Elmore Leonard wrote the novella Fire in the Hole which is the source material for FX's Justifed.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Stories 3 Screenplays 4 External Links

BiographyEdit

Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925), better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.

Among his best-known works are Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk and Rum Punch, which was filmed as Jackie Brown. Leonard's short stories include ones that became the films 3:10 to Yuma and The Tall T.

StoriesEdit

Year	Story	Film Adaptation
1953	Three-Ten to Yuma	1957 - 3:10 to Yuma2007 - 3:10 to Yuma
1955	The Captives	1957 - The Tall T

ScreenplaysEdit

Year	Title	Director	Co-writers
1970	The Moonshine War	Richard Quine
1972	Joe Kidd	John Sturges
1974	Mr. Majestyk	Richard Fleischer
1980	High Noon, Part II (TV)	Jerry Jameson
1985	Stick	Burt Reynolds	Joseph Stinson
1986	52 Pick-Up	John Frankenheimer	John Steppling
1987	The Rosary Murders	Fred Walton	William X. Kienzle & Fred Walton
	Desperado (TV series)	Virgil W. Vogel
1989	Cat Chaser	Abel Ferrara	James Borelli

External LinksEdit

Leonard website