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	Elmore Leonard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leonard, or "Dutch" as he is sometimes called, got his first breaks in the fiction market during the 1950s, regularly publishing pulp western novels.
		Leonard has been called "the Dickens of Detroit" because of his intimate portraits of people from that city.
		Leonard's ear for dialogue and ability to render dialogue on the printed page are uncanny and have been praised by writers as diverse as Saul Bellow and Martin Amis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elmore_Leonard (432 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Elmore Leonard
		However, though Leonard is praised as a master of the crime novel with his fast-moving action, hard-boiled characters, and detailed but not flowery descriptions his writing style does not fall neatly into the crime or detective genre.
		Leonard was born on October 11, 1925,; in New Orleans, Louisiana, and relocated with his family several times before finally settling in the Detroit area.
		Leonard's novels became known for their direct focus on plot and characters' actions, rejecting the psychoanalytical aspect prevalent in so many crime tales.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200715 (986 words)

	ELMORE LEONARD > ABOUT THE AUTHOR
		Leonard's 34th novel, Cuba Libre, is a story of high adventure, history, romance and nefarious undertakings in Cuba.
		Leonard was also the subject of an hour-long documentary produced in 1991 by the BBC, entitled "Elmore Leonard's Criminal Record"; the documentary has aired in the United States on The Learning Channel.
		Elmore Leonard is the father of five children and the grandfather of nine.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/elmoreleonard/about (746 words)

	Review \| Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Leonard is the reigning purveyor of cool (can you dig it, George P. Pelecanos fans?), and this novel matches, if not surpasses, any other in his body of work.
		Leonard is a craftsman who makes deliberate choices, but he is confident enough to give way to chance happenings, to place "this" character in proximity to "that" character and see what transpires.
		Leonard's insistent cutting of extraneous words is a deliberate philosophy of writing, what is famously known as cutting out the parts that readers skip.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/tishomingoblues.html (1950 words)

	AllRefer.com - Elmore Leonard (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Elmore Leonard (John Elmore Leonard), 1925–;, American novelist, b.
		Leonard, who is nicknamed "Dutch," began publishing Western tales in the early 1950s, the best known of which is Hombre (1961; film, 1967).
		Leonard developed a gritty realism in style and setting (often Detroit), a hard-boiled and tough-talking cast of outsider characters, and a deadpan humor that has made him one of America's top crime writers.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LeonardE.html (283 words)

	Review \| Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Leonard may be known as the Dickens of Detroit (I think Stephen King started that nickname), but don't let his Michigan residency fool you -- his heart and soul lie on the other side of the Mason-Dixon Line.
		Leonard writes hard-boiled crime fiction the way Flannery O'Connor writes hard-boiled crime in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Compare O'Connor's Misfit with any of Leonard's gothic villains, whether it's the Oklahoma Wildman, Clement Mansell, from City Primeval, Mama's Boy Teddy Magyk from Glitz, or any of his Florida loony crackers named Crowe.
		During my first interview with him on May 23, 1997, Leonard offhandedly pointed out that it was the 63rd anniversary of the day Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) were shot to death on an Oklahoma road, ending their legendary careers as Depression-era holdup artists.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/paganbabies.html (1880 words)

	The Elmore Leonard Website - Weblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Temperature really does matter in Elmore Leonard’s novel Get Shorty (1990) which opens with a stolen jacket and a sentence that begins “When Chili first came to Miami beach 12 years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters, 34 degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch.
		Elmore Leonard confesses that when writing his early stories about the Old West he knew nothing about the subject; while working for an ad agency in Detroit, writing copy about trucks, he subscribed to Arizona Highways magazine so that he could tell one cactus from another.
		ELMORE Leonard is the current king of crime fiction, writing slick, dialogue-heavy thrillers that have inspired a diverse range of film directors and writers.
	elmoreleonard.com (5494 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Elmore Leonard Gazette Article
		Nevertheless, Leonard is always tickled when a neighbor calls to tell him that he is the subject of a game show question.
		Leonard will be at the University of Albany on Thursday as part of the New York State Writers Institute's Spring 2000 Visiting Writers Series.
		Leonard was first able to carve himself a little financial breathing room in 1967, when he sold the movie rights to his book "Hombre." It bought him some time to write the novel "The Big Bounce," which was made into a movie starring Ryan O'Neal in 1969.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/gazleonard.html (1297 words)

	The Dutch Forum: The Elmore Leonard Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Leonard's prose is lean and tough, and he is sparse with description and narration, all of which contribute to Leonard's trademark deadpan delivery.
		Leonard shifts point of view constantly, and for a very solid reason: He writes each scene from the point of view of the character who is most powerful in the scene.
		Leonard was told by Tarantino that he hadn't called Leonard for a year, afraid Leonard would be upset that Tarantino was changing not just the title of Rum Punch, but the name of the main character.
	greggsutter.com /discus/show.cgi?tpc=565&post=419 (10024 words)

