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	FLUXEUROPA: JAMES ELLROY: THE MADHOUSE OF THE SKULL
		Ellroy is obliged to work within the limits of causality since it is the peg on which the whole crime genre hangs.
		As Ellroy's detectives try to piece together the disjecta membra of a victim's life with all its frustrations and failures which lead to a violent death at the hands of an unknown killer, their search becomes a spiritual quest; it becomes their case and their frustrations and failures that are being worked through.
		Ellroy has rather modestly said that it is his ambition to rewrite the 'secret history' of America from the perspective of the crime genre.
	www.fluxeuropa.com /jamesellroy-quartet.htm (3316 words)

	James Ellroy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Ellroy (born Lee Earle Ellroy on March 4, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) is an American writer.
		Ellroy is an ardent, outspoken and unquestioning admirer of the Los Angeles Police Department, and he dismisses the department's flaws as aberrations, telling the National Review that the coverage of the Rodney G. King beating and Rampart police scandals were overblown by a biased liberal media.
		Ellroy was disappointed by the film "Cop" (starring James Woods) as an adaptation of one of his novels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Ellroy (775 words)

	James Ellroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ellroy draws such a dark, cruel picture of postwar America that the reader becomes almost a victim of the narrative assault, but the stories are so intricate and rapid-fire that they are hard to put down.
		Ellroy did get a brand-new life, but it wasn't so beautiful: his feelings about his mother were far from straightforward, and his father's poisonous statements had damaging side effects.
		Although this is a giant step for James Ellroy, it is not such a big one for the reader, who is not as emotionally involved, and therefore the ending feels anti-climactic.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/11-96/ELLROY.html (1181 words)

	James Ellroy, crime novelist
		James Ellroy is best understood as an historical writer who specializes in evoking the sights, sounds, dialogue, and feel of hard-boiled Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which his own personality was formed through family tragedy.
		But Ellroy was so hypnotized that around 1960 he began to visit the crime scenes, have dreams and visions of Short, and to visit her grave.
		Ellroy also draws on the pulp tradition – his fascination with sexual behaviors and boxing recalls Spillane (and Hammett in his short stories) as well as Thompson.
	www.detnovel.com /Ellroy.html (961 words)

	James Ellroy
		James Ellroy is best understood as an historical writer who specializes in evoking the sights, sounds, dialogue, and feel of hard-boiled Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s, a period in which his own personality was formed through family tragedy.
		But Ellroy was so hypnotized that around 1960 he began to visit the crime scenes, have dreams and visions of Short, and to visit her grave.
		His father died and Ellroy hit the streets, stealing and drinking, using a variety of drugs, sleeping in parks and dumpsters.
	www.case.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Ellroy.HTM (729 words)

	James Ellroy Interview Page
		James drank what he was given and did some middle distance running at school.
		James wondered whether his father was going to be murdered as well.
		James used to ride over to the spot on Norton Avenue and 39th Street where the Dahlia's body was dumped, to feel her presence.
	www.crimetime.co.uk /interviews/ellroy01.html (3258 words)

	Books \| James Ellroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The frightening thing about talking to James Ellroy, the self-described “demon dog of American crime fiction,” is that in conversation his chilling, precise command of the language does not linger out of reach; it is at his beck and call, and he deploys it even more sharply off the cuff than in his novels.
		Ellroy’s finest novels (including The Black Dahlia and the incomparable White Jazz) did for the hard-boiled detective novel what Jackie Chan did for chop-socky: refined and turbocharged the language, intensified the violence, and dragged the form out of the morgue.
		James Ellroy discusses and signs The Cold Six Thousand and introduces a screening of the Feast of Death, a new documentary about his life and work, this Friday, May 11, at 5:30 p.m.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/books/documents/01532563.htm (641 words)

	Lecture Review: James Ellroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ellroy was already a high school dropout, and he had just dropped out of the army as well.
		Ellroy extolled the virtues of his books in a manner not unlike that of a quack doctor preaching his wares.
		Ellroy describes each case in a detached and clinical fashion, creating a stark depiction of the harrowing nature of police work.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V119/N8/ellroy.8a.html (1091 words)

	James Ellroy
		James's mother Geneva Hilliker Ellroy was strangled when he was only 10 years old.
		James became a true crime junkie, following the details of the Black Dahlia case.
		On his deathbed, James's father offered his last piece of advice: "Try to pick up every waitress who serves you." He grew up to be a wino and petty thief with 30 arrests between 1965 and 1977.
	www.nndb.com /people/378/000026300 (85 words)

	James Ellroy
		In one of Ellroy's most fascinating and grueling novels, the twisted, mortally brilliant mind of serial murderer Martin Plunkett, is laid open for the reader, with chilling, pulse-pounding realism.
		She was murdered in 1958 and the case was never solved, leaving her son to embark on years of petty crime and drinking.
		Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's ride: Dallas to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches.
	www.bastulli.com /Ellroy/ELLROY.htm (996 words)

