RIP: Elmore Leonard ("Get Shorty"; "3:10 To Yuma")

[erik]

The literary world lost a giant today, as legendary novelist Elmore Leonard passed away at 87. His vast array of novels was mainly in the crime genre, but he also ventured into Westerns with 3:10 To Yuma and Hombre. More details at the link below:

www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/books/elmore-leonard-master-of-crime-fiction-dies-at-87.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[egoodstein]

I didn't realize he was that old! Def. a distinctive writer with a lot
of memorable books and characters. & I'd forgotten he wrote those
two impressive Westerns.

[erik]

Quote by egoodstein:

I didn't realize he was that old! Def. a distinctive writer with a lot of memorable books and characters. & I'd forgotten he wrote those two impressive Westerns.

Yes, and they were both made into movies--3:10 TO YUMA twice, in 1957 and 2007; and HOMBRE in 1967 with Paul Newman.