# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-ellroy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:25:05.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-ellroy"
name: "James Ellroy"
slug: "james-ellroy"
description: "Lee Earle \"James\" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990)."
tagline: "American novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Ellroy_in_Toulouse_9023_-_January_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-03-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.625074940047962
  historical:           24.7169
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0255278"
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    url:       "https://www.jamesellroy.net/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump