Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis is a fiction author and screenwriter who has published seven novels between 1985 and 2010.http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/e/bret-easton-ellis/ As a 21-year-old college student he wrote Less Than Zero and entered the US’s literary “brat pack” of controversial young authors.http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/acfe1d76-9b62-11df-8239-00144feab49a.html The novel, and The Rules of Attraction released two years later, established his voice as showily empty and Generation X-oriented.http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/12/breteastonellis However, this was overshadowed by the reputation of his notorious next book in 1990, American Psycho. Often regarded as a brutal satire, controversy overshadowed the novel's release and it was banned in some areas.http://degreedirectory.org/articles/25_Banned_Books_That_You_Should_Read_Today.html It eventually became a cult movie in 2000, adapted and directed by Mary Harron and launching star Christian Bale.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/ This was followed by 1998's Glamorama book, which featured more flat-affect high life, designer labels and disgust but with emotional tone and narrative pace, and then 2005's Lunar Park.http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/12/breteastonellis Most recently Ellis released Imperial Bedrooms, a sequel to Less Than Zero.http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/bret-easton-ellis/

As a self-proclaimed satirist, writer Bret Easton Ellis' trademark technique is expressing extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style.http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/bret-easton-ellis/ He often links novels with common, recurring characters.http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/bret-easton-ellis/ Ellis wrote his debut novel Less Than Zero in 1985 as an unknown 21-year-old Bennington College student.http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/bret-easton-ellis/ The story set the scene for commmon themes throughout his body of work - parties, drugs, sex, and more graphic Ellisian topics such as murder, ghosts, dismemberment, and paranoia.http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/bret-easton-ellis/http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/bret-easton-ellis/ The novel turned its author into a literary sensation and he lived the high-life in New York City.http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/bret-easton-ellis/

In the following years Ellis wrote The Rules of Attraction (1987), American Psycho (1991), The Informers (1994), Glamorama (1998), Lunar Park (2005), and Imperial Bedrooms (2010).http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/e/bret-easton-ellis/ Most recently, despite a lack of sentimentality in his previous works, Ellis shocked fans by going back 25 years to where it all started. As the sequel to Less Than Zero, Imperial Bedrooms revisits the former college students who starred in the original and now seem to be haunted by the post-glamour, post-shock, post-moral, post-purpose Hollywood scene.http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/bret-easton-ellis/ Now, at 46, Ellis again lives in Los Angeles and has a second career as a screenwriter. He is working on a script for Gus Van Sant about the double suicide of artist Jeremy Blake and his longtime girlfriend, writer and filmmaker Theresa Duncan.http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/bret-easton-ellis/</ref>

• Less Than Zero (1985)
• The Rules of Attraction (1987)
• American Psycho (1990)
• The Informers (1994)
• Glamorama (1998)
• Lunar Park (2005)
• Imperial Bedrooms (2010) http://www.fictiondb.com/author/bret-easton-ellis~25886.htm