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John Gilmore

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born

The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.johngilmore.com/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Biographies & Memoirs

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John Gilmore was born in the Charity Ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital and was raised in Hollywood. His mother had been a studio contract-player for MGM while his step-grandfather worked as head carpenter for RKO Pictures. Gilmore's parents separated when he was six months old and he was subsequently raised by his grandmother. Gilmore's father became a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer, and also wrote and acted on radio shows, a police public service (the shows featured promising movie starlets as well as established performers like Bonita Granville, Ann Rutherford, the "jungle girl" Aquanetta, Joan Davis, Hillary Brooke, Ann Jeffreys, Brenda Marshall and other players young John Gilmore became acquainted with. As a...more

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Books by John Gilmore

Average rating: 3.63 · 557 ratings · 45 reviews · 41 distinct works

	Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia 3.60 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip by John Gilmore, Jeff Lyons (Designed by) 3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Inside Marilyn Monroe 3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes & Bad Times 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Manson: The Unholy Trail of Charlie and the Family by John Gilmore, Ron Kenner 3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Live Fast-Die Young: My Life With James Dean 3.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cold-Blooded: The Saga of Charles Schmid, the Notorious "Pied Piper of Tucson" 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Crazy Streak 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's the Sugar-Cane 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fetish Blonde 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1999	My rating: