James Ellroy

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1948-03-04 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

James Ellroy

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. James Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a so-called "telegraphic" prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article James Ellroy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Production

2008

Street Kings

as Screenplay

1988

Cop

as Novel

2006

2011

Rampart

as Screenplay

2002

Dark Blue

as Story

1997

2003

1998

2003

2002

Stay Clean

as Novel

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