Ross Macdonald was the pen name of Kenneth Millar (1915-1983). The man who would become one of America’s greatest mystery writers was the son of a Canadian couple, but Millar and his mother were ...

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Ross Macdonald had a smart answer to the tedious question of why he devoted his considerable talents to writing "mere" detective stories: Macdonald said that the detective story was "a kind of ...

Eudora Welty, arguably the best American short-story writer of her generation, and Ross Macdonald, the finest detective novelist of the 1950s and '60s, first met May 17, 1971, near the elevator in the ...

Ross Macdonald was the pen name of Kenneth Millar (1915-1983). The man who would become one of America’s greatest mystery writers was the son of a Canadian couple, but Millar and his mother were ...

Ross Macdonald and Eudora Welty were titans of fiction: he a mystery writer whose work, like his California compatriots in noir Raymond Chandler and Walter Mosley, encompassed not just murder but the ...

“Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly Into the Past” by Ross Macdonald. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1981. Macdonald (the pseudonym for Kenneth Millar) has been called the successor to Dashiell Hammett and ...

Here’s a mystery for you. What drew Eudora Welty, who wrote incisive short stories about the South, to the work of Kenneth Millar, who wrote hard-boiled detective novels, set largely in the West, ...

She was waiting for me when I returned from the Starbucks on the corner. “I’m Nina Carmichael. You must be Mr. Wilson.” “John.” We shook hands, and I opened the outer door. We went through the waiting ...