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James Ellroy

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), 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). -- Wikipedia

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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist

Born 4 March 1948

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  • Cover of: The black dahlia
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  • Cover of: L.A. confidential
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    Cover of edition laconfidentialst0000ellr Cover of edition laconfidential0000ellr_y4c0 Cover of edition laconfidential000ellr Cover of edition laconfidential00ellr Cover of edition laconfidential0000ellr First published in 1990 — 37 editions
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  • Cover of: The big nowhere
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  • Cover of: American Tabloid
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  • Cover of: Because the night: a novel
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    Cover of edition causedelanuit0000jame Cover of edition becausenight0000ellr Cover of edition isbn_9788466632393 Cover of edition becausenight0000ellr_r7j2 Cover of edition becausenight0000ellr_x2l0 First published in 1986 — 26 editions
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  • Cover of: White jazz: a novel
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    Cover of edition whitejazz00ellr Cover of edition whitejazz00jame Cover of edition whitejazz0000ellr_f5t5 First published in 1991 — 24 editions
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  • Cover of: Blood on the Moon
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    Cover of edition isbn_9788466627894 First published in 1984 — 23 editions
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  • Cover of: My dark places: an L.A. crime memoir
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  • Cover of: Clandestine
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    Cover of edition clandestin0000jame Cover of edition clandestin0000ellr Cover of edition clandestine0000ellr Cover of edition clandestine00ellr Cover of edition clandestine0000ellr_e9b2 First published in 1982 — 22 editions
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  • Cover of: Suicide hill
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  • Cover of: Brown's requiem

    First published in 1981 — 19 editions
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  • Cover of: Blood's a Rover
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  • Cover of: The Cold Six Thousand
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    Cover of edition americandeathtri0000ellr Cover of edition seisdelosgrandes0000ellr Cover of edition coldsixthousandn0000ellr Cover of edition coldsixthousand00jame Cover of edition coldsixthousand0000ellr Cover of edition coldsixthousandn00ellr First published in 2001 — 17 editions
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  • Cover of: Crime Wave
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  • Cover of: Killer on the road
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  • Cover of: L.A. noir
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  • Cover of: The Hilliker Curse: my pursuit of women
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  • Cover of: Destination
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  • Cover of: This Storm

    First published in 2019 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: The Best American Mystery Stories III
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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist

Born 4 March 1948

Subjects

Fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Police, California, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Crime, fiction, Murder, American Detective and mystery stories, Investigation, Crime, Romans, nouvelles, Fiction, crime, Los Angeles (Calif.)., Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department, Novela, American fiction, American literature, Authors, biography, Criminals, Ficción, Fiction, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural

Places

California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.), United States, États-Unis, Baker Street, Dallas (Tex.), Hollywood, Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), John F. Kennedy International Airport, Las Vegas, Las Vegas (Nev.), London, Los Angeles (California), Los Ángeles, Nevada, New Jersey, Paris, San Francisco (Calif.), rabbit room, États-unis

People

James Ellroy (1948-), Archie, Bucky Bleichert, C. Auguste Dupin, Cindy Morrison, Duncan Ross, Elizabeth Short (1924-1947), Jabez Wilson, Jimmy McCann, John Clay, John H. Watson, Lee Blanchard, Minister D—, Mr. Merryweather, Police Inspector Jones, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Richard Morrison, Sherlock Holmes, Victor Donatti, Vincent Spaulding

Time

20th century, 1890, 1940s and 1950s, 1946, 1947, 1960-1980, 1963-1969, 1969-1974, 20e siècle, Siglo XX

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December 5, 2022 Edited by Stew Add brief description.
November 20, 2022 Edited by tmanarl merge authors
May 3, 2022 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong alternative names
May 3, 2022 Edited by dcapillae merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import