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Ross MacdonaldNolan, Tom., Tom Nolan
MysteryNonfiction

Ross Macdonald

496 pagesFirst published 19994 editions
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When he died in 1983, Ross Macdonald was the best-known and most highly regarded crime-fiction writer in America. Now, in the first full-length biography of this extraordinary and influential writer, a much fuller picture emerges of a man to whom hiding things came as second nature. While it was no secret that Ross Macdonald was the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar - a Santa Barbara man married to another good mystery writer, Margaret Millar - his official biography was spare. Drawing on unrestricted access to the Kenneth and Margaret Millar Archives, on more than forty years of correspondence,…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionSimon & Schuster, Limited2015—9781501120442
EditionScribner20084969781439102053
PaperbackPoisoned Pen Press20014969781890208547
EditionScribner19994969780684812175
American NovelistsDetective and mystery storiesBiographyAuthorshipAuthors, biographyMacdonald, ross, 1915-1983New York Times reviewed