Meanings
proper nounthe Brat Pack
- historicalinformalbroadcastingA group of young actors who frequently appeared together in teen-oriented coming-of-age films in the 1980s.
- historicalinformalliteratureA group of young authors who emerged on the East Coast in the 1980s.
Introduced as the bad boy of American letters, the brattiest of the Brat Pack that included Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz and other chroniclers of young Reagan-era angst, Mr. Ellis has achieved over the last 20 years a level of notoriety and acclaim that has eluded most of his peers.
2005 August 7, Edward Wyatt, “Bret Easton Ellis: The Man in the Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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