Elmore Leonard

writer: novels, short stories, screenplays
born, New Orleans, 1925
graduated University of Detroit Jesuit High School, 1943
U of Detroit, 1946-1950
ad agency copy writer
2 of his stories filmed in ‘57 as The Tall T & 3:10 to Yuma
westerns phase into crime novels
Swag (1976)
City Primeval (1980)
LaBrava (1983)
Glitz (1985
Bandits (1987)
Freaky Deaky (1988)
Get Shorty (1990)
Rum Punch (1992)
Out of Sight (1996)
Tishomingo Blues (2002)
The Hot Kid (2005)
Up in Honey's Room (2007)