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James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'L.A. Quartet'- The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. His novel Blood's A Rover completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. His last novel Widespread Panic received wide praise, with The Times calling it 'extraordinary'.
One of the great American writers of our time * Los Angeles Times * Ask me to name the best living novelist who's fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid . . . and it becomes simple: James Ellroy. If insanity illuminated by highly dangerous strokes of literary lightning is your thing, then Ellroy is your man -- Stephen King James Ellroy is the American Dostoyevsky -- Joyce Carol Oates Epic mashups of historical fact and filthy fantasy . . . no one does it better than Ellroy * The Times, 'Best new crime fiction for September 2023' * Truly invigorating . . . demonically riveting -- Jake Kerridge * Telegraph *