	The Official Page ONE Literary Newsletter Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Elmore graduated from high school in 1944 and joined the Seabees.
		Elmore’s big breakthrough came in 1984 with La Brava, followed by the best-seller Glitz, which landed him on the cover of Newsweek: 'THE BIG THRILL.
		Elmore is frequently asked why he lives in Detroit when he could live anywhere.
	www.pageonelit.com /interviews/ELeonard.html (404 words)

	Elmore Leonard never gets caught short financially
		Leonard returned to Detroit in 1949 after serving as a Seabee in the South Pacific during World War II and soon found work writing ad copy for the Chevrolet account.
		When interest in Westerns waned, Leonard spent the next two decades creating his own genre, combining a dead-perfect ear for dialogue with a new, humorous take on Detroit's assorted lowlifes to create decidedly non-mysterious mysteries that defied, then defined, the new, hip crime novel.
		Elmore Leonard: That came when I was in high school.
	www.bankrate.com /brm/news/investing/20040203b1.asp (696 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Pagan Babies" by Elmore Leonard
		At the heart of Elmore Leonard's thrillers is a fl-comic amusement at the bad behavior human beings are capable of.
		Leonard has become so good at setting up instinctive romantic pairings that I wish he could be a little more optimistic that things might work out romantically for his "too smart for their own good" schemers.
		Leonard knows that for corrupt bastards, the entire planet might as well be the same small village, ripe for the picking.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/09/07/leonard (850 words)

	The Hot Kid : A Novel, William Morrow, Elmore Leonard
		Leonard's 42nd novel lacks his trademark convoluted double- and triple-cross among the bad guys, the law, and the good guys acting just to the side of the law.
		Leonard proves his mastery as a storyteller by taking on a totally new setting for this latest crime novel--1930s Oklahoma.
		Leonard develops a rich cast of characters (as usual, some are on the right side, others on the wrong side, and still others just to the edge of the law) whose lives intersect again and again during US Marshal Carl Webster's career.
	www.sharisgarden.net /mystores/item_0060724226.html (1030 words)

	Elmore Leonard -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Leonard served in the U.S. Naval Reserve (1943–46), then graduated with a bachelor of philosophy degree from the University of Detroit, Michigan, in 1950.
		Leonard rarely used the same character in more than one book, and his protagonists were frequently “good guys” only in the sense that they were somewhat more ethical than their enemies.
		With his wife, Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf founded Hogarth Press, a company that published Virginia's books, and together the Woolfs were the nucleus of the Bloomsbury group, a London literary group that included many important thinkers of the day.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9097623?&query=leonard, (697 words)

	USATODAY.com - Leonard unleashes his style on teen book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Elmore Leonard is best known for his realistic crime fiction, colorful characters and comic dialogue.
		At 78, Leonard has added something to his repertoire: his first novel for children, dedicated to his 12 grandchildren and one great-grandson.
		As in much of Leonard's adult fiction, the distinction isn't clear between the good guys and bad, although the humans with guns are clueless.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2004-05-31-leonard-coyote_x.htm (560 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard - Mass Market Paperback
		Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books during his highly successful writing career, including the bestsellers Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch, and his most recent critically acclaimed collection of short stories, When the Women Come Out to Dance.
		In Leonard's seamless handling, the complex plot flows through twists of revenge, murder and romance, as Chili, his authentic cool making a mark in the capital of sham (Don't talk when you don't have to'' is his very un-Hollywood motto), cagily gets it together with Karen Flores, Harry's former lover and featured star.
		Leonard is too busy trying to make them so 'cool', as he is so well known for, that they come across as bland.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=006008216X&userid=36I8CM969Z (861 words)

	The novel script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Leonard considers "Jackie Brown," based on his novel "Rum Punch," the most faithful page-to-screen translation of his work.
		The Elmore Leonard mystique continues to hold sway among filmmakers -- at least nine projects are in various stages of development.
		There's plenty more Elmore percolating through the Hollywood pipeline: John Travolta begins filming next month on "Be Cool," reprising his role as Chili Palmer in this sequel to "Get Shorty." Written in 1999 by Leonard at MGM's request, the novel shifts the action from movies to music.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/25/PKGET4CVMF1.DTL&type=printable (1280 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Hot Kid: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Elmore Leonard's latest novel, "The Hot Kid," is set in 1930's Oklahoma, against a backdrop of moonshine, speakeasies, mine strikes, oil wildcatters, gangsters, gun molls, prostitutes and plenty of bank robberies.
		Elmore Leonard's quirky characters are some of the most fascinating around.
		This is Elmore Leonard's 40th novel, proving that some talented, creative people are not slowed down by the process of aging.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0297848097 (1405 words)

