Elmore Leonard
Sign in to saveAmerican novelist and screenwriter (1925–2013)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 11 October 1925
- Died
- 20 August 2013
- Works
- 165
Top works
- McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
- Friḳi Diḳi
- Maḳsimum Bob
- Naked Came the Manatee
- The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
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Film & TV
Writing · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925 – August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.
Known for
- Elmore Leonard: "But Don't Try to Write" — Self (archive footage)2021
- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)2021
- The Culture Show — Self2004
- Jackie Brown: How It Went Down — Self2002
- Inside 'Out of Sight' — Self1998
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 363
- Total plays
- 10,088
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research
· 1985 · cited 35,534x
- 2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
· 2016 · cited 12,244x
- Apoptosis: A Review of Programmed Cell Death
· 2007 · cited 11,202x
- The Behavioral Consequences of Service Quality
· 1996 · cited 7,408x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,587x
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Key facts
- Born
- Elmore John Leonard Jr. , ( 1925-10-11 ) October 11, 1925, New Orleans , Louisiana, U.S.
- Died
- August 20, 2013 (2013-08-20) (aged 87), Bloomfield Hills, Michigan , U.S.
- Occupation
- Writer
- Alma mater
- University of Detroit
- Genre
- Pulp fiction Westerns Crime fiction
- Spouse
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- Children
- 5, including Peter
- Relatives
- Megan Freels Johnston (granddaughter)
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Navy
- Service years
- 1943–1946
- Rank
Key dates
- Born
- 11 October 1925
- Died
- 20 August 2013
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New Orleans
- Place of death
- Detroit
- Occupation
- prose writer
- Educated at
- University of Detroit Mercy
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Genre
- Western
Article
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925 – August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story author and screenwriter. He was, according to British journalist Anthony Lane, "hailed as one of the best crime writers in the land". His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Among his best-known works are Hombre, Swag, City Primeval, LaBrava, Glitz, Freaky Deaky, Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight and Tishomingo Blues.
Leonard's short story "Three-Ten to Yuma" was adapted as the film 3:10 to Yuma, which was remade in 2007. Rum Punch was adapted as the Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown (1997). Steven Soderbergh adapted Out of Sight in 1998 into a film of the same name. Get Shorty was adapted into an eponymous film in 1995 and in 2017 it was adapted into a television series of the same name. His writings were also the basis for The Tall T, as well as the FX television series Justified and Justified: City Primeval. Among other honors, he won the 2009 Pen Lifetime Award and the 2012 Medal For Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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1925 births2013 deaths20th-century American male writers20th-century American novelists21st-century American male writers21st-century American novelistsAmerican crime fiction writersAmerican male novelistsAmerican male short story writersAmerican Noir writersAmerican Western (genre) novelistsBurials at Greenwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Michigan)