by Tom Nolan
Fitzgerald, Scottie, 355
Flaubert, Gustave, 32
Fleming, Ian, 255, 387
Fontana, 320
“Footprints in the Sands of Crime” (McLuhan), 78
Ford, Ford Madox, 350, 372
Ford, Robert, 37, 40–41, 44, 46, 64, 96, 155, 184, 313, 314, 360, 361, 381, 399, 402
as co-editor of Westerns’ literary supplement, 42
Forest Service, U.S., 240–42
Forests of Lithuania, The (Pan Tadeusz) (Mickiewicz), 187
Foster, Bill, 316
Fowles, John, 280, 375, 412
Fox, James M., 114, 130
Franco, Francisco, 38
Frankenstein (M. Shelley), 232
Frankfurt Book Fair, 314
Fred, Uncle, 27, 244
Freeman, Don, 95, 117, 345
Freeman, Lydia, 95, 169
Freud, Sigmund, 12, 34, 44, 178, 285, 287
Friedman, Mickey, 398, 399
Friends of Eddie Coyle, The (Higgins), 321
Frye, Northrop, 381
Fuster, Jaume, 414
Gallant, Mavis, 381
Gallimard, 119
Galton, Sir Francis, 192
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, 411
Gardner, Erie Stanley, 51, 92, 260, 354
Gardner, Leonard, 297
Gault, William Campbell, 130–31, 197, 236, 252–53, 344, 345, 365, 402
Geisler, Jerry, 209
General Electric Theater, 214
Germany, Nazi, 38, 39
Get Oil Out (GOO) group, 282
Gilbert, Craig, 320
Gilliatt, Penelope, 361
Gilmore, Mikal, 410
Girola, Armand and Thelma, 204, 210–11, 213, 265
Glass Key, The (Hammett), 33, 85, 139
Godwin, William, 232
Gogol, Nikolay, 397
Gold Dagger Award, KM as recipient of, 267, 326
Goldenrod (Harker), 313, 321
Goldman, William, 11, 259–61, 290
Chill screenplay of, 273
as Harper screenwriter, 260–61, 263–64, 286
KM in Times Book Review of, 286–87, 290
Gollancz, Victor, 256, 316
Goodbye Look, The (Macdonald), 11, 281, 285, 286, 303, 306, 325, 333
as best-seller, 290–91
and KM’s breakthrough to mainstream, 286–91, 411
Knopf’s promotion of, 289
Russian-language printing of, 320
Goodis, David, 142
Gores, Joe, 152, 280–81
Gorman, Ed, 414, 415
Gorman, James L., 205–6, 207–8
Grafton, Sue, 7–8, 11, 413
Grail, Alex, 315
Grandmaster Award, 354, 360
John D. Macdonald as recipient of, 326, 354
KM as recipient of, 354–55
MM as recipient of, 414
Graves, Peter, 353–54, 355
Graziano, Rocky, 259, 264
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 95, 345
“Great Shadow, The” (Doyle), 21
Green, Ashbel, 256, 258, 273, 281, 288, 289–90, 291, 296–97, 299, 302, 303, 307, 312, 313, 314, 338, 342, 354, 370, 390, 394, 397, 398
Green Archer, The (Wallace), 24
Greene, Douglas G., 152
Greene, Graham, 11, 92, 110, 137, 197
Grella, George, 298, 347, 348, 349, 396, 411
Griggs, Earl Leslie, 223
Grogg, Sam, 322–24, 327, 348, 349
Grumbler, The, 29, 30, 33
Guardian, 316
Guggenheim Fellowship, 255
“Guilty Vicarage, The” (Auden), 54
Guymon, E. T. “Ned,” Jr., 130–31, 136, 197, 201, 239
Haber, Joyce, 347
Hachette, 314
Hammett, Dashiell, 8, 29, 36, 51, 53, 54, 85, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 110, 112, 113, 119, 121, 125, 128, 131, 134, 136, 139–40, 148, 151, 198, 201, 233, 236, 237, 250, 251, 259, 275, 327, 358, 397, 411, 412, 413
