James Ellroy
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From the author of L.A. Confidential—a razor-sharp novel of corruption, conspiracy and cover-up set in the late 1960s.
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JAMES ELLROY
Date of Birth: March 4, 1948
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Current Residence: Kansas City, MO
Profession: U.S. Army, 1965; golf caddie, California and New York, 1977-84.
I am the demon dog of American literature!
-James Ellroy, (his mantra since the late 1970s)
I hated my mother at the time of her [murder]....She hot-wired me to sex and death. It's no surprise I became a crime writer. She gave me a voice. Her death made me who I am...Crime Fiction let me touch the horror of my mother's death.
-James Ellroy, Daily News, November 12, 1996
This is the problem with Ellroy: there is a temptation which he has done little to discourage, to view him as another [psychopathic writer like] Jack Henry Abbott...[a writer] who has been to the abyss and lived to tell. A tame psycho. What is muddied is whether Ellroy is interpreting his past and his nightmares, or whether he is consumed by them
-John Williams, Into the Badlands
