Elmore Leonard Miami Interviews

MIAMI - Feb 29, 2016 -- For more than seventeen years with the U.S. Marshals Service, DEA, and Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Jim Born has seen just about everything Florida crime and criminals can throw at him. Elmore Leonard first met Jim Born when he was a DEA agent stationed in South Florida. Jim’s dad, Judge John Born was friends with Leonard’s close friend Judge Marvin Mounts. Jim gave Leonard technical advice on a number of books starting with Get Shorty.

James W. Hall interviewed by John Mulholland in Key Largo for the upcoming Elmore Leonard Documentary -- The Dickens of Detroit. Hall is an American author and professor who has written eighteen novels that include Under Cover of Daylight, Hard Aground, Gone Wild, Buzz Cut, Red Sky at Night, Rough Draft, Off the Chart and Silencer.

Elmore Leonard: The Dickens of Detroit Now in Production

Elmore Leonard’s life, his works, his place in the American literary pantheon, is the subject of this new documentary from Writer/Director John Mulholland and Producer Richard Zampella at Transmultimedia Entertainment. Central to the film, adding depth and resonance, is more than half-an-hour of never-before-seen interview footage with Leonard in which he analyzes and discusses how he started, why he wrote what he did, how he arrived at his lean, terse minimalist trademark.

Elmore Leonard: The Dickens of Detroit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4332600/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_1

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