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Bret Easton Ellis

ブレット・イーストン・エリス　/　ぶれっと・いーすとん・えりす

American writer

March 7, 1964 (age 62)　・　Los Angeles, California, United States

California
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screenwriter
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My Take

Bret Easton Ellis is the master of the cold gaze. Less Than Zero and American Psycho work precisely because of their flat, affectless prose, an emptied-out voice that makes the horror land harder than any melodrama could. That detachment is a deliberate instrument, not a limitation. As a member of the Literary Brat Pack he captured the spiritual vacancy of 1980s Los Angeles better than almost anyone, and I love the sly trick of letting characters recur across his novels. Now provoking through podcasts, he's stayed stubbornly unsmoothed by time, and that refusal to ingratiate is exactly what I value in him.

Overview

Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the Literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique as a writer is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels often share recurring characters.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Bret Easton Ellis
Name (Japanese): ブレット・イーストン・エリス
Reading: ぶれっと・いーすとん・えりす
Born: March 7, 1964 (age 62)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Dragon
Origin: Los Angeles, California, United States
Blood type: Private
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Occupation: writer / screenwriter / novelist / podcaster / journalist

2. Background

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University: Bennington College

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4. Personality

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5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	Less Than Zero	—
Notable work	American Psycho	—

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