Given below are two statements, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other Reason (R).

Assertion (A):Assertion (A): James Ellroy started writing crime fiction, commencing with Brown's Requiem (1981).

Reason (R):Reason (R): James Ellroy's mother died when he was a child.

ABoth (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

BBoth (A) and (R) are correct but (R) may not be the correct explanation of (A)

C(A) is correct but (R) is not correct

D(A) is not correct but (R) is correct

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