21. Salon Brilliant Careers | Elmore Leonard The world s coolest crime writer has an uncanny ear for wry dialogue and a deep belief in lives with second acts. http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/1999/09/28/leonard/

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22. WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy On The Adverbs, Exclamation Points And Especially Hoopt By elmore leonard. Published July 16, 2001. These are rules I ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I m writing a book, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE3DD103BF935A25754C0A9679C8B6

23. Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules Of Good Writing | Csmonitor.com Leave out adverbs, skip description, and keep the writer out of sight. http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0115/p16s01-bogn.html

Special Offer: Subscribe to the Monitor and get 32 issues FREE! World USA Commentary ... Multimedia Search: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Good Writing Leave out adverbs, skip description, and keep the writer out of sight. By Elizabeth A. Brown from the January 15, 2008 edition E-mail Print Letter to the Editor Republish ... digg This feature requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player and javascript-enabled browser. Monitor Book Editor Kendra Nordin talks with author Elmore Leonard about his new book, '10 Rules of Writing'. When my teenage son picked up Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Good Writing , it fell open to Rule 3: "Never use a verb other than 'said' to carry dialogue." "I wish my teachers could read this," my son said. "They tell us not to use 'said.' They think other words make us sound better, like we have a bigger vocabulary." Which is precisely Elmore Leonard's point: Good writing is not about the writer (and the way he sounds or the size of her vocabulary), but about the story. The writer must remain invisible. Leonard explains Rule 3: "The line of dialogue belongs to the character. The verb is the writer sticking his nose in… '[S]aid' is far less intrusive than 'grumbled,' 'gasped,' or 'cautioned.'"

24. 10 Questions For Elmore Leonard - TIME His hardboiled novels (Get Shorty, Rum Punch and his latest, The Hot Kid) are beloved by readers and Hollywood alike 17 of his 40 books have been made http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1071265,00.html

var s_account="timecom"; Time.com CNN.com Search Archive Home U.S. The Page Main ... Pictures of the Week 10 Questions for Elmore Leonard Sunday, Jun. 12, 2005 By PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT Article Tools Print Email Reprints Sphere addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; addthis_pub = 'timecom'; RSS His hard-boiled novels (Get Shorty, Rum Punch and his latest, The Hot Kid) are beloved by readers and Hollywood alike: 17 of his 40 books have been made into movies. Even at 79, Elmore Leonard is back at his desk every morning, scrawling in longhandno computers, pleasehis daily quota of pitch-perfect dialogue. He spoke to TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt from his home outside Detroit. Related Articles Sphere.Inline.search('sphereSideBar','http://time.com/') tiiQuigoWriteAd(755769, 1290761, 180, 200, -1); HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE CALLED THE GREATEST LIVING WRITER OF CRIME FICTION BY THE NEW YORK TIMES? I don't know what that means. There are any number of people who write better in a conventional sort of way. To tell you the truth, I don't read much in my field. I didn't learn anything from Raymond Chandler or the other guy, Dashiell Hammett. I've never done that first-person private-eye thing. WHAT ARE YOU READING NOW?

25. Q&A With Novelist Elmore Leonard - US News And World Report Advice from a master at page turners Keep it simple. http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2007/10/22/a-qa-with-novelist-elmore-leonard

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26. Elmore Leonard Wins The CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger 2006 The Crime Writers’ Association has awarded its Cartier Diamond Dagger for 2006 to the highly respected American novelist, elmore leonard. http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2006/cartier.html

Daggers 2006 Overview Duncan Lawrie International Non-Fiction ... Fish Knife Other years Overview Elsewhere Front page Site map The CWA CARTIER DIAMOND DAGGER 2006 Elmore Leonard Elmore Leonard already holds the title of Grand Master from the Mystery Writers of America. He has been dubbed 'a literary genius' by The Times and described as 'the greatest crime writer of our time' by The New York Times . Many of his novels have been made into films, including Valdez is Coming Get Shorty Out of Sight , and Rum Punch Jackie Brown After wartime service in the Navy, Elmore Leonard began his creative career as an advertising copywriter, then started writing western stories for pulp magazines in the 1950s, to great success. He followed these with novels such as The Bounty Hunters (1953) and screenplays such as Three Ten To Yuma Elmore Leonard turned to crime fiction in the 1960s and his stature has continued to grow in the following decades, with more than three dozen successful novels to his name. The latest of these, The Hot Kid , will be published in Phoenix paperback in May 2006, alongside his new hardback, The Complete Western Stories The presentation was made by Monsieur Arnaud Bamberger of Cartier, and took place at a reception at the Savoy Hotel.

