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.

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.

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

Elmore Leonard's method for creating bestselling fiction was simple: "If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it."

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

Elmore Leonard

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 reason: to seduce, to amuse, to threaten, to deceive, or simply to pass the time while waiting for a scam to unfold or a violent scheme to be unleashed. He started as a writer of pulp Western stories and ended as the most admired crime novelist of his time, but…

Elmore Leonard. 1925-2013. Novelist, screenwriter. His book, Get Shorty, is one of my favorites.

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