No-nonsense author of "LA Confidential" and "American Tabloid". News, online texts, images and sounds, and Ellroy in the cinema.

Read an article in which the author of "L.A. Confidential" talks about his past during a book tour at Columbia University.

Find out the meaning of such slang terms as bagman, juicehead, and shiv by using this glossary. Also includes a bibliography of Ellroy's works.

BookPage gives a rave review to this memoir about Ellroy's attempt to solve the crime of his mother's murder.

Contains guides to the writer's books, films, and interviews. Read the reviews and see the other Ellroy-related resources.

Peruse the first chapter of Ellroy's thriller, plus link to a review of "The Cold Six Thousand."

Crime novelist James Ellroy talks about his own mother's murder in 1958.

Features synopses of the books authored by the writer of "The Big Nowhere" and "L.A. Confidential." With photos and a bibliography.

Read a January 17, 1997, interview with the hard-boiled fiction writer in which he discusses several of his books, including "The Black Dahlia."