Elmore Leonard

    Elmore Leonard

    October 11, 1925 (99 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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