James Ellroy MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is James Ellroy? James Ellroy is an personality type in MBTI, 4w5 - - in Enneagram, in Big 5, in Socionics.
I used to think he was ISTP—mainly due to the way he portrays himself in some interviews—but I think it becomes apparent that this is a mask he puts on; he admits it himself. Anyway, I think his Fi is a bit too strong for him to be a ISTP, and that it must be in his stack somewhere. His morality is too important to him and his works: “The books are moral, and I think I’m a moralist … morality in literature is largely the expositing of moral acts and their consequences, the karmic price of the perpetrators of the immoral acts, for having committed them. In that sense, I think the books are very moral.” The way Ellroy writes is more concerned with his characters and their psychology; he has said that he writes copious notes on his characters, tries to understand them, and, only then, does he know where the story will go: “I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this”—this information gathering of the subconscious of his characters and then the implementation into a concrete, systematic story seems more NiTe to me.
Biography
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009).
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