White, Patrick, 174, 176, 187, 236, 507n4
Wiggins, Charles E., 507n15
Wilkins, Bill, 351
Willa Cather Centennial, Nebraska, 164, 189, 505n54, 506n3
William E. Massey Sr. Lectures, 458–459
Williams, Tennessee, 445–446
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl), 63–64
Winter, William, 442, 509n21, 514n2
Winters, Yvor, 321
Wodehouse, P. G., 500n33
Wolfe, Peter, 135, 156
Woods, Crawford, 133, 141, 144, 146, 149, 151
Woodward, Bob, 293
Woodward, Joanne, 508n5
Wooldridge, Dean, 136
Woolf, Virginia, xiv, 107, 312, 326, 510n21
World Congress of Crime Writers Conference, London, 229. See also Crime Writer’s Conference, London
Wright, Lee, 49
writer’s block: European trips and, 214–215; Macdonald on, 215, 218; Millar, Margaret, 216, 218; Welty on, 217, 292
Yeats, William Butler, 120
Yellin, Herb, 439–440, 448–449, 514n9, 514n1
Young, Noel, 155, 157, 504n40
Zackel, Fred, xv, 260, 358, 360, 361, 362, 373–374, 512n16
The Zebra-Striped Hearse (Macdonald), 48; in Archer in Jeopardy, 437, 501n20, 514n11; Macdonald on, 438; possibility of film based on, 423; Welty on, 300, 437, 438; Wilfrid Sheed review and, 47
Zevon, Warren, 510n19
Eudora Welty in the cover photo for a 1941 publicity pamphlet announcing her first book. Photograph by Chestina Welty, used courtesy Eudora Welty LLC.
Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar) photographed by publisher Alfred Knopf in Knopf’s New York City office, 1965. Photograph courtesy of Alfred A. Knopf.
Eudora returning to the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, just before meeting Kenneth Millar on May 17, 1971. Photograph by Paul Matthews.
Kenneth and Margaret Millar at the opening of the new Kitchener, Ontario, public library in May 1971, just after Ken and Eudora met in New York City. Photograph courtesy of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Collection, Dana Porter Library, University of Waterloo.
Eudora Welty and Walker Percy being interviewed by William F. Buckley Jr., December 12, 1972. Photograph courtesy Eudora Welty LLC.
Ken, Eudora, and artist-author Don Freeman in Santa Barbara. Photograph courtesy of Eudora Welty LLC.
A protective Ken with grandson Jimmie at the Hope Ranch pool, in a picture posed for Esquire magazine in 1972. Photograph by Mike Salisbury.
Ken and Maggie with Peter Graves, who played Lew Archer in the 1974 TV movie of The Underground Man. Photograph by Hal Boucher.
Ken, Maggie, Eudora, and Los Angeles Times arts editor Charles Champlin at the 1975 Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Photograph courtesy of Mary Conrad.
Eudora seeing “all those Constables” at Yale University, October 1977. Photograph courtesy Eudora Welty LLC.
Kenneth Millar in Santa Barbara, 1980. Photograph by Trevor Clark.
Eudora Welty at her upstairs window in Jackson, 1977. Photograph by Angela Hederman.
Bits and pieces of scenes, written on both sides of an October 1981 document, for Welty’s never completed story “Henry.” Images used by permission of Eudora Welty LLC and courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Ross Macdonald and Eudora Welty at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Photograph by Virginia Kidd.
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