Bret Easton Ellis's first novel, "Less Than Zero", written for school credit, became a New York Times bestseller, was translated into 20 languages, and made into a film. His next two novels also took a cinematic turn, "The Rules of Engagement", and the controversial "American Psycho", about a Wall Street serial killer. His latest, "Lunar Park", is a tragi-comic novelized memoir, which both underscores and challenges the New York Times claim that Ellis is the "bad boy of American letters, the brattiest of the Brat Pack that included Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and other chroniclers of...Reagan-era angst."

Bret Easton Ellis's first novel, "Less Than Zero", written for school credit, became a New York Times bestseller, was translated into 20 languages, and made into a film. His next two novels also took a cinematic turn, "The Rules of Engagement", and the controversial "American Psycho", about a Wall Street serial killer. His latest, "Lunar Park", is a tragi-comic novelized memoir, which both underscores and challenges the New York Times claim that Ellis is the "bad boy of American letters, the brattiest of the Brat Pack that included Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and other chroniclers of...Reagan-era angst."