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    • Books by John D. MacDonald

    The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
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    3.91 avg rating — 19,020 ratings — published 1964 — 105 editions
    Cape Fear
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    4.05 avg rating — 14,438 ratings — published 1957 — 86 editions
    Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2)
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    3.91 avg rating — 9,057 ratings — published 1964 — 66 editions
    A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee #3)
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    4.07 avg rating — 7,873 ratings — published 1964 — 68 editions
    A Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee #5)
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    4.10 avg rating — 7,005 ratings — published 1965 — 65 editions
    The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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    3.94 avg rating — 6,244 ratings — published 1964 — 70 editions
    Pale Gray for Guilt (Travis McGee #9)
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    4.18 avg rating — 5,489 ratings — published 1968 — 65 editions
    The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)
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    4.22 avg rating — 5,321 ratings — published 1970 — 69 editions
    One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)
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    4.12 avg rating — 5,351 ratings — published 1966 — 59 editions
    Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee #20)
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    4.18 avg rating — 5,248 ratings — published 1982 — 54 editions
    Free Fall in Crimson (Travis McGee #19)
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    4.15 avg rating — 5,204 ratings — published 1981 — 60 editions
    The Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee #21)
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    4.26 avg rating — 5,022 ratings — published 1984 — 54 editions
    Bright Orange for the Shroud
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    4.10 avg rating — 4,965 ratings — published 1965 — 57 editions
    The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)
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    4.10 avg rating — 4,932 ratings — published 1968 — 53 editions
    The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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    4.18 avg rating — 4,732 ratings — published 1978 — 12 editions
    Darker Than Amb

    Second reading : notable and neglected books revisited

    351 pages ; 21 cm

    This collection of five dozen pieces of literary criticism was published in the Washington Post between March 2003 and January 2010. It is a collection of Yardley's opinions of books that he believes are worthy of a second look. They scan the realms of fiction, biography and autobiography, memoirs, and history

    H.M. Pulham, Esq., by John P. Marquand -- W.C. Fields: his follies and fortunes, by Robert Lewis Taylor -- The autumn of the patriarch, by Gabriel García Márquez -- Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech -- The twelve Caesars, by Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves -- Lucky Jim, by Kingley Amis -- The dreadful lemon sky, by John D. MacDonald -- The woman within, by Ellen Glasgow -- Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding -- Paper Tiger, by Stanley Woodward -- The Reivers, by William Faulkner -- Notes of a native son, by James Baldwin -- Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier -- Someone like you, by Roald Dahl -- The long season, by Jim Brosnan -- Speak, memory, by Vladimir Nabokov -- The housebreaker of Shady Hill, by John Cheever -- The boys on the bus, by Timothy Crouse -- The sketch book, by Washington Irving -- The catcher in the rye, by J.D. Salinger -- Crazy salad, by Nora Ephron -- A new life, by Bernard Malamud -- Cyrano, by Edmund Rostand, translated by Brian Hooker -- The house on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau -- Pogo, by Walt Kelly -- The habit of being: the letters of Flannery O'Conner, edited by Sally Fitzgerald -- The death of the heart, by Elizabeth Bowen -- Satchmo: my life in New Orleans, by Louis Armstrong -- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- Look at me, by Anita Brookner -- Beat to quarters, by C.S. Forester -- The fathers, by Allen Tate -- Sula, by Toni Morrison -- The revolt of Mamie Stover, by William Bradford Huie -- The robber bridegroom, by Eudora Welty -- Fanny Hill, by John Cleland -- Poets in their youth, by Eileen Simpson -- The damnation of Theron

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    • This website is devoted to John D. MacDonald, author of 78 books, including the famous Travis McGee series.  JDM is well-known in mystery fiction writing, especially for his books with Florida as a setting.  Most of the current Florida mystery writers acknowledge JDM’s impact on their writing.

    Born In Sharon, Pa., MacDonald , as a young boy, wished he had been born a writer, believing that they were a separate "race," marked from birth.  By the time he died he had published 78 books, with more than 75 million copies in print. He graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in business; worked at several menial jobs before earning his MBA from Harvard; married and produced a son; and served in the OSS in India during WW2.

    He wrote nearly 500 short stories, and published his first novel ,The Brass Cupcake, in 1950. He continues to earn praise from millions of readers and lasting respect from fellow authors. He was given the Grandmaster Award in 1972 by the Mystery Writers of America; The American Book Award (1980); the Ben Franklin Award (1955);and was Guest of Honor at Bouchercon in 1983. Numerous other awards and Honorary Doctorates were given to him as well.

    Perhaps the greatest testament to his writing, now more than  25 years after his death in 1986, is that his books continue to sell, movies continue to be planned, and the internet continues to serve as a place to discuss his work and related matters (see  the Yahoo group Travis McGee Fan Club, eg.)  Or take a look at a young reader’s video on Travis McGee at: http://www.expotv.com/videos/reviews/4/52/Judgemenot3AJohnDMacDonald/120123.

    I have added a JDM blog.  Click on here: http://calbranche.wordpress.com to go to it.   And there’s another blog devoted the McGee novels , written by D.R. Martin.  Go to this link and check it out:

    http://drmar120.wordpress.com/say-hello-to-travis-mcgee/

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    John D. MacDonald


    Born

    in Sharon, PA, The United States

    July 24, 1916


    Died

    December 28, 1986


    Website

    http://jdmhomepage.org/index.html


    Genre

    Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy


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    John D. MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pa, and educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Harvard, where he took an MBA in 1939. During WW2, he rose to the rank of Colonel, and while serving in the Army and in the Far East, sent a short story to his wife for sale, successfully. He served in the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. After the war, he decided to try writing for a year, to see if he could make a living. Over 500 short stories and 70 novels resulted, including 21 Travis McGee novels.

    Following complications of an earlier heart bypass operation, MacDonald slipped into a coma on December 10 and died at age 70, on December 28, 1986, in St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee,John D. MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pa, and educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Harvard, where he took an MBA in 1939. During WW2, he rose to the rank of Colonel, and while serving in the Army and in the Far East, sent a short story to his wife for sale, successfully. He served in the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. After the war, he decided to try writing for a year, to see if he could make a living. Over 500 short stories and 70 novels resulted, including 21 Travis McGee novels.

    Following complications of an earlier heart bypass operation, MacDonald slipped into a coma on December 10 and died at age 70, on December 28, 1986, in St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was survived by his wife Dorothy (1911-1989) and a son, Maynard.

    In the years since his death MacDonald has been praised by authors as diverse as Stephen King, Spider Robinson, Jimmy Buffett, Kingsley Amis and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. Thirty-three ye