![]() Leonard started out writing Westerns in the 1950s and ’60s, but when the market for cowboy dramas began to collapse, he switched to the contemporary crime novel and rarely looked back. Martin Amis described him as “a literary genius,” and “the nearest America has to a national writer.” Many critics argued that, if anything, the reference to genre slighted his contributions. ![]() ![]() By most appraisals, he had long since dethroned Raymond Chandler as the greatest of American crime writers. When Elmore Leonard died in August at age 87, he left behind more than 40 novels, a number of short stories, and one ongoing television show, Justified, which begins its fifth season in January. ![]()
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