Writing
James Ellroy
Born 1948
Known for L.A. Confidential, Street Kings, The Black Dahlia.
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Born03/04/1948
Age78 years old
BirthplaceLos Angeles, California, USA
DepartmentWriting
Also known asLee Earle Elroy
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).
