The Great American Western on Page and Screen

Terrence Rafferty: Elmore Leonard’s West is “an idea of the West”

Flashback: When Elmore Leonard, a “rising young writer of Western novels,” debuted (sort of) in The New Yorker

Dark, sexy, funny: What makes Out of Sight the best film version of an Elmore Leonard novel

The career zenith of Elmore Leonard, “the most cinematic novelist in the English language”

Lorenzo Carcaterra: Elmore Leonard “brought his characters close enough to life they could be touched”

Gregg Sutter on Elmore Leonard’s “dialogue-driven crime novels with an emphasis on character”

Elmore Leonard: John Steinbeck “set me free”