27. NOVELIST HAS 'BLUES' OVER FILM Yari has dropped the screen adaptation of elmore leonard s acclaimed crime caper Tishomingo Blues, which was to have been the longawaited directorial http://www.nypost.com/seven/01042007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm

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28. Elmore Leonard: High Priest Of Low-life America | By Genre | Guardian Unlimited elmore leonard is Detroit s original white rapper; he s been talking the talk for 50 years. He lives some way beyond Eminem s 8 Mile, in a suburban http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/crime/story/0,6000,882253,00.html

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30. Elmore Leonard Biography (Writer) — Infoplease.com Biography of elmore leonard, Author of Get Shorty. http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/elmoreleonard.html

Site Map FAQ in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Spelling Checker Daily Almanac for Jan 27, 2008 Search White Pages Skip Navigation Home Almanacs ... Word of the Day Editor's Favorites 2007 Year in Review Black History Month Leap Year Martin Luther King Day ... 2008 Calendar Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips Elmore Leonard Writer Born: 11 October 1925 Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana Best known as: Author of Get Shorty Elmore Leonard has been a top-selling writer since the mid-1980s, the author of more than three dozen crime and western novels famous for their crackling dialogue and dark humor. Leonard had a career in advertising when he began writing westerns in the 1950s. The success of the movie version of his novel Hombre allowed him to write novels full-time and he turned to writing fast-paced crime stories in the late 1960s. In the 1970s he began getting noticed by reviewers and critics, and by the mid-1980s he was a consistently bankable author. His stories often revolve around the misadventures of amiable-but-crooked protagonists and lowlifes, characters who are thieves, hustlers, prostitutes and loan sharks. His novels include Glitz Freaky Deaky (1988) and Tishomingo Blues (2002). Films made from his novels include:

31. Elmore Leonard: A Who2 Profile elmore leonard has been a topselling writer since the mid-1980s, the author of more than three dozen crime and western novels famous for their crackling http://www.who2.com/elmoreleonard.html

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32. Leonard Part 41 :: Arts :: Philadelphia City Paper :: Philadelphia Arts, Restaur NET EXCLUSIVE Talking with elmore leonard on the release of his 41st(! . elmore leonard reads Thu., May 10, 7 p.m. Free Library of Philadelphia Central http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/05/10/qa-with-elmore-leonard

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33. Elmore Leonard Remake of 1969 flick which starred Ryan O Neal, based on elmore leonard s first crime novel. Reimagined as a romantic comedy, and now set on the exotic http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/leonard.html

Authors and Creators Elmore Leonard ". . . I don't think of them as bad guys. I just think of them as, for the most part, normal people who get up in the morning and they wonder what they're going to have for breakfast, and they sneeze, and they wonder if they should call their mother, and then they rob a bank. Because that's the way they are. . . ." Elmore Leonard on his characters. Not a private eye writer, per se, but many of Leonard protagonists fulfill most of the requirements, being loners trying to follow what they feel is a code of honour, be they bail bondsman, bounty hunters, airline stewardesses, or car thieves. Sure, Jack Ryan , a thief who shows up in in three books, and becomes a process server in the last, Unknown Man No. 89 , is a PI of sorts, and and for several of the others, a case could be made for their status as private eyes, at least as defined on this site. But, with stuff this good, who cares? Leonard's one of those guys who wrote and wrote and wrote, for years and years and years, only to become an overnight success in the 1980's. He started way back in the early fifties, originally writing westerns, short stories at first and eventually novels, starting with The Bounty Hunters in 1953. After several years as a successful western writer, and several notable ssales to Hollywood (especially

