The battle for the literary archives appears to be heating up. While the Ransom Center at University of Texas, Austin, is a dominant force, an upstart has emerged in South Carolina. On Wednesday, the ...

Crime writer Elmore Leonard died Tuesday at his home in Bloomfield Township, Mich. He was 87. Leonard had movies, television shows and 45 novels, many of them best sellers, to his credit. Among his ...

Twelve years after his death in 2013, Michigan’s own Elmore Leonard has a current book for sale. Dubbed the lost novella, Picket Line conjures up the literature of labor strife reminiscent of John ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The Cure for Women,” by Lydia Reeder (St. Martin’s Press) "The Cure for Women," by Lydia Reeder (St. Martin’s Press) In 1871, Horatio Storer, a prominent ...

has a new adventure in novel form. Givens is the creation of Bloomfield's Elmore Leonard, widely revered as America's greatest living crime writer. His new book, with his brother, writer Peter Leonard ...

“Picket Line,” which was inspired by Cesar Chavez and his union campaigns, has been published for the first time. By Héctor Tobar If he seems relaxed about reprising the role that transformed his ...

Timothy Olyphant doesn't just star in "Justified." He also gives famed author Elmore Leonard -- who introduced Olyphant's character Raylan Givens and company in his works -- ideas for books. Sign up ...

He’s been referred to by the rather unwieldy sobriquet of “The Master of Contemporary American Crime Fiction.” And many critics and readers have agreed that he’s a worthy heir to the hardboiled ...