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Bret Easton Ellis Biography

Bret Easton Ellis is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, United States. A American screenwriter and author of fiction The author is well-known for his novel of 1991, American Psycho. The book, as well as his earlier popular bestseller Less than Zero, were both made into films.

His film, American Psycho, was transformed into a movie which starred His thriller, American Psycho, was adapted into a film starring Christian Bale..

Ellis was born in Los Angeles and raised in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley. His father, Robert Martin Ellis, was a property developer, and his mother, Dale (Dennis) Ellis, was a homemaker. They divorced in 1982. Ellis stated, during the initial release of his third novel American Psycho, that his father was abusive, and he became the basis of that book’s best-known character Patrick Bateman. Later Ellis claimed the character was not in fact based on his father, but on Ellis himself, saying that all of his work came from a specific place of pain he was going through in his life during the writing of each of his books. Ellis claims that while his family life growing up was somewhat difficult due to the divorce, he mostly had an “idyllic” California childhood.

After the success and controversy of Less Than Zero in 1985, Ellis became closely associated and good friends with fellow Brat Pack writer Jay McInerney: the two became known as the “toxic twins” for their highly publicized late night debauchery.

He was born living in Los Angeles, California. He was identified as bisexual, gay and a heterosexual in various stages of his life. He wrote to his book, Lunar Park, to his friend, Michael Wade Kaplan.

Name	Bret Easton Ellis
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Birthday	March 7
Birth Year	1964
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Birth Country	United States
Birth Sign	Pisces
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Camden is introduced in Less Than Zero, which mentions that both protagonist Clay and minor character Daniel attend it. In The Rules of Attraction (1987), set at Camden, Clay (called “the Guy from L.A.” before being properly introduced) is a minor character who narrates one chapter; ironically, he longs for the Californian beach, while in Ellis’s previous novel he had longed to return to college. On “the guy from L.A.’s door someone wrote ‘Rest in Peace Called'”; R.I.P., or Rip, is Clay’s dealer in Less Than Zero; Clay also says that Blair from Less than Zero sent him a letter saying she thinks Rip was murdered. Main character Sean Bateman’s older brother Patrick narrates one chapter of the novel; he is the infamous central character of Ellis’s next novel, American Psycho. Ellis includes a reference to Tartt’s forthcoming Secret History in the form of a passing mention of “that weird Classics group … probably roaming the countryside sacrificing farmers and performing pagan rituals.” There is also an allusion to the main character from Eisenstadt’s From Rockaway.

Bret Easton Ellis Net Worth

Bret Easton Ellis is one of the richest Screenwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bret Easton Ellis's net worth $200 Thousand. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at Bennington College, where he was introduced to his fellow author He attended Bennington College, where he met fellow writer Jonathan Lethem. His controversial debut novel, Less Than Zero, was published in 1985.. The novel he wrote with a controversial title, Less Than Zero, was published in the year 1985.

His screenplay is of The Canyons, a film which starred He wrote the screenplay for The Canyons, a film starring Lindsay Lohan..

Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director. Ellis was first 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. His novels commonly share recurring characters.

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Four of Ellis’s 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 Harron’s adaptation of American Psycho was released to generally positive reviews in 2000. Roger Avary’s 2002 adaptation of The Rules of Attraction made modest box office returns. 2008’s The Informers, based on Ellis’s collection of short stories, was critically panned. Ellis also wrote the screenplay for the critically derided 2013 film The Canyons.

In American Psycho (1991), Patrick’s brother Sean appears briefly. Paul Denton and Victor Johnson from The Rules of Attraction are both mentioned; on seeing Paul, Patrick wonders if “maybe he was on that cruise a long time ago, one night last March. If that’s the case, I’m thinking, I should get his telephone number or, better yet, his address.” Camden is both Sean’s college and the college a minor character named Vanden is going to. Vanden was referred to (but never appeared) in both Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction. Passages from “Less Than Zero” reappear almost verbatim here, with Patrick replacing Clay as narrator. Patrick also makes repeated references to Jami Gertz, the actress who portrays Blair in the 1987 film adaptation of Less Than Zero. Allison Poole from Jay McInerney’s 1988 novel Story of My Life appears as a torture victim of Patrick’s. 1994’s The Informers features a much younger Timothy Price, one of Patrick’s co-workers in American Psycho, who narrates one chapter. One of the central characters, Graham, buys concert tickets from Less Than Zero’ s Julian, and his sister Susan goes on to say that Julian sells heroin and is a male prostitute (as shown in Zero). Alana and Blair from Zero are also friends of Susan’s. Letters to Sean Bateman from a Camden College girl named Anne visiting grandparents in LA comprise the eighth chapter.

