JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy- American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover; and the L.A. Quartet novels- The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is also the author of two other Freddy Otash novels, Widespread Panic and The Enchanters. He was awarded the 2022 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado.
James Ellroy is the king of macho noir. * Guardian * 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 James Ellroy is the neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction. * The New Yorker * Ellroy keeps things moving at breakneck speed at all times ... The trick to it is Ellroy's incomparable style; fast, punchy, telegrammatic prose that demands to be read quickly and that flows like an enraged river. * NPR * There has never been a writer like James Ellroy. . . . He has been making real a secret world behind the official history of America . . . and to enter it is to experience a vivid eyeball rush of recognition. * The Telegraph *