Mr. Ellroy will be signing books after the Q&A - books will be available for purchase.
When: November 13, 2010 10:00am
Where: Regency South Coast Village Theatre, 1561 W. Sunflower Avenue, Santa Ana CA 92704 - across from South Coast Plaza
This is a Free Event.
I never knew her in life. She exists for me through others, in evidence the ways of her death drove them. Working backward, seeing only facts, I reconstructed her as a sad little girl and a whore, at best a could-have-been—a tag that might equally apply to me. I wish I could have granted her an anonymous end, relegated her to a few terse words on a homicide dick’s summary report, carbon to the coroner’s office, more paperwork to take her to potter’s field. The only thing wrong with the wish is that she wouldn’t have wanted it that way. As brutal as the facts were, she would have wanted all of them known. And since I owe her a great deal and am the only one who does know her entire story, I have undertaken the writing of this memoir.
"The Black Dahlia" by James Ellroy
