Ellroy stated that "I lived for naked glimpses. He struggled in youth with this obsession, as he held a psycho-sexual relationship with her, and tried to catch glimpses of her nude. Īt the age of 7, Ellroy saw his mother naked and began to sexually fantasize about her. His parents divorced in 1954, after which Ellroy and his mother moved to El Monte, California. His father, Armand, was an accountant and a onetime business manager of Rita Hayworth. His mother, Geneva Odelia (née Hilliker), was a nurse. Lee Earle "James" Ellroy was born in Los Angeles, California. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009). 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. Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.
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