WRITER

James Ellroy

1948 - Today

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Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Ellroy has received more than 1,584,712 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). James Ellroy is the 1,873rd most popular writer (down from 1,565th in 2019), the 2,365th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,032nd in 2019) and the 209th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

My Dark Places
American Novelists, Mothers and sons, Murder
1996
White Jazz
Detective and mystery stories, Police corruption, Fiction
1991
The big nowhere
Crime, Fiction, Crime in fiction
The author of The Black Dahlia presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In The Big Nowhere, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place.
1988
The Black Dahlia
Fiction, Police in fiction, Murder in fiction
1987
American Tabloid
Fiction, Criminals, Political corruption
1995
L.A. confidential
Fiction, Crime, Ficción
*Classic LA Noir...terse dialogue, sharp characters and better than the movie.*
1990

Page views of James Ellroys by language

Over the past year James Ellroy has had the most page views in the with 210,237 views, followed by French (47,850), and Italian (27,947). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (808.57%), Czech (174.44%), and Kapampangan (59.34%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Ellroy ranks 1,873 out of 7,302. Before him are Mohammed Dib, Petr Ginz, Mikhail Zoshchenko, João de Barros, Sergei Dovlatov, and Paulinus II of Aquileia. After him are Abbot Oliba, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Xenophon of Ephesus, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Doppo Kunikida, and Johnston McCulley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, James Ellroy ranks 148. Before him are Alberto Manguel, Margot Kidder, Kenny Loggins, Yuriy Yekhanurov, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, and John de Lancie. After him are Cassandra Harris, Dušan Bajević, Mitsuko Uchida, Miklós Németh, Theo Jansen, and Michael Kamen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Ellroy ranks 2,365 out of 20,380. Before him are Andrew Garfield (1983), Eva Longoria (1975), Randy Newman (1943), Michael H. Hart (1932), John de Lancie (1948), and Stacey Abrams (1973). After him are Christine Chubbuck (1944), Sugar Ray Leonard (1956), Rob Reiner (1947), Pauley Perrette (1969), Roger Myerson (1951), and Michael Rosbash (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, James Ellroy ranks 209. Before him are Stephen Crane (1871), Rick Riordan (1964), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815), Anne Sexton (1928), William Moulton Marston (1893), and Paul Goodman (1911). After him are Johnston McCulley (1883), Chuck Palahniuk (1962), Shirley Jackson (1916), Nora Ephron (1941), Voltairine de Cleyre (1866), and Clark Ashton Smith (1893).

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