Author James Ellroy speaks at GCC

            The Los Angeles Writers Reading Series at Glendale Community College presents bestselling author James Ellroy on May 9 at 12:20 p.m. in the Auditorium. 

He will give a reading followed by a question and answer session.  Admission is free and open to the public. 

Ellroy is widely known for his bestselling novels, “The Black Dahlia” and “L.A. Confidential” and his memoir “My Dark Places: An L.A Crime Memoir,” which explores his mother’s unsolved murder.  He is a prolific writer of crime fiction, noir, neo-noir, memoir, essays and postmodern historical fiction.  He received critical acclaim for his series of crime novels, “The L.A. Quartet,” set in the late 1940s through late 1950s. 

His novels adopted for film include “The Black Dahlia,” “Brown’s Requiem” and “L.A. Confidential,” which earned two Academy Awards. 

In 2011 Ellroy starred in the Investigation Discovery TV Series “James Ellroy’s L.A.: City of Demons.”

The bi-annual Los Angeles Writers Reading Series is coordinated by GCC English instructor Claire Phillips to celebrate local writers and to give students access to literary events where they can meet and talk with authors who wrote some of the material used in their English classes.  Previous speakers include Janet Fitch, Aimee Bender, Bernard Cooper and David L. Ulin.  For additional information call 818-240-1000, ext. 5606.