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John D. MacDonald: Biography from Answers.com

MacDonald enrolled at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania but dropped out during his sophomore year, where he was not doing well.
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MacDonald Top Home > Library > Literature & Language > Works by Authors (1916-1986) 1964The Deep Blue Good-By.
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MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida.
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After his discharge from service, he spent the next four months writing short stories, generating some 800,000 words and losing 20 pounds (9.1 kg) while typing during 14-hour daily sessions seven days a week.
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Between 1953 and 1964, MacDonald specialized in crime thrillers, many of which are now considered masterpieces of the hardboiled genre.
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The McGee novels feature an ever- changing array of female companions, some particularly nasty villains, exotic locales in Florida, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and appearances by a sidekick known only as "Meyer," an economist of international renown and a Ph.D.
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John D. MacDonald

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.
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Numerous other awards and Honorary Doctorates were given to him as well.
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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.
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PARKER "...what a joy that these timeless and treasured novels are available again."                                                                                 --ED McBAIN                 “To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D.
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I loved it because he was the first modern writer to nail Florida dead- center, to capture all its languid sleaze, racy sense of promise, and breath- grabbing beauty...For me and many natives (of Florida), some of McGee's finest moments were when he paused, mid-adventure, to inveigh against the runaway exploitation of this rare and dying paradise.
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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.
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Authors and Creators: John D. MacDonald - The Thrilling Detective ...

CONDOMINIUM (1980) Television movie Based on the novel by John D.
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"Most readers loved MacDonald's work because he told a rip-roaring yarn.
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Sam Moran (Boone), a fishing boat skipper, searches for a missing party girl.
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He continued to pump them out, until, as he put it, "the last of them were shot out from under me." Fortunately, just as the pulps were dying out, MacDonald was able to catch the rising wave of the paperback boom.
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CAPE FEAR...Buy this video (1991, Universal) Based on the novel The Executioners by John D.
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What could have been merely a string of cheesy paperbacks about a mouth-breathing pseudo-Robin Hood beach bum instead became, in many ways, a chronicle of America's own growing awareness of social issues.
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John D. McDonald - www.kirjasto.sci.fi

He believes he's being watched all the time, and without his gun he is helpless.
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Travis McGee: The Empty Copper Sea (1982), starring Sam Elliott, was a television film, directed by Andrew V.
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MacDonald creates suspense from the different moral stands of his characters.
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I wouldn't expect you to understand this, but it's a great comfort for a girl to know she could not possibly sink any lower." (Barrie Chase to Robert Mitchum, playing the psychopath Max Cody) The plot of the novel revolves around the idea, that to stop an unstoppable monster, in this case a psychopath rapist, the protagonist must abandon all idealism and become a monster himself.
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His first story was published in Story magazine, and the first novel, THE BRASS CUPCAKE, appeared in 1950.
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Johnny, who runs a gas station, and Don, a cunning lawyer, are her rivals.
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The Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald

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John D MacDonald - Fantastic Fiction

John D MacDonaldFantasticFiction > Authors M > John D MacDonaldPreferencesHome    New Authors    New Books    Coming Soon    Most Popular    Top AuthorsBrowse AuthorsAHOVBIPWCJQXDKRYELSZFMTGNUJohn D MacDonald  (1916 - 1986)Search AuthorsSearch Books About John D MacDonaldJohn D MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pa, and educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Harvard, where he took an MBA in 1939.
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John D. MacDonald: A Laurent Auguste Page

In essence, the format of the novels, written in the first-person narrative, seldom changes: someone comes to McGee, or he is referred to them, with a problem, and as a last resort, McGee tries to help.
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He stated that he tried to respond as he thought the other two would have.
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Even though the novels are not long by today's standards, MacDonald created real, credible and deep characters, exhibiting a wide range of personalities, all the while using a parsimonious yet descriptive writing style.
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After the third try, MacDonald found that he had created a character with which he could live, and he sent it in, asking them to hold it for a short while.
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An ex-pulpster now writing novels, MacKinlay Kantor, chided MacDonald about his writing, and asked when MacDonald was going to write a “real” book, not just paperback trash.
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He describes the impact of the novels perhaps better than anyone else could: "Most readers loved MacDonald's work because he told a rip-roaring yarn.
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John McDonald, Boston-based Composer and Pianist

TO buy CD (BMOP/sound 1020, $16.99), visit http://www.bmop.org/audio-recordings/alan-hovhaness-exile- symphony John's compositions have been performed on four continents, and his work is frequently featured in the U.S.A. by such ensembles as Alea III, Arden Quartet, Boston Composers String Quartet, BMOP, DaVinci Quartet, Hartt Contemporary Players, Kalistos Chamber Orchestra, Marimolin, Brave New Works, and by pianists David Holzman, Veronica Jochum and Andrew Rangell.
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103 | Song of the Sea | Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Strings featuring John McDonald, piano, Kenneth Radnofsky, soprano saxophone In Alan Hovhaness: Exile Symphony, BMOP/ sound revives the works of this century’s most influential Armenian- American composer.
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Also featured on the disc are the composer’s three Armenian Rhapsodies, which freely integrate Armenian musical sources, tending towards the darker, lower tones found in traditional village tunes.
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1, Exile, composed as a tribute to Armenians displaced before and after the genocide during World War I.
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$25 ($15 Senior, Student) Saturday, October 16, 2011, 3:00PM, Tufts University Granoff Music Center, Distler Performance Hall, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA.
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Gil Rose leads the BMOP musicians in a powerful performance of the title piece, Symphony No.
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He wrote nearly 500 short stories, and published his        first novel ,The Brass Cupcake, in 1950.
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       But by the time he died he had published 78 books, with more than        75 million copies in print.
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It was first published in the mid-Sixties by Len and June Moffat.
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  It makes for fascinating stories and they do abound.    However, there is no truth involved.
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   THE RUMOR OF THE LAST MCGEE NOVEL       From time to time readers will inquire as to the truth of the rumor that JDM wrote a black McGee, to be published after the writer's death.
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   We think John would have missed him  as you would." (see JDM Bibliophile #39)     JDM himself said this many times.
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John D. McDonald | LinkedIn

