James Ellroy (Lee Earle Ellroy) is one of the most renowned writers of crime novels, with a long work that has been successfully adapted, twice, to the cinema. A direct heir to the geniuses of the genre such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Ellroy's style is direct, with few words, dry as a bourbon, which gives his main characters a personality that leaves no one indifferent: they sharpen their words while caressing the gun. His life, marked in his youth by the unsolved murder of his mother, has inspired some of his novels.
He was born in Los Angeles in 1948 and after the separation of his parents, and when he was only 10 years old, his mother was murdered. Over time he became a thief and alcoholic, which earned him jail time. After giving up drinking and finding a job as a Caddy on a golf course, he began to write. His first novel, Requiem for Brown recreates his own life. Other crime novels followed, such as Suicide Hill, The Angel Quartet and The Black Dahlia. Shortly after, in 1990, came the internationally renowned Los Ángeles Confidencial, which prolonged his success in the cinema with a version that is already considered a classic of the noir genre. This month he publishes the novel The Seducers, the third volume of his quintet about Los Angeles, an absorbing story about Marilyn Monroe and her controversial death.
His work and his life will be reviewed in this event through the conversation that Ellroy will have with Helena de Bertodano, journalist specialized in interviews and celebrity profiles, as well as in reports and travel articles for publications such as The Sunday Times, The Times, The Telegraph, The Observer, Harper's Bazaar and Marie Claire. She has interviewed more than 1,000 people over the past 25 years, including the Dalai Lama, Meryl Streep, George Soros, Ringo Starr, George Best, Yehudi Menuhin and Jacinda Ardern.
Event in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish
