Born in a small town in California, he spent his childhood and youth in Canada. He completed higher humanitarian education in the United States, in 1951 he became a doctor of philology, taught English. He served in the Navy for three years. In the mid-forties he began to write fiction and published 4 novels under his own name. In 1949, two new personalities appeared in the literary world - the author of detective novels Ross McDonald (under this pseudonym Millar debuted the novel "Living Target")
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Born in a small town in California, he spent his childhood and youth in Canada. He completed higher humanitarian education in the United States, in 1951 he became a doctor of philology, taught English. He served in the Navy for three years. In the mid-forties he began to write fiction and published 4 novels under his own name. In 1949, two new personalities appeared in the literary world - the author of detective novels Ross McDonald (under this pseudonym Millar debuted the novel "Living Target") and private investigator Lou Archer, the hero of this and the subsequent 17 novels and several stories. The uniqueness of this series of detective novels is that McDonald’s bestsellers almost immediately entered the curriculum of American colleges. English critics called MacDonald’s novels a “fundamental contribution to detective literature.” Ross MacDonald’s work is characterized by both the features of a “cool” detective and a serious psychological analysis of criminogenic relationships between people of different social and moral levels.