing style, which omits words other writers would consider necessary. His books are noted for their dark humor and depiction of American authoritarianism. Other hallmarks of his work include dense plotting and a relentlessly pessimistic worldview. Ellroy has sometimes been called the "Demon Dog of American crime fiction".
In 1958, his mother, Geneva, was murdered in El Monte, where she and Ellroy moved three years after her divorce from his father, Armand. The unsolved killing, and a birthday present from his father a few months later, The Badge by Jack Webb, about the Los Angeles Police Department were pivotal moments in his life as portrayed in My Dark Places.
He writes longhand on legal pads, rather than on a computer, and prepares elaborate outlines for his books that are several hundred pages long. In connection with The Cold Six Thousand Ellroy has said that he is through with "genre fiction" and plans to write mainstream novels.
Ellroy lives in Carmel. He is currently working on the final (and reportedly largest) volume of his Underworld USA trilogy of novels, which began with American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand.
Films
- 1990 Cop
- 1995 Shotgun Freeway
- 1997 L.A. Confidential
- 1998 Brown's Requiem
- 2001 James Ellroy's Feast of Death
- 2002 Stay Clean
- 2006 The Black Dahlia
- 2006 The Man Who Kept Secrets
- 2006 The Night Watchman
Bibliography
- 1981 Brown's Requiem
- 1982 Clandestine
- 1984 Blood on the Moon
- 1984 Because the Night
- 1985 Suicide Hill
- 1986 Killer on the Road (also published as Silent Terror)
- 1987 The Black Dahlia (novel)
- 1988 The Big Nowhere
- 1990 L.A. Confidential
- 1992 White Jazz
- 1994 Hollywood Nocturnes
- 1995 American Tabloid
- 1996 My Dark Places
- 1999 Crime Wave (book)
- 2001 The Cold Six Thousand
- 2004 Destination: Morgue!
External Links
- Ellroy.com
- Ellroy Confidential
- IMDB - James Ellroy
- James Ellroy's World
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