Elmore Leonard Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

The National Book Foundation has just announced the two recipients of its 2012 Lifetime Achievement Awards, and the winners certainly make for a curious (yet very deserving) pair: The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL) is being awarded to the 86-year-old novelist and screenwriter Elmore Leonard, while the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community goes [...]