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Elmore Leonard - June 7, 2004

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WRITERS IN CONVERSATION

Elmore Leonard
Author, Get Shorty, Mr. Paradise and A Coyote’s in the House

In conversation with Barbara Lane, Good Lit Series Director

Celebrated for his humor and masterful dialogue, Elmore Leonard describes how a once obscure, alcoholic writer of Western pulp fiction made the genre-switching turn to crime fiction and became a sober, bestselling author of more than three-dozen movie-inspiring novels. He also provides a primer on Elmore Leonard's Rules of Novel Writing and reads excerpts from his children's book, A Coyote's in the House.

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