The Moving Target

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ross MACDONALD was born near San Francisco in 1915. He was educated in Canadian schools, traveled widely in Europe, and acquired advanced degrees and a Phi Beta Kappa key at the University of Michigan. In 1938 he married a Canadian girl who is now well known as the novelist Margaret Millar. Mr. Macdonald (Kenneth Millar in private life) taught school and later college, and served as Communications Officer aboard an escort carrier in the Pacific. For over twenty years he has lived in Santa Barbara and written mystery novels about the fascinating and changing society of his native state. Among his leading interests are conservation and politics. He is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. In 1964, his novel The Chill was given a Silver Dagger award by the Crime Writers’ Association of Great Britain. Mr. Macdonald’s The Far Side of the Dollar was named the best crime novel of 1965 by the same organization. And The Moving Target was made into the highly successful movie Harper (1966).