Elmore Leonard (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Contribution
Elmore Leonard’s stylistic distinctions, which have evolved amply, if not uniformly, in the thrillers that he has published since 1953, constitute his chief literary contribution. He describes these works as novels. Without being epigrammatic or memorable for intellectual substance, his prose is singularly spare and athletic. Yet the plausible and linguistically permissive realism of his writing style brilliantly suits his characters, evoking in uncommon circumstances the cadences of twentieth century American common speech.
Leonard’s growing body of...
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