Eddie Little

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| name = Eddie Little

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1954|08|25}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|05|20|1954|08|25}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| occupation = Novelist, journalist

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| children = 1

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Eddie Little (August 25, 1954 – May 20, 2003) was a widely acclaimed American author. He wrote Another Day in Paradise, later made into a film of the same name directed by Larry Clark.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1999/02/21/trouble-in-paradise/006a6e42-6d9c-4c35-b5ac-f48db864e38a/ |title=Trouble in 'Paradise' |first=Sharon |last=Waxman |author-link=Sharon Waxman |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=February 21, 1999}} Little was also the author of "Outlaw LA" an ongoing article published in LA Weekly. His writings were a rugged portrayal of coming of age in the underbelly of society and heroin addiction.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/05/10/writing-wrongs-hes-been-a-thug-a-thief-a-junkie-and-a-con-man-now-hes-a-hot-property-has-he-reformed-that-may-not-matter-because-in-hollywood-a-guy-like-eddie-little-can-go-a-long-way/36208e8c-1e47-4fd7-9797-26b693250dc1/ |title=Writing Wrongs |first=Sharon |last=Waxman |author-link=Sharon Waxman |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 10, 1998}} His books were largely autobiographical, and although his supporting characters tended to be fictional, the narrators were almost parallel with himself.

Little died of a heart attack in a Los Angeles motel room, at the age of 48. He was survived by a daughter and two siblings.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-may-23-me-little23-story.html |title=Eddie Little, 48; L.A. Novelist and Journalist |first=Mary |last=Rourke |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=May 23, 2003}}