Classic Mystery writer Ross MacDonald, author biographies

Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar. It was on 13 December 1915 Born in Los Gatos, California. His father, John Macdonald Millar, it was sometimes an editor, poet and athlete, and his mother Anne (Moyer) Millar, was a nurse. Some time later the family moved to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, when Ross was about four years, his father left the family.

While he grew up, lived by Ross and his mother and various relatives. Ross, thoughacademically inclined had a troubled youth. He drank and smoked too much, fought with his classmates, he was a thief and enjoyed the pool and gambling.

Ross's father was an insurance policy that was enough to see him through four years at the University of Western Ontario, where he received a teaching certificate. He also attended the University of Toronto for a year. He was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, where he finished his studies. Hegraduated Phi Beta Kappa with a doctorate in literature.

Ross Macdonald met Margaret Sturm, another aspiring writer, while in high school. They reconnected and married in 1938. Their only daughter, Linda, died, 1970.

Ross is the U.S. Navy during World War II and was stationed in the Pacific off the coast of Southern California. When Margaret came to visit him, she fell in love with the area and made the beautiful coastal city of Santa Barbara their home.

Ross Macdonald puts hisThe hero, the rough edges philosophical private detective Lew Archer, Santa Barbara, but changed the name of Santa Teresa. Many years later, another mystery writer Sue Grafton, did the same with his character, female detective Kinsey Millhone. Sue Grafton wrote the introduction for the book, "Ross Macdonald, a biography," by Tom Nolan.

Ross began his career as a writer under his own name. His wife was in power as a leading writer under the name of MargaretMillar, began writing under the name John Ross Macdonald. He later shortened to Ross Macdonald due to possible confusion with another author, John D. MacDonald.

Although Ross won rave reviews during his career as a writer, it was not until the release of "The Goodbye Look" in 1969 which became a bestselling author in the United States and Europe. In 1973 the Mystery Writers of America named him Grand Master.

In 1981, Ross Macdonald was diagnosed withAlzheimer's disease. 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 death of many people (1951)
The ivory smile (1952)
Find a victim (1954)
The barbarian Costa (1956)
The Doomsters (Vintage Crime / Black Lizard) (1958)
Galton Case (1959)
The woman Wycherly(1961)
The hearse zebrafish (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:
ArcherLarge (1970)
Volume One Lew Archer (1993)
The Lew Archer Volume Two (1,994)
The Lew Archer Volume Three (1997)

Stand-alone novels:
Blue City (1947) (as Kenneth Millar)
The three roads (1948)
Meet Me at the Morgue (1954)
The deal Ferguson (1960)
Archer in danger (1979)

Collections:
2001 Strangers in Town: Three newly discovered mysteries ()