Tom Nolan
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Ross Macdonald: A Biography
Tom Nolan
- 2000 Macavity-Nonfiction winner
- 2000 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2000 Edgar-Critical/Biography nominee
- Score: 22.5
When he died in 1983, Ross Macdonald was the best-known and most highly regarded crime-fiction writer in America. Long considered the rightful successor to the mantles of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald and his Lew Archer-novels were hailed by The New York Times as “the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American.”
Now, in the first full-length biography of this extraordinary and influential writer, a much fuller picture emerges of a man to whom hiding things came as second nature. While it was no secret that Ross…
