Overview
James Ellroy
Known For
Ronald Reagan, un président sur mesure
The historic election of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President...
A Night at the Movies: Cops & Robbers and Crime Writers
Writers of crime fiction and nonfiction discuss influential movies about...
The Cost of Living: Creating the Prowler
The documentary covers the origins, history and curious stories behind...
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
Director Curtis Hanson and his cast and crew discuss the...
Shadows of Suspense
A documentary featuring film historians, directors and authors discussing the...
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and...
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. James Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a so-called "telegraphic" 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), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article James Ellroy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia