Elmore Leonard

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1. Elmore Leonard

   Author of Get Shorty, Be Cool, 52 Pick-Up

2. Robert B. Parker

   Author of Early Autumn, Sudden Mischief, A Catskill Eagle

3. Dave Eggers

   Author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, How We Are Hungry, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003

4. James Lee Burke

   Author of Jolie Blon's Bounce, Last Car to Elysian Fields, Sunset Limited
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5. Michael Connelly

   Author of The Lincoln Lawyer, The Poet, The Closers
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6. Carl Hiaasen

   Author of Sick Puppy, Basket Case, Stormy Weather

7. Michael Chabon

   Author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, McSweeney's Issue 10: Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

8. John le Carré

   Author of Absolute Friends, The Tailor of Panama, A Small Town in Germany

9. John D. MacDonald

   Author of Cinnamon Skin, Dress Her in Indigo, A Tan and Sandy Silence
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10. Lawrence Block

    Author of Hit Man, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, A Long Line of Dead Men

11. Robert Crais

    Author of Indigo Slam, Hostage, Free Fall

12. James Ellroy

    Author of American Tabloid, Clandestine, Brown's Requiem

13. Walter Mosley

    Author of Devil in a Blue Dress, White Butterfly, Fearless Jones
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14. Raymond Chandler

    Author of The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The Little Sister

15. Louis L'Amour

    Author of To the Far Blue Mountains, Ride the Dark Trail, Lonely on the Mountain

16. Martin Cruz Smith

    Author of Havana Bay, Wolves Eat Dogs, Rose

17. George P. Pelecanos

    Author of Hell to Pay, Right as Rain, Drama City

18. Dennis Lehane

    Author of Mystic River, A Drink Before the War, Sacred
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19. Jonathan Lethem

    Author of Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Gun, with Occasional Music

20. Editors of McSweeney's

    Author of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern No. 13, McSweeney's The Icelandic Issue (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern No. 15), McSweeney's Issue 16: Also Comes With A Comb