Elmore leonard

His best-sellers included Get Shorty. Movies based on his stories included Hombre. Leonard was also the creator of the Raylan Givens character on FX TV's Justified. Leonard was 87.

Elmore Leonard -- the legendary writer behind "Get Shorty," "3:10 to Yuma" and "Justified" -- has died, three weeks after suffering a stroke ... TMZ has learned.

A fan’s guide to the works of the great crime fiction writer

Elmore Leonard died in August at the age of 87.

Read 659 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong peopl…

Elmore Leonard, the acclaimed crime novelist and screenwriter behind books like "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight" that became hit movies, died on Tuesday morning at 87, according to his official website. Specializing in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, Leonard also wrote short stories, one of which was turned into the FX TV series "Justified." Twenty of his works were adapted into films, highli

"My most important rule is one that sums up the 10. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." The legendary author passed away today at the age of 87. The following is from Leonard's New York Times piece "Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle."

Elmore Leonard

A fat book could be assembled, just listing all the later-to-be-famous writers who stopped briefly in the cubicles of ad agencies.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Elmore Leonard as a writer who found "putting pretty clothes on hard, direct words" contemptible, and loathed what's typically known as literature. Leonard wrote more than 40 novels over his long career.