hard-boiled style of, 11, 12, 31–32, 139–40, 183
KM’s blurb for paperbacks of, 321
KM’s discovery of, 31–32, 349
Hampton, Lionel, 81, 82
Hand, George, 95, 116, 168
Handy, W. C., 138
Hansen, Joseph, 298, 413
Happy Man, The: A Novel of California Ranch Life (Easton), 185
Hardboiled America (O’Brien), 411
Hard Day’s Night, A, 300
Harker, Herb, 187–88, 218, 272, 276, 297, 300, 302, 313, 314, 316–17, 341, 344, 345, 381, 409
KM’s encouragement of, 188, 321
Harold Ober Agency, 67, 74, 90, 177, 214, 217–18, 245, 266, 291, 391
Harper, 260–61, 263–67, 273, 298, 356, 374, 414
box office grosses of, 266
California locations in, 264
cast of, 264
KM’s views on, 264
Lew Archer name change in, 261
promotions for, 263, 267
reviews of, 266, 267
Harper and Row, 257, 370
Hart, Moss, 114
Harvard Crimson, 285
Harvard University, 42, 44–45, 52, 69, 324
Harvard University Press, KM’s dissertation turned down by, 223, 325
Haugh, Georgia, 57
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 13, 157
Haycraft, Howard, 97
Hayden, Robert, 58
Hazard, Johnnine, 348
Heller, Joseph, 271
Hellinger, Mark, 90
Hellman, Geoffrey T., 101
Hellman, Lillian, 73, 201, 236
Hemingway, Ernest, 32, 36, 48, 74, 98, 201, 226, 251, 278
Henry, O., 25
Heraclitus, 49, 233
Herrmann, Dave, 128
Hickel, Walter, 282–83
Higgins, George V., 321
Highsmith, Patricia, 400
High Window, The (Chandler), 67
Hillerman, Tony, 11
Hitchcock, Alfred, 280, 354
Hitler, Adolf, 38
Hoch, Edward D., 313, 326, 354, 360
Hoeg, Peter, 411–12
Hogan, William, 198, 206, 252, 304, 305
Holcomb, Chet, 345
Holiday, Billie, 58
Hollywood Citizen-News, 209
Hollywood Knickerbocker, 236
Hollywood Reporter, 266
Home Sweet Homicide (Rice), 305
homosexuality, 238
in detective fiction, 125, 413
Hopwood Prize, 100
Horowitz, Vladimir, 96
“Horse Trader’s Daughter, The” (Lawrence), 187
Hotel Astor, 256
Houghton Mifflin, 68, 112, 146
Houston Chronicle, 373
Hudson Review, 196, 199, 237
Hughes, Dorothy B., 71, 238, 239, 240
Hume, David, 43
Hunter, Evan, 142, 154
Hunter, Tim, 306
Hunters, The, 265, 267–69
Huron College, 42, 44, 46, 47, 155
Huxley, Aldous, 191
Hyde, Johnny, 75
Ibsen, Henrik, 36, 188, 255
I Cover the Waterfront (Miller), 70
I’ll Eat You Last (Branson), 58
Indiana University Press, 224
Innes, John, 16, 17, 29
International Olympic Committee, 118
Intruder in the Dust (Faulkner), 139
Invisible Worm, The (M. Millar), 52, 57, 58, 185
Irish, William, 142
Iron Gates, The (M. Millar), 70, 71, 72, 73, 90, 98, 233, 245, 263
“Is Fiction Human?” (Mudrick), 196
Isherwood, Christopher, 37, 74, 254, 358, 383
Isla Vista, Calif, 293–95
bank burning trial at, 294–95, 319
It’s All in the Family (M. Millar), 95, 98, 99, 198
Jackson, George, 319
Jackson, Miss., 337–40
Jaemar, 214
Jaffe, Marc, 288, 305, 313, 318–19, 357
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James (grandson), 238, 262, 269, 300, 301, 306, 368, 388, 398, 407
death of, 415
as portrayed in KM’s books, 307
James, P. D., 414
