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Randy Leffingwell

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born

February 12, 1948 in The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.rleffingwell.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, History, Mystery & Thrillers

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John McPhee, Michael Dibdin, Wallace Stegner, Richard Rhodes, Ernest H...more

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August 2006

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Photographer and writer, Randy Leffingwell, has more than 35 books in print, primarily on Americana subjects. These cover interests and areas as diverse as the American barn and Harley-Davidson motorcycles, California’s wine country and John Deere farm tractors. His awareness of and attraction to moving things goes back as far as he can remember, to the first Dinky Toys and Match Box cars his father and mother gave him. His practical introduction to real sports cars came several years later when his uncle took him to watch a weekend of racing events at Meadowdale International Raceway in suburban Chicago.

Throughout all this time, however, he imagined himself becoming an architect and his life-long admiration of buildings and design began w...more Photographer and writer, Randy Leffingwell, has more than 35 books in print, primarily on Americana subjects. These cover interests and areas as diverse as the American barn and Harley-Davidson motorcycles, California’s wine country and John Deere farm tractors. His awareness of and attraction to moving things goes back as far as he can remember, to the first Dinky Toys and Match Box cars his father and mother gave him. His practical introduction to real sports cars came several years later when his uncle took him to watch a weekend of racing events at Meadowdale International Raceway in suburban Chicago.

Throughout all this time, however, he imagined himself becoming an architect and his life-long admiration of buildings and design began with frequent trips to downtown Chicago. While in undergraduate studies at Kansas University in the architectural engineering sequence, he discovered photography, journalism, and reawakened an earlier passion for writing. He scarcely looked back as he shifted his major studies from architecture, through English, Art History, psychology, and finally to the William Allen White school of Journalism for a BS in photojournalism.

Following graduation from KU, Randy began a successful career as a photojournalist first at the Kansas City TIMES, then joining the staff of the Chicago SUN-TIMES where he remained for nine years. He then worked as associate editor at AutoWeek magazine in Detroit, before being hired by the Los Angeles TIMES as a writer/photographer. He worked for the TIMES for 11 years, covering everything from news stories to personality profiles to food features throughout Italy, film festivals in France and Utah, and live theater in London. It was, he says, a great job and a great place to work.

His latest project is a large history of Harley-Davidson for them. During this project, he photographed 193 motorcycles from the Harley-Davidson Archives Collection and he completed the corresponding text for the book in early April 2007. Release of this 432 page book tentatively is scheduled for early 2008.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 82 ratings · 18 reviews · 69 distinct works

	Ultimate Horse Barns 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Porsche 911: Perfection by Design 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hot Wheels: 35 Years of Speed, Power, Performance, and Attitude 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Corvette: Fifty Years by Randy Leffingwell (Goodreads Author), David Newhardt (Photographer) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	California Missions and Presidios by Randy Leffingwell (Goodreads Author), Alastair Worden (Photographs) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Lighthouses of the Pacific Coast: Your Guide to the Lighthouses of California, Oregon, and Washington by Randy Leffingwell (Goodreads Author), Pamela Welty 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Porsche Legends by Randy Leffingwell (Goodreads Author), Vic Elford (Foreword by) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Porsche 911 Buyer's Guide: 2nd Edition 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mustang Forty Years 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	John Deere Farm Tractors: A History of the John Deere Tractor 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993	My rating:

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