Macdonald, John D. (1916-1986)
Known as the creator of the bestselling Travis McGee series of detective novels, John D. MacDonald gained most of his fame and fortune from writing paperback originals. ...
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Born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, John Dann MacDonald was educated at Syracuse University, where he took a B.S. in 1938, and at the Harvard Graduate School of Business, where he took an M.B.A. the followi...
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Critical Essay by David A. Benjamin
[Travis McGee] has the hint of meanness and suggestion of illegality that made Sam Spade such a fascinatingly ambiguous character; he has [Phillip] Marlowe'...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Yardley
Like the other McGee novels, The Empty Copper Sea is a Cook's tour of the shadier side of the Sunshine State. We meet its Sun Belt aristocracy of bankers, co...
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Critical Essay by John Casey
"Cinnamon Skin" is as good as, or perhaps even a little better than, the standard Travis McGee.
In this quest McGee and his eccentric economist friend Me...
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Critical Essay by David Geherin
The two most obvious statements that can be made about John D. MacDonald as a writer are, one, that he is prolific (sixty-three novels and hundreds of short stories to...
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Macdonald, John D. (1916-1986)
John D(ann) MacDonald
Critical Essay by David A. Benjamin
