Elmore Leonard (1925–2013)
Autor/a de Get Shorty
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Elmore Leonard
Four Novels of the 1970s: Fifty-Two Pickup / Swag / Unknown Man No. 89 / The Switch (2014) 143 exemplars
Elmore Leonard: Four Novels of the 1980s: City Primeval / LaBrava / Glitz / Freaky Deaky (Library of America) (2015) 100 exemplars
Elmore Leonard: Four Later Novels: Get Shorty / Rum Punch / Out of Sight / Tishomingo Blues (The Library of America) (2016) 98 exemplars
Elmore Leonard: Westerns: Last Stand at Saber River / Hombre / Valdez is Coming / Forty Lashes Less One / Stories (The… (2018) 92 exemplars
Elmore Leonard's Double Dutch Treat: Three Novels: The Moonshine War, Gold Coast, City Primevil (1986) 49 exemplars
Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #1: Bounty Hunters; Forty Lashes Less One; Gunsights (1998) 39 exemplars
Elmore Leonard Raylan Givens 3-Book Collection: Pronto, Riding the Rap, Fire in the Hole (2012) 34 exemplars
Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #2: Escape from Five Shadows; Last Stand at Saber River; The Law at Randado (1998) 32 exemplars
Elmore Leonard Classic 3-Book Collection: Get Shorty, Tishomingo Blues, Killshot (2012) 17 exemplars
Get Shorty: Season 1 2 exemplars
Spel om annans liv 2 exemplars
Louly and Pretty Boy 2 exemplars
Gunfights; book two: Forty lashes less one 1 exemplars
El Blues del Misisipí 1 exemplars
Último Posto no Rio Sabre 1 exemplars
Han kallades Hombre... 1 exemplars
Os Caçadores de Recompensas 1 exemplars
Nepoznati br. 89 1 exemplars
שודדים 1 exemplars
Duelo Final 1 exemplars
Fire in the Hole Novella (Raylan 2.5) 1 exemplars
Um Bom Argumento 1 exemplars
The Hard Way 1 exemplars
Fuga de Cinco Sombras 1 exemplars
D'un coup, d'un seul : roman 1 exemplars
צייד החתולים 1 exemplars
Notebooks 1 exemplars
Elmore Leonard, The Colonel's Lady and No Man's Gun : Unabridged Stories from The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories (1999) 1 exemplars
Hot Shot 1 exemplars
Leonard Elmore 1 exemplars
Three-ten To Yuma [short story] 1 exemplars
Thriller. Florida- Fieber / Im Schutz des hellichten Tages / Lone Star. Drei ungekürzte Romane. (1997) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
NCTM: "The Odyssey" (in Naked Came the Manatee) 1 exemplars
The Kid 1 exemplars
Karen Sisco (Season 1) 1 exemplars
Line of Sight 1 exemplars
part didn't care for it Killshot 1 exemplars
Sense títol 1 exemplars
Djibouti, The Hot Kid, Be Cool, Touch 1 exemplars
For Something to Do 1 exemplars
סחיטה 1 exemplars
Crianças pagãs 1 exemplars
Four Novels of the 80s 1 exemplars
"Romovyi punsh". "Pronto"/ - Detektivnye romaNY 1 exemplars
Obres associades
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Col·laborador — 451 exemplars
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Col·laborador — 186 exemplars
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Col·laborador — 72 exemplars
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
Time-Life Book Digest: Get Shorty | Four Past Midnight | Wings of the Morning | The Langoliers (1990) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years (2014) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Best of the West 2: Stories That Inspired Classic Western Films (1990) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Leonard, Elmore
- Nom oficial
- Leonard Jr., Elmore John
- Altres noms
- Leonard, Elmore John, Jr. (birth name)
- Data de naixement
- 1925-10-11
- Data de defunció
- 2013-08-20
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- VS
- Lloc de naixement
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
- Causa de la mort
- stroke complications
- Llocs de residència
- Birmingham, Michigan, USA
Bloomfield Village, Michigan, USA - Educació
- University of Detroit (BA|1950)
- Professions
- copywriter
short-story writer
novelist
screenwriter - Relacions
- Leonard, Peter (zoon)
- Organitzacions
- Chevrolet
Campbell-Ewald Advertising Agency
United States Navy (WWII) - Premis i honors
- Cartier Diamond Dagger 2006
- Agent
- Andrew Wylie (The Wylie Agency)
- Biografia breu
- 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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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 155
- També de
- 34
- Membres
- 36,380
- Popularitat
- #507
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 850
- ISBN
- 1,591
- Llengües
- 25
- Preferit
- 121