His work has earned Ellroy the nickname "Demon dog of American crime fiction." LA Confidential is a big, powerful novel and is the third in Ellroy’s LA Quartet. James Ellroy is the preeminent crime novelist of our time. Ellroy, himelf, was born in Los Angeles, and, following his expulsion from high school and a series of run-ins with the law, he developed a successful writing career. These items show the steps, from initial story outline to publication, that were taken to bring his writing to life: the author uses extensive longhand in writing out his ideas. As his just-released Perfidia rolls out, he talks to Co.Create about how to write immersive page-turners like his classic, L.A. Hallmarks of his work include dense plotting and a relentlessly pessimistic—albeit moral—worldview. It has been adapted into a highly acclaimed film. The James Ellroy Archive at the University of South Carolina contains manuscripts, typescripts, drafts, notes, and research material for most of Ellroy's works. Ellroy has become known for a telegramatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the […] James Ellroy : biography March 4, 1948 – Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. James Ellroy, the undisputed master of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to present a stunning text on 1953 L.A. James Ellroy is an American crime writer known for his distinctive, staccato writing style. Along with his turbulent youth in and around the streets of Los Angeles, Ellroy cited novelists Dashiell Hammett, James Caan and Don DeLillo as influences in his own work. Six prisoners […] Confidential.