Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L. A. Quartet novels--The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L. A. Confidential, and White Jazz--were international bestsellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine's Novel of the Year for 1995; his memoir My Dark Places was Time magazine Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Ellroy is a Writer at Large for GQ.