John D. MacDonald Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986) 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?"
His stories often involve a drug smuggling job that goes horribly wrong
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His stories often contain villains who enjoy sexually preying on vulnerable women.
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My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.
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Known best for his fictional detective Travis McGee who, in MacDonald's books, lived on a house boat in the Bahia Mar marina in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Bahia Mar actually does exist and slip F-18, McGee's slip, is kept perpetually empty. The slip also features a bronze plaque memorializing both the author and his creation.
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The Travis McGee series was the first mystery series set in southern Florida.
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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 577-578. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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