Author

Books by James Ellroy

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His mother was murdered when he was ten, and her unsolved case haunts his work — most directly in My Dark Places, his memoir about reinvestigating her death. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz), the Underworld USA Trilogy, and numerous standalone novels. He is widely regarded as the defining voice of American noir in the late twentieth century.