Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. He is considered to become one of a major Generation X authors. His novels feature "flat affect" & the glossy, empty style which garner him super polarized reviews. Ellis has been described as "a profoundly moral writer [with] characteristically spare and hypnotic prose style which beats out these lives of quiet desperation with a slow pulse as gentle as it is compelling" (Modern Read). He has known as himself the moralist, when he has been pegged as a nihilist. His characters come immature, usually vacant humans, world health organization see their depravity, however see to enjoy it. Ellis prefers to placed his novels in the 1980s to use a open commercialism of the entertainment industry of the decade as a symbol. A novels come as well linked by green, recurring characters, & dystopic locales (Los Angeles, New York).

Biography
He was natural inside Los Angeles & raised inside Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley, the boy of Robert Martin Ellis, the flush property creator, & Dale Ellis, the woman of the house. His parents divorced inside 1982. He was educated at Buckley High School, in which he did non distinguish himself, then took the music-depending course at Bennington College in Vermont, which is thinly disguised as Camden Arts College around his novel The Rules Of Attraction. He was the a share-half-time musician inside a bit of minor Eighties elastic, like The Parents, prior to his number one book was published when he was however a student. Less Than Zero, a tale of ill-affected, rich teen of Los Angeles, was swell received per critics & sold respectably (50,000 copies inside its number one month). He moved to New York in 1987 to release his second novel.

His virtually all controversial function, a graphically violent novel American Psycho, was intended to become published by Simon & Schuster but they withdrew after external protests (NOW, and many others, considered the novel dangerously misogynistic and worse) and pressure from Gulf & Western. A novel was later on published by Vintage. A few assume this novel, whose protagonist, Patrick Bateman, is both the cartoonishly materialistic yuppie and a serial killer, to be an case of transgressive art. American Psycho has achieved considerable cult status.

Personal Life

He was known to become bisexual for most of his life, however inside August 2005 he broke his silence about his sexual orientation and told The New York Times that his best friend & lover for half a dozen years, Michael Wade Kaplan, died within January 2004, at the age of Thirty.

Bibliography
Less Than Zero (1985) The Rules of Attraction (1987) American Psycho (1991) The Informers (linked short stories, 1994) Glamorama (1998) Lunar Park (2005)

Films
Less Than Zero was mass produced into the film around 1987, directed by Marek Kanievska and starring Andrew McCarthy, Robert Downey Jr and Jami Gertz. Western Psychotic person was filmed around 2000, directed by Mary Harron and starring Christian Bale. The Rules of Attraction was filmed in 2002, directed by Roger Avary and starring James Van Der Beek and Shannyn Sossamon. The film according to Glamorama is inside pre-production. In addition, there is a film known as Glitterati being made that pass inside between a cases of The System of Attraction & Glamorama, which is slated for release prior to Glamorama.

The film all about Ellis, highborn This Is Non an Exit: A Fictional Globe of Bret Easton Ellis, was processed around 2000. the film occurs as combination of a documentary on his life when well as dramatizations of scenes from either his books.

Trivia
Ellis typically utilizes recurring characters & settings. Major even characters within a single novel could get minor ones in the next, or the other way around. Camden College, the fancied New England liberal arts college is frequently referenced. These are allegedly according to Bennington College, which Ellis himself attended.

Less Than Zero - Camden is referred to several days. Two Clay, a novel's protagonist & storyteller, & Daniel, come said to become attending it.

The Rules of Attraction - Clay appears as a minor character and narrates 1 chapter. He is known as "The Guy from L.A." prior to existence properly introduced. Independent character Sean Bateman is brother of Patrick Bateman, who might late get a protagonist of American Psycho. Patrick appears briefly & narrates 1 chapter. Camden is the independent setting of the novel.

American Psycho - Sean Bateman appears briefly. Camden is known as two Sean's college & the college a minor character known as Vanden is attend. Vanden was referred to (however never appeared around) Less Than Zero.

Glamorama - Patrick Bateman appears briefly. Independent characters Victor Ward and Lauren Hynde were first introduced in The Rules of Attraction, Lauren being the major character & Victor the minor 1. Bertr&, Sean and Mitchell, whole from either The Rules of Attraction, appear around the Camden flashback & many more System characters come referenced. Alison Poole, a minor character from either American Psycho, in fact 1st appeared when a protagonist of fellow brat pack member Jay McInerney's 1989 novel Story of My Life.