> >What kind of conservative is he? It doesn't come across in his books,
which I've enjoyed immensely.
Brian Siano:
> Ellroy's an iconoclast; he goes with what he likes and dislikes, and if
> it doesn't fit on "side" or the other, well, so be it. As he put it, he
> writes about "bad white men doing bad things in the name of authority."
> They're repelling and fascinating, like Tony Soprano, or the crew of
> _24_, or the creeps populating Oliver Stone's _JFK_.
Years ago I saw a docu about, if memory serves, Raymond Chandler, and Ellroy was on and he, for some reason, referred to his own "extreme right wing politics." And there is a more recent German docu about Ellroy in which he opines about a number of conservative beliefs, like the death penalty. Brian is right in that Ellroy is an iconoclast and probably no member of any party, but he tilts more right than left, if that matters.
DP