James Ellroy
Lee Earle Elroy
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Emerging from a chaotic Los Angeles upbringing, James Ellroy’s formative years were shaped by the city’s public library system and a brief, aborted enlistment in the U.S. Army, experiences he later credited as the foundation of his writing. After a period of homelessness, minor crimes, and a stint as a golf caddie, he turned to fiction, publishing his debut novel Brown’s Requiem in 1981, a detecti…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources