Biography of Bret Easton Ellis

Impact writing

March 7, 1964
Bret Easton Ellis was born in Los Angeles the day March 7, 1964, the first of three children of Robert Martin Ellis, a wealthy real estate investment analyst with serious problems of alcoholism, and Dale Ellis, housewife loves literature. Divorce certainly not friendly in 1982 marks in important ways the spirit seconded by Ellis against personal and family relations, as evidenced by his work as a writer.
After the divorce of parents growing up with her mother and two sisters in Los Angeles, but his father, who moved in nearby Sherman Oaks, continues to exert a negative influence on her life, to the point that the writer will declare that he was inspired by their alcoholic parents to create his most famous character and crazy, Patrick Bateman. To encourage Ellis in his early writings is his grandmother, author of children's stories. At twelve years of age the young Bret writes her first novel, titled "Ain't Misbehavin".
The passion for Ernest Hemingway and his way of writing is instead transmitted by the mother. Left Los Angeles behind to escape the father figure, who wanted his son to become a businessman, Bret studied at Bennington College, in Vermont. While continuing his studies, in 1983 he enrolled in a creative writing class: here is encouraged in its first steps by teacher Joe McGinniss (author of the book "Fatal Vision"), which accompanies him in the first draft of "Less Than Zero". The Italian title is "Less than zero" and was released in 1985; the success of sales forces for Bret Easton Ellis to the attention of the general public.
It must be said that the success of the book is based on word of mouth among young people who elect Ellis to their generational spokespersons, a fact that did not happen in an American author since that milestone that is "The Catcher in The Rye" (the rye) by J.D. Salinger. Then publish "the rules of attraction" (1987), that fifteen years later (in 2002) inspired by the eponymous film directed by Roger Avary (with James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel). Also from "less than zero" was made into a film entitled "beyond all limits" (1987, by Marek Kanievska, with Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey Jr., James Spader). The writing career of Easton Ellis continues and in 1991 he published his most significant work, the one that launched him to the Olympus of successful writers: "American Psycho". At the center of the narrative are the stories of young yuppie New York Patrick Bateman, riotous and superficial nature, life on Wall Street and upscale restaurants, alternates the other face, the one night of the bloodthirsty serial killers.
The publication comes only after a long dispute, because of objections by publishers for the violence inherent in the narrative of numerous scenes. Once again the book leads to a film production: the film "American Psycho" (2000) is directed by Mary Harron and starring Christian Bale (as Patrick Bateman) and Willem Dafoe. In 1994, a short story collection written almost entirely in college, with the title "Water by the Sun": the film inspired by these tales is "The Informers-screw beyond the limit" (2008, by Gregor Jordan, with Billy Bob Thornton and Winona Ryder). In 1999 we will publish a novel that Bret Easton Ellis worked for nearly 10 years: "Glamorama". The success of the book is the Planetarium. In 2005 he wrote and published "Lunar Park", a pseudo-autobiographical story declined toward the horror genre that talks about the complicated relationship between fathers and sons. In the novel returns to the scene his character Patrick Bateman. His latest work is titled "Imperial Bedrooms" (2010).
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