Ross Macdonald is the nom de guerr for Kenneth Millar. He was born on December 13, 1915 in Los Gatos California. His father, John Macdonald Millar, was a generally newspaper editor, poet and athlete, and his mom, Anne (Moyer) Millar, was a nurse. Sometime after transferring the house to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, when Ross was about 4 years previous, his father trackless the house.
While he was rising up, Ross and his mom lived off and on with varied family. Ross, regardless that academically inclined, was a troubled youth. He drank and smoke-dried an excessive amount of, fought with classmates, was a petty stealer and precious the pool corridor and playing.
Ross's father left an coverage coverage that was comfortable to see him by 4 years on the University of Western Ontario the place he obtained a instructing certificates. He in addition attended the University of Toronto for a 12 months. He congenital an assistant instructing publish on the University of Michigan the place he in addition completed his education. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a PHD in Literature.
Ross Macdonald met Margaret Sturm, one other aspirant creator, whereas in highschool. They reconnected and married in 1938. Their exclusively daughter, Linda, died in 1970.
Ross joined the U.S Navy throughout WWII and was stationed inside the Pacific off the coast of southern California. When Margaret came around him, she fell crazy with the world and made the beautiful seaboard city of Santa Barbara their house.
Ross Macdonald locations his protagonist, the philosophic tough edged non-public detective, Lew Archer, in Santa Barbara, notwithstandin modified the identify to Santa Theresa. Many years later one other thriller author, Sue Grafton, did the identical factor together with her character, feminine non-public detective Kinsey Millhone. Sue Grafton wrote an introduction for the guide, "Ross Macdonald, a Biography," by Tom Nolan.
Ross began his writing profession below his given identify. His partner was to grow to be distinguished as a suspense author below the identify Margaret Millar, so he began writing below the identify John Ross Macdonald. Later he shortened it to Ross Macdonald attributable accomplishable confusion with one other creator, John D. Macdonald.
Although Ross attained good opinions all through his writing profession, it wasn't till the publication of "The Goodbye Look" in 1969 that he grew to become a finest promoting creator inside the United States in addition to in Europe. In 1973 The Mystery Writers of America named him Grand Master.
In 1981, Ross Macdonald was far-famed with Alzheimer's illness. He died in Santa Barbara on July 11, 1983.
Books by Ross Macdonald:
Series: Chet Gordon (as Kenneth Millar)
The Dark Tunnel (1944)
Trouble Follows Me (1946)
Lew Archer
The Moving Target (1949)
The Drowning Pool (1950)
The Way Some People Die (1951)
The Ivory Grin (1952)
Find a Victim (1954)
The Barbarous Coast (1956)
The Doomsters (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (1958)
The Galton Case (1959)
The Wycherly Woman (1961)
The Zebra-Striped Hearse (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (1962)
The Chill (1964)
The Far Side of the Dollar (1965)
Black Money (1966)
The Instant Enemy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (1968)
The Goodbye Look (1969)
(The Underground Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (1971)
Sleeping Beauty (1973)
The Blue Hammer (1976)
The Name is Archer (1955)
Archer in Hollywood (omnibus) (1967)
Lew Archer, Private Investigator 1977)
Omnibus:
Archer at Large (1970)
The Lew Archer Volume One (1993)
The Lew Archer Volume Two (1994)
The Lew Archer Volume Three (1997)
Stand Alone Novels:
Blue City (1947) (As Kenneth Millar)
The Three Roads (1948)
Meet Me on the Morgue (1954)
The Ferguson Affair (1960)
Archer in Jeopardy (1979)
Collections:
Strangers in Town: Three Newly Discovered Mysteries (2001)
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