Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) 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,[2] and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).
^Powell, Steven (2023) Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy, p.146 Bloomsbury
^Miller, Laura (May 20, 2001). "Beyond the Grassy Knoll". New York Times.
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style...
America (1984), syndicalist James Conway O'Donnell's character, played by Treat Williams, is inspired by Hoffa. Author JamesEllroy features a fictional historical...
The Cold Six Thousand is a 2001 crime fiction novel by JamesEllroy. It is the first sequel to American Tabloid in the Underworld USA Trilogy and continues...
novel by JamesEllroy. It is the fourth in his L.A. Quartet, preceded by The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and L.A. Confidential. JamesEllroy dedicated...
American Tabloid is a 1995 novel by JamesEllroy that chronicles the events surrounding three rogue American law enforcement officers from November 22...
stand-up comedy routine. Redd Foxx appears as a minor character in the 2009 JamesEllroy novel Blood's a Rover. He gives a bawdy eulogy at the wake of Scotty...
Common and The Game. The initial screenplay drafts were written by JamesEllroy in the late 1990s under the title The Night Watchman. The film was released...
India. He is known for the roles of Bond villain Gustav Graves in the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day, for which he was nominated for the Saturn Award...
non-fiction. Among the most famous fictional accounts of Short's death is JamesEllroy's 1987 novel The Black Dahlia, which, in addition to the murder, explored...
comedy film featuring Bill Murray Brown's Requiem, a 1981 crime novel by JamesEllroy, who worked as a caddie while writing his first books The Legend of Bagger...
The Big Nowhere is a 1988 crime fiction novel by American author JamesEllroy, the second of the L.A. Quartet, a series of novels set in 1940s and 1950s...
Hopkins Trilogy consists of the three crime fiction novels written by JamesEllroy: Blood on the Moon (1984), Because the Night (1984) and Suicide Hill...
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