Elmore Leonard (1925–2013)
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Elmore John Leonard, Jr. 10/11/25 -- 8/20/13 Elmore John Leonard, Jr., popularly known as mystery and western writer Elmore Leonard, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 11, 1925. He served in the United States Naval Reserve from 1943 to 1946. He received a Ph.D. in English from the toon meer University of Detroit in 1950. After graduating, he wrote short stories and western novels as well as advertising and education film scripts. In 1967, he began to write full-time and received several awards including the 1977 Western Writers of America award and the 1984 Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe award. His other works include Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk, 3:10 to Yuma, and Rum Punch. Many of his works were adapted into movies. Library of America recently announced plans to publish the first of a three-volume collection of his books beginning in the Fall of 2014. Leonard died on August 20, 2013 from complications of a stroke he had earlier. He was 87 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Four Novels of the 1970s: Fifty-Two Pickup / Swag / Unknown Man No. 89 / The Switch (2014) 143 exemplaren
Elmore Leonard: Four Novels of the 1980s: City Primeval / LaBrava / Glitz / Freaky Deaky (Library of America) (2015) 100 exemplaren
Elmore Leonard: Four Later Novels: Get Shorty / Rum Punch / Out of Sight / Tishomingo Blues (The Library of America) (2016) 98 exemplaren
Elmore Leonard: Westerns: Last Stand at Saber River / Hombre / Valdez is Coming / Forty Lashes Less One / Stories (The… (2018) 92 exemplaren
Elmore Leonard's Double Dutch Treat: Three Novels: The Moonshine War, Gold Coast, City Primevil (1986) 49 exemplaren
Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #1: Bounty Hunters; Forty Lashes Less One; Gunsights (1998) 39 exemplaren
Elmore Leonard Raylan Givens 3-Book Collection: Pronto, Riding the Rap, Fire in the Hole (2012) 34 exemplaren
Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #2: Escape from Five Shadows; Last Stand at Saber River; The Law at Randado (1998) 32 exemplaren
Elmore Leonard Classic 3-Book Collection: Get Shorty, Tishomingo Blues, Killshot (2012) 17 exemplaren
Get Shorty: Season 1 2 exemplaren
Spel om annans liv 2 exemplaren
Louly and Pretty Boy 2 exemplaren
Gunfights; book two: Forty lashes less one 1 exemplaar
El Blues del Misisipí 1 exemplaar
Último Posto no Rio Sabre 1 exemplaar
Han kallades Hombre... 1 exemplaar
Os Caçadores de Recompensas 1 exemplaar
Nepoznati br. 89 1 exemplaar
שודדים 1 exemplaar
Duelo Final 1 exemplaar
Fire in the Hole Novella (Raylan 2.5) 1 exemplaar
Um Bom Argumento 1 exemplaar
The Hard Way 1 exemplaar
Fuga de Cinco Sombras 1 exemplaar
D'un coup, d'un seul : roman 1 exemplaar
צייד החתולים 1 exemplaar
Notebooks 1 exemplaar
Elmore Leonard, The Colonel's Lady and No Man's Gun : Unabridged Stories from The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories (1999) 1 exemplaar
Hot Shot 1 exemplaar
Leonard Elmore 1 exemplaar
Three-ten To Yuma [short story] 1 exemplaar
Thriller. Florida- Fieber / Im Schutz des hellichten Tages / Lone Star. Drei ungekürzte Romane. (1997) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
NCTM: "The Odyssey" (in Naked Came the Manatee) 1 exemplaar
The Kid 1 exemplaar
Karen Sisco (Season 1) 1 exemplaar
Line of Sight 1 exemplaar
part didn't care for it Killshot 1 exemplaar
Geen titel 1 exemplaar
Djibouti, The Hot Kid, Be Cool, Touch 1 exemplaar
For Something to Do 1 exemplaar
סחיטה 1 exemplaar
Crianças pagãs 1 exemplaar
Four Novels of the 80s 1 exemplaar
"Romovyi punsh". "Pronto"/ - Detektivnye romaNY 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Leonard, Elmore
- Officiële naam
- Leonard Jr., Elmore John
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Leonard, Elmore John, Jr. (birth name)
- Geboortedatum
- 1925-10-11
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2013-08-20
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- VS
- Geboorteplaats
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- stroke complications
- Woonplaatsen
- Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Bloomfield Village, Michigan, USA - Opleiding
- University of Detroit (BA|1950)
- Beroepen
- copywriter
short-story writer
novelist
screenwriter - Relaties
- Leonard, Peter (zoon)
- Organisaties
- Chevrolet
Campbell-Ewald Advertising Agency
United States Navy (WWII) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Cartier Diamond Dagger 2006
- Agent
- Andrew Wylie (The Wylie Agency)
- Korte biografie
- Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925 – August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. Leonard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana; the family moved frequently for several years. In 1934, the family settled in Detroit.
He graduated from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School in 1943 and joined the Navy. He graduated from the University of Detroit in 1950 with a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy. A year before he graduated, he got a job as a copy writer with Campbell-Ewald Advertising Agency, a position he kept for several years, writing on the side.
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