Margaret Millar

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crime fiction writer mystery writer novelist person suspense novelist

Margaret Millar was a Canadian-American mystery and suspense novelist renowned for her psychologically complex crime fiction and influential contributions to mid-20th-century detective literature.

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Label	Occurrences
Margaret Millar canonical	2

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	crime fiction writer ⓘ mystery writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ suspense novelist ⓘ
awardReceived	Edgar Award ⓘ surface form: Edgar Award for Best Novel Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award ⓘ surface form: Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America
birthName	Margaret Ellis Sturm ⓘ
causeOfDeath	heart failure ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Canada ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1915-02-05 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1994-03-26 ⓘ
ethnicOrigin	Canadian ⓘ
familyName	Millar ⓘ Sturm ⓘ
fieldOfWork	detective literature ⓘ psychological crime fiction ⓘ
genre	crime fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ psychological suspense ⓘ
givenName	Margaret ⓘ
hasSubject	female protagonists in crime fiction ⓘ
influenced	later crime fiction writers ⓘ
languagesSpokenOrWritten	English ⓘ
memberOf	Mystery Writers of America ⓘ
movement	mid-20th-century detective fiction ⓘ
name	Margaret Millar self-link ⓘ
notableAchievement	pioneered psychologically oriented crime fiction in North America ⓘ significant contributor to mid-20th-century detective literature ⓘ
notableWork	A Stranger in My Grave ⓘ Beast in View ⓘ How Like an Angel ⓘ The Birds and the Beasts Were There ⓘ The Fiend ⓘ The Iron Gates ⓘ The Listening Walls ⓘ The Murder of Miranda ⓘ Vanish in an Instant ⓘ
occupation	novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Kitchener ⓘ surface form: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
placeOfDeath	Santa Barbara, California, United States ⓘ
residence	Santa Barbara, California, United States ⓘ
spouse	Kenneth Millar ⓘ Ross Macdonald ⓘ
writingStyle	focus on psychological suspense ⓘ psychologically complex characterization ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Margaret Millar
Description of subject: Margaret Millar was a Canadian-American mystery and suspense novelist renowned for her psychologically complex crime fiction and influential contributions to mid-20th-century detective literature.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Millar → hasNotableBearer → Margaret Millar ⓘ

Margaret Millar → name → Margaret Millar self-link ⓘ