Margaret Millar (1915–1994)
Auteur van Beast in View
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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, toon meer 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. toon minder
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Werken van Margaret Millar
Collected Millar: The Master at Her Zenith: Vanish in an Instant; Wives and Lovers; Beast in View; An Air That Kills;… (2016) 29 exemplaren
Collected Millar: Legendary Novels of Suspense: A Stranger in My Grave; How Like An Angel; The Fiend; Beyond This Point… (2016) 24 exemplaren
Collected Millar: The Dawn of Domestic Suspense: Fire Will Freeze; Experiment In Springtime; The Cannibal Heart; Do… (2017) 19 exemplaren
Collected Millar: The First Detectives: The Invisible Worm; The Weak-Eyed Bat; The Devil Loves Me; Wall of Eyes; The… (2017) 17 exemplaren
Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 (LOA #371): The Fiend / Doll / Run Man Run / The Tremor of Forgery… (2023) 16 exemplaren
Collected Millar: The Tom Aragon Novels: Ask for Me Tomorrow; The Murder of Miranda; Mermaid (2017) 16 exemplaren
Collected Millar: First Things, Last Things: Banshee; Spider Webs; It's All In The Family; Collected Short Fiction (2018) 12 exemplaren
The People Across the Canyon [short story] 2 exemplaren
Sólo monstruos 1 exemplaar
A CAIXA DE PRATA 1 exemplaar
VIDA POR VIDA 1 exemplaar
Muro de ojos 1 exemplaar
The Couple Next Door [short story] 1 exemplaar
Sólo una mirada 1 exemplaar
The Listening Walls | A Policeman at the Door | Man in Ambush — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense (2013) — Medewerker — 170 exemplaren
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Medewerker — 52 exemplaren
Women's wiles: An anthology of mystery stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1979) — Medewerker — 16 exemplaren
Crimes and Misfortunes: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Mysteries — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
A Choice of Murders: 23 Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of America (1958) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
The Dark Eyes of London | The Eight of Swords | The Iron Gates | The Second Confession | The Tragedy of Y — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Millar, Margaret
- Officiële naam
- Millar, Margaret Ellis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Sturm, Margaret Ellis
- Geboortedatum
- 1915-02-05
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1994-03-26
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Canada
- Geboorteplaats
- Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
- Plaats van overlijden
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Los Angeles, California, USA
Montecito, California, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Opleiding
- University of Toronto (1936)
- Beroepen
- novelist
screenwriter
mystery writer - Relaties
- Macdonald, Ross (husband)
- Organisaties
- Mystery Writers of America (President, 1957-1958)
National Audubon Society - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- MWA Grand Master (1983)
- Korte biografie
- 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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