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American writer

Leonore Fleischer (5 September 1932 – 2009) was an American writer specialising in novelizations of movies. She published over forty novelizations under her own name and a variety of pseudonyms.

Career

In 1969, Fleischer, then a senior editor at Ballantine Books, was invited to write a novelization of the biker film C.C. & Company. She accepted due to financial difficulties caused by her recent divorce, and published the book under the pseudonym Mike Roote, concerned that publishing under her own name would cause problems with her employers.

Fleischer went on to publish six novelizations under the name Roote, including the bestselling novelization of Enter the Dragon.^[1] She published a further six under the name Alexander Edwards, as well as several under other pseudonyms, only publishing under her own name once she left her job and began to write freelance full-time.

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