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Jul 8, 2007 · It’s a chronologically altered, heavily fictionalized account of my mother’s murder. The story details a young cop’s obsession: linking the death of a woman he had a one-night stand with to ...
The L.A. Quartet is a sequence of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles. [1] [2] [3] They are: (1987) The Black Dahlia. (1988) The Big Nowhere. (1990) L.A. Confidential. (1992) White Jazz. Elmore Leonard wrote that "reading The Black Dahlia aloud would shatter wine glasses".
Oct 4, 1987 · Still deeply affected by the death of his mother just the year before, Ellroy became fascinated. “I was afraid to go to sleep because I would have nightmares,” he said.
James Ellroy is occasionally quoted as saying he’s the greatest American crime novelist ever. ... The old man taught me to read when I was three and a half and after my mother’s death, I was ...
Illustrated. 355 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $25. It happened in 1958 when James Ellroy was 10 years old: the body of his mother, Jean, was discovered lying in an ivy patch near the local El Monte ...
Aug 19, 2019 · Ellroy as a child with his mother, Jean Hilliker. James Ellroy Archive, University of South Carolina Libraries ... Trying to get to the heart of a person who died when you were 10 is like trying ...
Aug 30, 1995 · On the contrary, Ellroy says he hated his mother when she died. “On my 10th birthday in March, 1958, she said, ‘Now you’re a young man. You can decide if you want to live with your dad or ...
