"Ellroy rips into American culture like a chainsaw in an abattoir." --Time
"Ellroy is the master." --The San Diego Union-Tribune
"One of the most important popular fiction writers in America, whose best books take their readers to the darkest places of the human condition--a Tinseltown Dostoevsky." --Time Out
JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's a Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He lives in Colorado.