布莱特·伊斯顿·埃利斯是美国小说家和短篇小说作家。他被认为是所谓的文学小子之一，其中还包括 Tama Janowitz 和 Jay McInerney。他自称是一位讽刺作家，作为作家，他的标志性技巧是以无情的风格表达极端行为和观点。埃利斯采用了一种将小说与常见的、反复出现的人物联系起来的技巧。尽管埃利斯在 21 岁时以 1985 年备受争议的畅销书《小于零》首次亮相，这是一部关于洛杉矶不道德年轻人的时代精神小说，但他最令人难忘的作品是他的第三部小说，即 1991 年的《美国精神病人》。出版后，文学界广泛谴责这部小说过于暴力和厌恶女性;尽管许多要求禁止这本书的请愿书使埃利斯被西蒙和舒斯特放弃，但巨大的争议使它成为当年晚些时候阿尔弗雷德·A·克诺普夫（Alfred A. Knopf）的平装畅销书。

Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters. Though Ellis made his debut at 21 with the controversial 1985 bestseller Less Than Zero, a zeitgeist novel about amoral young people in Los Angeles, the work he is most remembered for is his third novel, 1991's American Psycho. On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynist; though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy made it a paperback bestseller for Alfred A. Knopf later that year.