James Ellroy

Birthdate:
03/04/1948
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California
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biography
Once a punk, prowler, pill popper and profligate panty-sniffer, author James Ellroy transformed his degenerate existence to become perhaps the greatest – if not most infamous – crime writer in the world. Ellroy’s novels have been studious crossbreeds of fact and fiction, colliding in brutal fashion to create an alternative history of post-war Los Angeles. His obsession for the dark and unseemly, no doubt fueled by the unsolved murder of his mother in 1958, was clearly reflected in his characters – particularly the hard-edged, broken-down cops who struggle to redeem their violent natures Continued
Credits
Story By
2008
Screenplay
2008
(TV Show)
2006-2006
Narrator
2006
Source Material
2006
Story By
2003
Novel as Source Material
2000
Screenplay
1997
Source Material
1997
Novel as Source Material
1997
Novel as Source Material
milestones
Year
Milestone
 
Worked as a golf caddy at Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles
1979 
Began writing first novel, Brown’s Requiem (published in 1981)
1982 
Published second novel, Clandestine, which is centered around his mother's thinly-disguised murder
1984 
Published the first of three Lloyd Hopkins novels, Blood on the Moon; first book by Ellroy to be published in hardcover in the U.S.
1986 
Published Killer on the Road (formerly Silent Terror), a first-person narration by a serial killer
Continued