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1 Video. 6 Photos. Elmore Leonard was born on 11 October 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Out of Sight (1998), Get Shorty (1995) and Justified (2010). He was married to Christine Kent, Joan Shepard and Beverly Claire Cline. He died on 20 August 2013 in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, USA.
Elmore Leonard. Born. in New Orleans, Louisiana, The United States. October 11, 1925. Died. August 20, 2013. Website. http://www.elmoreleonard.com/ Genre. Mystery & Thrillers, Western. edit data. Elmore John Leonard lived in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Memphis before settling in Detroit in 1935.
Aug 20, 2013 · Award-winning crime writer Elmore Leonard, whose stories and novels went on to become films such as "3:10 to Yuma," "Get Shorty," and "Jackie Brown," died August 20, his literary agent Jeffrey...
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. I’ll use Leonard’s character Raylan Givens, one of his great characters, to exemplify his use of the Western inside the body ...
Aug 20, 2013 · Elmore Leonard. This article is more than 10 years old. Obituary. Elmore Leonard obituary. Crime writer known for Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Hombre whose work served as a barometer of...
Leonard, who died Tuesday at age 87, helped achieve for crime writing what King did for horror and Ray Bradbury for science fiction. He made it hip, and he made it respectable. When the public flocked to watch John Travolta in the movie version of “Get Shorty” in 1995, its author became the darling of Hollywood’s hottest young directors.
Aug 20, 2013 · DETROIT (AP) — Elmore Leonard, a former adman who later became one of America’s foremost crime writers, died Tuesday. He was 87. His researcher, Gregg Sutter, said Leonard died from complications from a stroke he suffered a few weeks ago. Leonard won an honorary National Book Award in 2012.
