Margaret Millar (1915–1994)
Autor(a) de Beast in View
About the Author
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, mostrar mais 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. mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por 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 exemplares
Collected Millar: Legendary Novels of Suspense: A Stranger in My Grave; How Like An Angel; The Fiend; Beyond This Point… (2016) 24 exemplares
Collected Millar: The Dawn of Domestic Suspense: Fire Will Freeze; Experiment In Springtime; The Cannibal Heart; Do… (2017) 20 exemplares
Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 (LOA #371): The Fiend / Doll / Run Man Run / The Tremor of Forgery… (2023) 17 exemplares
Collected Millar: The First Detectives: The Invisible Worm; The Weak-Eyed Bat; The Devil Loves Me; Wall of Eyes; The… (2017) 17 exemplares
Collected Millar: The Tom Aragon Novels: Ask for Me Tomorrow; The Murder of Miranda; Mermaid (2017) 16 exemplares
Collected Millar: First Things, Last Things: Banshee; Spider Webs; It's All In The Family; Collected Short Fiction (2018) 12 exemplares
Sólo monstruos 2 exemplares
The People Across the Canyon [short story] 2 exemplares
Las paredes oyen 1 exemplar
A CAIXA DE PRATA 1 exemplar
VIDA POR VIDA 1 exemplar
Muro de ojos 1 exemplar
The Couple Next Door [short story] 1 exemplar
Sólo una mirada 1 exemplar
The Listening Walls | A Policeman at the Door | Man in Ambush — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense (2013) — Contribuidor — 173 exemplares
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Women's wiles: An anthology of mystery stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1979) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Crimes and Misfortunes: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Mysteries — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
A Choice of Murders: 23 Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of America (1958) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Detective-omnibus — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
The Dark Eyes of London | The Eight of Swords | The Iron Gates | The Second Confession | The Tragedy of Y (1965) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Millar, Margaret
- Nome legal
- Millar, Margaret Ellis
- Outros nomes
- Sturm, Margaret Ellis
- Data de nascimento
- 1915-02-05
- Data de falecimento
- 1994-03-26
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
- Local de nascimento
- Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
- Local de falecimento
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Los Angeles, California, USA
Montecito, California, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Educação
- University of Toronto (1936)
- Ocupações
- novelist
screenwriter
mystery writer - Relações
- Macdonald, Ross (husband)
- Organizações
- Mystery Writers of America (President, 1957-1958)
National Audubon Society - Prémios e menções honrosas
- MWA Grand Master (1983)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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.
Membros
Críticas
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Edgar Award (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 51
- Also by
- 39
- Membros
- 2,647
- Popularidade
- #9,702
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 59
- ISBN
- 291
- Línguas
- 14
- Marcado como favorito
- 5