His dedication was evident in his work ethic: he would wake in the early hours to spend time writing Westerns before heading in for a day at the Campbell-Ewald Agency. Navy in the mid 1940s, he enrolled in the University of Detroit and studied English and philosophy.ĭespite a busy career as an advertising writer during the 1950s, Leonard started a career writing fiction on the side. Though born in New Orleans, he and his family eventually settled in Detroit in the mid-1930s. The writer, based for decades in Bloomfield Township, Mich., northwest of Detroit, died of complications from a stroke suffered in early August, according to his longtime researcher, Gregg Sutter. at home surrounded by his loving family," according to an update posted Tuesday on his website. Leonard "passed away this morning at 7:15 a.m. Acclaimed American crime novelist Elmore Leonard, whose witty, gritty and undeniably cool stories were turned into Hollywood hits such as Out of Sight, Jackie Brown, Get Shorty and TV's Justified, has died at the age of 87.
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