James Ellroy, the Glossary
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.[1]
Table of Contents
157 relations: Al Gore, Alcoholics Anonymous, American Nazi Party, American Tabloid, Archaia Entertainment, Barack Obama, Baroque, Because the Night (novel), Bill Clinton, Black Dahlia, Blood on the Moon (novel), Blood's a Rover, Bloomsbury Publishing, Book of Proverbs, Boom! Studios, Brian De Palma, Brian Helgeland, Brown's Requiem (film), Brown's Requiem (novel), Caddie, Capital punishment, Chester Himes, Clandestine (novel), Closure (psychology), Cold case, Conservatism, Cop (film), Crime fiction, Crime Wave (book), Curtis Hanson, Daffy Duck, Dark Blue (film), Dashiell Hammett, Dedication (publishing), Denver, Destination: Morgue!, Dick Contino, Donald Trump, Ebook, Edgar Awards, El Monte, California, Epigraph (literature), Esquire (magazine), Essay, Everyman's Library, Executive director, Fairfax High School (Los Angeles), Fallen Angels (American TV series), Fiction, Frank Girardot, ... Expand index (107 more) »
- Maltese Falcon Award winners
- Organized crime novelists
Al Gore
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global peer-led mutual aid fellowship begun in the United States dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually inclined twelve-step program.
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American Nazi Party
The American Nazi Party (ANP) is an American far-right and neo-Nazi political party founded by George Lincoln Rockwell and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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American Tabloid
American Tabloid is a 1995 novel by James Ellroy that chronicles the events surrounding three rogue American law enforcement officers from November 22, 1958, through November 22, 1963.
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Archaia Entertainment
Archaia Entertainment, LLC, commonly known as Archaia (formerly known as Archaia Studios Press), is an imprint of American comic book and graphic novel publisher Boom! Studios.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
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Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
Because the Night (novel)
Because the Night is a crime fiction novel written by James Ellroy.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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Black Dahlia
Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 –, 1947), known as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 1947.
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Blood on the Moon (novel)
Blood on the Moon (1984) is a crime novel by James Ellroy, initially published in the US by The Mysterious Press, with the first UK edition being published by Allison and Busby.
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Blood's a Rover
Blood's a Rover is a 2009 crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.
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Book of Proverbs
The Book of Proverbs (מִשְלֵי,; Παροιμίαι; Liber Proverbiorum, "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is a book in the third section (called Ketuvim) of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ascribed to King Solomon and his students later appearing in the Christian Old Testament.
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Boom! Studios
Boom! Studios (stylized as BOOM! Studios), is an American comic book and graphic novel publisher.
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Brian De Palma
Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter.
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Brian Helgeland
Brian Thomas Helgeland (born January 17, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film producer, and director. James Ellroy and Brian Helgeland are Edgar Award winners.
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Brown's Requiem (film)
Brown's Requiem is a 1998 American crime film written and directed by Jason Freeland.
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Brown's Requiem (novel)
Brown's Requiem is a 1981 crime novel, the first novel by American author James Ellroy.
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Caddie
In golf or disc golf, a caddie (or caddy) is the person who assists a golfer on the course.
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.
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Chester Himes
Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. James Ellroy and Chester Himes are American crime fiction writers.
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Clandestine (novel)
Clandestine is a 1982 crime novel by American author James Ellroy.
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Closure (psychology)
Closure or need for closure (NFC), used interchangeably with need for cognitive closure (NFCC), are social psychological terms that describe an individual's desire for a clear, firm answer or peaceful resolution to a question or problem to avert ambiguity.
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Cold case
A cold case is a crime, or a suspected crime, that has not yet been fully resolved and is not the subject of a current criminal investigation, but for which new information could emerge from new witness testimony, re-examined archives, new or retained material evidence, or fresh activities of a suspect.
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Conservatism
Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.
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Cop (film)
Cop is a 1988 American neo-noir crime suspense film written and directed by James B. Harris, starring James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren and Charles Durning.
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Crime fiction
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.
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Crime Wave (book)
Crime Wave is a 1999 collection of eleven short works of fiction and non-fiction, all originally published in GQ, by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy.
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Curtis Hanson
Curtis Lee Hanson (March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. James Ellroy and Curtis Hanson are Edgar Award winners.
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Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck is an American cartoon character created by animators Tex Avery and Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions.
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Dark Blue (film)
Dark Blue is a 2002 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Ron Shelton and written by David Ayer, based on a story written for film by crime novelist James Ellroy and takes place during the days leading up to the Rodney King trial verdict.
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Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories.
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Dedication (publishing)
A dedication or book dedication is the expression of friendly connection or thanks by the author towards another person.
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Denver
Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.
Destination: Morgue!
Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales is a 2004 collection of 12 short works by American crime fiction writer James Ellroy.
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Dick Contino
Richard Joseph "Dick" Contino (January 17, 1930 – April 19, 2017) was an American accordionist and singer.
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Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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Ebook
An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.
Edgar Awards
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America which is based in New York City. James Ellroy and Edgar Awards are Edgar Award winners.
