Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) was an American novelist celebrated for spare, dialogue-driven crime fiction, moving from Westerns early in his career to the crime and thriller novels that made his name -- Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Rum Punch (filmed as Jackie Brown), and many others, several adapted for film and television including the series Justified. He received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In this catalogue he appears only as one of thirteen contributors to Naked Came the Manatee (1996), a round-robin novel serialized in the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, with each chapter written by a different South Florida crime writer, including Edna Buchanan, Carl Hiaasen, and Dave Barry -- a novelty project reflecting the tight-knit Miami crime-writing scene of the era rather than his solo body of work, which sits outside this catalogue's scope.