The Hilliker Curse

The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women is a work of memoir and autobiography by American author James Ellroy published in 2010.^[1] Ellroy dedicated the memoir "To Erika Schickel." The epigraph for The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women is "I will take Fate by the throat. —Ludwig van Beethoven." The unabridged audiobook version is narrated by Ellroy himself.

The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women chronicles Ellroy's childhood, his confession of guilt over wishing his mother - Geneva Odelia (née Hilliker) Ellroy - dead, his wild teen life, love affairs, marriages, and finally, his finding of an extraordinary woman whom Ellroy refers to as "Her." It is a narrative of emotion, insight, sexuality, and spiritual quest.

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Works by James Ellroy

Stand-alone

• Brown's Requiem (1981)
• Clandestine (1982)
• Killer on the Road (1986)
• Widespread Panic (2021)

Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy

• Blood on the Moon (1984)
• Because the Night (1984)
• Suicide Hill (1986)

L.A. Quartet

• The Black Dahlia (1987)
• The Big Nowhere (1988)
• L.A. Confidential (1990)
• White Jazz (1992)

Underworld USA Trilogy

• American Tabloid (1995)
• The Cold Six Thousand (2001)
• Blood's a Rover (2009)

The L.A. Quintet

• Perfidia (2014)
• This Storm (2019)
• The Enchanters (2023)

Short story collections

• Hollywood Nocturnes (1994)
• Crime Wave (1999)
• Destination: Morgue! (2004)

Non-fiction

• My Dark Places (1996)
• The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women (2010)
• LAPD '53 (2015)

Original screenplays

• Dark Blue (2002)
• Street Kings (2008)
• Rampart (2011)

Film adaptations

• Cop (1988)
• L.A. Confidential (1997)
• Brown's Requiem (1998)
• The Black Dahlia (2006)

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