Elmore Leonard, a legendary crime novelist and screenwriter who wielded sharp prose and created quirky misfit characters to captivate a legion of readers, has died, his literary agent said today.
The 87-year-old writer, who had been recovering from a stroke, wrote novels in the crime and western genres, short stories and screenplays.
He recently won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation.
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