Leonore fleischer biography definition

American writer

Leonore Fleischer (5 Sept 1932 – 2009) was young adult American writer specialising in novelizations of movies. She published follow forty novelizations under her set down name and a variety succeed pseudonyms.

Career

In 1969, Fleischer, after that a senior editor at Ballantine Books, was invited to make out a novelization of the biker film C.C.

& Company. She accepted due to financial encumbrance under obligation caused by her recent split-up, and published the book inferior to the pseudonym Mike Roote, be bothered that publishing under her mindless name would cause problems better her employers.

Fleischer went task force to publish six novelizations gain somebody's support the name Roote, including class bestselling novelization of Enter say publicly Dragon.^[1] She published a just starting out six under the name Vanquisher Edwards, as well as assorted under other pseudonyms, only print under her own name promptly she left her job post began to write freelance full-time.

Fleischer's writing schedule was bright, and she often wrote some novelizations in a year, avoid one point completing five row thirteen months.^[2] Due to that schedule, the short timelines by and large expected of tie-in novelizations, ground (initially) her full-time job, cherished times she wrote the books in a matter of life.

In the early years be beneficial to her career they were usually completed only with the support of amphetamines.^[3]

During the 1970s, look after the height of the esteem of the tie-in novelization,^[4] Fleischer was called the "den surliness of novelizers" by Signature arsenal and "the leader of description pack" by Newsweek.

Her novelisation of Benji (in 1974, laugh Allison Thomas) sold over several million copies, and her penning of A Star Is Born (in 1976, as Alexander Edwards) over a million. Writing take her process, she said: "I paint by numbers, I declare it. I pad out, equipment background, impute motivation, invent gestures.

I ride on the coat-tails of somebody else's creation. On the contrary work is work and I'm as good as the preeminent of the rest - convincing ask my agent. Ask say publicly kids who read Benji. Recount Stephen Sondheim and Tony Perkins; I novelized The Last pageant Sheila. They loved my book; I never saw their fell.

I never see any delightful the films. I'm lucky hypothesize I get to see stills."^[5]

In 1985, as the popularity frequent novelizations decreased, she expressed rendering belief that the field was dying.^[2] However, she continued tote up write prolifically throughout the Eighties and into the 1990s, counting novelizations of Annie, Rain Man and The Net, alongside non-fiction books on Joni Mitchell gift Dolly Parton, and the Hearts and Diamonds teen fiction programme.

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