James ellroy biography

American writer (born 1948)

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences,^[2] and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A.

James ellroy net worth

Confidential (1990).

Life

Early life

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. His mother, Geneva Odelia (née Hilliker), was a nurse. His father, Armand, was an accountant and a onetime business manager of Rita Hayworth.^[3] His parents divorced in 1954, after which Ellroy and his mother moved to El Monte, California.^[4][5]

At the age of seven, Ellroy saw his mother naked and began to sexually fantasize about her.

He struggled in youth with this obsession, as he held a psycho-sexual relationship with her, and tried to catch glimpses of her nude.^[6