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Born 4 March 1948
Also known as Ellroy James, JAMES ELLROY
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. 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. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009). -- Wikipedia
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James Ellroy begins American Tabloid with a monologue that comes straight out of his mouth. On first reading, it seems like mood building and nothing more. But upon rereading lines like "America was never innocent" and "It's time to embrace bad men" after fin…
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