![]() ![]() He then changed briefly to John Ross Macdonald before settling on Ross Macdonald, in order to avoid mixups with contemporary John D. ![]() At this time, he wrote under the name John Macdonald, in order to avoid confusion with his wife, who was achieving her own success writing as Margaret Millar. While doing graduate study, he completed his first novel, The Dark Tunnel, in 1944. Millar attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and a Ph.D. He began his career writing stories for pulp magazines. They had a daughter, Linda, who died in 1970. In Canada, he met and married Margaret Sturm ( Margaret Millar)in 1938. The prominence of broken homes and domestic problems in his fiction has its roots in his youth. When his father abandoned his family unexpectedly, Macdonald lived with his mother and various relatives, moving several times by his sixteenth year. Millar was born in Los Gatos, California, and raised in his parents' native Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, where he started college. He is best known for his series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. ![]() Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar. ![]()
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