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John D. MacDonald

Lifespan
1916 – 1986
Nationality
American
Active
1951
Works held
1

John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) became one of America’s finest crime novelists, creator of Travis McGee and author of The Executioners (filmed as Cape Fear), but he served a busy apprenticeship in the late-1940s and 1950s SF magazines, and wrote genre novels like Wine of the Dreamers and the classic Ballroom of the Skies. His hard, clean storytelling was honed in the pulps.

The works

  1. 1951
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Wrote across

1950s

Recurring themes

First ContactSocial SF

Kindred authors shared themes

A. R. HilliardAdrien CoblentzAlan CoganAlan Edward NourseAlbert HernhuterAlbert TeichnerAlex JamesAlfred Bester

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Stephen MarloweRandall GarrettRobert SilverbergBryce WaltonAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperMurray LeinsterWinston K. MarksCharles L. FontenayPoul Anderson

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