Many critics consider Elmore Leonard to be the best living writer of crime fiction in the United States. Since the mid 1980s he has enjoyed enormous commercial success, and his style has influenced a generation of writers. Leonard began his career...

Dubbed "The Dickens of Detroit" by Time magazine in 1984, Elmore Leonard has written more than thirty novels, as well as many short stories and screenplays. He began his writing career in the early 1950s, turning out short stories for western pulp...

Elmore Leonard has been called the greatest living writer of crime fiction. His novels have been compared to the works of the acknowledged masters of the genre, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Critics praise Leonard's uncanny ear for dialogue,...

American author Elmore "Dutch" Leonard is often mentioned in the same class as Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett as a writer whose work exceeds the expectations of suspense novels. However, though Leonard is praised as a master of the...

Elmore John Leonard, Jr. (born October 11, 1925), is a popular American novelist and...

In his 35th novel, Be Cool, Elmore Leonard brings back Chili Palmer, the shady hero of Get Shorty. Writing is hard, says the soft-spoken author, 73, but it's still more fun than work. You've said that when you were writing ad copy for Chevrolet,...

The diluted Elmore Leonard By MARTA SALIJ Knight Ridder Newspapers Sunday, December 29, 2002 When the Women Came Out to Dance. By Elmore Leonard. William Morrow. 240 pages. $24.95 Trying to guess the motivation behind the timing of a book's...

Which work won a 2007 Edgar Allan Poe award for best play? Elementary, my dear reader! It was "Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure," by Steven Dietz.That wasn't the only Edgar award winner with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective in the title. E.J. Wagner's nonfiction...

Today is Thursday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2007. There are 81 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 11, 1776, the naval Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain took place during the American Revolution. American forces led by Gen. Benedict...

In the following essay, Most examines Leonard's use of language and conventions of narrative and plot to illuminate the moral views of his readers.

In the following essay, Sandels surveys Leonard's crime novels and reveals how the author departs from and provides commentary on traditional crime story formulas; Sandels also delineates standard themes and elements of plot and character found in these works.

In the following essay, Wilkinson presents Leonard's researcher, Greg Sutter, and traces Sutter's various experiences while gathering background material for Leonard's works.