Ross Macdonald
Sign in to saveAmerican writer (1915–1983)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 13 December1915
- Died
- 11 July 1983
- Works
- 344
Top works
- קרון המתים המפוספס
- המטרה הנעה
- The Wycherly Woman
- The Ivory Grin (a Lew Archer Mystery)
- La Grimace d'ivoire
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Film & TV
Writing · Los Gatos, California, USA
Known for
- Harper Days are Here Again — Self1975
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 59
- Total plays
- 687
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
· 2016 · cited 38,660x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 33,606x
- Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks
· 2017 · cited 33,156x
- Mask R-CNN
· 2017 · cited 26,019x
- Fast R-CNN
· 2015 · cited 24,736x
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Key facts
- Born
- Kenneth Millar , ( 1915-12-13 ) December 13, 1915, Los Gatos, California , U.S.
- Died
- July 11, 1983 (1983-07-11) (aged 67), Santa Barbara, California , U.S.
- Pen name
- John Macdonald, John Ross Macdonald, Ross Macdonald
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Alma mater
- University of Western Ontario , University of Michigan
- Genre
- Crime fiction
- Spouse
- Margaret Millar ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1938 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 13 December 1915
- Died
- 11 July 1983
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kenneth
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Gatos
- Place of death
- Santa Barbara
- Spouse
- Margaret Millar
- Occupation
- architect
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Shamus Award
Article
Kenneth Millar (/ˈmɪlər/; December 13, 1915 – July 11, 1983), known mainly by the pseudonym Ross Macdonald, was an American-Canadian writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in Southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Since the 1970s, Macdonald's works (particularly the Archer novels) have received attention in academic circles for their psychological depth, sense of place, use of language, sophisticated imagery and integration of philosophy into genre fiction. Brought up in the province of Ontario, Canada, Macdonald eventually settled in the state of California, where he died in 1983.
The Wall Street Journal wrote that: ... it is the sheer beauty of Macdonald’s laconic style—with its seductive rhythms and elegant plainness—that holds us spellbound. "Hard-boiled," "noir," "mystery," it doesn’t matter what you call it. Macdonald, with insolent grace, blows past the barrier constructed by Dorothy Sayers between "the literature of escape" and "the literature of expression." These novels, triumphs of his literary alchemy, dare to be both.
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1915 births1983 deaths20th-century American male writers20th-century American novelists20th-century American short story writers20th-century Canadian male writers20th-century Canadian novelists20th-century Canadian short story writers20th-century people from CaliforniaAmerican male novelistsAmerican male short story writersAmerican mystery writers