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May 31, 2019 · The seminal event of Ellroy’s life was the death of his mother, Geneva Odelia, who was raped and killed in 1958 when Ellroy was 10. As it turns out, Ellroy is surprisingly responsive on that...
On June 22, 1958, when Ellroy was 10 years old, his mother was raped and murdered. [8] Ellroy later described his mother as "sharp-tongued [and] bad-tempered", [9] unable to keep a steady job, alcoholic, and sexually promiscuous.
Jul 27, 2001 · But for many years, Ellroy left one dark place unexplored: His own mother's murder. In his book "My Dark Places," Ellroy finally confronted the truth that fires his fiction. In the book's...
- CBS News
Ellroy's mother Geneva was murdered in 1958, when he was 10 years old, and the killer was never identified. The book is Ellroy's account of his attempt to solve the mystery by hiring a retired Los Angeles County homicide detective to investigate the crime.
- James Ellroy
- 1996
James Ellroy’s mother was murdered. As a teenager, Anne Perry (then Juliet Hulme) helped her friend bludgeon to death the friend’s mother. Perry says of her time in prison, “I went down on my knees and repented,” and of the connection between the crime and her novels, “[It] is vital for me to go on exploring moral matters.”
Jul 8, 2007 · In 1994, James Ellroy, America's greatest living crime novelist, gave us this searing account of how—and why—he finally dared reopen the case of his mother's unsolved murder
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James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother–and himself.
