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Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the literary Brat Pack [1] and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. [2] His novels commonly share recurring characters. [3] [4]
Most notable among these is Ellis himself, but others include friend and fellow author Jay McInerney and Ellis's late father. Bret Easton Ellis – Novelist who rose to fame while still at college with his debut novel Less than Zero; now lives in the suburbs with old flame Jayne Dennis. There are considerable differences between this Ellis and ...
Patrick Bateman is a fictional character created by novelist Bret Easton Ellis.He is the villain protagonist and unreliable narrator of Ellis's 1991 novel American Psycho and is played by Christian Bale in the 2000 film adaptation of the same name.
The Informers is a collection of short stories, linked by the same continuity, written by American author Bret Easton Ellis. The collection was first published as a whole in 1994. Chapters 6 and 7, "Water from the Sun" and "Discovering Japan", were published separately in the UK by Picador in 2007. [1]
But the difference between those books—and the difference between Stephen Graham Jones and Bret Easton Ellis—is emotion. Patrick Bateman was a dispassionate automaton; I Was a Teenage Slasher ...
Robert Downey Jr. and McCarthy in the troubled movie version of Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero. (Photo: 20th Century Fox Film Corp.) (©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Both Ellis and the Bret of “The Shards” are Joan Didion fans, and her chilly, measured prose is a clear influence. “People were missing. “People were missing. Children were missing.
In the September/October 2005 issue of Pages magazine, the literary Brat Pack was identified as Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Jay McInerney, and Mark Lindquist. McInerney and Janowitz were based in New York City. Others affiliated with this group include Susan Minot, Donna Tartt, Peter Farrelly and David Leavitt.