MacDonald, Ross
MacDonald, Ross,pseudonym of Kenneth Millar (1915–83), California-born novelist, reared in Canada. After graduation from the University of Western Ontario, naval service, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, he published under his own name The Dark Tunnel (1944), a spy story set in Hitler's Germany. It was the beginning of a prolific career, best known for his hard-boiled detective novels set in southern California, featuring the private investigator Lew Archer and having as background generational differences in families. These works include The Galton Case (1959), The Goodbye Look (1964), The Far Side of the Dollar (1965), and The Underground Man (1971). Self-Portrait (1982) collects essays on ideas and experiences.
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