James Ellroy

James Ellroy (born Lee Earle Ellroy on March 4, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) is one of the world's best-selling crime writers and essayists with a unique "telegraphic" writing style, which omits words other writers would consider necessary. His books are noted for their dark humor and depiction of American authoritarianism. Other hallmarks of his work include dense plotting and a relentlessly pessimistic worldview. Ellroy has sometimes been called the "Demon Dog of American crime fiction".

Bibliography

• 1981 Brown's Requiem
• 1982 Clandestine
• 1984 Blood on the Moon
• 1984 Because the Night
• 1985 Suicide Hill
• 1986 Killer on the Road (also published as Silent Terror)
• 1987 The Black Dahlia (novel)
• 1988 The Big Nowhere
• 1990 L.A. Confidential
• 1992 White Jazz
• 1994 Hollywood Nocturnes
• 1995 American Tabloid
• 1996 My Dark Places
• 1999 Crime Wave (book)
• 2001 The Cold Six Thousand
• 2004 '