<p> ELMORE LEONARD</p><p>  Unknown Man #89 (1977)  Westeryear: Stories About the West, Past and Present (1988)   Hard-Boiled: An Anthology  Switch, the (1978) of American Crime Stories  City Primeval: High Noon in (1995) Detroit (1980)  Murder for Love (1996)  Split Images (1981)  Pulp Friction (1996)  Cat Chaser (1982)  Best American Mystery  La Brava (1983) Stories 1997, the (1997)  Glitz (1985)  Fatal Frontier, the (1997)  Bandits (1987)  50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, the (1998)  Touch (1987)  Freaky Deaky (1988)  Murderer's Row (2001)  Killshot (1989)  McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales  Get Shorty (1990) (2003)  Rum Punch (1992)  Dangerous Women (2005)  Pronto (1993) Novels:  Out of Sight (1996)  Bounty Hunters, the (1953)  Cuba Libre (1998)  Escape From Five Shadows  Be Cool (1999) (1956)  Pagan Babies (2000)  Big Bounce, the (1969)  Tishomingo Blues (2002)  Mr. Majestyk (1974)  Coyote's in the House, a  52 Pickup (1974) (2004)  Mr. Paradise (2004) difficult for him, and he was forced to find freelance work in advertising and writing  Hot Kid, the (2005) short documentaries for Encyclopedia  Up in Honey's Room (2007) Britannica Films. In 1966, Leonard published his first crime  Djibouti (2010) novel, The Big Bounce. He also started to work in Hollywood, adapting his own work for film, and used the proceeds to finance his writing career. In the early 70's, he had reached a state of financial security that allowed him to concentrate on writing. His works soon reached a cult status and received critical acclaim, but it wasn't until 1984 that he made his real breakthrough with La Brava, followed by the best-seller Glitz. Elmore Leonard was born in 1925, New Orleans, but lived in Dallas, Oklahoma Since then, Leonard has kept up a steady City and Memphis before settling in pace of about a book a year, with no signs Detroit in 1934. He graduated from high of slowing down. Many of his works have school in 1944, joined the Seabees and been filmed, most notably Get Shorty, was stationed in the Admiralty Islands, but Jackie Brown and Out of Sight. saw no combat. When the war ended, he Leonard lived in Bloomfield Township, went to college in the University of Michigan, with his wife. Detroit, where he started to think about Leonard died 20th August 2013. becoming a writer. After college, he got married and took a job at an advertising agency, first as a copy boy and later as a copy writer. However, his real goal was to become a fiction writer, and since westerns interested him and there was, at the time, a demand for them, he started writing them. Trail of the Apache, his first published story, came out in December, 1951, in the pages of Argosy Magazine. During the next decade, he produced thirty pulp westerns stories and five complete western novels in addition to his advertising work. However, by 1961 the western market dried up as televised westerns gained popularity, and Leonard was forced to seek new directions. He quit his job and decided to start writing full time. However, a wife and five children made it </p>