Bret easton ellis biography

Search Biographies:. Contact Us Privacy Policy Sitemap. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Bret Easton Ellis. Bret Easton Ellis Biography. Bret Easton Ellis born March 7, is an American author. He is considered to be one of the Generation X s authors. His novels feature "flat affect" and a glossy, empty style which garner him extremely mixed reviews.

The novels are also linked by common, recurring characters, dystopic locales Los Angeles, New York , and more recently, fantastical elements vampires.

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The adoption and appropriation of such tropes and motifs prefigure other Post-modern genre works such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Fight Club. His parents divorced around ? He was educated at Buckley High School, where he did not distinguish himself, and then took a music-based course at Bennington College in Vermont. He was a part-time musician in some minor s bands, such as The Parents, before his first book was published while he was still a student.

Less Than Zero, a tale of disaffected rich teenage Los Angelenos, was well received by the critics and sold respectably 50, copies in its first year. He moved to New York in to release his second novel. The novel was later published by Vintage. A film based on Glamorama is in pre-production, it is tentatively slated for release in