James Ellroy
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James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L. A. Quartet novels - "The Black Dahlia", "The Big Nowhere", "L. A. Confidential", & "White Jazz" - were international best-sellers. His novel "American Tabloid" was Time magazine's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir, "My Dark Places", was a mehr anzeigen "Time" Best Book of the Year & a "New Yorker Times" Notable Book for 1996. He lives in Kansas City. (Publisher Provided) James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles, California on March 4, 1948. His parents were divorced and he moved in with his father after his mother was murdered in 1958. The story of his mother's unsolved murder would become the basis for his 1996 nonfiction work entitled My Dark Places. He attended Fairfax High School, where he sent Nazi pamphlets to girls he liked and criticized JFK, while advocating the reinstatement of slavery. He was eventually expelled for preaching Nazism in his English class. He joined the army after his expulsion from school, but after realizing that he did not belong there, he faked a stutter and convinced the army psychologist that he was not mentally fit for combat. After three months, he received a dishonorable discharge and returned home. His father died soon thereafter. He was thrown in juvenile hall for stealing a steak from the local market. When he got out, his father's friend became his guardian, but by the age of eighteen, he was back on the streets. He was sleeping outside, stealing, drinking and experimenting with drugs. It wasn't long before he was thrown in jail for breaking into a vacant apartment. When he got out of jail, he started a job at an adult book store, his addictions growing progressively larger. He was misusing the drug Benzedrex, a sinus inhalent which nearly drove him to Schizophrenia and his drinking was ruining his health. He contracted pneumonia twice as well as a condition called post-alchohol brain syndrome. Fearing for his sanity, he joined AA, became sober and found a job as a golf caddy. At the age of 30, he wrote his first novel entitled Brown's Requiem, which was published in 1981. His other works include Clandestine, Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, Suicide Hill, Killer on the Road, and The Cold Six Thousand. His works The Black Dahlia and L. A. Confidential were adapted into feature films. Ellroy's title, Perfidia, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. 030i weniger anzeigen
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The L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia | The Big Nowhere | L.A. Confidential | White Jazz) (1992) 94 Exemplare
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid; The Cold Six Thousand (2019) 50 Exemplare
[unidentified works] 7 Exemplare
La Collina Dei Suicidi (La Collina Dei Suicidi) 3 Exemplare
Gravy Train 2 Exemplare
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy (1990-06-01) 2 Exemplare
High Darktown 2 Exemplare
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (CUARTETO DE LOS ANGEL 1 Exemplar
The Enchantress 1 Exemplar
La tempête qui vient (Rivages/Noir) 1 Exemplar
L.A.Confidential (Italian Edition) 1 Exemplar
Hvid jazz : roman 1 Exemplar
LAPD'53 JAMES ELLROY 1 Exemplar
Bazaar Bizarre 1 Exemplar
I ragazzi del coro (in The dark side) 1 Exemplar
Six Years 1 Exemplar
Storm, The 1 Exemplar
The enchantress : a novel 1 Exemplar
Since I Don't Have You 1 Exemplar
Torch Number 1 Exemplar
Tabloid 1 Exemplar
Allgemeine Panik: Roman | Die Schattenseiten Hollywoods der 50er-Jahre erzählt von dem Großmeister der… (2022) 1 Exemplar
Dial Axminster 6-400 1 Exemplar
Requiem por brown 1 Exemplar
The Art of Fiction No. 201 1 Exemplar
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The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Mitwirkender — 62 Exemplare
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 2: From Salome to Edgar Allan Poe to The Silence of the Lambs (2021) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Justice for Hire: The Fourth Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1990) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
Conversations with James Ellroy (Literary Conversations Series) (2012) — Associated Name — 5 Exemplare
Satan's Summer in the City of Angels: The Social Impact of the Night Stalker (2018) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 4 Exemplare
Murder by the Book [2006, season 1] 2 Exemplare
Best American and Australian Crime and Murder Writing 6 volume set: Best American Crime 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and "On… — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben — 1 Exemplar
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Ellroy, James
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Ellroy, Lee Earle
- Geburtstag
- 1948
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- United States of America
- Land (für Karte)
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Wohnorte
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Mission Hills, Kansas, USA
El Monte, California, USA - Berufe
- golf caddy
crime novelist
essayist - Beziehungen
- Ellroy, Jean (mother)
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- Robert Kirsch Award (2022)
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- Nat Sobel (Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.)
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Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover’s pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover’s racist designs and obsessed with a leftist shadow figure named Joan Rosen Klein. Wayne Tedrow—ex-cop and heroin runner—is building a mob gambling mecca in the Dominican Republic and quickly becoming radicalized. Don Crutchfield is a window-peeping kid private-eye within tantalizing reach of right-wing assassins, left-wing revolutionaries and the powermongers of an incendiary era. Their lives collide in pursuit of the Red Goddess Joan—and each of them will pay “a dear and savage price to live History.”
Political noir as only James Ellroy can write it—our recent past razed and fully reconstructed—Blood’s A Rover is a novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. It is the largest and greatest work of fiction from an American master. (amazon)… (mehr)