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 Few literary cast-offs are as good as "Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The Unpublished Stories," ...

Crime writer Elmore Leonard died Tuesday at his home in Bloomfield Township, Mich. He was 87. Leonard had movies, television shows and 45 novels, many of them best sellers, to his credit. Among his ...

Twelve years after his death in 2013, Michigan’s own Elmore Leonard has a current book for sale. Dubbed the lost novella, Picket Line conjures up the literature of labor strife reminiscent of John ...

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 ...

DETROIT (AP) - Elmore Leonard, the beloved crime novelist whose acclaimed best-sellers and the movies made from them chronicled the violent deaths of many a thug and conman, has died. He was 87.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- I can’t remember which Elmore Leonard book I read first, but I do recall the rapture that accompanied that experience. It was like eating ice cream for the first time or getting ...

You can't write 41 books and not learn a few things. Check out "Ten Rules of Writing" by Elmore Leonard, to be published this fall. Our fave? "If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it." A Certified ...

Elmore Leonard has been at work for 62 years, and he's not done yet. "I've written at least 45 books, and I'm going to write at least two more," the author said to a recent audience at Meadow Brook ...

Library of America is performing a stellar service to the legions of readers who admire the crime-thriller writer Elmore Leonard (and include me in those ranks). At hand is the second volume of a ...

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 ...