"I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the ’50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like ‘Dime Western’ and ’10 Story Western’ that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, ‘I like Westerns.’"
- Elmore LeonardAmerican novelist and screenwriter Elmore Leonard is renowned for his Western and crime fiction. He was born in 1925, during a period when Western novels were very popular. There were many popular magazines devoted to Western fiction in the middle of the 20th century, including "Dime Western" and "1…