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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages 352 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Description
When Ellroy was ten years old, his mother was brutally murdered. The crime went unsolved, and her death marked the start of a long and turbulent road for Ellroy that has included struggles with alcoholism, drug addiction, homelessness, and jail time. In tracing his life and career, Steven Powell reveals how Ellroy's upbringing in LA, always on the periphery of Hollywood, had a profound and dark influence on his work as a novelist. Using new sources,...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.)
Description
Los Angeles, 1950. Three cops battle police corruption, a call girl, a mysterious millionaire, a tabloid journalist and the Chief of Detectives fuel a labyrinthine plot rife with mystery, ambition, romance and humor.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
203 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The legendary crime writer unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought "Her."
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