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The Elmore Leonard Starter KitOne of the coolest things about Elmore Leonard’s crime fiction is that he didn’t get to it until he was close to 50 years old and had been a professional writer for more than 20. His books pared away anything unnecessary with the ruthless good cheer of a steely veteran with little patience for wasti...

How To Handle A Repo: Chapter 1 Of Elmore Leonard's <em>Unknown Man No. 89</em> Elmore Leonard had been writing for 22 years when his agent, the legendary H.N. Swanson, told him to read George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel about the Boston underworld, The Friends of Eddie Coyle. This was in 1972; Leonard was 46. He'd worked in advertising and written westerns—stories and ...

Even Bank Robbers Decide What Tie To Wear: The Essence Of Elmore Leonard Hard to imagine having a cooler job than the one Gregg Sutter had for more than 30 years, when he served as the late Elmore Leonard's researcher. Sutter is the editor of the Library of America's Elmore Leonard anthology, which will be released in three volumes, the first of which was published a f...

The Dickens of Detroit

Oh, goody. Over at Grantland, Michael Weinreb writes about Elmore's Detroit:...

92nd Street Y Interview with Dutch Leonard

Cause we can't get enough Dutch Leonard round these parts here's a treat: a long 1998 interview at the 92nd Street Y. ...

Elmore Leonard Wrote Great Opening Lines. Here Are All Of Them.

Of course I've had Dutch Leonard on the brain since hearing the news that he died yesterday morning. So I called my pal John Schulian and consulted loyal Stacks reader Four Finger Wu, and we assembled a collection of the first lines of Leonard's novels....

"I've Got A Book To Write"

Mike Lupica remembers his friend Elmore Leonard:...

Elmore Leonard's Rules For Writing

The great American writer Elmore Leonard died this morning. He was 87....