Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed 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. Though Ellis made his debut at 21 with the controversial 1985 bestseller Less Than Zero, a zeitgeist novel about amoral young people in Los Angeles, the work he is most remembered for is his third novel, 1991's American Psycho. On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynist; though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy made it a paperback bestseller for Alfred A. Knopf later that year.
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WritingBirthday
March 7, 1964Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
28Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USA![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/aDN2rzD9ezgD2wSOK7l6oHXWeAq.jpg)
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American Psycho
Novel![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/8pFMuyJJwJLqOJ3Ljq3M5BFGbTF.jpg)
Less Than Zero
Novel![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/yiXkvghbkYMQ3iMyhiI08GgtonC.jpg)
The Informers
Author, Screenplay, Producer, Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/5tZR5o2KJXY6UGxoCsuCmZqROwO.jpg)
The Canyons
Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/fTpYTV0a23Diw344tE199bIHo7l.jpg)
The Curse of Downers Grove
Screenplay, Executive Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/tVD1jzFMNNo5uS723f82mjQFRFS.jpg)
Figaro
Director, Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/vTLG2KrngCDvsBNrgHCZbFgCvpo.jpg)
The Arrangement
Director, Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/qSprUNL8S6lgfC1wbKusjv3LqvM.jpg)
Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis
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Less than Zero
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The Rules of Attraction
Novel![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/uF2S5BJg418TdpwDSfx5hyTsaHR.jpg)
Smiley Face Killers
Writer, Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/qLtcujBmgSS6Gg8Jcu1JBlN2xWi.jpg)
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