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Apr 24, 2024 · Ross Macdonald (born Dec. 13, 1915, Los Gatos, Calif., U.S.—died July 11, 1983, Santa Barbara, Calif.) was an American mystery writer who is credited with elevating the detective novel to the level of literature with his compactly written tales of murder and despair.
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Millar was born in Los Gatos, California, and raised in his Canadian parents' native Kitchener, Ontario. Millar was a Scots spelling of the surname Miller, and the author pronounced his name Miller rather than Millar. When his father abandoned the family unexpectedly when Millar was four years old, he and his mother lived with various relatives, an...
Macdonald first introduced the tough but humane private eye Lew Archer in the 1946 short story "Find the Woman" (credited then to "Ken Millar"). A full-length novel featuring him, The Moving Target, followed in 1949 and was the first in a series of eighteen. Macdonald mentions in the foreword to the Archer in Hollywood omnibus that his detective de...
According to the New York Times, "some critics ranked him among the best American novelists of his generation." William Goldman of the newspaper's Book Review section wrote that the Archer books were "the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American". Over his career, Macdonald was presented with several awards. In 1964, the Myster...
Writing as Kenneth Millar
1. The Dark Tunnel (a.k.a. I Die Slowly) – 1944 2. Trouble Follows Me (a.k.a. Night Train) – 1946 3. Blue City – 1947 (filmed with Judd Nelson as Blue City, 1986) 4. The Three Roads – 1948 (filmed with Michael Sarrazin as Deadly Companion, 1980) These first four novels, all non-series standalones, were initially published using Millar's real name, but have since been intermittently reissued using his literary pseudonym, Ross Macdonald.
Other non-series novels
Two later non-series novels were also published: 1. Meet Me at the Morgue (aka Experience With Evil) – 1953, credited to John Ross Macdonald 2. The Ferguson Affair– 1960, credited to Ross Macdonald
Non-fiction
1. On Crime Writing– 1973, Santa Barbara : Capra Press, Series title: Yes! Capra chapbook series; no. 11, The Library of Congress bibliographic information includes this note: "Writing The Galton case." 2. Self-Portrait, Ceaselessly Into the Past– 1981, Santa Barbara : Capra Press, collection of book prefaces, magazine articles and interviews.
Bruccoli, Matthew J. Ross Macdonald. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. ISBN 0-15-179009-4 | ISBN 0-15-679082-3"Ross Macdonald: Family Affairs" in S. T. Joshi, Varieties of Crime Fiction, pp. 97–106, (Wildside Press, 2019) ISBN 978-1-4794-4546-2Kreyling, Michael. "The Novels of Ross Macdonald" University of South Carolina Press, 2005. ISBN 1-57003-577-6Nolan, Tom. Ross Macdonald: A Biography. New York: Scribner, 1999. ISBN 0-684-81217-7Marling, William, "Hard-Boiled Fiction", Case Western Reserve UniversityJ. Kingston Pierce, "50 Years with Lew Archer: An Anniversary Tribute to Ross Macdonald and His Heroic Yet Compassionate Private Eye, by January Magazine, April 1999]Lew Archer oder:Der Detektiv als Statthalter konkreter Utopie An interview with MacdonaldLeonard Cassuto, "The last testament of Ross Macdonald", The Boston Globe, 11/2/2003- (5.1K)
- July 11, 1983
- December 13, 1915
- The Drowning Pool (Lew Archer, #2)
- The Chill (Lew Archer, #11)
- The Moving Target (Lew Archer, #1)
- The Galton Case (Lew Archer, #8)
Jul 31, 2009 · A passion for mercy. Hailed as one of the 'holy trinity of American crime writers', Ross Macdonald surpassed his predecessors Chandler and Hammett, writing detective novels informed by sorrows...
Jul 13, 1983 · Ross Macdonald, whose tightly written novels about the hard-boiled private eye Lew Archer lifted the modern detective novel to the level of literature, died of Alzheimer's disease Monday night...
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Aug 17, 2017 · Learn about the life and works of Ross Macdonald, a master of mystery fiction who wrote under the name Kenneth Millar. Explore his major novels, such as The Galton Case and The Chill, and his personal struggles with his own youth and the Southern California culture.
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