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Pages in category "Films based on works by Elmore Leonard". The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
- Elmore Leonard Biography
- The Early Life For Leonard
- After High School
- His Early Working Career
- Books Turned to Movies
- His Crime Novels
- Screenplays
- Books Turned Television
- His Personal Life
- The Death of Elmore Leonard
A true sign of a talented writer is the way he can bring simple words to life in a subtle, yet dominant, way. A true sign of a talented crime writer, however, is the way he can paint the scene of the crime in a gripping, suspense filling way. The master of crime novels, Elmore Leonard, was able to achieve that and have worldwide success. If you are...
He was born Elmore John Leonard in 1925. The son of a stay at home mother, and a father who worked at a General Motors branch. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Due to his father’s line of work, he and his family had a tendency to move around a lot. It wasn’t until 1934, when Leonard was nine that the family settled in the city of Detroit. He ...
Immediately after he had graduated from his high school in 1943, Elmore joined the Navy. He served in the South Pacific for three years, and was a part of the Seabees troop. After he got out of the Navy, he enrolled into the college, University of Detroit, where he found his passion for writing. Becoming serious about the writing profession, he fre...
Elmore gained a job as a copy writer in 1950, just before he graduated from college. He worked with the Campbell-Ewald Advertising Agency, and held the position of for several years while he wrote short stories in his spare time. Before he became known as a crime writer, Leonard had several Western short stories published by a few fiction companies...
While Leonard continued to write novels and short stories, five of his Western short stories were turned into major feature films by 1972. These included The Tall T, 3:10 To Yuma, and Hombre, among a few others. Later works of Leonard were turned to well-known feature films, which include Get Shorty, Out Of Sight, and Jackie Brown. All of these mov...
Leonard ended up writing many crime novels. In the span of his long-running career, he had written a total of 48 novels altogether, with more than half of them being crime novels. His crime novels are what skyrocketed his career. Some of his best work being Out Of Sight, Get Shorty, Blitz, Killshot, The Hunted, City Primeval, and Split Images. His ...
In addition to short stories and novels, Elmore also wrote screenplays. However, he only wrote a handful of screenplays from 1970 and up until 1989. Some of these included The Moonshine War, Joe Kidd, and Cat Chaser, which was the last screenplay he had ever written.
Though he was very popular as a novelist and short story writer, and several of his novels had been huge successes as films, he didn’t have that much success with his work being turned into television shows. In fact, they were short lived. His novel, called Maximum Bob, was turned into a television series and aired on NBC. However, it only lasted f...
He got married in 1949 to a woman named Beverly Claire Cline. The couple had five children together. He ended up having 13 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. The couple remained married until 1977 when they divorced. His second marriage was to a woman named Joan Leanne Lancaster, aka Joan Shepard, and they remained married until she died in ...
Elmore suffered a stroke in July of 2013. Though many reported that he was doing fine and recovering at home in Michigan that was not the case. Elmore Leonard died on August 25th, 2013. He was a couple months shy of his 88th birthday. He died from complications of the stroke he suffered from the previous month. Elmore’s legacy lives on, and the mem...
This is the Order of Elmore Leonard Books in both chronological order and publication order. List verified daily and newest books added immediately.
- Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1) Elmore Leonard.
- LaBrava Elmore Leonard.
- Pronto (Raylan Givens, #1) Elmore Leonard.
- 52 Pickup Elmore Leonard.
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