Frequently disliked by reviewers, faulted for his youth and apparent disregard for political correctness, Bret Easton Ellis was the enfant terrible of 1980s fiction. His first novel, Less Than Zero (1985), became a national best-seller when Ellis was...

In 1985, twenty-one-year-old Bret Easton Ellis jolted the literary world with his first novel, Less than Zero, and was hailed by more than one critic as the voice of the new generation. His subsequent books failed to garner the accolades heaped on this...

While still an undergraduate at Bennington College in Vermont, Ellis published his best-selling novel Less Than Zero. His books have endured literary criticism ranging from "infantile and sophomoric" to the "voice of a new generation." Much like Clay,...

Born and raised in Los Angeles, writer Bret Easton Ellis belongs with novelists Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz to New York's literary "brat pack," writers who achieved early success with their portraits of lonely types isolated in...

Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. He is considered to be one of the major Generation X authors and was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack,[1] which also included Tama Janowitz and...

Publisher Responsibility and Bret Easton Ellis The fuss that has erupted over Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, its last-minute cancellation by Simon & Schuster and its immediate takeover by Vintage has brought to the surface all sorts of thoughts and emotions we had...

It is funny to think that almost 10 years have passed since Bret Easton Ellis, now pudgy and balding at 36, wrote American Psycho. And yet there he was all last week, tearing about Manhattan from one event to another, all related in some...

Imagine the true confessions of Bret Easton Ellis. Not just the sex and the drugs and the sappy pop-music soundtrack; not just the pseudo-celebrity, the small-world publishing gossip and the flash profits from minimalist anomie and splatter-porn; not just, as he puts it, “Propaganda designated...

Noted casting director and producer Bonnie Timmermann’s new children’s book, Chocolate at the Four Seasons (Little, Brown, $16.99), chronicles the short but charmed life of a little Chihuahua named Chocolate. But it’s probably better if parents don’t tell their tots the backstory.A couple of...

In the following review, Star identifies Ellis's themes and his stylistic contributions to the "L.A. novel."