James Bond films, 255
Jane Millar, 21
Jaroslovsky, Rich, 399–400, 410
jazz, 81–82, 84–85
Jessel, George, 114
Jewels, 49
Jews, 37–38
Joe (son-in-law), 300, 301
John Birch Society, 295
Johnson, Lyndon, 275
Jones, Robert E, 237–38
Jones, Tommy Lee, 226
Jourdan, Louis, 114
Journal of Popular Culture, 322
Joyce, James, 98
Jung, Carl Gustav, 53
Kael, Pauline, 266
Kafka, Franz, 53, 142
Kahn, Joan, 257, 366, 370
Kalbfleisch, Gretchen, 36, 385
Kallman, Chester, 54
Kashor, Gideon, 226
Kastner, Elliot, 260, 261, 263, 265, 298
Kathleen and Frank (Isherwood), 383
Kauffmann, Stanley, 359
Kaye, Art, 298, 326, 327
KCRW-FM, 414
Keating, H.R.F., 315, 372
Keel, Daniel, 377
Keith, Brian, 356, 359
Kellerman, Jonathan, 11, 413–14
Kennedy, John E, 244
Kennedy, Robert F., 263–64
Kenner, Hugh, 12, 97, 100, 115–16, 119, 128, 135–36, 140, 141, 148, 175, 186, 198, 224, 368, 381
Kenner, Mary Jo, 136, 148
Kent State University, 276
Kernan, Alvin, 324
Kierkegaard, Søren, 34, 44, 301
King, William Mackenzie, 16
King Features, 218
“King in Yellow, The,” 47
Kirkus Reviews, 150
Kirsch, Robert, 237, 251, 308, 341, 343, 371
Kiss of the Spider Woman, 324
Kitchener, Ont., 19, 310
betting in, 30–32
KM and MM’s return visit to, 312
Kitchener Public Library, 29–30
restricted books in, 32
Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute (KCI), 28–29, 33–34, 49, 52, 92
Kitchener-Waterloo (Ont.) Record, 410
Klein, Fred, 387, 391
Klugman, Jack, 355
Knopf, Alfred, 89, 95, 99, 100, 101–2, 113, 114, 121, 128–29, 132, 133, 135, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 150, 156, 157–58, 168, 172, 183, 189–90, 195, 197, 217, 219, 223, 228, 240, 242, 243, 245, 265, 269, 275, 281, 282, 291, 298–99, 303, 310–11, 313, 366
appearance of, 101
KM’s photo by, 258, 286
KM’s relationship with, 258, 310–11
as portrayed in Millar’s work, 220
Knopf, Alfred “Pat,” Jr., 89, 109, 113, 115, 129, 131, 145, 197, 219
Knopf, Blanche, 89, 100, 102, 109, 113, 269
Knopf, Helen, 310–11, 366
Koch, Ed, 385
Koestler, Arthur, 96
Koshland, William, 262
KPFA, 286
Kraft Television Theatre, 150
Krementz, Jill, 355, 361, 378
KITA, 209
Kunstler, William, 294
Ladies’ Home Journal, 95
Lady Windermere’s Fan (Wilde), 37
La Jolla, Calif., 70, 71
Lambert, Gerard, 69
Lamont Prize, 255
Langfelder, Bob, 294–95, 319–20
La Rue, Jan, 372
Last Time I Saw Paris, The (Paul), 75
Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald), 95
Laura, Aunt, 27, 244
Laurence, Margaret, 12, 381, 382, 383
Lawrence, D. H., 36, 41, 48, 187
Lawrence, Frieda, 187
Lawrence, Gertrude, 82
Lazarus, Paul, 344, 345
Leacock, Stephen, 30, 48, 380, 382
Leaden Bubble, The (H. C. Branson), 139
le Carré, John, 255, 256
Lee, John, 41, 46, 50
Léger, Fernand, 96
Lehman, David, 234
Leland, Virginia and Lowell, 324
Lemay, Harding “Pete,” 220, 256
Leonard, John, 11, 270, 302, 305–6, 310, 321, 366, 373, 382, 398
on KM as California writer, 285
on KM’s place in mainstream fiction, 287
