Diane Kiesel

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The historian rediscovers a hidden founder of the Underground Railroad and a remarkably human clergyman. Author Q&A,

Apr 11, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Diane Kiesel

Just when the reader thinks she’s seen it all in the sexist, racist, homophobic, violent, and murderous figures who populate James Ellroy’s fiction, along comes this biography of the self-described “demon dog” of crime novels. Ellroy’s back-from-the-brink life story rivals that of his characters.