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    Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925 – August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published...
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  • a fictional character created by American novelist and screenwriter Elmore Leonard. Givens is a Deputy U.S. Marshal and initially appeared in the novels...
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  • 2010, on the FX network. Developed by Graham Yost, it is based on Elmore Leonard's stories about the character Raylan Givens, particularly "Fire in the...
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  • series continues the story from Justified taking inspiration from the Elmore Leonard novel City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit and short story "Fire in the...
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  • Stick (film) (category Films based on works by Elmore Leonard)
    Stick is a 1985 American crime film based on Elmore Leonard's 1983 novel, and starring and directed by Burt Reynolds. Ernest "Stick" Stickley, a former...
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    novelist Elmore Leonard, appearing in his short story "Fire in the Hole" (2001) and the novels Pronto (1993) and Riding the Rap (1995). Leonard was an executive...
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  • television by Graham Yost, based on a series of novels and short stories by Elmore Leonard, and stars Timothy Olyphant as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. The...
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    directorial debut with an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Mr. Paradise, making her the first woman to direct a Leonard adaptation. Birch was born in Los...
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  • Out of Sight (novel) (category Novels by Elmore Leonard)
    Out of Sight is a 1996 crime fiction novel by Elmore Leonard. Jack Foley, a "gentleman bank robber," arranges a break-out from a Florida jail. The plan...
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  • Mr. Majestyk (category Films based on works by Elmore Leonard)
    Elmore Leonard. Charles Bronson stars as the title character, a melon farmer and Vietnam War veteran who comes into conflict with gangsters. Leonard,...
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  • Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News. He was included as a character in the Elmore Leonard novel Be Cool. In retirement, he wrote book reviews for the Times and...
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  • City Primeval (category Novels by Elmore Leonard)
    City Primeval is a crime novel written by Elmore Leonard. A limited television series adaptation of the novel, Justified: City Primeval, was ordered by...
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  • Rum Punch (category Novels by Elmore Leonard)
    Rum Punch is a 1992 novel written by Elmore Leonard. The novel was adapted into the film Jackie Brown (1997) by director Quentin Tarantino. The characters...
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  • La Brava (novel) (category Novels by Elmore Leonard)
    LaBrava, the 1983 novel by author Elmore Leonard, follows the story of Joe LaBrava, former Secret Service agent. This novel won the 1984 Edgar Award for...
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  • Out of Sight (category Films based on works by Elmore Leonard)
    directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Frank, adapted from Elmore Leonard's 1996 novel of the same name. The first of several collaborations between...
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  • Three-Ten to Yuma (category Short stories by Elmore Leonard)
    "Three-Ten to Yuma" is a short story written by Elmore Leonard that was first published in Dime Western Magazine, a 1950s pulp magazine, in March 1953...
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  • Carla Gugino in the title role. The series was created by novelist Elmore Leonard, based on a character who had appeared in several of his written works...
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  • TV film series Desperado, whose original screenplay was written by Elmore Leonard. He was nominated for Gemini Awards for Best Performance by an Actor...
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  • Jackie Brown (category Films based on works by Elmore Leonard)
    directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on the 1992 novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard. It stars Pam Grier as Jackie Brown, a flight attendant who smuggles...
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    and starring Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, and Vanity. It is based on Elmore Leonard's 1974 novel of the same name, and is the second adaptation of it after...
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  • Get Shorty (film) (category Films based on works by Elmore Leonard)
    directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Scott Frank, based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name. The film stars John Travolta, Gene Hackman...
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  • the official language of Djibouti Djibouti (novel) (2010), novel by Elmore Leonard Djibouti (film), a 2021 Indian Malayalam-language film Afar (disambiguation)...
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  • Peter Leonard, the son of author Elmore Leonard, is an American author of crime novels. In 1980, Peter was the founding partner of the advertising agency...
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  • consisting of 13 episodes. The series was developed by Graham Yost based on Elmore Leonard's novels Pronto and Riding the Rap and his short story "Fire in the Hole"...
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  • Riding the Rap (category Novels by Elmore Leonard)
    Riding the Rap is a 1995 crime fiction novel by Elmore Leonard. It is the sequel to Leonard's Pronto, released in 1993. Like Pronto, Riding the Rap centers...
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  • Leonard, anonymous Dutch sculptor, painter, guerrilla artist Elijah Leonard, Canadian politician Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, American professor Elmore Leonard...
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    'Soaking'". Decider. Rausch, Andrew J. (May 6, 2022). Perspectives on Elmore Leonard: Conversations with Authors, Experts and Collaborators. McFarland &...
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  • Life of Crime (film) (category Films based on works by Elmore Leonard)
    comedy crime film written and directed by Daniel Schechter, based on Elmore Leonard's novel The Switch (1978), which includes characters later revisited...
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  • directed by Megan Elizabeth Freels Johnston, granddaughter of crime writer Elmore Leonard, and starring Deanna Russo, John Redlinger, Emil Johnsen, Hilary Barraford...
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  • The Moonshine War (category Films based on works by Elmore Leonard)
    directed by Richard Quine, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It stars Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda, and Will Geer...
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