Figure timeline
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 acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels often share recurring characters.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · American author, screenwriter, and director · writer · screenwriter · novelist · podcaster · journalist · short story writer · executive producer · also Bret Easton Ellis, Bret Ellis, Brett Easton Ellis, Easton Ellis, Bret, Ellis
Born 7 March 1964 · Q241583
34 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
4 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
may be disappointed by how Trump is coming off and who he’s connecting with
85%The GuardianSource
“Every now and then you see things like, ‘Dear God, this is a musical. How did Bret Ellis let this happen?’ Well, Bret Ellis didn’t really let anything happen. Ultimately, I don’t have a problem with it.”
“may be disappointed by how Trump is coming off and who he’s connecting with”
“the movie was okay, the movie was fine. I just didn”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“s best-known character, Patrick Bateman. Later Ellis said 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 says that while his family life growing up was somewhat difficult due to the divorce, he mostly had an”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Public attention spiked: 13,440 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.9× the usual 1,519, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Removing from Category:American male novelists using Cat-a-lot
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Public attention spiked: 14,631 Wikipedia readers in one day, 9.6× the usual 1,519, with 0 article edits.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Public attention spiked: 22,356 Wikipedia readers in one day, 14.7× the usual 1,519, with 0 article edits.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Public attention spiked: 35,284 Wikipedia readers in one day, 23.2× the usual 1,519, with 1 article edits.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Public attention spiked: 6,909 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.5× the usual 1,519, with 0 article edits.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
In 2023, when asked about his political views, Ellis replied, "I'm not a conservative or a liberal.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
When asked about his political views, Ellis replied, "I'm not a conservative or a liberal
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Announced that the book could be preordered
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Announced on Instagram that the manuscript of The Shards had just arrived for him to look over
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ellis interviewed Kim Kardashian for Richardson Magazine
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stated that he was never attached to the project as a screenwriter or a director, merely a consultant, saying that the material seemed too tricky for him to properly render on screen
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ellis launched a podcast with PodcastOne Studios
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And the switch to Patreon happened in 2018
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And critically panned, but was a modest financial success, with Lindsay Lohan's performance in the lead role earning some positive reviews
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“t think the original American Psycho”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ellis wrote the screenplay for the independent film The Canyons and helped raise money for its production
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
"I was very obsessive, very protective about that book, perhaps overly so
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ellis released a follow-up to Less than Zero, Imperial Bedrooms
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ellis released Imperial Bedrooms, the sequel to his début novel
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
To adapt the Vanity Fair article "The Golden Suicides" into a film of the same name, depicting the paranoid final days and suicides of celebrity artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Film adaptation, the book includes a spy named Russell who is physically identical to Bale, and at one point in the novel impersonates him
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ellis suggested that his reluctance to define his sexuality was partly artistic, arguing that readers' perceptions of his work might change if his orientation was known
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
In 1999, Ellis suggested that his reluctance to define his sexuality was partly artistic, arguing that readers' perceptions of his work might change if his orientation was known.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The novel was also dedicated to Ellis's father, who died in 1992.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“Patrick Bateman was about me. I didn”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
For the publication of his second novel, The Rules of Attraction—described by him as "an attempt to write the kind of college novel I had always wanted to read and could never find"—which follows a group of sexually prom
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
As a film of the same name but the film bore little resemblance to the novel
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Studied at Bennington College (1986).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1964-03-07.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
s best-known character, Patrick Bateman. Later Ellis said 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 says that while his family life growing up was somewhat difficult due to the divorce, he mostly had an
Connections