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El Monte, California
El Monte (Spanish for "The Mountain") is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Epigraph (literature)
In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof.
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Esquire (magazine)
Esquire is an American men's magazine.
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Essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.
Everyman's Library
Everyman's Library is a series of reprints of classic literature, primarily from the Western canon.
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Executive director
Executive director is commonly the title of the chief executive officer (CEO) of a company, non-profit organization, government agency or international organization.
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Fairfax High School (Los Angeles)
Fairfax High School (officially Fairfax Senior High School) is a Los Angeles Unified School District high school located in Los Angeles, California, near the border of West Hollywood in the Fairfax District.
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Fallen Angels (American TV series)
Fallen Angels is an American neo-noir anthology television series that ran from August 1, 1993, to November 19, 1995, on the Showtime pay cable station and was produced by Propaganda Films.
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Fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.
Frank Girardot
Frank Girardot (born January 1961) is an American author, journalist, victim advocate, and radio host. James Ellroy and Frank Girardot are American non-fiction crime writers.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
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Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
GQ
GQ (which stands for Gentlemen's Quarterly and is also known Apparel Arts) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.
Granta
Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story's supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world." Granta has published twenty-seven laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
HBO
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. James Ellroy and Hillary Clinton are American autobiographers.
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Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.
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Historiographic metafiction is a term coined by Canadian literary theorist Linda Hutcheon in the late 1980s.
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Hollywood Nocturnes
Hollywood Nocturnes is a 1994 collection of short stories by James Ellroy.
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Horst-Wessel-Lied
The "" ("Horst Wessel Song"), also known by its opening words "" ("Raise the Flag"), was the anthem of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) from 1930 to 1945.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.
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Internment of Japanese Americans
During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country.
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Investigation Discovery
Investigation Discovery, stylized and branded on-air as ID since 2008, is an American multinational pay television network dedicated to true crime documentaries owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Jack Webb
John Randolph Webb (April 2, 1920 – December 23, 1982) was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, most famous for his role as Joe Friday in the ''Dragnet'' franchise, which he created. James Ellroy and Jack Webb are Edgar Award winners.
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Jive talk
Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" (jazz) was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the 1940s.
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018.
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Johnny Stompanato
John Stompanato Jr. (October 10, 1925 – April 4, 1958) was a United States Marine and gangster who became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen.
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Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. James Ellroy and Joseph Wambaugh are American crime fiction writers, American non-fiction crime writers, Edgar Award winners and writers from Los Angeles.
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Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area.
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Killer on the Road
Killer on the Road is a crime novel by American author James Ellroy.
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L.A. Confidential
L.A. Confidential (1990) is a neo-noir novel by American writer James Ellroy, the third of his L.A. Quartet series.
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L.A. Confidential (film)
L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime film directed, produced, and co-written by Curtis Hanson.
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L.A. Quartet
The L.A. Quartet is a sequence of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles.
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Lana Turner
Julia Jean "Lana" Turner (February 8, 1921June 29, 1995) was an American actress.
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LAPD '53
LAPD '53 is a historical non-fiction book by James Ellroy and Glynn Martin, about the laws, crimes, and the LAPD, during the year of 1953.
LAPD Rampart Division
The Rampart Division of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) serves communities to the west of Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) including Silver Lake, Echo Park, Pico-Union and Westlake, all together designated as the Rampart patrol area.
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Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as, which corresponds to the romanization Lyov.
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Library of America
The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.
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Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy
The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy consists of the three crime fiction novels written by James Ellroy: Blood on the Moon (1984), Because the Night (1984) and Suicide Hill (1985).
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Lois Duncan
Lois Duncan Steinmetz (April 28, 1934 – June 15, 2016), known as Lois Duncan, was an American writer, novelist, poet, and journalist.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is a free, public festival celebrating the written word.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.
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Lung abscess
Lung abscess is a type of liquefactive necrosis of the lung tissue and formation of cavities (more than 2 cm) containing necrotic debris or fluid caused by microbial infection.
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Major depressive disorder
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.
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McFarland & Company
McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.
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Media bias occurs when journalists and news producers show bias in how they report and cover news.
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Memoir
A memoir is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories.
Morality
Morality is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong).
Mr. Magoo
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My Dark Places (book)
My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir is a 1996 book, part investigative journalism and part memoir, by American crime-fiction writer James Ellroy.
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Mysterious Press
The Mysterious Press is an American publishing company specializing in mystery fiction based in New York City.
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Mystery fiction
Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story.
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Narration
Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.
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Mass media are the means through which information is transmitted to a large audience.
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Nihilism
Nihilism is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.
Noir fiction
Noir fiction (or roman noir) is a subgenre of crime fiction.
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Omnibus edition
An omnibus edition or omnibus is a book containing multiple creative works by the same or, more rarely, different authors.
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Perfidia (Ellroy novel)
Perfidia is a historical romance and crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy.
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Pessimism
Pessimism is a mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation.
