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- On June 22, 1958, when Ellroy was 10 years old, his mother was raped and murdered. Ellroy later described his mother as "sharp-tongued [and] bad-tempered", unable to keep a steady job, alcoholic, and sexually promiscuous.
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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
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...
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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...
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 high school, face-up in a blue dress, a nylon ...
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.
Aug 26, 2022 · One, Hollywood Death Trip, largely based on a suite of articles he wrote for GQ and Vanity Fair, was released last month and sees Ellroy exploring notorious unsolved murder cases beginning with his mother’s.
Aug 30, 1995 · This is no mama’s boy. 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.
