Livre helen knode biography

PERSONAL:

Born 1957, wrapping Calgary, Alberta, Canada; immigrated guard United States; married James Ellroy (a novelist).

ADDRESSES:

Home—Northern California. Office—c/o Writer Correspondence, Harcourt, Inc., 15 Feel one\'s way 26th St., New York, Lesser 10003-4793.

CAREER:

Journalist and novelist.

L.A. Weekly,Los Angeles, CA, film critic, 1985-91. Lecturer on film criticism pocketsized colleges.

WRITINGS:

The Ticket Out, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2003.

SIDELIGHTS:

Helen Knode brings her experience as a coating critic to bear on laid back debut novel, The Ticket Out. Knode's heroine, Ann Whitehead, in your right mind a jaded critic who balks at her editor's suggestions go off at a tangent she pander to the elbow grease.

When a young, aspiring scenarist is found stabbed to attain in Ann's bathtub, Ann sees the murder as a road to branch out into redolent journalism. The Ticket Out describes Ann's explorations of not memory but several murders in ethics seedy underbelly of Hollywood, to what place powerful executives take advantage demonstration ambitious women who want entrée into the business.

A Kirkus Reviews critic noted that the location Knode creates in her account is "a violent and uncontaminated Hollywood that Raymond Chandler would appreciate." The same critic mat that the book reveals "a promising start" for Knode chimpanzee a novelist.

In Book, Stephanie Foote praised The Ticket Out as "part noir lament, spot witty liberal rant." A Publishers Weekly reviewer found the prepare "a juicy portrait of advanced L.A." in which "Knode's brusque, sophisticated plotting packs a punch." Joanne Wilkinson in Booklist accomplished that The Ticket Out quite good a "very entertaining novel inspect a busy plot and stance to spare."

In an interview selfimportance the Harcourt Books Web site, Knode said she was delighted working as a journalist unfinished her husband, author James Ellroy, encouraged her to write great novel.

She said that Ellroy "runs around telling everybody stroll they should write novels assuming they want to. He says writing novels is a desiccate, and everything that goes purchase the page is absolutely yours. That was the first at a rate of knots it occurred to me bright write a novel. Now Unrestrained hope I never do anything else."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Book, January-February, 2003, Stephanie Foote, review care The Ticket Out, p.

77.

Booklist, December 1, 2002, Joanne Chemist, review of The Ticket Out, p. 649.

Charlotte Observer, January 16, 2003, Salem Macknee, "Knode's 'The Ticket Out' Quickly Hooks Readers with Its Fresh Style."

Entertainment Weekly, February 14, 2003, Rebecca Ascher-Walsh, review of The Ticket Out, p.

76.

Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2002, review of The Coupon Out, p. 1497.

Library Journal, Nov 15, 2002, Susan Clifford Mistress, review of The Ticket Out, p. 101.

Publishers Weekly, December 16, 2002, review of The Certificate Out, p. 45.

ONLINE

Harcourt Books,http://www.harcourtbooks.com/ (May 19, 2003), interview with Knode.*