# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ross-macdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:13:33.685Z

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name: "Ross Macdonald"
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description: "Kenneth Millar, 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 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."
tagline: "American writer (1915–1983)"
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birthDate: "1915-12-13"
deathDate: "1983-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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