	Bookreporter.com - TISHOMINGO BLUES by Elmore Leonard
		And it is precisely this quality that illustrates why Leonard's tales have something about them that have made the man a genre unto himself.
		Leonard, now into his sixth decade of writing, continues to surprise, to delight, to entrance.
		TISHOMINGO BLUES demonstrates that Leonard's canny eye for observation and analysis of the human character, and human characters, remains as sharp as ever.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0060008725.asp (498 words)

	JS Online: Elmore Leonard 'Takes Five' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Forty novels and numerous short stories later, Leonard's dialogue driven style, his wicked wit and his keen view of the contemporary urban world have made Leonard a literary legend in his own right.
		Although Leonard admits his latest, "The Hot Kid," is "a quieter novel" than his usual fare, it's a boldly American novel in its ironic exploration of second chances and bootstrap survivalism.
		Leonard has visited Milwaukee on numerous occasions (his daughter, Katherine Leonard Dudley, and one of his granddaughters, Shannon Freels Belmont, graduated from Marquette University).
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/may05/330247.asp (1115 words)

	Amazon.com: The Hot Kid : A Novel: Books: Elmore Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Leonard's 40th novel, set in the world of 1930s gangsters and gun molls, features characterizations so deft and true you can smell the hair oil on the dudes and the perfume on the dames.
		Leonard is at his lyrical, mythmaking best here as he tells the story of a little Oklahoma boy who is robbed of his ice cream cone by a two-bit bank robber, an event that shapes his future.
		Elmore Leonard has crafted many a fine tale: but "The Hot Kid" is undoubtedly one of his best and a thoroughly satisfying read.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060724226?v=glance (1671 words)

	Salon Brilliant Careers \| Elmore Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		And given the addictive quality of Leonard's tight, seamless prose and the page-turning pull of his crime stories (he wrote westerns early in his career), some of them may even be telling the truth.
		Leonard's characters are mostly involved in crime or law enforcement, but there is very little that's fl-and-white about them.
		And though dark currents run through Leonard's books, his touch is light, often comic, and the pop culture references are smarter than those made by most writers half his age.
	www.salon.com /people/bc/1999/09/28/leonard (997 words)

	Elmore Leonard Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Leonard says that he has been more influenced by his study of Hemingway, Steinbeck, and O'Hara than by his contemporaries, but that his goal in writing is to efface "style."
		But Leonard was doubtful about his future in hard-boiled fiction and returned to the western with two novels in the early 1970s (Valdez Is Coming, 1970; Forty Lashes Less One, 1972).
		Besides his hometown of Detroit, Leonard's novels are sometimes set in south Florida, where he vacations and his mother owns a motel, and New Orleans, his birthplace.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Leonard.html (959 words)

	CNN.com - The master of cool - Feb. 2, 2004
		Elmore Leonard: A new book in stores, another just released as a movie, a third entering production.
		Elmore Leonard's best-selling crime novels are famous for cool characters and plots that feature twists and turns.
		Even though Leonard's characters have to deal with an ever-changing landscape, the author himself is remarkably consistent.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/02/film.elmore.leonard.ap (819 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Elmore Leonard on Film
		The conversations and run-ins that seem so “frontal” in Leonard’s book recede into a generalized space onscreen; the languor of the women, the shout of the characters, and the dense use of color — which remains opaque on the page — become a mood to be soaked in.
		When Leonard tells us a female character has “bedroom eyes” or a “neat nose”, he’s merely informing us about her personal stock of attributes, and he’ll use hackneyed or commercial words to describe them — the language of the once-over.
		Women in Leonard have a detached, almost angelic attitude to their bodies — they don’t take more than a practical interest in any evaluation, and if there are to be upgrades or depreciations of value, they know it’s not personal.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /49/elmore.htm (2367 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Elmore Leonard
		Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books during his highly successful writing career, including the national bestsellers MR.
		Elmore Leonard's 36th novel, PAGAN BABIES, loaded with a killer title and a riveting plot, just hit the shelves.
		Emil Dutch Leonard was a pitcher with a Washington Senators, a knuckleballer, when I was in high school in the early '40s and desperately needed a nickname.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-leonard-elmore.asp (5246 words)

	bookideas.com: When the Women Come out to Dance by Elmore Leonard
		As in most of Leonard country, we are in the presence of people variously trapped or afflicted by partial success and past compromises.
		However, readers familiar with Elmore Leonard’s work will be likely to agree that it his dialogue that regularly delights most commonly: “’Did you see Boyd?’ ‘I told him he has to come in tomorrow.
		Leonard has some fun playing with characters from other stories and including a few sly references to other work but there is no need to have read anything else by him in order to enjoy this splendid collection.
	www.bookideas.com /reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=2428 (434 words)

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