Bret Easton Ellis
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Bret Easton Ellis is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the Literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique as a writer is the expression of extreme a
Ellis in 2010
Ellis at The Arches in Glasgow in 1998
American Psycho
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American Psycho is a horror novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first-person by Patrick Bateman, a wealthy, narcissistic, and vain Manhattan investm
Bret Easton Ellis
…characters. 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 the novel's release, the literary establishment widely condemned it as overly violent and misogynistic. Though…
Cover of the first American paperback edition, with model Nigel Paul Redding as Patrick Bateman
In the 2000 film adaptation, Patrick Bateman was portrayed by Christian Bale.