Elmore Leonard: Crime Novelist Behind Get Shorty and Justified Dies at 8

Elmore Leonard was an American novelist and screenwriter. Born on October 11, 1925, in New Orleans, he began writing westerns in the 1950s.

He wrote more than 45 novels, including Get Shorty, Rum Punch and Out of Sight, which were adapted into films. His character Raylan Givens inspired the TV series Justified.

He received the National Book Foundation's medal for lifetime achievement in 2012. Leonard died of complications from a stroke in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, on August 20, 2013, at age 87.

Achievements: National Book Foundation Medal (2012).

Birth: October 11, 1925 - New Orleans, Louisiana.

Profession: Novelist.

Interesting Facts: He published his famous ten rules of writing.