James Ellroy (USA)

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009).

Bibliography:

Brown's Requiem (1981)
Clandestine (1982)
Killer on the Road (originally published as Silent Terror) (1986)

Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy

Blood on the Moon (1984)
Because the Night (1984)
Suicide Hill (1985)
L.A. Noir (omnibus edition) (1998)

L.A. Quartet

The Black Dahlia (1987)
The Big Nowhere (1988)
L.A. Confidential (1990)
White Jazz (1992)

Underworld USA Trilogy

American Tabloid (1995)
The Cold Six Thousand (2001)
Blood's a Rover (2009)

Second L.A. Quartet

Perfidia (2014)

Short stories and essays

Dick Contino's Blues (issue number 46 of Granta magazine, Winter 1994)
Hollywood Nocturnes (1994; UK title: Dick Contino's Blues and Other Stories)
Crime Wave (1999)
Destination: Morgue! (2004)
Shakedown (2012) (Byliner.com e-pub/e-book) https://www.byliner.com/originals/shakedown http://www.amazon.com/Shakedown-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B009KTZ7CI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bcu31bgB8[38] retrieved 6 June 2013

Autobiography

My Dark Places (1996)
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women (2010)

Editor

The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 (2002)
The Best American Crime Writing 2005 (2005)
The Best American Noir of the Century (2011)

Documentaries

1993 James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction
1995 White Jazz
2001 James Ellroy's Feast of Death
2006 Murder by the Book: "James Ellroy"
2011 James Ellroy's L.A.: City of Demons

Films

1988 Cop
1997 L.A. Confidential
1998 Brown's Requiem
2002 Stay Clean
2002 Vakvagany
2002 Dark Blue
2003 Das Bus
2005 James Ellroy presents Bazaar Bizarre
2006 The Black Dahlia
2008 Street Kings
2008 Land of the Living
2011 Rampart

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ellroy