Maureen Corrigan did this excellent story about Ross Macdonald on NPR on April 21, 2015, in conjunction with the release of the first of several Library of America collections of Ross Macdonald’s novels, starting with four of his 1950s novels.

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, is a critic-in-residence and lecturer at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America.