by Tom Nolan
Universal Studios, 246
university presses, 223–24, 229–30
Updike, John, 340, 375
Valéry, Paul, 53
van de Wetering, Janwillem, 400
Van Dine, S. S., 30
Vanish in an Instant (M. Millar), 131, 139, 183, 197, 280
Verlaine, Paul, 233
Vidal, Gore, 152
Vietnam War, 270, 275–76, 279
demonstrations against, 276, 293
“Violent Hero, Wilderness Heritage and Urban Reality, The: A Study of the Private Eye in the Novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald” (Parker), 298
Virginian-Pilot, 410
Vollick, Sylvia, 23
von Auw, Ivan, 67, 68, 71, 86–87, 89, 92, 99–100, 101, 113, 128–29, 143, 146, 150, 158, 166, 168–69, 177, 182, 190, 198, 202, 203, 214, 218, 219, 224, 230, 245, 247, 255, 256, 261, 262, 264, 266, 275, 279, 288, 290, 304, 307, 310, 313–14
Vonnegut, Kurt, 287–88, 290, 355
Voznesensky, Andrey, 12, 361
Wade, Bob, 130
Wagner, Ernest, 173, 174–75, 204, 210
Wagner, Robert, 264
Wakoski, Diane, 415
Walden (Thoreau), 248
Walker, Gerald, 237, 238, 383
Walkerton Herald, 16
Wallace, Archer, 49, 92
Wallace, Edgar, 24
Wallace, Lew, 92
Waller, Fats, 86
Waller, William, 339
Wall of Eyes (M. Millar), 65, 66, 68, 99
Wall Street Journal, 399–400, 410
Walsh, Chad, 53, 58, 62
Warga, Wayne, 403–4
Warner, Jack, 74, 263, 266
Warner Bros., 73–77, 90, 102, 209, 236, 263, 273, 356
and Lew Archer series, 260–61, 263–67, 273
Washington Post, 241, 275, 291, 410, 412
Washington Post Book World, 370–71
Washington Star, 241, 370
Watergate hearings, 336–37
Waterloo College, 35–36
Watson, John Broadus, 50
Waugh, Hillary, 325
Weaver, Robert, 410
Web, The, 150
Webb, Jack, 131
Webster, John, 315
Weekly Variety, 266
Well Wrought Urn, The (Brooks), 62
Welty, Eudora, 12, 293, 302, 313, 341, 342, 398, 403
KM in first meeting and visit with, 310–12, 333
KM on intellect of, 339
and KM’s Alzheimer’s disease, 405–8
as KM’s fan, 293, 298–99, 302, 333–34
KM’s relationship with, 333–34, 337–38, 339, 340, 361, 388
at Santa Barbara Writers Conference, 360–61, 369–70
Underground Man reviewed by, 302–5, 307, 318, 324, 334
Wenner, Jann, 373
West, 274, 327
West, Nathanael, 11, 399
Western Ontario, University of, 36–37, 38–45, 155, 244, 382
Westwick, John A., 165, 172, 173, 294–95
When the Bough Breaks (Kellerman), 413
Where Are the Children? (Clark), 386
White, Phyllis, 280, 281
White, William A. P, see Boucher, Anthony
Who’s Who in America, 270, 316
Wilcox, Collin, 292, 326, 402
Wild Bunch, The, 298
Wilder, Billy, 70
wildfires, Santa Ana winds and, 248–49
Williams, Mary Lou, 86
Wilson, Edmund, 54
Wilson Library Bulletin, 146
Winn, Dilys, 386
Wolfe, Bernard, 84
Wolfe, Peter, 307, 310, 312, 313, 314, 316, 333, 349, 354, 355, 357, 359, 369, 377, 381
Women’s Advertising Council of New York, 309
Wood, Albert, 29
Wood, Ted, 410
Woodland Democrat, 206
Woods, Crawford, 341, 342
Woods, Michael, 372
Woodward, Joanne, 261, 347, 356
Woolf, Virginia, 303
World Crime Writers Conference, 353
World War II, 62, 74, 75
Wright, Eric, 410
Wright, Lee, 310, 366
Wright, Richard, 61
Writers Guild, 266
writers’ lunch at Harry’s (Josie’s) El Cielito, 197, 243, 252–53, 254, 271, 276, 282, 290, 301, 324, 334–35, 344–46, 402
Writer’s Yearbook, 378
Yale, “Literature X” course at, 324
Yale Drama School, 334
Yeats, W. B., 231, 233, 255
Young, Lester, 85
Young, Noel, 187–88, 402
Young Idea, The (Coward), 37
Yulin, Harris, 414
Zackel, Fred, 370
Zanuck, Darryl F., 114, 156, 157
Zevon, Crystal, 374–75, 393
Zevon, Warren, 374–75, 390, 393–94, 409
Ziegler, Evarts, 245, 246, 247
Znamya, 318, 320
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All quotations from unpublished letters and other unpublished writings by Kenneth Millar and all quotations from unpublished letters by Margaret Millar are used with the extremely kind permission of the trustee of the Margaret Millar Charitable Remainder Unitrust, owner of the books, copyrights, and materials related to the collected works of Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald) and Margaret Millar. The trustee has also kindly allowed use of lengthy excerpts from the published Ross Macdonald essays “The Scene of the Crime” and “The Writer as Detective Hero,” and from the published Kenneth Millar poems “Wild Goose” and “If Light Were Dark.” Permissions continued on page 422.