Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

John Dickson Carr: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Carter Dickson • Carr Dickson
Born November 30, 1906 • Uniontown • Pennsylvania
Died February 27, 1977 (aged 70) • Greenville • South Carolina
Awards And Honors Edgar Award (1950)

Photos

Carr, John Dickson
See All Images →
Author Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly
American author
Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner
American author
One-half of the writing team behind “Ellery Queen”
Ellery Queen
American author
Grafton, Sue
Sue Grafton
American writer
default image
Sara Paretsky
American author
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler
American writer
default image
Mickey Spillane
American author
default image
Ross Macdonald
American author
default image
Rex Stout
American author
default image
Ira Levin
American author
Stephen King smiling and wearing glasses and a light blue collared shirt.
Stephen King
American novelist
Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley
American author
Portrait of American author Elmore Leonard seated in an armchair, wearing glasses and a light-colored jacket, at a bookshop event in East Lansing, Michigan in 2003.
Elmore Leonard
American author
default image
Phyllis Ayame Whitney
American author
Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman
American novelist
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
American novelist
Anne Rice in 2016, with gray bobbed hair, wearing a dark top and a beaded necklace, looking at the camera against a dark background.
Anne Rice
American author
Lew Wallace
Lewis Wallace
American author, soldier, and diplomat
Master of the hard-boiled detective story
Dashiell Hammett
American writer