Later, Ellis claimed that the character was not in fact based on his father, but on Ellis himself, saying that all of his work came from a specific place of pain he was going through in his life during the writing of each of his books.
Ellis stated, during the initial release of his third novel American Psycho, that his father was abusive and he became the basis of that book's most well-known character Patrick Bateman. His father, Robert Martin Ellis, was a property developer, and his mother, Dale (Dennis) Ellis, was a homemaker. 3.1 Fictional setting and recurring charactersĮllis was born in Los Angeles, to a middle class California household, and was raised in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley.2005's Lunar Park, a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews, and 2010's Imperial Bedrooms, marketed as a sequel to Less Than Zero, continues in this vein. In later years, Ellis' novels have become increasingly metafictional. Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho was released to predominantly positive reviews in 2000, and went on to achieve cult status. Less Than Zero was rapidly adapted for screen, leading to the release of a starkly different Less Than Zero film in 1987. Four of Ellis's works have been made into films. Knopf to release it as a paperback later that year. Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A. On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynistic. Though Ellis made his debut at 21 with the controversial 1985 bestseller Less Than Zero, a zeitgeist novel about wealthy amoral young people in Los Angeles, the work he is most known for is his third novel, 1991's American Psycho. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters.
He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. He was at first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. His works have been translated into 27 languages. Ellis at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 25, 2010īret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer.
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