By Jonathan Yardley Tuesday, November 11, 2003; Page C01 An
occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders
notable and/or neglected books from the past.
For my money, John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee is one of the
great characters in contemporary American fiction -- not
crime fiction; fiction, period -- and millions of readers
surely agree. There are, as is announced across the top of
each Fawcett Crest paperback volume in the series, "32
Million Travis McGee Books in Print!" Most of the other crime
novels that MacDonald wrote over his long and astonishingly
prolific career have been consigned to out-of-print oblivion
-- in many cases most undeservedly so -- but Travis rolls
along, keeping MacDonald's memory alive and reminding us that
he was a far more accomplished and important novelist than is
generally recognized.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24443-2003Nov10.html
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