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Ross Macdonald, pseudônimo de Kenneth Millar (Los Gatos, 13 de Dezembro de 1915 - Santa Barbara, 1983) foi um escritor de crimes de ficção estadunidense. Ross Macdonald cresceu no Canadá, lá casou-se com Margaret Sturm (a futura escritora Margaret Millar) e voltou aos Estados Unidos em 1938.
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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, 11/2/2003December 13, 1915. Died. July 11, 1983. Genre. Mystery & Thrillers. edit data. Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer.
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Ross Macdonald. Writer: Harper. Crime novelist and creator of the private eye Lew Archer, Ross MacDonald is often linked to his predecessors Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as a master of the "hard-boiled" school of detective fiction, but MacDonald added a psychological depth and a unity of theme which was unique.
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24 de abr. de 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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Learn about Ross Macdonald, the master of mystery fiction who wrote under the name Kenneth Millar. Explore his novels, themes, and legacy with Library of America's books and resources.
13 de jul. de 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...
