Carr, John Dickson

John Dickson Carr (1906 1977) was one of the most popular authors of Golden Age British-style detective novels.Born in Pennsylvania and the son of a US congressman, Carr graduated from Haverford College in 1929.Soon thereafter, he moved to England where he married an Englishwoman and began his mystery-writing career. In 1948, he returned to the US as an internationally known author.Carr received the Mystery Writers of America s highest honor, the Grand Master Award, and was one of the few Americans ever admitted into the prestigious, but almost exclusively British, Detection Club.