{"name": "James Ellroy", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Lee Earle \"James\" Ellroy 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. Confidential* (1990), *White Jazz* (1992), *American Tabloid* (1995), *The Cold Six Thousand* (2001), and *Blood's a Rover* (2009). *-- Wikipedia*"}, "remote_ids": {"isni": "0000000122776844", "viaf": "27090921", "wikidata": "Q318487", "bookbrainz": "489b7edd-1df8-4c1f-929b-05edc5e67985", "musicbrainz": "56f55a1e-ef36-4830-b48f-d9d92c8e9791", "goodreads": "2887", "imdb": "nm0255278", "lc_naf": "n84028884", "librarything": "ellroyjames", "opac_sbn": "CFIV095966"}, "personal_name": "James Ellroy", "source_records": ["bwb:9781613127759", "bwb:9781613985397", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-04-20:KQ-738-809", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2023-05-16:KM-435-533"], "birth_date": "4 March 1948", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "alternate_names": ["Ellroy James", "JAMES ELLROY"], "photos": [7081841, -1], "key": "/authors/OL40671A", "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T22:05:13.299707"}}