i've wrote three novels, the underworld usa trilogy, the american tabloid, which was time magazine'sthe year year in 1995. the cold six thousand and blood's a rover are set outside la. right, but southern california is your world. i'm from there and it's where i go when women divorce me. i suppose what i'm getting at is whether you've ever been tempted to go for outside your own background milieu, where you're from and what you know. is that where you have to place your fiction? i have but i came back. i made a conscious decision with my new novel perfidia to craft a second la quartet, taking characters from the initial la quartet, the black dahlia, the big nowhere, la confidential and white jazz set in la between 1946 and 1958, and the aforementioned underworld usa trilogy, three novels set in america at large between ‘58 and ‘72. characters from those two bodies of work and place them in los angeles during world war two as significantly younger people. so i made quite the conscious decision to go back to la. going back is something i want to do with you too as we talk about the evo

and 1958, and initial la quartet, said in a lay between 1916 and 1958, and the aforementioned underworld usarilogy, three novels set in america at large between 58 and 72. characters from those two bodies of work and place them in los angeles during world war two as significantly younger people so i made quite the conscious decision to go back to la. going back is something i want to do with you as we talk about the evolution of your fiction because it seems to me, and you've talked about it a great deal, that you can't discuss james ellroy‘s body of work without spending a little bit of time talking about the long—running impact of that terrible period in your life which began with your pa re nts' your life which began with your pa rents' breakup, your life which began with your parents' breakup, marriage failure, and ended when you were ten years old with the murder of your mother, her body found on an la street. the actual impact of my mother's death reached cessation years ago. it is a fact, it will always be brought up by the media, and it is the key to understanding the work that i do.