Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1916-07-24
- Died
- 1986-12-28
- Works
- 283
Top works
- המוות הוא סגול
- One Fearful Yellow Eye
- Deep Blue Goodby
- Deadly Shade of Gold
- 11. Dress Her In Indigo – 12. The Long Lavender Look – 13. A Tan and Sandy Silence – 14. The Scarlet Ruse – 15. The Turquoise Lament (The Travis McGee Series 11 to 15 of 21)
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Westlake Village
- Active from
- 1962-02-20
Discography
- Promise1999
- Shadow Crossing2002
- Grandcascade2003
- Falling Into Midnight2004
- Gold Coast2005
- Dreamliner2005
- Everlasting2006
- Home On the Horizon2006
- Anything & Everything2007
- Cheshire Moon2007
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 28
- Total plays
- 999
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+D.+MacDonald">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2018 · cited 33,859x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “It would be one kind of penance. And there are never enough kinds. Not for him. Not for me. And certainly not for you, my friend.”
- “Three cents’ worth of squeeze bottles, plus two cents’ worth of homogenized goo, plus prime-time television equals 28 million annual sales at 69 cents each. This is the heartbeat of industrial America.”
- “Nina was always loved. Maybe that’s a bad thing. It gives people that terrible confidence that the world is going to give them the chance to fulfill themselves.”
- “Aside from an unwholesome taste for string quartets, and a certain gullibility about predigested sociology, she passed the McGee test with about a B+. Hell, an A-. Maybe somebody had given her the Vance Packard books.”
- “When a woman forgets gossip, McGee, she is nearing the end of her road.”
- “It isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.”
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Key facts
- Born
- John Dann MacDonald , ( 1916-07-24 ) July 24, 1916, Sharon, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Died
- December 28, 1986 (1986-12-28) (aged 70), Milwaukee, Wisconsin , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist, short story writer
- Alma mater
- University of Pennsylvania , Syracuse University , Harvard University
- Period
- 1945–1986
- Genre
- Detective fiction
- Spouse
- Dorothy
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1916-07-26
- date of death
- 1986-12-28
- name in native language
- John D. MacDonald
- start of work period
- 1940-00-00
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~15 min read
Article
John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories. A prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many set in his adopted home of Florida, he was one of the most successful American novelists of his time. MacDonald sold an estimated 70 million books.
His best-known works include the popular and critically acclaimed Travis McGee series and his 1957 novel The Executioners, which was filmed twice as Cape Fear, once in 1962 and again in 1991, and adapted in 2026 as a television series.