Editing Lew Archer (section)

==Recognition==
According to a [[New York Times]] article, "some critics ranked him [Macdonald] among the best American novelists of his generation". William Goldman of the newspaper's Book Review section wrote that the Archer books were "the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American".<ref>[https://movies2.nytimes.com/books/first/n/nolan-macdonald.html Ross Macdonald - A Biography By Tom Nolan]</ref>

Over his career, Macdonald was presented with several awards, primarily for his Lew Archer series. In 1964, the [[Mystery Writers of America]] awarded the author the Silver Dagger award for ''The Chill''. Ten years later, he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and in 1982 he received "The Eye", the Lifetime Achievement [[Shamus Award]] from the Private Eye Writers of America. In 1982, he was awarded the Robert Kirsch Award (the [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize]]) by the [[Los Angeles Times]] for "an outstanding body of work by an author from the West or featuring the West."<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1983/07/13/mystery-writer-ross-macdonald-67-dies/fe469a0f-ac64-4f37-a582-ae2656ce0d4d/ Mystery Writer Ross Macdonald, 67, Dies July 13, 1983]</ref>