name: James Ellroy
birth_date: 1948-03-04 00:00:00
genres: Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction
influences: James M. Cain, Thomas Harris, Dashiell Hammett, Don DeLillo, William Friedkin, William F
avg_rating: 3.89
ratings_count: 236604
about: 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). 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). ...more