Margaret Millar
Margaret Millar Born Margaret Ellis Sturm (1915-02-05)February 5, 1915 Kitchener, Ontario Died March 26, 1994(1994-03-26) (aged 79) Montecito, California Occupation Novelist Nationality American-Canadian Genre mystery, suspense Spouse Ross Macdonald Margaret Ellis Millar (née Sturm) (February 5, 1915 - March 26, 1994) was an American-Canadian mystery and suspense writer. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, she was educated at the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. She moved to the United States after marrying Kenneth Millar (better known under the pen name Ross Macdonald). They resided for decades in the city of Santa Barbara, which was often utilized as a locale in her later novels under the pseudonyms of San Felice or Santa Felicia. The Millars had a daughter who died in 1970.