Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His works have been translated intolanguages. He was at first regarded as one of the socalled literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a selfproclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters.
Ellis was born in Los Angeles, to a middle class California household, and was raised in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley. His father, Robert Martin Ellis, was a property developer, and his mother, Dale Ellis, was a homemaker. They divorced in 1982. Ellis stated, during the initial release of his third novel American Psycho, that his father was abusive and he became the basis of that books most wellknown character Patrick Bateman. 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 claims that while his family life growing up was somewhat difficult due to the divorce, he mostly had an idyllic California childhood. Ellis was educated at The Buckley School he then attended Bennington College in Vermont, originally studying music, then gradually gravitating to writing, which was one of his pass
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