Elmore John Leonard, Jr. (born October 11, 1925), is a popular American novelist and screenwriter.
Currently resides in suburban Oakland County, Michigan. Many of his novels are set in Detroit and the surrounding suburbs.
Secretly wrote his earliest novels while working at an advertising agency. He kept paper in a desk drawer and wrote with his arm stuck in the drawer. When somebody came by his desk, he closed the drawer. He took his writings home every night and rewrote them.
Refuses to use a word prosessor. He writes all his first drafts in longhand, then rewrites on a typewriter.
Appeared in American Express print ads in the late 1980s. The photo, by Annie Leibovitz, appears on the back of the hardcover version of "Freaky Deaky."
In nearly every film made from his books, there is a scene where at least one person gets locked in the trunk of a car.
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 307-315. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
