WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL BRET EASTON ELLIS MYSPACE PROFILE.
In Theatres April 24th 2009...
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Bret Easton Ellis was born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles and raised in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley. The son of Robert Martin Ellis, a wealthy property developer, and Dale Ellis, a housewife, his parents divorced in 1982. He was educated at Buckley High School, where he did not distinguish himself, and then took a music-based course at Bennington College in Vermont, which is thinly disguised as Camden Arts College in several of his novels. He was a part-time musician in some minor 1980's bands, such as The Parents, before his first book 'Less Than Zero' was published while he was still a student. 'Less Than Zero', a tale of disaffected, rich teenagers of Los Angeles, was critically acclaimed and sold more than fifty thousand copies in its first year. It would eventually be made into a Hollywood film starring Robert Downey Jr.
In 1987 Bret moved to New York to release his second novel, 'The Rules of Attraction', about an odd love triangle between both homo and heterosexual college students at Camden Arts College in New England. The book became another best-seller and Hollywood feature film, raising Bret Easton Ellis to even higher celebrity status.
His most controversial work, the graphically violent novel 'American Psycho', was intended to be published by Simon & Schuster, but they withdrew after external protests and pressure from Gulf & Western. The novel was later published by Vintage. Some consider this novel, whose protagonist, Patrick Bateman, is both a cartoonishly materialistic yuppie and a serial killer, to be an example of transgressive art, while many others consider the novel to be dangerously misogynistic and worse. 'American Psycho' has achieved considerable cult status.
As a follow up to 'American Psycho', Bret Easton Ellis released 'The Informers', which was a collection of 13 loosely related short stories whose characters interactions compose a chilling, fascinating, and outrageous descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous surfaces.
His latest work is the novel 'Lunar Park', which is a unique blend of fiction and nonfiction, featuring Bret Easton Ellis himself as the lead protagonist in a breath-taking novel with a Poltergeist theme to it.
Bret is currently working on a follow up to "Less Than Zero" currently titled "Imperial Bedrooms".
