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Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, [2] and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential ...
James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic.
Aug 19, 2019 · James Ellroy on his life in crime, his imaginary dog and the need to provoke. By David Marchese Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya. “I’ve had precious few moments,” admitted the novelist James...
James Ellroy — Demon Dog of American Letters — goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic.
Sep 11, 2023 · James Ellroy finally takes on Marilyn Monroe. By Parul Sehgal. September 11, 2023. In “The Enchanters,” Ellroy displays his customary concern with furtive genealogies of violence....
May 2, 2024 · James Ellroy (born March 4, 1948, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American author known for his best-selling crime and detective novels that examine sinister eras of modern American history, especially police corruption in Los Angeles in the 1940s.
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels — The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz — have won numerous awards and were international bestsellers.
