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The novelist James Ellroy’s spiral-bound notebook for The Black Dahlia,
opening as a new film on September 15, is in Columbia, SC, at the University
of South Carolina’s Thomas Cooper Library. This and other manuscripts,
typescripts, and photographs about The Black Dahlia will be on display in
the main lobby of the library from September 15 through the end of the
month.
The library’s James Ellroy Archive has Ellroy’s outlines and distinctive
two-color longhand manuscript drafts for such well-known novels as The Black
Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A.Confidential (1990), American
Tabloid (1995), and his crime-memoir My Dark Places (1996).
American novelist, James Ellroy, donated a major group of research materials
for his literary archives at the Thomas Cooper Library. Ellroy, author of 15
books including The Black Dahlia (1987), L.A. Confidential (1990), and the
memoir My Dark Places (1996), selected USC as home for his literary papers
in 1999. Ellroy later added file copies of his magazine contributions; over
300 different editions, reprintings and translations of his books; and a
large collection of framed posters, photographs and other visual materials.
The James Ellroy Archive is part of USC’s continuing initiative to build
research collections documenting modern American literature, publishing, and
the profession of authorship.
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