1948 - Today
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), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Ellroy has received more than 1,232,847 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). James Ellroy is the 1,358th most popular writer (up from 1,747th in 2019), the 1,616th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,030th in 2019) and the 158th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, James Ellroy ranks 1,358 out of 5,794. Before him are Al-Khansa, Heiner Müller, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Régis Debray, Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Charles De Coster. After him are Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, James Murray, Antoine de Montchrestien, Christian Morgenstern, Ed McBain, and Colin Wilson.
575 - 645
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 1,352
1929 - 1995
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 1,353
1752 - 1796
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 1,354
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 1,355
1899 - 1980
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 1,356
1827 - 1879
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 1,357
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 1,358
1715 - 1747
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 1,359
1837 - 1915
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 1,360
1575 - 1621
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 1,361
1871 - 1914
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 1,362
1926 - 2005
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 1,363
1931 - 2013
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 1,364
Among people born in 1948, James Ellroy ranks 71. Before him are Dan Simmons, Michel Suleiman, Dominique Sanda, Rudolf Schenker, Jerzy Kukuczka, and Pim Fortuyn. After him are René Arnoux, Nathalie Baye, Claude Jade, Chris de Burgh, Don Airey, and John Noble.
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 65
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 66
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 67
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.47
Rank: 68
1948 - 1989
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 69
1948 - 2002
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 70
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 71
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.07
Rank: 72
1948 - Present
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 73
1948 - 2006
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 74
1948 - Present
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 75
1948 - Present
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 76
1948 - Present
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 77
Among people born in United States, James Ellroy ranks 1,616 out of 15,968. Before him are Grace Zabriskie (1941), Loretta Young (1913), Emilio Estevez (1962), Woody Guthrie (1912), Tobey Maguire (1975), and Donna Haraway (1944). After him are James Irwin (1930), Creighton Abrams (1914), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), Lance Armstrong (1971), Lil Wayne (1982), and Joseph Greenberg (1915).
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 1,610
1913 - 2000
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 1,611
1962 - Present
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 1,612
1912 - 1967
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 1,613
1975 - Present
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 1,614
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 1,615
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 1,616
1930 - 1991
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 1,617
1914 - 1974
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 1,618
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 1,619
1971 - Present
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 1,620
1982 - Present
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 1,621
1915 - 2001
HPI: 68.14
Rank: 1,622
Among writers born in United States, James Ellroy ranks 158. Before him are Rex Stout (1886), Robin Hobb (1952), Erich Segal (1937), Michael Connelly (1956), Robert E. Howard (1906), and Gore Vidal (1925). After him are Ed McBain (1926), Don DeLillo (1936), Jack Vance (1916), Ira Levin (1929), James Patterson (1947), and Henry Steel Olcott (1832).
1886 - 1975
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 152
1952 - Present
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 153
1937 - 2010
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 154
1956 - Present
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 155
1906 - 1936
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 156
1925 - 2012
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 157
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 158
1926 - 2005
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 159
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 160
1916 - 2013
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 161
1929 - 2007
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 162
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 163
1832 - 1907
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 164