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Elmore Leonard’s Rocky Road to Fame and Fortune
One Cool Cat
It took him 30 years of writing to make it big. Maybe his drinking slowed him up. Or publishers didn’t know how to sell him. But no one ever said Leonard didn’t know how to write.
Mike Lupica
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Sep. 13 2014
6:55AM EDT
Dan Borris/The New York Times, via Redux
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