Leonard, Elmore. TWO-PAGE PRINTED DOCUMENT HEAVILY ANNOTATED

for Contemporary Authors. Dated and signed by him in, 1978. The questionnaire has been filled out in great biographical detail by Leonard for the reference work. Most notably he has typed in a paragraph that elucidates his writerly ambitions: "I've been wanting to write and tell stories since the fifth grade when I wrote a play in school. After 'writing to order' for a good many years, I'm now writing exactly what I want (on my own since '61; full-time fiction since '67) and I've never been happier. Learned to write by reading Hemingway."

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A three-page typed list of his books and screenplays, the last page of which is primarily in holograph.

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Another three-page typescript that discloses further biographical information. Fine