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Ross Macdonald
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kenneth Millar, John Macdonald, John Ross Macdonald
American 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
via Open Library + Wikidata
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 40,202x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,179x
- Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks
· 2017 · cited 34,380x
- Mask R-CNN
· 2017 · cited 26,600x
- Fast R-CNN
· 2015 · cited 25,156x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.”
- “An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.”
- “The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.”
- “They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through mountains, cut down a thousand year of redwood growth, and built an urban wilderness in the desert. They couldn't touch the ocean. They poured their sewage into it, but it couldn't be tainted.”
- “Deep feeling sounded in her voice. I had no doubt that the feeling was partly sincere. Still, there was something unreal about it. I suspected that she'd been playing tricks with her emotions for a long time, until none of them was quite valid.”
- “"You have a secret passion for justice. Why don't you admit it?""I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people."”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ross Macdonald” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.