34. Mr. Paradise By Elmore Leonard Roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and their downtown Detroit loft just fine. Kelly is a Victoria s Secret catalog model. http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/currentreviews/fr/mrparadise.htm

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35. BFI | Features | NFT Interviews | Elmore Leonard And whilst you re just doing that I d like you to give a very, very warm welcome because it s fantastic that we have elmore leonard over here for the first http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/interviews/leonard.html

Skip to main content Features Global navigation See Films Shop for Films ... advanced search Crumbtrail Home Features Interviews Primary navigation Interviews bfi Links NFT audio collections Other Library audio collections External links Guardian website Elmore Leonard To celebrate the release of his complete collection of Western stories, we were thrilled to welcome to the NFT one of the world's most acclaimed and influential writers, Elmore Leonard, to discuss his extraordinary career. Elmore Leonard was interviewed at the NFT on 9 May 2006 by Adrian Wootton. Interview © Elmore Leonard and the BFI 2005 Adrian Wootton: It's a great pleasure to welcome our very special guest this evening. Just the format - very obviously - we're going to show you 3:10 to Yuma . There's literally going to be a five-minute break while we do a little bit of stage set-up, so you've just got time then to pop out to the loo and then come back when we're going to have an onstage interview with Elmore Leonard, our special guest of honour. He'll be talking to me for a little while, then I'll open it up to you to ask questions. My only other bit of housekeeping is that if you have a mobile phone, please switch it off now. And whilst you're just doing that I'd like you to give a very, very warm welcome because it's fantastic that we have Elmore Leonard over here for the first time in nine years. The last time he was here I interviewed him in 1997. It's fantastic he's come back to the National Film Theatre and effectively you've got a bit of double-Dutch tonight, because not only is he going to do the interview but he's also very kindly agreed to introduce

36. Leonard, Elmore - Mystery Net Community Discuss leonard, elmore at Mystery Net Community. Mystery Net Community Discuss online mysteries, games, books, and socialize. http://discuss.mysterynet.com/scripts/discuss/community/books/authors/list-jkl/E

@import url("http://www.MysteryNet.com/includes/styles/mysterynet.css"); Mystery Net Discussions Hundreds of discussions about everything mystery! Search all discussions: Social Lounge Community Games Teasers by Members Post-n-Go ... True Crime Buy through our affiliates: Mystery Guild Book Club Buy Books Buy Games Using Discussion Registering Why Register? Register Now Take Tour (For Members) Edit Profile Marked Topics Mystery Net Community List of Authors ... List of Authors J - L Leonard, Elmore Elmore Leonard Books Find Books by: MysteryBookstore.com , in association with Amazon.com, offers books picks by this author and many more. Elmore Leonard began his writing career with The Bounty Hunters , a western. He had success as a writer of westerns until the market for westerns began to dry up. Leonard found himself writing educational films for Encyclopaedia Britannica, industrial films for corporations and advertising and sales material. Then he switched from westerns to crime with the publication of The Big Bounce (1969) and his luck changed. During the 1970s and 1980s Leonard developed a devoted following with his novels

37. Elmore Leonard Interviews With Don Swaim Listen to the elmore leonard interviews with Don Swaim in Real Audio on Wired for Books. http://wiredforbooks.org/elmoreleonard/

Wired For Books home Don Swaim Interviews Audio Interviews with Elmore Leonard In this 1987 interview with Don Swaim, Elmore Leonard discusses his book Touch , which he had written ten years previously but his publishers did not want to publish it thinking it would be very hard to market. Don and Elmore also discuss how writers are rejected by publishers many times and should expect rejections but be persistent in order to get published. Listen to the Elmore Leonard interview with Don Swaim, 1987 (23 min. 03 sec.) Elmore Leonard, author of Rum Punch, Bandits, Hombre, Get Shorty, Maximum Bob, Freaky Deaky and Killshot , talks with Don Swaim in this 1985 interview. The pair discuss Leonard's re-release of his book Dutch Treat , which coincidently was Leonard's nickname while growing up. They also discuss some of his other publications, how he goes about his research and why he quit drinking heavily. Listen to the Elmore Leonard interview with Don Swaim, 1985

