Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis born March 7 1964 is an American author and screenwriter Ellis was one of the literary Brat Pack and is a selfproclaimed satirist whose trademark technique as a writer is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style His novels commonly share recurring characters When Ellis was 21 his first novel the controversial bestseller Less than Zero 1985 was published by Simon Schuster His third novel American Psycho 1991 was his most successful Upon its release the literary establishment widely condemned it as overly violent and misogynistic Though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon Schuster the resounding controversy convinced Alfred A Knopf to release it as a paperback later that year Elliss novels have become increasingly metafictional Lunar Park 2005 a pseudomemoir and ghost story received positive reviews Imperial Bedrooms 2010 marketed as a sequel to Less than Zero continues in this vein The Shards 2023 is a fictionalized memoir of Elliss final year of high school in 1981 in Los Angeles Four of Elliss works have been made into films Less than Zero was adapted in 1987 as a film of the same name but the film bore little resemblance to the novel Mary Harrons adaptation of American Psycho was released in 2000 Roger Avarys adaptation of The Rules of Attraction was released in 2002 The Informers cowritten by Ellis and based on his collection of short stories was released in 2008 Ellis also wrote the screenplay for the 2013 film The Canyons Description above from the Wikipedia article Bret Easton Ellis licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia