James Ellroy
4 March 1948
67 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy 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, 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). *-- Wikipedia*
Also published as: Ellroy James, JAMES ELLROY
Most-read books
The Black Dahlia
3.8 · 1987 · 141 want to read
L.A. Confidential
4 · 1990 · 58 want to read
The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
1998 · 48 want to read
American Tabloid
4.3 · 1995 · 37 want to read
The Big Nowhere
3.8 · 1988 · 23 want to read
My Dark Places
1996 · 23 want to read
White Jazz
3.8 · 1991 · 12 want to read
Murder and mayhem
3 · 1991 · 20 want to read
The Cold Six Thousand
4.3 · 2001 · 14 want to read
Silent Terror
5 · 1986 · 12 want to read
The Best American Mystery Stories 2002
2002 · 17 want to read
L. A. Noir
4 · 1998 · 12 want to read
The Best American Noir of the Century
3.5 · 2010 · 15 want to read
The Best American Crime Writing 2005
4 · 2005 · 12 want to read
Perfidia
4 · 2014 · 10 want to read
Crime Wave
4 · 1998 · 7 want to read
Clandestine
3.5 · 1982 · 6 want to read
Hollywood Nocturnes
4 · 1994 · 5 want to read
Blood's a rover
4.5 · 2009 · 7 want to read
The Hilliker Curse
1998 · 7 want to read
Brown's Requiem
4 · 1981 · 4 want to read
Because the Night
4 · 1986 · 4 want to read
Widespread Panic
4 · 2021 · 3 want to read
LAPD '53
3 · 2015 · 3 want to read