38. Elmore Leonard News - The New York Times News about elmore leonard. Commentary and archival information about elmore leonard from The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/elmore_leonard/inde

@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/topic/screen/200704/topic.css); Get Home Delivery Log In Register Now Home Page ... Times Topics Sunday, January 27, 2008 Times Topics World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... L > Leonard, Elmore E-MAIL Save Elmore Leonard News about Elmore Leonard, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. ARTICLES Newest First Oldest First Page: By A. O. SCOTT September 7, 2007 By TERRENCE RAFFERTY September 2, 2007 Where the Beach Books Are By JANET MASLIN June 1, 2007 Inside the List By DWIGHT GARNER May 27, 2007 Newly Released By AMY VIRSHUP May 17, 2007 Leaving Out What Will Be Skipped By DAVID CARR May 12, 2005 By CHARLES MCGRATH Elmore Leonard, who is now pushing 80, uncharacteristically reflects on the nature of his own vocation in his new novel. May 8, 2005 Robbers, Coppers and Lucky Strikes By JANET MASLIN May 2, 2005 Bookshelf July 11, 2004 Lustful Royalty, Joking Coyotes and Other Beach Buddies By JANET MASLIN Bons mots and bonbons, all suited for basking, from Elmore Leonard, Robert B. Parker, Olivia Goldsmith, Helen Fielding and others. June 18, 2004

39. New York State Writers Institute - Elmore Leonard, Fiction Into Film elmore leonard, novelist and screenwriter, has received widespread critical acclaim for his crime fiction. He became interested in writing in 1935, http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/leonardelmore.html

The Writer PBS Series Channel 17 Sunday at 2:00 p.m. September 9, 2001 E LMORE L EONARD ELMORE LEONARD , novelist and screenwriter, has received wide-spread critical acclaim for his crime fiction. He became interested in writing in 1935, after reading a serialization of All Quiet on the Western Front in the Detroit Times . Touched by the story, he wrote a play based on the novel for his fifth-grade classroom, using the desks as "No-Man's Land." In high school he wrote a story or two for the school paper but spent most of his time reading. After graduating in 1943 Leonard joined the navy and served with a Seabee unit in the South Pacific. He left the service in 1946 and enrolled at the University of Detroit, where he began to write again, entering short story contests and placing third in one of them. Argosy magazine published his short story Trail of the Apache . Other storiesall westernsfollowed in such publications as Zane Grey Western and The Saturday Evening Post The Bounty Hunters . Over the next eight years he published 30 short stories and four more novels. When his novel Hombre (1961) was chosen as one of the best westerns of all time by the Western Writers of American in 1961, Leonard finally felt confident enough to quit the advertising agency and devote all of his time to writing. The market for westerns began to dry up, however, and Leonard found himself writing educational films for Encyclopaedia Britannica, industrial films for corporations and advertising and sales materials.

40. Elmore Leonard On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online There are 51 conversations about elmore leonard s books. Member ratings. Average (3.53) Disambiguation notice. Users with books by elmore leonard http://www.librarything.com/author/leonardelmore

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: Elmore Leonard Also known as: Leonard Elmore L©onard Elmore E. Leonard elmore leonards Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Elmore Leonard combine/separate works Get Shorty 553 copies, 3 reviews Be cool 369 copies, 2 reviews Out of sight 308 copies, 1 review Rum punch 295 copies, 2 reviews Maximum Bob 280 copies, 4 reviews Tishomingo blues 271 copies, 2 reviews Freaky Deaky 245 copies, 1 review Pagan babies 241 copies, 2 reviews Cuba libre 236 copies, 3 reviews Glitz 234 copies, 2 reviews Killshot 231 copies, 1 review The hot kid : a novel 208 copies, 6 reviews Mr. Paradise 203 copies, 5 reviews Elmore Leonard's Bandits 191 copies, 1 review Pronto 171 copies, 2 reviews see all 67 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars 5 stars Common Knowledge Share what you know. view history You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data. For more help see the Common Knowledge help page Canonical name Gender male Date of birth Date of death Burial location Nationality Places of residence New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (birth)

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