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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. Ellis’s novels have become increasingly metafictional. Lunar Park (2005), a pseudo-memoir and ghost story, received positive reviews. Imperial Bedrooms (2010), marketed as a sequel to Less Than Zero, continues in this vein.

Ellis often uses recurring characters and settings. Major characters in one novel may become minor ones in the next, or vice versa. Camden College, a fictional New England liberal arts college, is frequently referenced. It is based on Bennington College, which Ellis attended, and where he met future novelist Jonathan Lethem and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and Jill Eisenstadt. In Tartt’s The Secret History (1992), her version of Bennington is “Hampden College,” although there are oblique connections between it and Ellis’s The Rules of Attraction. Eisenstadt and Lethem use “Camden” in From Rockaway (1987) and The Fortress of Solitude (2003), respectively. Though his three major settings are Vermont, Los Angeles and New York, Ellis has said he doesn’t think of these novels as about these places specifically.

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Ellis became a pariah for a time following the release of American Psycho (1991), which later became a critical and cult hit, more so after its 2000 movie adaptation. It has now been regarded as Ellis’ magnum opus, garnering acknowledgement from a number of academics. The Informers (1994) was offered to his publisher during Glamorama’s long writing history. Ellis wrote a screenplay for The Rules of Attraction’ s film adaptation, which was not used. He records a fictionalized version of his life story up until this point in the first chapter of Lunar Park (2005). After the death of his lover Michael Wade Kaplan, Ellis was spurred to finish Lunar Park and inflected it with a new tone of wistfulness.

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Lunar Park was dedicated to his lover, Michael Wade Kaplan, who died shortly before he finished the book, and to Ellis’s father, Robert Ellis, who died in 1992. In one interview Ellis described feeling a liberation in the completion of the novel that allowed him to come to terms with unresolved issues about his father. In the “author Q&A” for Lunar Park on the Random House website, Ellis comments on his relationship with Robert, and says he feels that his father was a “tough case” who left him damaged. Having grown older and “mellow[ed] out”, Ellis describes how his opinion of his father changed since 15 years ago when writing Glamorama (in which the central conspiracy concerns the relationship of a father and son). Earlier in his career, Ellis said he based the character Patrick Bateman in American Psycho on his father, but in a 2010 interview he claimed to have lied about this explanation. Explaining that “Patrick Bateman was about me,” he said, “I didn’t want to finally own up to the responsibility of being Patrick Bateman, so I laid it on my father, I laid it on Wall Street.” In reality, the book was “about me at the time, and I wrote about all my rage and feelings.” To James Brown, he clarified that Bateman was based on “my father a little bit but I was living that lifestyle; my father wasn’t in New York the same age as Patrick Bateman, living in the same building, going to the same places that Patrick Bateman was going to.”

Where is Bret Easton Ellis now?

In recent years, Ellis has continued to publish fiction while also writing screenplays, including for Paul Schrader’s “The Canyons,” which became notorious for its troubled production. Since 2013, he has hosted the “Bret Easton Ellis Podcast,” on Patreon.

Is Bret Easton Ellis Rich?

The comparison between American Psycho’s serial-killer protagonist and its controversial author is easily made. Patrick Bateman and Bret Easton Ellis are both rich.

Where does Bret Easton Ellis live?

Ellis lives in a nice two-bedroom apartment near Beverly Hills.

Is Bret Easton Ellis literary fiction?

Ellis has come to be known as a sort of “bad boy” of literary fiction. His novels are dark, disturbing, and populated by characters filled with malaise. Ellis began writing at Bennington College in Vermont where he attended a creative writing course (Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch, was a classmate).

What does Bret Easton Ellis think of the movie?

“I also don’t think really works as a film,” he told Film School Rejects about the film. “The movie is fine, but I think that book is unadaptable because it’s about consciousness, and you can’t really shoot that sensibility. Also, you have to make a decision whether Patrick Bateman kills people or doesn’t.

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