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Elmore Leonard
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American novelist and screenwriter (1925–2013)
OverviewAI-generated
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (1925–2013) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film producer. Born in New Orleans, he served in the United States Navy during World War II and later attended the University of Detroit Mercy. A Catholic, he was influenced by Ernest Hemingway. His notable works include *Rum Punch*, *Naked Came the Manatee*, and *The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time*.
Leonard received several awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, the Hammett Prize, and the Cartier Diamond Dagger. He also won the Best Crime Novel in Swedish Translation award. He was nominated for the Hammett Prize. He died of a stroke in Detroit.
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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
via Open Library + Wikidata
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
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1925
- Active to
- 2013
Discography
- Raylan2016
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 363
- Total plays
- 10,088
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Elmore+Leonard">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research
· 1985 · cited 35,646x
- 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 12,603x
- Apoptosis: A Review of Programmed Cell Death
· 2007 · cited 11,399x
- The Behavioral Consequences of Service Quality
· 1996 · cited 7,539x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,659x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “For a long time I've been walking down life's road with my two pals, Bad Luck and Bad Choices. Fortunately I'm a big believer in new beginnings, new friends, and running from my problems. So one day I decided to head for the island. Aloha, my name is Jack.”
- “If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
- “I leave out the parts that people skip.”
- “What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.”
- “My grandson, Max, who is an all state lacrosse player, once gave me some lacrosse advice: A limp pass is like a limp dick; it doesn't get the job done. I think the same can be said about limp writing.”
- “After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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
- Beverly Claire Cline ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1949 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1977 ) Joan Shepard ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1979 ; died 1993 ) Christine Kent ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1993 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2012 )
- Children
- 5, including Peter
- Relatives
- Megan Freels Johnston (granddaughter)
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Navy
- Service years
- 1943–1946
- Rank
- Petty officer third class
- Unit
- Seabees
- Conflicts
- World War II
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elmore Leonard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.