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James Ellroy


Born
in Los Angeles, California, The United States
March 04, 1948

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Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Don DeLillo, Thomas Harris, William F ...more


Lee Earle "James" Ellroy 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, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).

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Perfidia at Mark Taper Auditorium

September 09, 2014 7:15 pm

Venue:Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library
630 W. Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Ellroy, one of America’s greatest living crime writers, draws on the history of Los Angeles in his newest novel, Perfidia. Together with Walter Kirn, author of a recent riveting take on a Los Angeles cold case, Ellroy uncovers a corrupt city under the shadow of Pearl Harbor, where the inve

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Average rating: 3.89 · 242,234 ratings · 12,361 reviews · 189 distinct works • Similar authors
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quar...
3.78 avg rating — 94,629 ratings — published 1987 — 195 editions
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L.A. Confidential (L.A. Qua...
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American Tabloid (Underworl...
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My Dark Places
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The Black Dahlia The Big Nowhere L.A. Confidential The L.A. Quartet: The Black... White Jazz
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Blood on the Moon Because the Night Suicide Hill
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“Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.”
― James Ellroy
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“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.”
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“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
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