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At the very head of that distinguished group is Elmore “Dutch” Leonard, the dean of my writing university.

They are the masters whose lessons never waver, who offer fresh insights with each new work and with every re-reading. These are just a few of the writers whose works I have read, studied, and absorbed over the course of decades, as have thousands of others. Lorenzo Carcaterra, the best-selling author of Sleepers and Gangster, whose most recent novel, The Wolf, was published earlier this summer by Random House, recalls what it was like learning the novelist’s trade from Leonard himself, whom he met thirty years ago. Last week The Library of America published Elmore Leonard: Four Crime Novels of the 1970s, which contains a quartet of crime novels set in Detroit: Fifty-Two Pickup, Swag, Unknown Man No. Lorenzo Carcaterra: Elmore Leonard “brought his characters close enough to life they could be touched” Lorenzo Carcaterra.