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John D. MacDonald

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John Dann MacDonald, better known as John D. MacDonald, launched his writing career with a stroke of good luck. His wife submitted to a magazine one of his short stories, and the magazine published it. During the next forty years, McDonald wrote hundreds more stories as well as his series of detective novels. MacDonald was born in 1916 in Pennsylvania. He enrolled in the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, but left without completing his degree. He later finished his undergraduate degree at Syracuse University and received an M.B.A. from Harvard University. MacDonald served in the OSS in Asia during World War II. MacDonald's novel The Executioners was adapted into the film Cape Fear. MacDonald was named a grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America and won the only National Book Award awarded in the mystery category. He died in 1986.

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