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The Enduring Appeal Of Elmore Leonard and Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens. Crimespree Richard Godwin. Elmore Leonard wrote some of the classic crime novels of the twentieth century. Notably inspired by Higgins’s THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, (1972), Leonard was an adept dialogue writer and master of the tight scene.
Aug 24, 2013 · Elmore Leonard was a writer who hated — and I don't mean disliked; Elmore had a contempt for putting pretty clothes on hard, direct words, so I mean hated — literature, or at least what he ...
Aug 20, 2013 · The writer Elmore Leonard has died. He was 87 years old and had recently suffered a stroke. For decades, Leonard — working at the very top of his profession as a crime writer — had been widely ...
Jun 27, 2018 · Elmore Leonard by David Geherin, New York, Ungar-Continuum, 1989; Elmore Leonard by James E. Devlin, New York, Twayne Publishers, 1999. Elmore Leonard is one of those rare authors who began as a pulp writer and ended top of the bestseller lists.
May 3, 2018 · Flashback: When Elmore Leonard, a “rising young writer of Western novels,” debuted (sort of) in The New Yorker. Few writers are as alive to the sound of human speech as Elmore Leonard. To open one of his novels is to be plunged at once into an arena of crisscrossing voices. His characters talk, and rarely stop talking, for every imaginable ...
Oct 4, 2022 · The late '80s saw Elmore Leonard writing a series of original TV movies not based on any book, but centered on a wild Western renegade.Perhaps it was the success of these more original made-for ...
Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) was an American author and screenwriter of Westerns, thrillers, and crime novels. He began his careers in the 1950s writing pulp Westerns, but was not widely known until the publication of his 1985 book Glitz. Some of his best known books include Get Shorty, Out of Sight, and Rum Punch. Many of his books and stories ...
