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<html> <head> <title>Ross Macdonald</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css"> <!-- .fotmbar { color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none} .fotmbar:hover { color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: underline} .newslink { color: #000000; text-decoration: none} .newslink:hover { color: #000000; text-decoration: none} .proflink { color: #000000; text-decoration: none} .proflink:hover { color: blue; text-decoration: underline} .b1f, .b2f, .b3f, .b4f {font-size:1px; overflow:hidden; display:block;} .b1f {height:1px; background:#e6e6e6; margin:0 5px;} .b2f {height:1px; background:#e6e6e6; margin:0 3px;} .b3f {height:1px; background:#e6e6e6; margin:0 2px;} .b4f {height:2px; background:#e6e6e6; margin:0 1px;} .contentf {background: #e6e6e6; padding: 2px; } .contentf div {margin-left: 5px;} --> </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is a beta version of NNDB</font></b></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> <nobr>Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </font></b></nobr></form></td> </tr> </table> <!-- COPYRIGHT (C) 2008 SOYLENT COMMUNICATIONS --> <!-- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED --> <!-- NO PART OF THIS WEBSITE MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION --> <!-- OF SOYLENT COMMUNICATIONS (ON THE WEB, IN PRINT, OR OTHERWISE) --> <!-- --> <!-- SOYLENT COMMUNICATIONS --> <!-- PO BOX 4436, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94040 USA --> </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/383/000114041/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool><br clear="all"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0><font size=+3 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ross Macdonald</b></font><p><img src="ross-macdonald-1.jpg" height=304 width=213 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Ross Macdonald"><b>AKA</b> Kenneth Millar<p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/865/000106547/" class=proflink>13-Dec</a>-<a href="/lists/914/000105599/" class=proflink>1915</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/859/000114517/" class=proflink>Los Gatos, CA</a><br><b>Died:</b> <a href="/lists/079/000106758/" class=proflink>11-Jul</a>-<a href="/lists/493/000106175/" class=proflink>1983</a><br><b>Location of death:</b> <a href="/geo/700/000069493/" class=proflink>Santa Barbara, CA</a> <font size=-1><a href="#FN1">[1]</a></font><br><b>Cause of death:</b> <a href="/lists/293/000069086/" class=proflink>Alzheimer's</a><br><b>Remains:</b> Cremated (ashes scattered at sea)<br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> Novelist<p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> Creator of P.I. Lew Archer<p><b>Military service:</b> US Naval Reserve (1944-46)<p>A resident of Canada until 1941, and after then, of California. His novels prior to 1949 were written under his real name, Kenneth Millar. His well-crafted Lew Archer novels are of a much higher caliber than normally found in the detective pulp-novel genre.<p><hr width=25% size=1 align=left><a name="FN1"><font size=-1>[1] Pinecrest Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA </font><p><b>Father:</b> John Macdonald Millar ("Jack", d. 1932)<br><b>Mother:</b> Annie Moyer (d. brain cancer)<br><b>Wife:</b> Margaret Ellis Sturm (m. 2-Jun-1938, until his death)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Linda Jane Millar (b. 1939, d. Nov-1970)<br><p> High School: Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute<br> University: <a href="/edu/560/000079323/">BA, University of Western Ontario (1938)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/751/000068547/">University of Toronto</a><br> Teacher: Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute<br> Teacher: <a href="/edu/512/000068308/">University of Michigan</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/512/000068308/">PhD, University of Michigan (1951)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/382/000111049/">Santa Barbara City College</a><br><p> <u>Mystery Writers of America</u> President (1965)<br> <a href="/org/512/000041389/">Phi Beta Kappa Society</a> <br> <a href="/event/714/000363622/">Traveled to Nazi Germany</a> 1938<br> <a href="/event/437/000123068/">Took the Fifth</a> grand jury testimony, daughter's vehicular manslaughter case, Santa Barbara, CA (1956)<br> <a href="/event/860/000080620/">Nervous Breakdown</a> 1956<br> <a href="/lists/846/000082600/">Canadian Ancestry</a> <br> Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/862/000128478/">Former Smoker</a><br> <p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>The Dark Tunnel</i> (<tt>1944</tt>, novel)<br><i>Trouble Follows Me</i> (<tt>1946</tt>, novel)<br><i>Blue City</i> (<tt>1947</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Three Roads</i> (<tt>1948</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Moving Target</i> (<tt>1949</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Drowning Pool</i> (<tt>1950</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Way Some People Die</i> (<tt>1951</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Ivory Grin</i> (<tt>1952</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>Find a Victim</i> (<tt>1954</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Name Is Archer</i> (<tt>1955</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Barbarous Coast</i> (<tt>1956</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Doomsters</i> (<tt>1958</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Galton Case</i> (<tt>1959</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Wycherly Woman</i> (<tt>1961</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Zebra-Striped Hearse</i> (<tt>1962</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Chill</i> (<tt>1964</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Far Side of the Dollar</i> (<tt>1965</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>Black Money</i> (<tt>1966</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>Archer in Hollywood</i> (<tt>1967</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Instant Enemy</i> (<tt>1968</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Goodbye Look</i> (<tt>1969</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Underground Man</i> (<tt>1971</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>Sleeping Beauty</i> (<tt>1973</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><i>The Blue Hammer</i> (<tt>1976</tt>, novel, Lew Archer)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=114041"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=114041">Ross Macdonald</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=114041" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>