James Ellroy
American crime novelist of the L.A. Quartet and the Underworld USA trilogy.
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- James Ellroy (born 4 March 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.
- His L.A.
- Quartet mixes real Los Angeles crimes with fiction, starting with The Black Dahlia.
- American Tabloid (1995) opened the Underworld USA trilogy, a "secret history" of the mid-20th century.
- His memoir My Dark Places is about his mother's murder and his investigation of it.
Key facts
- Born
- 4 March 19481
- L.A. Quartet
- The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz1
- Underworld USA
- American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand, Blood's a Rover (2009)1
- Later novels
- Perfidia (2014), This Storm (2019)1
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