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Jul 7, 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. Though born in California, Millar spent almost all his youth in Canada.
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Ross MacDonald is a Canadian and American author of fiction. It is the pen name of Kenneth Millar. He was born in 1915 and died in 1983. He is the author of crime fiction and mystery novels. He is considered to be one of the masters when it comes to the genre of hard boiled mystery, along with Raymond Chandler and Dashell Hammet.
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- 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)
Aug 24, 2018 · Ross Macdonald was a master at bringing those connections to life. In Macdonald’s world, no violent crime takes place in a vacuum; every act of violence has roots in the past; and the integrity of the justice system depends on understanding those connections. With a wave of recent publications, Macdonald, who passed away in 1983, is ...
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Sep 15, 2017 · Ross Macdonald was the pen name of Kenneth Millar. Born in California in 1915, his early life was shaped by his parents’ separation, after which his mother set out with him across Canada.
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Millions of Macdonald's books were sold. After twenty years in the mystery field, Ross Macdonald was an overnight success. The world at large discovered a writer already well known to mystery fans. Crime-fiction reviewers had long hailed Macdonald as the hard-boiled successor to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
