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James Ellroy


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in Los Angeles, California, The United States
March 04, 1948

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Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic 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) and L.A. Confidential (1990).

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Perfidia at Mark Taper Auditorium

September 09, 2014 7:15 pm

Venue:
630 W. Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Ellroy, one of America’s greatest living crime writers, draws on the history of Los Angeles in his newest novel, Perfidia. Together with Walter Kirn, author of a recent riveting take on a Los Angeles cold case, Ellroy uncovers a corrupt city under the shadow of Pearl Harbor, where the inve

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Average rating: 3.89 · 237,904 ratings · 11,966 reviews · 149 distinct works â€� Similar authors
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quar...

3.78 avg rating — 93,458 ratings — published 1987 — 185 editions
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L.A. Confidential (L.A. Qua...

4.18 avg rating — 35,534 ratings — published 1990 — 179 editions
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American Tabloid (Underworl...

4.20 avg rating — 19,468 ratings — published 1995 — 105 editions
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The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quart...

4.09 avg rating — 18,034 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions
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White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4)

3.92 avg rating — 9,529 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions
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The Cold Six Thousand (Unde...

4.03 avg rating — 8,131 ratings — published 2001 — 31 editions
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My Dark Places

3.84 avg rating — 7,383 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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Blood's a Rover (Underworld...

3.93 avg rating — 5,520 ratings — published 2009 — 80 editions
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Perfidia (Second L.A. Quart...

3.63 avg rating — 5,184 ratings — published 2014 — 60 editions
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Clandestine

3.73 avg rating — 4,260 ratings — published 1982 — 67 editions
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“Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.”
James Ellroy

“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.”
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“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
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