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James Ellroy Nov 06 2009 1:32 AM from San Francisco Chronicle

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"I based her character on a woman I met here in San Francisco ... I dedicated the book to her. She is a college professor. She was a mystery to me. I'm very powerfully compelled by women."

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"Then I create a private human infrastructure ... In my books are real-life characters and fictional ones. One question I never answer is what's real and what's not."

James Ellroy Nov 06 2009 1:32 AM from San Francisco Chronicle

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"f- me up completely because I inhabited the souls of these leg-breakers ... I rewrite history the way I see things."

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