	James Ellroy
		Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's journey: Dallas to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches...
		A self-confessed crime junkie, Ellroy's obsession with the dark side of L.A. is personal and vital, triggered by the murder of his mother when he was ten.
		Her ten-year-old son James had been away with Jean's estranged husband all weekend and was confronted with the news on his return.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/jellroy.html (924 words)

	James Ellroy. Biography and works
		James Ellroy published in 1996 My Dark Places, an autobiographical account of his mother’s unsolved murder and his 1994 reinvestigation of the case.
		As a young man haunted by his mother's ghost, Ellroy became a thief, an alcoholic, a drug abuser and a sexual pervert who became notorious as a peeping Tom fixated on women's underwear.
		James Ellroy is more closely identified with Los Angeles than any writer since Raymond Chandler.
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/ellroy.htm (714 words)

	Amazon.ca: James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction: Video: Reinhard Jud,James Ellroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		When popular crime writer James Ellroy was a youngster, an unknown assailant brutally murdered his mother and left the boy with a lifelong obsession for gory crime.
		Ellroy is captured in all of his extroverted, excessive glory - fresh from completion of his "L.A. Quartet," and prior to the release of "American Tabloid," the first volume of his "Underworld U.S.A." trilogy.
		Ellroy also escorts the viewer through a walking tour of other crime scenes that figure prominently in his fiction, including the dump site of the body of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") and the shooting of an associate of Mickey Cohen - an L.A. mobster who figures repeatedly in Ellroy's novels and short fiction.
	www.amazon.ca /James-Ellroy-Demon-American-Fiction/dp/6305197814 (859 words)

	Founding Fathers
		Ellroy's view is that, if you're not "afraid of plot" and are willing to "do the big picture," it is possible to portray all aspects of such a society: "I like the idea of a big canvas, which is why I write books in series.
		Ellroy is contemptuous of crime novels which allow the reader to emerge "intact and uncompromised" and which reaffirm "that on some level decency and kindness prevail": "In my books the ramifications of bad acts are still continuing as the action closes.
		Ellroy's most characteristic method of representing the hidden guilt at the core of the American dream is his elaboration of the psychopathology of criminal acts.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/FoundingFathers.htm (6089 words)

	Amazon.fr : L.A. Confidential: Livres en anglais: James Ellroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is film-noir crime fiction akin to Chinatown, Hollywood Babylon, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson.
		Ellroy himself was traumatized as a boy by his party-animal mother's murder.
		Ellroy's ninth novel, set in 1950s Los Angeles, kicks off with a shoot-out between a rogue ex-cop and a band of gangsters fronted by a crooked police lieutenant.
	www.amazon.fr /L-Confidential-James-Ellroy/dp/0446674249 (528 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| James Ellroy
		James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948.
		James Ellroy's high-velocity, best-selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history.
		Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's ride: Dallas back to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches...
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/ellroy (473 words)

	Amazon.de: The Cold Six Thousand.: English Books: James Ellroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		By the time James Ellroy's monumental thriller The Cold Six Thousand reaches its climax, Wayne has taken his own private journey into the heart of American corruption, into a cold hell of betrayal, prejudice and paranoia.
		Ellroy devoloped his very unique narrative stile in "Cool Jazz", in which newspaper excepts, files, telefone transcrips and etc play quite a role.
		Ellroy als besten oder wichtigsten amerikanischen Krimi- bzw.
	www.amazon.de /Cold-Six-Thousand-James-Ellroy/dp/0099893304 (960 words)

	Ellroy
		Ellroy estimates that he has been recognized on the street by American readers "seven or eight times" over the course of his career.
		Ellroy was a daddy’s boy who often resented and sometimes hated his mother.
		Ellroy combined his childhood memories of his mother with his bloody speculations about the Dahlia into a hellish psychosexual stew that fueled his drug use and propelled a pathetic criminal career; he shoplifted for food and for a time broke into women’s apartments in order to steal their underwear.
	crimemagazine.com /CrimeBooks/ellroy.htm (3418 words)

	Mystery Guide - American Tabloid by James Ellroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ellroy's project is to retell the John F. Kennedy story, starting from his political ascendancy in 1957 through his assasination in 1963.
		The retelling is in a very cynical, hardboiled, and documentary style; Ellroy includes (fictional) taped conversations, FBI memoranda and tabloid newpaper clips to buttress the "researched" feel of the book.
		The overall narrative stance here is very very cynical, with Ellroy clearly pushing the view that the different factions of the time were not interestingly different, regardless of which side of the law they stood on.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkEllroyTabloid.html (621 words)

