Western Writers of America to Honor Elmore Leonard for Lifetime Contribution.

Science Letter | February 24, 2009 | Copyright

Elmore Leonard, who mastered the Western in novels such as HOMBRE and short stories like "The Boy Who Smiled" and "The Tonto Woman," will receive the Owen Wister Award for lifetime contribution to Western literature, Western Writers of America has announced (see also Western Writers of America, Inc.).

Leonard will be honored June 20 at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City during the annual convention of Western Writers of America, a nonprofit organization founded in 1953 to promote and recognize literature of the American West.

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