Margaret Ellis Sturm

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Margaret Ellis Sturm, better known by her pen name Margaret Millar, was a Canadian-American mystery and suspense novelist renowned for her psychologically complex crime fiction.

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Margaret Ellis Sturm canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novelist
person
alsoKnownAs Margaret Millar NERFINISHED
awardReceived Edgar Award for Best Novel NERFINISHED
Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Canada
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1915-02-05
dateOfDeath 1994-03-26
fieldOfWork psychological crime fiction
genre crime fiction
mystery fiction
psychological suspense
hasInfluenced modern psychological crime writers
influencedBy classic detective fiction
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Mystery Writers of America NERFINISHED
movement Golden Age of detective fiction NERFINISHED
name Margaret Ellis Sturm NERFINISHED
nationality Canadian-American
notableFor psychologically complex crime fiction
notableWork Beast in View NERFINISHED
How Like an Angel NERFINISHED
The Iron Gates NERFINISHED
The Listening Walls NERFINISHED
occupation crime writer
novelist
penName Margaret Millar NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Kitchener, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Santa Barbara, California, United States NERFINISHED
residence Santa Barbara, California, United States NERFINISHED
spouse Kenneth Millar NERFINISHED
Ross Macdonald NERFINISHED

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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.
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Subject: Margaret Ellis Sturm
Description of subject: Margaret Ellis Sturm, better known by her pen name Margaret Millar, was a Canadian-American mystery and suspense novelist renowned for her psychologically complex crime fiction.

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Margaret Millar birthName Margaret Ellis Sturm