Gunsights
Elmore Leonard wrote&#160;forty-five novels and nearly as many western and crime short stories across his highly successful career that spanned more than six decades. Some of his bestsellers include&#160;Road Dogs,&#160;Up in Honey&#8217;s Room,&#160;The Hot Kid,&#160;Mr.&#160;Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, and the critically acclaimed collection of short stories&#160;Fire in the Hole. Many of his books have been made into movies, including&#160;Get&#160;Shorty, Out of Sight, and&#160;Rum Punch, which became Quentin Tarantino&#8217;sJackie Brown.&#160;Justified, the hit series from FX, is based on Leonard&#8217;s character Raylan Givens, who appears in&#160;Riding the Rap,&#160;Pronto,Raylanand the short story &#8220;Fire in the Hole&#8221;. He was a recipient of the National Book Foundation&#8217;s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA, and&#160;the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America.&#160;He was known to many as the &#8216;Dickens of Detroit&#8217; and was a long-time resident of the Detroit area.