Abstract
James Ellroy's panoptic study of corruption far exceeds the boundaries of noir fiction. Beginning with Brown's Requiem in 1981, his novels have gradually broadened in scope, moving away from the inner world of psychopaths to reveal the underworld of twentieth‐century America. Born on March 4, 1948 in Los Angeles, Lee Earle Ellroy is no stranger to society's darkest corners. When he was 10, his mother's partially undressed body was found in a bush near their home in El Monte, a stocking wrapped around her neck. After his father's death in 1965 and successive expulsions from high school, the Army, and his apartment, Ellroy drifted into vagrancy and petty crime. His twisted journey through LA parks, slums, rehab clinics, and jails, from Jean Ellroy's unsolved murder to a career as a crime fiction writer, is depicted in his memoir My Dark Places .
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