Ross MacDonald biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Ross MacDonald

Author Name:

Ross MacDonald

Born As:

Kenneth Millar

Other Names:

Born:

13 Dec 1915

Died:

11 Jul 1983




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Selected Works:

Novels:

Lew Archer Novels:

The Moving Target - 1949 - filmed with Paul Newman as Harper, 1966
The Drowning Pool - 1950 - also filmed with Paul Newman as "Lew Harper", 1975
The Way Some People Die - 1951
The Ivory Grin - aka Marked for Murder - 1952
Find a Victim - 1954
The Barbarous Coast - 1956
The Doomsters - 1958
The Galton Case - 1959
The Wycherly Woman - 1961
The Zebra-Striped Hearse - 1962
The Chill - 1964
The Far Side of the Dollar - 1965
Black Money - 1966
The Instant Enemy - 1968
The Goodbye Look - 1969
The Underground Man - 1971 - filmed as a television series pilot in 1974
Sleeping Beauty - 1973
The Blue Hammer - 1976

Lew Archer Short Stories:
The Name is Archer - paperback original containing 7 stories - 1955
Lew Archer: Private Investigator - The Name is Archer + 2 additional stories - 1977
Strangers in Town - Two of the three short stories include Lew Archer - 2001
Lew Archer Omnibuses:

Archer in Hollywood - 1967
Archer at Large - 1970
Archer in Jeopardy - 1979

Other Novels - writing as John Macdonald
The Dark Tunnel - aka I Die Slowly - 1944
Trouble Follows Me - aka Night Train - 1946
Blue City - 1947
The Three Roads - 1948

Writing as Ross Macdonald:
Meet Me at the Morgue - aka Experience With Evil - 1953
The Ferguson Affair - 1960.                          
Married Margaret Sturm in 1938. They had a daughter, Linda, who died in 1970.