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Author Bibliography
Books by
Elmore Leonard
PAGAN BABIES
BE COOL
THE TONTO WOMAN AND OTHER WESTERN STORIES
CUBA LIBRE
OUT OF SIGHT (Excerpt)
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The undisputed master of American cool, Elmore Leonard parlayed a nomadic childhood and a preoccupation with Bonnie and Clyde into a body of work that includes more than three dozen books and twenty screenplays. Read on as AuthorsOnTheWeb.com brings you all the essential info on this prolific, influential and indisputably hep writer.
Fast Facts
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Three of Leonard's books have been nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Awards: The Switch, Split Images and LaBrava.
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Leonard became interested in writing after reading a newspaper serialization of All Quiet On The Western Front.
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Leonard joined the Navy in 1943 after graduating high school, and served in the South Pacific with a Seabee unit.
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The State of Michigan declared January 16, 1998, "Elmore Leonard Day."
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Leonard bought his mother a small motel in Pompono Beach, Florida in 1969.
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Bio
Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books including Cuba Libre, Rum Punch, and Get Shorty, and numerous screenplays. He has an unparalleled reputation among lovers of mayhem, suspense, and just plain wonderful writing. A Grand Master Award winner of the Mystery Writers of America, he has been likened to everyone from Balzac to Dostoevsky to Dickens to Dashiell Hammett --- but he is, in fact, entirely and entertainingly sui generis. He lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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