After the war, he decided to try writing for a year, to see if he could make a living. He served in the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. During WW2, he rose to the rank of Colonel, and while serving in the Army and in the Far East, sent a short story to his wife for sale, successfully. MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pa, and educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Harvard, where he took an MBA in 1939. Following complications of an earlier heart bypass operation, MacDonald slipped into a coma on December 10 and died at age 70, on December 28, 1986, in St. Over 500 short stories and 70 novels resulted, including 21 Travis McGee novels.
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