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   Who was Ross Macdonald?

   • A resident of R.R.#3 Thamesville, Ross MacDonald passed away at the Village-on-the-Ridge on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at the age of 85. Born in Orford Township, son of the late David and Catherine (McArthur) MacDonald. Beloved husband of the late Donna H. (Long) MacDonald (2004).

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   What books did Ross Macdonald write?

   • Under the name Ross Macdonald he wrote The Barbarous Coast (1956), The Doomsters (1958), and The Galton Case (1959), also featuring Lew Archer as the protagonist. Such later novels as The Underground Man (1971) and Sleeping Beauty (1973) have environmentalist themes and reflect Macdonald’s abiding interest in conservation.

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   What are the main themes of Ross Macdonald?

   • Tom Nolan in his Ross Macdonald, A Biography, wrote of the author, "Gradually he swapped the hard-boiled trappings for more subjective themes: personal identity, the family secret, the family scapegoat, the childhood trauma; how men and women need and battle each other, how the buried past rises like a skeleton to confront the present.

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   Ross MacDonald may refer to: Ross MacDonald (musician), musician with The 1975. Ross MacDonald (sailor), Canadian sailor. Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer of crime fiction. Category: Human name disambiguation pages.

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   Ross Macdonald (born Dec. 13, 1915, Los Gatos, Calif., U.S.—died July 11, 1983, Santa Barbara, Calif.) 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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   • Death Date: July 11, 1983

   • Birth Date: 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)

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   Ross Macdonald was the main pseudonym used by the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar ( / ˈmɪlər /; December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983). He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer.

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   views updated. Ross Macdonald, pseud. of Kenneth Millar, 1915–83, American novelist, b. Los Gatos, Calif. He was educated in Canada and at the Univ. of Michigan. Macdonald's mystery novels center on the tough but compassionate private detective, Lew Archer.

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   Nov 7, 2012 · Best known by his pseudonym Ross Macdonald, Kenneth Millar was born to Canadian parents, and was raised and educated primarily in Canada. At the age of three, while living in Vancouver, his parents separated.