MacArthur Park

<h4>Tom Nolan grew up in Los Angeles and began writing for the Los Angeles Times magazine West in 1966. He is the author of Ross Macdonald: A Biography (Scribner, 1999) and has written and edited several other books. He reviews crime fiction for the Wall Street Journal.</h4>

Tom Nolan

“L.A.’s a Strange Place”: On Judith Freeman’s “MacArthur Park”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

It’s All One Case: A Conversation Between Biographers

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

Noir

Tom Nolan grew up in Los Angeles and began writing for the Los Angeles Times magazine West in 1966. He is the author of Ross Macdonald: A Biography (Scribner, 1999) and has written and edited several other books. He reviews crime fiction for the Wall Street Journal.