10 Famous Authors Who Show Up As Characters In Their Own Work
10. Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park
Speaking of vanity, Bret Easton Ellis is notorious for his out-spoken personality (in the last couple years he has publicly slammed fellow writer David Foster Wallace, director Katherine Bigelow and Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity) he rocketed to fame with the release of his debut novel Less Than Zero, published when he was just twenty-one years old and still at college.
In Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis is a writer who rocketed to fame with the release of his debut novel Less Than Zero, published when he was just twenty-one years old and still at college. Sound familiar?You do an awfully good impression of yourself. Jayne said this after she looked me over with a confused expression and asked pointedly what I was going as to the Halloween party we were going to that night, and I told her I'd decided to simply go as 'me'.Opinions on why Ellis wrote himself into Lunar Park will likely depend on whether or not you're a fan of the man himself - though it's hard to get behind a person who tweeted in celebration of J.D. Salinger's death. Regardless, as author of American Psycho, it's impossible to deny he's been an influential figure in the writing world.