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His most recent novel, american tabloid, was time magazines novel of the year for 1995. James ellroys 1987 fictionalized account of the investigation into the 1947 murder of 22yearold waitress elizabeth short, the black dahlia, fits neatly into the genre known as noir and. One year after the black dahlia murder, on 4 march 1948, james lee earle ellroy was born to geneva jean hilliker ellroy and armand ellroy. 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. On january 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in hollywood. Elizabeth short, the black dahlia, a young hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered.
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