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First Published:
May 2005, 312 pages
Paperback:
Sep 2006, 416 pages
This article relates to The Hot Kid
Elmore
Leonard became interested in
writing in 1935, after reading a
serialization of All Quiet on
the Western Front in the
Detroit Times. Touched by
the story, he wrote a play based
on the novel for his fifth-grade
classroom, using the desks as
"No-Man's-Land." In 1951
Argosy magazine published
his short story "Trail of the
Apache." Other stories—all
westerns—followed. In 1953 he
published his first novel,
The Bounty Hunters, followed
by four more over the next eight
years. Between 1951 and 1961 he
published 30 short stories, five
novels, and made two sales to
the movies.
As the market for westerns began
to dry up, he switched to crime
fiction with the publication of
The Big Bounce.
He is the father of five
children and the grandfather of
nine. He and his wife live in a
suburb of Detroit, Michigan.
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