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One of the great American writers of our time. * Los Angeles Times *Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid. – Stephen KingJames Ellroy is the American Dostoyevsky. – Joyce Carol OatesJames 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 *James Ellroy is the king of macho noir. * Guardian *As lysergic, incantatory and forensic as anything he’s ever written * IAN RANKIN *

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.

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