Elmore Leonard
Noun
Meaning
United States writer of thrillers (born in 1925)
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Examples
And there are great crime writers who I’ve read more than once authors like Raymond Chandler, Elmore Leonard, James Crumley, and Charles Willeford.
Chris Well’s laugh–out–loud Christian thrillers appeal to the millions of readers who gobble up the rollicking crime fiction of Janet Evanovich and Elmore Leonard.
Burke’s voice and writing style are indebted to Elmore Leonard, as are the characters, but Leonard never plotted so intricately.
I also have a fair amount of novels by Ed McBain, Nelson DeMille, Ross Macdonald, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, James Lee Burke, Michael Connelly, and Elmore Leonard.
I didn't really expect them to know Elmore Leonard, but shouldn't they have recognized Hemingway?
Most amusing was his reference to the fact that both Harvey and Elmore Leonard, last year’s winner, had begun their careers penning westerns.