James Ellroy is a Los Angeles native and crime fiction writer. His books include L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, and My Dark Places.
"She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them."
- James Ellroy, My Dark Places
ARTICLES FEATURING JAMES
A Healthy Serving of Ellroy
Ellroy’s world is too toxic for justice to survive....
Epic Noir
Ira Wells on James Ellroy’s "Perfidia"...
Fresh Pulp and Geezer Noir
Trying to pin down the definitive characteristics of “noir” is a tiresome game....
Tall Redhead Syndrome
THE MEMOIR WAS ONCE a venerable literary genre — more compelling and immediate than biography, more inclusive than the novel. There was ...