Activities and Societies: Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary), Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary), Delta Sigma Phi (social fraternity) John D.
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McDonald's Education University of California, Berkeley MBA, Finance 1975 – 1978 Admitted to special San Francisco MBA Program, which required five prerequisites (microeconomics, macroeconomics, calculus, statistics, accounting) to be completed prior to admittance.
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VP, Automation - Power System Automation KEMA Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry March 2002 – November 2007 (5 years 9 months) Manager, Substation Automation KEMA Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry October 1995 – February 2002 (6 years 5 months) EMS Business Unit Director Advanced Control Systems Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Utilities industry August 1991 – September 1995 (4 years 2 months) Director, Applications Engineering Advanced Control Systems Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Utilities industry February 1986 – July 1991 (5 years 6 months) Manager, Advanced Control Technologies Cooper Power Systems Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CBE; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry February 1982 – February 1986 (4 years 1 month) Manager, Power Systems Engineering Brown Boveri Control Systems, Inc.
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John teaches a Smart Grid course at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Smart Grid course for GE, and is an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer.
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McDonald's Experience Director, Technical Strategy and Policy Development GE Digital Energy Public Company; 10,001+ employees; GE; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry April 2010 – Present (2 years) In this role, John provides the strategic leadership and develops the long term plans to optimize Digital Energy’s competitive position.
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McDonald, P.E., is Director, Technical Strategy & Policy Development for GE Digital Energy.
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John D. MacDonald - Barnes & Noble

He mailed it home to his wife, who sent it to a magazine without his knowledge.
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As a genre stylist, he is without peer; yet most critics agree that his literary skills transcend the limitations of genre.
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MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen." Good To Know Although MacDonald always included a color in the titles of the Travis McGee novels, he never used either black or white.
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For several years, MacDonald made a decent living writing mysteries, Westerns, crime stories, and science fiction for the pulps.
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MacDonald (1916-1986) was born in Sharon, PA, received his M.B.A. from Harvard University, and served in the OSS in India during WWII.
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After dozens of submissions and rejections, he finally sold a story to Dime Detective, one of the popular pulp magazines of the day.
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Fictionwise eBooks: John D. MacDonald

MacDonald, Lawrence Block, Ed McBain   This anthology features some of the most famous authors writing at the peak of their careers!
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MacDonald Bio: John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916?December 28, 1986) was an American author.
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MacDonald   Her veneer was big city--but one look and you knew that Toni Rassell's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from.
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Category: Science Fiction/Mystery/Crime 1 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor   Regular     Club You Pay:  $4.49     $3.82 3 Master of Noir: Volume Three [MultiFormat] by John D.
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John D. MacDonald - American Society of Authors and Writers

MacDonald Low-life detective Travis McGee owes a lot to a writer who shares nearly none of the ne'r-do-well's personality traits--his very life, for instance.  Mystery novelist John MacDonald invented the famous mythical gumshoe, who lives on a houseboat he won in a poker game, years ago; and he's been selling well ever since.
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MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, in 1916.  He began to read after nearly dying in childhood of scarlet fever.  He spent more than a year in bed, whiling away the hours by voraciously consuming every book he could find.
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John D. MacDonald - Ask Jeeves Encyclopedia

On Writing (Hodder and Stoughton, 2000, ISBN 0- 340-76996-3) ↑ Jonathan Yardley, "John D.
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The novel Cry Hard, Cry Fast was adapted as a two-part episode of the TV series Run for Your Life in November 1967.
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As MacDonald honed his craft, he developed his narrative "voice," one of the most distinctive in the suspense fiction field.
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Retrieved 2010-05-06.  ↑ Mystery Readers International: Florida Mysteries, Volume 15, No.
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He had grown tired of trying to write when everything had to pass the military censors.
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The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/ 12/29/obituaries/john-d-macdonald-novelist-is-dead.html.
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John D. MacDonald (Author of Deep Blue Good-by)

MacDonald (Author of Deep Blue Good-by) register tour sign in Home My Books Friends Recommendations listopia giveaways popular goodreads voice ebooks fun trivia quizzes quotes community groups creative writing people events Explore   John's Fans (129) More fans… John D.
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It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.
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Integrity is not a search for the rewards of integrity.
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Maybe all you ever get for it is the largest kick in the ass the world can provide.
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After war service in the Far East he wrote hundreds of stories for the pulps and over seventy novels, including the 21 in the Travis McGee sequence.See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Mac...
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