James Ellroy

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Literary career

Ellroy wrote his first book, Brown's Requiem, a detective story based on his experience as a caddie, published in 1981. Clandestine and Silent Terror followed him until (which was later published under the name Killer on the Road). Ellroy's Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy continued these three books. Hopkins, a brilliant yet troubled LAPD robbery-homicide detective, is the protagonist of the books, which take place mainly in the 1980s.

He is a self-described recluse who has no television or television access and claims never to read contemporary books by other writers, other than Joseph Wambaugh's Onion Fields, out of fear of their influence. However, this does not mean Ellroy does not read at all, as he claims in My Dark Places to have read at least two books a week growing up, and eventually shoplifting more to please his love of reading. He then goes on to claim that he read Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler's books.

A frequent plotting and a skeptical—albeit moral—worldview are two keystones of his work. Ellroy has been dubbed "The demon dog of American crime fiction" because of his work.

Ellroy writes longer on legal pads rather than on a notebook. He develops elaborate outlines for his books, the bulk of which are several hundred pages long.

Dialogue and narration in Ellroy novels often consist of a "heightened pastiche of jazz slang, police patois, creative profanity, and opioid vernacular" with a particular emphasis on period-appropriate slang. He often uses a form of telegraphese (stripped-down, staccato-like sentence structures), a design that has reached its pinnacle in The Cold Six Thousand. Ellroy calls it a "direct, shorter-rather-than-longer sentence style that's both expressive and ugly, with right there, punching you in the nards." This signature style is not the result of a conscious experimentation, but of chance and came about when his editor urged him to shorten his novel L.A. More than a hundred pages are classified as confidential. Ellroy abbreviated the book by deleting every unnecessary word from every sentence, resulting in a unique style of prose. Though each sentence on its own is brief, the overall effect is a heavy, baroque style.

Ellroy's early books earned him a cult following and admiration among crime fiction enthusiasts, but his L.A. Quartet—The Big Nowhere, Los Angeles, L.A., earned him much more fame and critical acclaim. Confidential and White Jazz. Ellroy's transformation of style from classical modernist noir fiction of his earlier books to postmodern historiographic metafiction has been represented in the four books. For example, the Black Dahlia combined Elizabeth Short's true murder with a fictional tale of two police officers investigating the homicide.

Ellroy published American Tabloid, the first book in a series informally dubbed "Underworld USA Trilogy," which Ellroy describes as a "unknown past" of the mid-to-late twentieth century. For 1995, Tabloid was named TIME's best fiction book of the year. The Cold Six Thousand, it's sequel, became a best-selling book. On September 22, 2009, Blood's a Rover, the last book in the series, was published.

Ellroy began My Dark Sites, based on his memories of his mother's murder, the unexpected friendship he had with her, and his investigation into the homicide. Ellroy argues that his mother's murder received little media coverage because the public was still fixated on the stabbing death of mobster Johnny Stompanato, who was dating actress Lana Turner. Frank C. Girardot, a reporter for The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, gained access to investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department who murdered Geneva Hilliker Ellroy's murder. Based on the cold case report, Ellroy and investigator Bill Stoner investigated the allegations but then resigned after 15 months, suspecting any criminals to be dead. A contact page for My Dark Sites has been posted on the final pages, stating: "The probe continues." Detective Stoner may be contacted by dialing 1-800-717-6517 or visiting his e-mail address, detstoner@earthlink.net," if interested. The Library of America selected "My Mother's Killer" from My Dark Places in 2008 for inclusion in The Library of America's two-century celebration of American True Crime.

Ellroy is currently writing a "Second L.A. Quartet" set during the Second World War, with some characters from the first L.A. Quartet and the Underworld USA Trilogy appearing in younger depictions. Perfidia, the first book to be published on September 9, 2014. This Storm, the second book in the series, had a publication date of May 14, 2019. It was launched in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2019, and in the United States on June 4, 2019.

Two days after its initial launch, a Waterstones exclusive limited edition of Perfidia was released, including an essay by Ellroy entitled "Ellroy's Past—Then and Now." "To Lisa Stafford," Ellroy dedicated Perfidia "To Lisa Stafford." "Envy thou not the oppressor, not the oppressor" thouhnish, and Proverbs 3:31 says, "And choose none of his ways"

Ellroy released LAPD '53 on May 19, 2015. The Los Angeles Police Museum and Glynn Martin, the museum's executive director, launched the exhibition in collaboration with the Los Angeles Police Museum and Glynn Martin. Photographs from the museum's archives are on display alongside Ellroy's books on crime and law enforcement during the 1970s.

Ellroy investigated Sal Mineo's murder in the fall of 2017. Ellroy, a former Los Angeles police officer, and co-author of LAPD '53, recalled how he investigated his mother's unsolved murder. Ellroy wrote about this probe for The Hollywood Reporter in digital form on December 21, 2018, and it also appeared in printed form in the December 18, 2018 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

Ellroy wrote "I'm digitally illiterate," she wrote on jamesellroy.net, "I'm going to gas on the fact that I'm breaking baaaaaaaad from tradition in order to release this news." Ellroy said he had been accepted into the Everyman's Library collection. Three Everyman's Library editions have been reprinted: The L.A. Quartet, The Underworld Trilogy, Volume I, and The Underworld U.S. Trilogy, Volume II. The release dates for these books, as well as This Storm: A Novel, were set on June 4, 2019. Ellroy wrote, "Stay avidly tuned to this website for further information" and then signed the finished post Ellroy, inserting a dog's pawprint below it.

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