{"id":2675,"date":"2023-06-04T00:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T00:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/06\/04\/how-thieving-and-murder-led-to-a-fortune-writing-crime\/"},"modified":"2023-06-04T00:28:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T00:28:48","slug":"how-thieving-and-murder-led-to-a-fortune-writing-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/how-thieving-and-murder-led-to-a-fortune-writing-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"How thieving and murder led to a fortune writing crime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BIOGRAPHY\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n LOVE ME FIERCE IN DANGER: THE LIFE OF JAMES ELLROY\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n by Steven Powell<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Bloomsbury Academic \u00a314.99, 288pp)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018I am obsessed with violence,\u2019 James Ellroy once said in a TV interview. \u2018I am obsessed with twisted sexuality. I am obsessed with jealousy, greed, overweening ambition.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n These are excellent qualifications for a crime writer, and Ellroy has often been called America<\/a>\u2019s finest.\u00a0<\/p>\n Steven Powell\u2019s brilliant, unflinching biography reveals how the novelist\u2019s obsessions have their roots in the extraordinary experiences of his childhood and early years.\u00a0<\/p>\n