James Ellroy (born Lee Earle Ellroy on March 4, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) is an American writer.

He 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, and often features sentence fragments. 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".

Biography

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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 (a book about the Los Angeles Police Department), were pivotal moments in his life as related in his autobiography My Dark Places.

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Finally accepted the new James Ellroy is a dud and moving on to third Stieg Larsson novel.
hamishfitz (Hamish Fitzsimmons) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:12:00 -0000
Finally accepted the new James Ellroy is a dud and moving on to third Stieg Larsson novel.
10 years ago I was working graveyard shift at a gas station and spending my nights reading James Ellroy and Vladimir Nabokov #10yearsago
keithr34 (Keith Rawson) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:01:39 -0000
10 years ago I was working graveyard shift at a gas station and spending my nights reading James Ellroy and Vladimir Nabokov #10yearsago
"Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush..." White Jazz by James Ellroy was magnificent! Dark, visceral, complex,violent noir thriller
richardeno (Richard Eno) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:22:26 -0000
"Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush..." White Jazz by James Ellroy was magnificent! Dark, visceral, complex,violent noir thriller
@lumpleygames Ever read James Ellroy?
greatwolf (Seth Ben-Ezra) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:11:30 -0000
@lumpleygames Ever read James Ellroy?
@Beathhigh At least she could put her face on the cover..she looks like James Ellroy!
StephenRMoulton (stevemoulton) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:48:12 -0000
@Beathhigh At least she could put her face on the cover..she looks like James Ellroy!
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NeueBucher (Neue Bücher) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:35:58 -0000
Ein amerikanischer Albtraum - von James Ellroy - Ullstein Tb. http://tinyurl.com/y88pu3v

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