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 Wikipedia has an article about: Ross Macdonald Ross Macdonald , American-Canadian writer of mystery fiction and detective fiction (pseudonym of Kenneth Millar , 1915 – 1983). Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Moving Target (1949) 1.2 The Way Some People Die... 
| Name: |
Kenneth Millar | | Variant Name: |
John Macdonald, John Ross Macdonald, Ross Macdonald | | Birth Date: |
December 13, 1915 | | Death Date: |
July 11, 1983 | | Place of Birth: |
Los Gatos, California | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of Kenneth Millar
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 Kenneth Millar, who wrote as Ross Macdonald, was the successor to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in the development of the hard-boiled detective story into serious literature. Millar wrote two dozen novels between 1944 and 1976, eighteen of them... summary from source:
Biography of Kenneth Millar
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Kenneth Millar, who has written under the pseudonyms John Macdonald, John Ross Macdonald, and Ross Macdonald, was born in Los Gatos, California, on 13 December 1915, but was raised in Ontario, Canada. When Millar was three years old, his father...
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 Ross Macdonald Information
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D. Ross MacDonald (born January 27, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian sailor. He began sailing at the age of 11. He won a silver medal with Mike Wolfs at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's Star event, and a bronze with Eric Jespersen...
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 The Boston Globe The Last Testament Of Ross Macdonald
11/02/2003: 804 words, approx. 3 pages AT THE TIME OF Ross Macdonald's death 20 years ago, critics and readers alike considered him the greatest American crime novelist since Raymond Chandler. Like Chandler, Macdonald was praised as a literary artist, not just a detective story writer. The New York Times once... summary from source:
Publishers Weekly ROSS MACDONALD: A Biography.(Review)
02/01/1999: 303 words, approx. 1 pages Tom Nolan. Scribner, $32 (496p) ISBN 0-684-81217-7 All aficionados of the mystery genre know the work of Ross Macdonald (the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar), whom Nolan calls the "philosopher king of detective novelists," the author of 18 Lew Archer novels and heir to... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Whatcha Readin'?: Summer Flings
8/7/2005: 3,608 words, approx. 12 pagesBack when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or stack of books) to keep one company at the... summary from source:
The New York Observer Summer Flings
8/7/2005: 3,608 words, approx. 12 pagesBack when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or stack of books) to keep one company at the...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Peter Wolfe
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[Ross Macdonald's] novels are well-built, suspenseful, and easy both to read and enjoy. His best work gives equal weight to invention and execution. His intellectual power, social conscience, and bright, crisp style promote both impact and resonance. He has something to say, knows how to say it, and deserves to be heard. (p. 1) A good example of his ability to write books that everybody can read inheres in his treatment of sex. He never denies the force of sex; sex always plays a large part in the tr... summary from source:
Critical Essay by William Mcpherson
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Until now I had never read a Ross Macdonald novel. My loss. For on the basis of The Blue Hammer alone—and there are 19 earlier Macdonald novels in the Lew Archer canon—this writer of cracking detective stories is as good as the more relentlessly "serious" American novelists of the declining years of our 20th century, and better than most. A snap judgment, perhaps, but that's what we're paid for. And a shameful admission. For Ross Macdonald is as easy to read as he i... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Michael Wood
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In Ross Macdonald's novels, the past is always falling in on top of the present. Lew Archer, a wise, tired, divorced and lonely private eye, is hired to investigate a theft or a kidnapping or the disappearance of a child, and immediately, as if released by Archer's appearance on the scene, murky old cats begin to leap out of poorly sealed bags. Archer uncovers guilt wherever he goes, and his job, once the cats are all out and howling, is to put them together into a theory, to tie the past to t...
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