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Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. 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…
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culture · American novelist and screenwriter (1925–2013) · screenwriter · writer · novelist · film producer · author · prose writer · also Elmore Leonard, Dutch Leonard, Leonard
Born 11 October 1925 · Died 20 August 2013 · Q336519
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2026· 3 entries
MLB.com: Ronny Simon strikes out swinging and Duce Gourson caught stealing 2nd, catcher Dayne Leonard to shortstop Leo Balcazar to catcher Dayne Leonard.
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RMNB: Capitals have begun contract extension talks with Ryan Leonard and Justin Sourdif
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Get Shorty at 30: Dennis Lehane on Elmore Leonard's Hollywood satire
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Raylan”.
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Elmore Leonard's unpublished stories to be published next year
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2013· 3 entries
The Guardian: Elmore Leonard remembered by Peter Leonard
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Died 2013-08-20.
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Leonard died at his home in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills of stroke complications
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Owen Wister Award (2009).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Cartier Diamond Dagger (2006).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Michigan Author Award (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
And in 2017 it was adapted into a television series of the same name
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded The Grand Master (1992).
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Leonard played himself in a script he wrote and, with actor Paul Lazar dramatizing a scene from the novel Swag, appeared in a humorous television short about his writing process which aired on the Byline Showtime series
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Hammett Prize (1991).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for City Primeval (1986).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Best Crime Novel in Swedish Translation for LaBrava (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel for LaBrava (1984).
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1979· 1 entry
To Joan Leanne Lancaster (aka Joan Shepard), ended with her death in 1993
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1969· 1 entry
His first crime story, The Big Bounce, was published by Gold Medal Books
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1951· 1 entry
When Argosy magazine published his short story "Trail of the Apaches"
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1950· 1 entry
With a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy
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1949· 1 entry
And had five children with her—two daughters and three sons—before divorcing in 1977
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1943· 1 entry
And, after being rejected for the Marines for weak eyesight, immediately joined the Navy, where he served with the Seabees for three years in the South Pacific, where he got the nickname "Dutch", after Tigers pitcher Dut
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1934· 1 entry
The baseball team the Detroit Tigers made it to the World Series, winning the Series in 1935
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-10-11.
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