Margaret Millar (1915–1994)
Auteur de Beast in View
A propos de l'auteur
Margaret Millar (1915-1994) was horn in Ontario, Canada and was educated at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, majoring in classics. In 1938 she married Kenneth Millar (who wrote under the name Ross Macdonald). She published her first novel, The Invisible Worm, afficher plus in 1941 and she worked as a screenwriter for Warner Brothers. It was her 1955 novel, Beast in View, that won Millar the coveted Edgarsup/sup Award for Best Novel and the boob was later adapted for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour. She was active in the environmental conservation movement in California in the 1960s and was named a Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Times in 1965, and in 1983 she became a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Margaret Millar
Collected Millar: The Master at Her Zenith: Vanish in an Instant; Wives and Lovers; Beast in View; An Air That Kills;… (2016) 30 exemplaires
Collected Millar: Legendary Novels of Suspense: A Stranger in My Grave; How Like An Angel; The Fiend; Beyond This Point… (2016) 24 exemplaires
Collected Millar: The Dawn of Domestic Suspense: Fire Will Freeze; Experiment In Springtime; The Cannibal Heart; Do… (2017) 20 exemplaires
Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 (LOA #371): The Fiend / Doll / Run Man Run / The Tremor of Forgery… (2023) 17 exemplaires
Collected Millar: The First Detectives: The Invisible Worm; The Weak-Eyed Bat; The Devil Loves Me; Wall of Eyes; The… (2017) 17 exemplaires
Collected Millar: The Tom Aragon Novels: Ask for Me Tomorrow; The Murder of Miranda; Mermaid (2017) 16 exemplaires
Collected Millar: First Things, Last Things: Banshee; Spider Webs; It's All In The Family; Collected Short Fiction (2018) 12 exemplaires
Sólo monstruos 2 exemplaires
The People Across the Canyon [short story] 2 exemplaires
Las paredes oyen 1 exemplaire
A CAIXA DE PRATA 1 exemplaire
VIDA POR VIDA 1 exemplaire
Muro de ojos 1 exemplaire
The Couple Next Door [short story] 1 exemplaire
Sólo una mirada 1 exemplaire
The Listening Walls | A Policeman at the Door | Man in Ambush — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense (2013) — Contributeur — 173 exemplaires
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Contributeur — 52 exemplaires
Women's wiles: An anthology of mystery stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1979) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Dolly Dolittle's crime club 2 @Schreckliche Geschichten und Cartoons (1977) — Auteur — 5 exemplaires
Crimes and Misfortunes: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Mysteries — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
A Choice of Murders: 23 Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of America (1958) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Detective-omnibus — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
The Dark Eyes of London | The Eight of Swords | The Iron Gates | The Second Confession | The Tragedy of Y (1965) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Millar, Margaret
- Nom légal
- Millar, Margaret Ellis
- Autres noms
- Sturm, Margaret Ellis
- Date de naissance
- 1915-02-05
- Date de décès
- 1994-03-26
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
- Lieu du décès
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Los Angeles, California, USA
Montecito, California, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Études
- University of Toronto (1936)
- Professions
- novelist
screenwriter
mystery writer - Relations
- Macdonald, Ross (husband)
- Organisations
- Mystery Writers of America (President, 1957-1958)
National Audubon Society - Prix et distinctions
- MWA Grand Master (1983)
- Courte biographie
- Margaret Ellis Sturm, born in Canada, moved to the USA after marrying writer Kenneth Millar (who used the pen name Ross Macdonald) in 1938. They lived for many years in Santa Barbara, California, which often appears as a locale in her books under the pseudonyms San Felice or Santa Felicia. She published her first novel in 1941 and went on to write popular mysteries and non-mystery novels. Her autobiography appeared in 1968.
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Critiques
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Edgar Award (1)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 51
- Aussi par
- 39
- Membres
- 2,629
- Popularité
- #9,762
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 59
- ISBN
- 291
- Langues
- 14
- Favoris
- 5