Elmore Leonard was a tremendously prolific author, whose long publishing career influenced more writers than we can count. We asked a few of Los Angeles’ favorite writers to share their memories of ...

The son of author Elmore Leonard, who died last week at age 87, said he plans to finish his father's final book and publish it posthumously. "I would, I think so," Peter Leonard told the BBC when ...

His interest in literature began in fifth grade Leonard created the character U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in the FX series %27Justified%27 He wrote more than 40 novels ...

Every writer has cast-offs, chunks of writing that for one reason or another never quite made the cut. Few literary cast-offs are as good as "Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The Unpublished Stories," ...

Author Elmore Leonard works on a manuscript at his home in Bloomfield Township, Mich. The author’s writing process begins with him writing long-hand on lined yellow paper. He then types up his work ...

I never wanted to be Raymond Chandler. I wanted to be Philip Marlowe. I never wanted to be Ross Macdonald. I wanted to be Lew Archer. Elmore Leonard was the only author I ever wanted to be. Leonard ...

Elmore Leonard – the award-winning mystery writer whose snappy dialogue, misfit characters and laconic sense of humor produced such popular works as “Get Shorty,” “Hombre,” “Fifty-Two Pickup” and “Out ...

You can't write 41 books and not learn a few things. Check out "Ten Rules of Writing" by Elmore Leonard, to be published this fall. Our fave? "If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." A Certified ...

Author Elmore Leonard works on a manuscript at his home in Bloomfield Township, Mich., in 2010. Leonard, a former adman who later in life became one of America's foremost crime writers, has died. He ...

Author Elmore Leonard poses during a portrait session prior to a reading and signing of his latest novel “Up In Honey’s Room” on May 24, 2007 at Book Soup in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Vince ...

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Fans of Elmore Leonard were among those Thursday who browsed books, furnishings and other contents during an estate sale at the late author's suburban Detroit home.

Very few literary reputations have ever stood higher than Elmore Leonard's did at his death, in 2013. Among his fellow crime novelists he was an acknowledged master, but writers usually unconnected to ...