James Ellroy
Auteur de Le Dahlia Noir
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus "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 afficher moins
Crédit image: Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Séries
Œuvres de James Ellroy
La trilogie Lloyd Hopkins : Lune sanglante / À cause de la nuit / La Colline aux suicidés (1984) 450 exemplaires
The Best American Noir of the Century (2010) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 365 exemplaires
The L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia | The Big Nowhere | L.A. Confidential | White Jazz) (1992) 94 exemplaires
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid; The Cold Six Thousand (2019) 50 exemplaires
[unidentified works] 7 exemplaires
La Collina Dei Suicidi (La Collina Dei Suicidi) 3 exemplaires
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 [Audio Book, abridged] (2002) — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires
Gravy Train 2 exemplaires
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy (1990-06-01) 2 exemplaires
High Darktown 2 exemplaires
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (CUARTETO DE LOS ANGEL 1 exemplaire
The Enchantress 1 exemplaire
La tempête qui vient (Rivages/Noir) 1 exemplaire
L.A.Confidential (Italian Edition) 1 exemplaire
Hvid jazz : roman 1 exemplaire
LAPD'53 JAMES ELLROY 1 exemplaire
Bazaar Bizarre 1 exemplaire
I ragazzi del coro (in The dark side) 1 exemplaire
Six Years 1 exemplaire
Storm, The 1 exemplaire
The enchantress : a novel 1 exemplaire
Since I Don't Have You 1 exemplaire
Torch Number 1 exemplaire
Tabloid 1 exemplaire
Allgemeine Panik: Roman | Die Schattenseiten Hollywoods der 50er-Jahre erzählt von dem Großmeister der… (2022) 1 exemplaire
Dial Axminster 6-400 1 exemplaire
Requiem por brown 1 exemplaire
The Art of Fiction No. 201 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contributeur — 62 exemplaires
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 2: From Salome to Edgar Allan Poe to The Silence of the Lambs (2021) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
Justice for Hire: The Fourth Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1990) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Conversations with James Ellroy (Literary Conversations Series) (2012) — Associated Name — 5 exemplaires
Satan's Summer in the City of Angels: The Social Impact of the Night Stalker (2018) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 4 exemplaires
Murder by the Book [2006, season 1] 2 exemplaires
Best American and Australian Crime and Murder Writing 6 volume set: Best American Crime 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and "On… — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Ellroy, Lee Earle
- Date de naissance
- 1948-03-04
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- Los Angeles, Californie, Etats-Unis
- Lieux de résidence
- Los Angeles, Californie, USA (Naissance)
Mission Hills, Kansas, USA - Professions
- writer
- Relations
- Knode, Helen (épouse)
- Prix et distinctions
- Robert Kirsch Award (2022)
- Agent
- Nat Sobel (Sobel Weber Associates ∙ Inc.)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 96
- Aussi par
- 15
- Membres
- 28,080
- Popularité
- #720
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 430
- ISBN
- 1,003
- Langues
- 23
- Favoris
- 128