US novelist and screenwriter Elmore Leonard at his Olympia SG3 typewriter, with wife Christine Kent, in Detroit, 1992
ETCetera editor Alan Seaver yesterday drew my attention to the death of Elmore Leonard. I was deeply saddened to hear this, as I am a greater admirer of Leonard's writing.Martin Amis told Leonard at a Writers' Guild event in Beverly Hills in 1978, "Your prose makes Raymond Chandler look clumsy." Who would argue?
Elmore John Leonard Jr was born in New Orleans on October 11, 1925. He died on Tuesday, aged 87, at his home in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. He had suffered a stroke on July 29.
