Bret Easton Ellis

Personal context

Summary

Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker best known for Less Than Zero and American Psycho. His work often depicts wealthy, alienated characters and satirizes materialism, celebrity, and media culture. He has described himself as a gay writer. In interviews and his nonfiction book White, he has criticized what he calls “woke” culture and left-wing speech norms; public campaigning or affiliations for identity or DEI causes are not on record.