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Birthday: 1964-03-07 06:18:44

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: N/A

Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 30

TV Involvements: 6


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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American novelist and short story writer. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters. Though Ellis made his debut at 21 with the controversial 1985 bestseller Less Than Zero, a zeitgeist novel about amoral young people in Los Angeles, the work he is most remembered for is his third novel, 1991's American Psycho. On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynist; though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy made it a paperback bestseller for Alfred A. Knopf later that year. Four of Ellis' works have been made into films; notably, Less Than Zero was rapidly adapted for screen, and a starkly different Less Than Zero film was released in 1987, and Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho was released to predominantly positive reviews in 2000. In later years, Ellis' novels have become increasingly metafictional. 2005's Lunar Park, a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews, and 2010's Imperial Bedrooms, marketed as a sequel to Less Than Zero, continues in this vein. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bret Easton Ellis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

American Psycho
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American Psycho

(2000) Novel
The Informers
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5

The Informers

(2008) Author
The Rules of Attraction
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6
Less Than Zero
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6

Less Than Zero

(1987) Novel
The Canyons
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4

The Canyons

(2013) Writer
Smiley Face Killers
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3

Smiley Face Killers

(2020) Writer
The Curse of Downers Grove
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5

The Curse of Downers Grove

(2015) Screenplay
The Deleted
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5

The Deleted

(2016) Creator

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2015 Executive Producer
2008 Executive Producer
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2010 Thanks
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