Justified executive producers Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman are returning to the works of Elmore Leonard, optioning three of the late author’s praised Detroit novels as the basis for a new TV ...

Known as “The Dickens of Detroit,” Elmore Leonard, who died 10 years ago at age 87, was a prolific author of short stories and novels. Mostly working in the genres of westerns and crime, more than 30 ...

If he seems relaxed about reprising the role that transformed his career, that’s just an expression of the cool demeanor that helped get him here. By Jeremy Egner This adaptation of an Elmore Leonard ...

“I can’t believe it sometimes. My God, it’s a lot better than what I would have written,” Elmore Leonard said of Justified before an audience of TV critics in 2012. Always modest when discussing his ...

Every writer has cast-offs, chunks of writing that for one reason or another never quite made the cut. Few literary cast-offs are as good as "Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The Unpublished Stories," ...

The great American crime writer Elmore Leonard said he liked to remain invisible to his readers, to allow his taut, spare dialogue to bloom in the imagination. “If it feels like writing, I rewrite it, ...

Elmore Leonard, one of America’s best known crime novelists, died Tuesday morning due to complications from a stroke, according to Leonard’s Facebook page and his longtime researcher at the Detroit ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - As he struggled writing his forthcoming book, "Blue Dreams," best-selling American author Elmore Leonard thought his 47th novel would probably be his last. Then, inspiration came ...

FX's 'Justified' isn't just a big television hit, it's also a standing legacy to author Elmore Leonard, whose unique style changed pop culture for the better. To look at Elmore Leonard's impact on the ...

Very few literary reputations have ever stood higher than Elmore Leonard's did at his death, in 2013. Among his fellow crime novelists he was an acknowledged master, but writers usually unconnected to ...

About 15 years ago, the late crime novelist Elmore Leonard drew up a list of 10 rules for writing. They were characteristically succinct, and included such maxims as “Never open a book with weather” ...

The FX series Justified, which is in its sixth and final season, is based on the novella Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard. Leonard was an executive producer of the series until his death in 2013.