	James Ellroy: Demon Dog Of American Crime Fiction- VHS
		James Ellroy, the best-selling author of L.A. Confidential and My Dark Places, is one of America's most original and daring writers, often compared to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
		His obsession with crime began with his mother's murder when he was a young boy and led, for a time, to his own life of petty crime, drugs, and drink.
		James Ellroy: Demon Dog captures the artist at his weirdest and best, soaked in the paranoid atmosphere of his own books.
	www.firstrunfeatures.com /shopsite_sc/store/html/jamesellroy.html (194 words)

	CNN.com - James Ellroy - Feb 13, 2006
		James Ellroy is arguably America's greatest -- and certainly its most prolific -- crime writer.
		Ellroy's bleak worldview was influenced by the unsolved murder of his mother in 1958.
		In 1987 Ellroy published The Black Dahlia, the tale of a young woman's murder in 1947 which blurred the lines between the famous unsolved case and his mother's own death.
	www.cnn.com /2006/TRAVEL/02/03/losangeles.jamesellroy/index.html (250 words)

	James Ellroy: A Time Line
		Ellroy, age 10, moves in with his father and begins engaging in petty thefts.
		Ellroy finances his own book tour and the novel becomes a best-seller, establishing Ellroy as a major writer in the genre of crime fiction.
		Ellroy deftly moves from L.A.-centered criminal intrigue to poltitical skullduggery and the Kennedy assassination in a novel that structurally recalls "L.A. Confidential.” Ellroy announces the novel is the first in a new series that he has dubbed, "The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy."
	www.modestyarbor.com /ellroytimeline.html (1545 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Author Spotlight: James Ellroy
		In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly.
		In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
		James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and...
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=8037 (813 words)

	My Dark Places - James Ellroy
		Ellroy is still struggling with his mother's life and legacy, that closure, as it were, may always elude him.
		Where much of James Ellroy's fiction (especially his early work) is a coming to terms with his mother's brutal and unsolved murder in 1958, My Dark Places is a cold-eyed analysis of the actual incident and its effects on the author.
		James Ellroy was ten at the time of his mother's death.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/ellroyj/mydarkps.htm (1602 words)

	James Ellroy books reviews
		James Ellroy's mother was strangled to death in Los Angeles in 1958.
		James Ellroy experienced, on a non-stop basis, drugs, alcohol and prison for robbery on the next 10 years until the day, suffering from delirium, he's hospitalized in an...
		Ellroy alternates three different points of view describing the 1963-1968 period, from the assassination of JFK until Robert Kennedy's murder.
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/Topic_972.asp (1064 words)

	James Ellroy Interview with Don Swaim
		Ellroy's strange obsession with this case and with detective novels in general ever since boyhood is likely the result of his mother's murder.
		When Ellroy was 10, his mother was found strangled to death in the bushes new the local high school.
		Ellroy wanted to represent the dark and violent atmosphere of the environment by utilizing a different writing style.
	wiredforbooks.org /jamesellroy (567 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Black Dahlia: Books: James Ellroy
		James Ellroy's mother was murdered in Los Angeles when he was a young boy, a crime that has remained unsolved ever since.
		Ellroy's novel is not so much an attempt to uncover the truth (his 'solution' to the crime is clearly an invention) as a portrait of post-war Los Angeles, and the seam of corruption and exploitation that ran through it.
		James Ellroy is unquestionably a great writer and this book is one of his best, but don't make the mistake I made in reading this book to learn about the infamous Black Dahlia...
	www.amazon.co.uk /Black-Dahlia-James-Ellroy/dp/0099366517 (1373 words)

	My Dark Places \| Book Review \| Entertainment Weekly
		In early summer 1958, the body of Jean Ellroy, a 43-year-old divorced nurse who'd been living with her son in a honky-tonk suburb of Los Angeles, was discovered in some curbside brush -- she'd been strangled and dumped.
		James Ellroy, only 10 at the time, felt an almost macabre relief that his difficult, embittered mother was gone: ''I hated her....
		Ellroy's deadpan recitations of stupid homicides intermixed with his beatnik affectations (he's got to be the only writer in 1996 who refers to men as ''cats'') grow tiresome.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/0,,294957,00.html (677 words)

	identity theory \| interviews \| james ellroy
		Writer James Ellroy, who once announced his ambition "to be known as the greatest crime novelist who has ever lived," was born is Los Angeles in 1948.
		James Ellroy is also a writer-at-large for GQ magazine and lives in Kansas City.
		James Ellroy's Feast of Death was directed and produced by Vikram Jayanti who is the Academy Award winning producer of When We Were Kings.
	www.identitytheory.com /people/birnbaum13.html (4137 words)

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