Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A) : James Ellroy started writing crime fiction, commencing with Brown's Requiem (1981)
Reason (R) : James Ellroy's mother was murdered in 1958.
In the context of the statements above, choose the most appropriate answer from among the options below:
1
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2
Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) may not be the correct explanation of (A)
3
(A) is correct but (R) is not correct
4
(A) is not correct but (R) is correct