Bio of elmore leonard

Elmore Leonard became interested in writing in , 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. After graduating in Leonard joined the navy and served with a Seabee unit in the South Pacific.

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He left the service in and enrolled at the University of Detroit. At the university he began writing again, entering short story contests and placing third in one of them. He graduated in with a major in English and philosophy. In , while still in college, Leonard joined the Campbell-Ewald advertising agency. He also began writing in earnest during this period.

He had his first success in when Argosy magazine published his short story "Trail of the Apache. In Leonard published his first novel, The Bounty Hunters , followed by four more over the next eight years. Between and he published 30 short stories, five novels, and made two sales to the movies.