James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz—and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy—American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood’s A Rover. These seven novels have won numerous honors and were international best sellers.
Perfidia is the first novel of the Second L.A. Quartet, Ellroy’s fictional history of Los Angeles during World War II. The design of this extended work is unprecedented. Ellroy will take characters from the original quartet and trilogy, set between 1946 and 1972, and detail their lives as significantly younger people.
Ellroy currently lives in Los Angeles.