James Ellroy

James Ellroy

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Acting

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1948-03-04 (77 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

James Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a so-called "telegraphic" 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), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009).