Profile: James Ellroy

"I wanted readers to read my books as obsessively as I wrote them," says James Ellroy, one of today's finest modern authors of hard-boiled fiction. "I've got enough crazy shit going on in my head to last me another sixty-three years."

With his outsize personality and distinctive prose style, Ellroy drew a cult following with his first books, which included the Lloyd Hopkins trilogy of police novels, and found widespread fame with 1987�s The Black Dahlia, and 1990�s L.A. Confidential, both of which were adapted for the screen and cemented his notoriety as an author of historical crime fiction.

"I love writing fiction," he says. Watch Ellroy discuss his work�which he says will leave you "reamed, steamed, and dry cleaned"�then click to explore his six titles newly available as ebooks from Open Road Integrated Media and MysteriousPress.com.

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