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Crime Writer - James Ellroy

Crime Writer - James Ellroy

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Is the murder of his own mother the key to understanding James Ellroy's writing?

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Hardtalk speaks to the man who has been called America’s greatest
living crime writer. Through works such as the Black Dalia and LA
Confidential, James Ellroy has created a uniquely dark portrait
of America. His is a nightmare vision of crazed killers and
corrupt cops. He writes of what he knows – his own mother was
murdered when he was a child. So is that simple, terrible fact
the key to understanding all the words he has ever written?

(Photo: Writer James Ellroy. Credit: Christopher Polk/Getty
Images for AFI)