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Playtone
Playtone (stylized on-screen as PLAY•TONE; a.k.a. Playtone Productions and The Playtone Company) is an American film and television production company established in 1998 by actor Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman.
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism.
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Prairie Village, Kansas
Prairie Village is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and located within the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.
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Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents.
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Quintet
A quintet is a group containing five members.
Rampart (film)
Rampart is a 2011 American crime drama film.
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Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.
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Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler are American crime fiction writers, Edgar Award winners and writers from Los Angeles.
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Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918May 14, 1987) was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl.
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Rodney King
Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965June 17, 2012) was an African-American man who was a victim of police brutality.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
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Sal Mineo
Salvatore Mineo Jr. (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976) was an American actor.
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Salon.com
Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.
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Santa Barbara Independent
The Santa Barbara Independent is a news, arts, and alternative newspaper published every Thursday in Santa Barbara, California, United States.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Showtime (TV network)
Showtime, also known as Paramount+ with Showtime (with "Showtime" being the former name of its main channel from 1976 to 2024, but still used for certain marketing and channel branding contexts), is an American premium television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.
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Slang
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing.
Southern California News Group
The Southern California News Group (SCNG), formerly the San Gabriel Valley News Group and the Los Angeles News Group, is an umbrella group of local daily newspapers published in the greater Los Angeles area of southern California by Digital First Media, which is owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital.
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Staccato
Staccato (Italian for "detached") is a form of musical articulation.
Steven A. Katz
Steven Katz (born October 8, 1959) is an American writer best known for his work on Shadow of the Vampire.
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Street Kings
Street Kings is a 2008 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, and starring Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Common and The Game.
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Suicide Hill
Suicide Hill is a crime fiction novel written by James Ellroy.
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The Best American Series
The Best American Series is a series of anthologies that is published annually by Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.
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The Big Nowhere
The Big Nowhere is a 1988 crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy, the second of the L.A. Quartet, a series of novels set in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles.
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The Black Dahlia (film)
The Black Dahlia is a 2006 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Josh Friedman, based on the 1987 novel of the same name by James Ellroy, in turn inspired by the widely sensationalized murder of Elizabeth Short.
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The Black Dahlia (graphic novel)
The Black Dahlia: A Crime Graphic Novel is a graphic novel adaptation of James Ellroy's novel The Black Dahlia, by Alexis Nolent and David Fincher, and illustrated by Miles Hyman.
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The Black Dahlia (novel)
The Black Dahlia (1987) is a crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy.
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The Bookseller
The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry.
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The Cold Six Thousand
The Cold Six Thousand is a 2001 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Hilliker Curse
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women is a work of memoir and autobiography by American author James Ellroy published in 2010.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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The Onion Field
The Onion Field is a 1973 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the kidnapping of two plainclothes LAPD officers by a pair of criminals during a traffic stop and the subsequent murder of one of the officers.
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The Paris Review
The Paris Review is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.
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This Storm (novel)
This Storm: A Novel is a 2019 historical fiction and crime fiction by American author James Ellroy.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. James Ellroy and Tom Hanks are writers from Los Angeles.
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Tory
A Tory is an individual who supports a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalist conservatism which upholds the established social order as it has evolved through the history of Great Britain.
Transference
Transference (Übertragung) is a phenomenon within psychotherapy in which repetitions of old feelings, attitudes, desires, or fantasies that someone displaces are subconsciously projected onto a here-and-now person.
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True crime
True crime is a nonfiction literary, podcast, and film genre in which the author examines a crime and details the actions of people associated with and affected by criminal events.
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Underworld USA Trilogy
The Underworld USA Trilogy is the collective name given to three novels by American crime author James Ellroy: American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009).
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United Talent Agency
United Talent Agency (UTA) is a global talent agency based in Beverly Hills, California.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Virginia Quarterly Review
The Virginia Quarterly Review is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman.
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Waterstones
Waterstones Booksellers Limited, trading as Waterstones (formerly Waterstone's), is a British book retailer that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and also other nearby countries.
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White Jazz
White Jazz is a 1992 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Writing style
In literature, writing style is the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation.
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2000 United States presidential election
The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000.
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See also
Maltese Falcon Award winners
- Andrew Vachss
- C. J. Box
- Cormac McCarthy
- Don Winslow
- George Pelecanos
- James Carlos Blake
- James Crumley
- James Ellroy
- Joe Gores
- Lawrence Block
- Michael Connelly
- Michael Z. Lewin
- Robert B. Parker
- S. J. Rozan
- Sue Grafton
Organized crime novelists
- Andrea Camilleri
- Charles Brandt
- Don Winslow
- Donald Serrell Thomas
- Edwin Torres (judge)
- Isaac Babel
- James Ellroy
- Jimmy Breslin
- Leonardo Sciascia
- Lorenzo Carcaterra
- Mario Puzo
- Mark Winegardner
- Michael Dibdin
- Nicholas Pileggi
- Peter R. de Vries
- Ranj Dhaliwal
- Timothy Williams (author)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ellroy
Also known as Ellroy, James, James Elroy.
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