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James Ellroy (born '''Lee Earle Ellroy''' on March 4 , 1948 in Los Angeles, California ) is an American Writer . He is one of the world's best-selling Crime Writer s and Essayist s with a unique " Telegraphic " writing style, which omits words other writers would consider necessary, and often features Sentence Fragment s. His books are noted for their dark humor and depiction of American Authoritarianism . Other hallmarks of his work include dense plotting and a relentlessly pessimistic worldview. Ellroy has sometimes been called the "Demon Dog of American crime fiction". BIOGRAPHY In 1958 , his mother, Geneva, was murdered in El Monte , where she and Ellroy moved three years after her divorce from his father, Armand. The unsolved killing, and a birthday present from his father a few months later, ''The Badge'' by Jack Webb (a book about the Los Angeles Police Department ), were pivotal moments in his life as related in his autobiography '' My Dark Places ''. In his teens and twenties, Ellroy drank heavily, engaged in some crimes (especially shoplifting and burglary), and was often homeless. After serving some time in jail and suffering a bout of Pneumonia , Ellroy joined Alcoholics Anonymous and began working as a Golf Caddy while pursuing his writing. He later said, "Caddying was good tax-free cash and allowed me to get home by 2 p.m. and write books ... I caddied right up to the sale of my fifth book." {Link without Title} He writes longhand on legal pads, rather than on a computer, and prepares elaborate outlines for his books that are several hundred pages long. In connection with '' The Cold Six Thousand '' Ellroy has said that he is through with " Genre Fiction " and plans to write mainstream novels. Ellroy is an ardent, outspoken and unquestioning admirer of the who does not drink Liquor , he opposes the Death Penalty , and favors Gun Control . His wife says in ''James Ellroy's Feast of Death'' that "his politics are a joke." Ellroy lives in Carmel , with his wife, Helen Knode, who authored the 2003 novel ''The Ticket Out''. He is currently working on '' Police Gazette '', the final (and reportedly largest) volume of his ''Underworld USA'' trilogy of novels, which began with '' American Tabloid '' and '' The Cold Six Thousand ''. It is due for relase in late 2007. FILMS
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