A resident of Canada until 1941, and after then, of California. His novels prior to 1949 were written under his real name, Kenneth Millar. His well-crafted Lew Archer novels are of a much higher caliber than normally found in the detective pulp-novel genre.
[1] Pinecrest Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA
Father: John Macdonald Millar ("Jack", d. 1932)
Mother: Annie Moyer (d. brain cancer)
Wife: Margaret Ellis Sturm (m. 2-Jun-1938, until his death)
Daughter: Linda Jane Millar (b. 1939, d. Nov-1970)
High School: Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute
University: BA, University of Western Ontario (1938)
University: University of Toronto
Teacher: Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute
Teacher: University of Michigan
University: PhD, University of Michigan (1951)
Professor: Santa Barbara City College
Mystery Writers of America President (1965)
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Traveled to Nazi Germany 1938
Took the Fifth grand jury testimony, daughter's vehicular manslaughter case, Santa Barbara, CA (1956)
Nervous Breakdown 1956
Canadian Ancestry
Risk Factors: Former Smoker
Author of books:
The Dark Tunnel (1944, novel)
Trouble Follows Me (1946, novel)
Blue City (1947, novel)
The Three Roads (1948, novel)
The Moving Target (1949, novel, Lew Archer)
The Drowning Pool (1950, novel, Lew Archer)
The Way Some People Die (1951, novel, Lew Archer)
The Ivory Grin (1952, novel, Lew Archer)
Find a Victim (1954, novel, Lew Archer)
The Name Is Archer (1955, novel, Lew Archer)
The Barbarous Coast (1956, novel, Lew Archer)
The Doomsters (1958, novel, Lew Archer)
The Galton Case (1959, novel, Lew Archer)
The Wycherly Woman (1961, novel, Lew Archer)
The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962, novel, Lew Archer)
The Chill (1964, novel, Lew Archer)
The Far Side of the Dollar (1965, novel, Lew Archer)
Black Money (1966, novel, Lew Archer)
Archer in Hollywood (1967, novel, Lew Archer)
The Instant Enemy (1968, novel, Lew Archer)
The Goodbye Look (1969, novel, Lew Archer)
The Underground Man (1971, novel, Lew Archer)
Sleeping Beauty (1973, novel, Lew Archer)
The Blue Hammer (1976, novel, Lew Archer)
AKA Kenneth Millar