John D. MacDonald
Author
1916 – 1986
Who was John D. MacDonald?
John Dann MacDonald was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers.
MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. His best-known works include the popular and critically acclaimed Travis McGee series, and his novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear. In 1972, MacDonald was named a grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America, and he won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Mystery. Stephen King praised MacDonald as "the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." Kingsley Amis said, MacDonald "is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels?"
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- Born
- Jul 24, 1916
Sharon - Also known as
- John Dann MacDonald
- Peter Reed
- John Wade Farrell
- John Dann McDonald
- John MacDonald
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Syracuse University
- Harvard University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- Lived in
- Florida
- Died
- Dec 28, 1986
Milwaukee
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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