James Ellroy

Birth Name:

James Ellroy

Birth Place:

Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession

Writer, Actor, Producer

When he was 10 years old, his mother was killed in an unsolved homicide, an event that shaped the rest of his life and provided much of the inspiration for his writing style
Best known for writing the original novels from which the films "The Black Dahlia" and "L․A․ Confidential" were adapted
Is a renowned author of crime-fiction and neo-noir novels, known for unique, short sentence structure and playful use of slang and syntax, as well as partly basing many of his stories on real-life historical events such as the assassination of JFK
Often focuses on the theme of lacking closure in his stories
Originally employing a normal sentence structure, he evolved towards his now-signature writing style not on purpose, but instead after his editor asked him to drastically reduce the size of his novel "White Jazz․"
Is known for his highly enigmatic and contradictory public persona, offering opinions that often differ from his own, previous interviews

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