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Elmore Leonard in 2011Crime fiction legend Elmore Leonard has died at his Michigan home, aged 87.The author who wrote Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Three-Ten to Yuma died from complications from a stroke he suffered three weeks ago.
An announcement on elmoreleonard.com said: "Elmore passed away this morning at 7.15am at home surrounded by his loving family."
He was reportedly in the middle of writing his 46th novel.
Leonard first wrote westerns when he gave up his advertising agency job in the 1950s before moving on to crime and suspense books.
Known by the nickname Dutch, he had his commercial breakthrough in 1985 with the publication of Glitz.
Dubbed the "Dickens of Detroit", gritty and realistic dialogue were the trademarks of his stories, which almost always featured flawed main characters.
More than 25 of his works were made into movies or television shows, beginning with the 1967 film Hombre, starring Paul Newman.
The western story Three-Ten to Yuma and the novel The Big Bounce were each adapted for film twice.
The cable television series Justified, the tale of a US marshal in Kentucky that first aired in 2010, was based on Leonard's work and he served as executive producer of the show.
Movie producers and stars were so anxious to secure rights to his books that they were known to show up on Leonard's doorstep on the publication date.
Leonard won the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in November 2012, putting him in the company of such US literary luminaries as Toni Morrison, John Updike, Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
He was married three times and had five children with his first wife. His son Peter also went into advertising before becoming a writer.
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