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Elmore Leonard

Oct 11, 1925 - Aug 20, 2013 (87 years old) in 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.

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Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
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Jackie Brown: How It Went Down
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Inside 'Out of Sight'
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Elmore Leonard: "But Don't Try to Write"
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