James Ellroy (born 1948) is an American author known for his best-selling crime and detective novels that examine sinister eras of modern American history, especially police corruption in Los Angeles in the 1940s. His later works focus on fictionalized treatments of real-life political events of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Ellroy’s best-known novels include The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).
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