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Elmore Leonard was born in 1925 in New Orleans. He lived in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Memphis before his family settled in Detroit in 1935. He served in the US Navy during the Second World War and afterwards studied English literature at the University of Detroit, graduating in 1950. From 1949 to 1961 he worked as a copywriter in various advertising agencies and, apart from a few book reviews, he has been writing only novels and screenplays since 1967. Many of his novels have been filmed, notably GetShorty, Rum Punch (as the movie Jackie Brown), Touch and Out of Sight. LaBrava won the 1984 Edgár Allan Poe Award for the best mystery növel and in 1992 Elmore Leonard was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. He is a member of the Authors' Guild, the Writers' Guild of America, Western Writers of America and Mystery Writers of America. Elmore Leonard is the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger 2006. Visit his website at www.elmoreleonard.com