James Ellroy
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James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L. A. Quartet novels - "The Black Dahlia", "The Big Nowhere", "L. A. Confidential", & "White Jazz" - were international best-sellers. His novel "American Tabloid" was Time magazine's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir, "My Dark Places", was a mostrar más "Time" Best Book of the Year & a "New Yorker Times" Notable Book for 1996. He lives in Kansas City. (Publisher Provided) James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles, California on March 4, 1948. His parents were divorced and he moved in with his father after his mother was murdered in 1958. The story of his mother's unsolved murder would become the basis for his 1996 nonfiction work entitled My Dark Places. He attended Fairfax High School, where he sent Nazi pamphlets to girls he liked and criticized JFK, while advocating the reinstatement of slavery. He was eventually expelled for preaching Nazism in his English class. He joined the army after his expulsion from school, but after realizing that he did not belong there, he faked a stutter and convinced the army psychologist that he was not mentally fit for combat. After three months, he received a dishonorable discharge and returned home. His father died soon thereafter. He was thrown in juvenile hall for stealing a steak from the local market. When he got out, his father's friend became his guardian, but by the age of eighteen, he was back on the streets. He was sleeping outside, stealing, drinking and experimenting with drugs. It wasn't long before he was thrown in jail for breaking into a vacant apartment. When he got out of jail, he started a job at an adult book store, his addictions growing progressively larger. He was misusing the drug Benzedrex, a sinus inhalent which nearly drove him to Schizophrenia and his drinking was ruining his health. He contracted pneumonia twice as well as a condition called post-alchohol brain syndrome. Fearing for his sanity, he joined AA, became sober and found a job as a golf caddy. At the age of 30, he wrote his first novel entitled Brown's Requiem, which was published in 1981. His other works include Clandestine, Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, Suicide Hill, Killer on the Road, and The Cold Six Thousand. His works The Black Dahlia and L. A. Confidential were adapted into feature films. Ellroy's title, Perfidia, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. 030i mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de James Ellroy
The L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia | The Big Nowhere | L.A. Confidential | White Jazz) (1992) 95 copias
[unidentified works] 7 copias
Gravy Train 2 copias
Gli incantatori (Italian Edition) 2 copias
High Darktown 2 copias
Bazaar Bizarre 1 copia
LAPD'53 JAMES ELLROY 1 copia
The Enchantress 1 copia
Six Years 1 copia
Storm, The 1 copia
The enchantress : a novel 1 copia
Tabloid 1 copia
Allgemeine Panik: Roman | Die Schattenseiten Hollywoods der 50er-Jahre erzählt von dem Großmeister der… (2022) 1 copia
The Art of Fiction No. 201 1 copia
Hvid jazz : roman 1 copia
Dial Axminster 6-400 1 copia
Since I Don't Have You 1 copia
Torch Number 1 copia
Réquiem por Brown 1 copia
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The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 2: From Salome to Edgar Allan Poe to The Silence of the Lambs (2021) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
Justice for Hire: The Fourth Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1990) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
Satan's Summer in the City of Angels: The Social Impact of the Night Stalker (2018) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 4 copias
Murder by the Book [2006, season 1] 2 copias
Best American and Australian Crime and Murder Writing 6 volume set: Best American Crime 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and "On… — Editor, algunas ediciones — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Ellroy, Lee Earle
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1948
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Mission Hills, Kansas, USA
El Monte, California, USA - Ocupaciones
- writer
- Relaciones
- Ellroy, Jean (mother)
- Premios y honores
- Robert Kirsch Award (2022)
- Agente
- Nat Sobel (Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 96
- También por
- 17
- Miembros
- 28,198
- Popularidad
- #716
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 432
- ISBNs
- 1,003
- Idiomas
- 23
- Favorito
- 128