KM’s profile-essay by, 287, 326
with Sokolov in Macdonald “literary conspiracy,” 285–88, 305–6
LePan, Douglas, 382
Lescher, Bob, 257
Levine, Phil, 345
Lew Archer, 326
as apolitical, 293
appearance of, 353
birthday of, 288
California milieu of, 8, 11, 12, 13, 54, 93–94, 110–12, 114, 123, 149, 150, 181, 215, 237, 285, 287, 308, 412, 413
as “Canadian-American type,” 381–82
Canadian roots of, 394–95
character of, 8, 94, 238, 251, 304
as KM, 92, 102, 246, 353, 355
mellowing of, 371
memory recovery and, 397
name of, 92, 261
in others’ novels, 320
as un-Chandleresque, 251
Lew Archer series:
films and, 245–47, 269, 273, 297–98, 310, 312. 360, 414; see also Drowning Pool, The; Harper
as quest cycle, 411
radio and, 414
television and, 132, 246, 353–54, 355–56, 359–60
see also Millar, Kenneth, writings and work of
Lewis, Grover, 375
Lewis, Meade Lux, 86
Lewis, Sinclair, 96, 289
Lewis, Wyndham, 93, 116, 167–68
Liberty, 73, 118, 226
Library Journal, 236
Lid, Betty, 199–200, 208, 228–29, 249
Lid, Dick, 199–201, 208, 210, 213, 223, 228–29, 230, 249, 259–60, 263, 264, 269, 299, 307, 334
Liepman, Ruth, 377
Life, 291, 305, 318
“Like a Fox” (M. Millar), 150
Linderman, Verne, 132
Lingeman, Richard R., 385
Linington, Elizabeth (Dell Shannon), 239
Listening Walls, The (M. Millar), 202, 206
Literary Guild, 373
Little Sister, The (Chandler), 56, 112, 151
Lloyd, Jerre, 268–69, 271–72, 301, 305, 345, 346, 357, 386
London, 410
London, England, 313–16
London Express Features, 316
London (Ont.) Free Press, 37
Long Goodbye, The (Chandler), 151, 167, 251, 374, 411
Los Angeles, 237
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 410
Los Angeles Times, 11, 118, 237, 251, 266, 274, 288, 293, 308, 341, 343, 347, 356, 360, 371, 403, 410
Robert Kirsch Award of, 405, 411
Los Gatos (Calif.) Mail, 15
Losing Battles (Welty), 302, 339
Los Padres National Forest, 240
lost father, as archetypal literary theme, 187
Louis, Joe, 61
Louisa, Aunt, 29
Luce, Clare Boothe, 279
Lukas, J. Anthony, 293, 308
Lyndon, Barre, 75
Lynds, Dennis, 253–54, 272, 280, 321, 327, 344, 346
Lynds, Gayle, 402
McAleer, John, 411
McCall’s, 266
McCallum’s Cigar Store, 30–31
McCarthy, Joseph R., 135
McClelland, Jack, 219
McConnell, J. P., 16
MacDonald, Gordon, 383
Macdonald, John (first pseudonym of K. Millar), 100–102, 109
publicity photograph of, 102
MacDonald, John D., 238, 288, 293, 326, 342, 360
and color-coded titles, 363–64
KM compared with, 343, 344
and KM’s pseudonym, 109, 119, 142–44
Macdonald, John R. (second pseudonym), 109
Macdonald, John Ros
s (third pseudonym), 119
fracas over use of, 142–44
KM’s revelation as, 146, 151
publicity photograph of, 142
Macdonald, Ross (Canadian House of Commons Speaker), 119
Macdonald, Ross (fourth pseudonym), 158–59
see also Millar, Kenneth
MacDowell Colony, 302
MacGowan, Kenneth, 138
MacGregor, Martha, 219, 257–58
MacKendrick, Alexander, 265
McLarnin, Jimmy, 118
MacLennan, Hugh, 383
McLuhan, Corinne, 191
McLuhan, Marshall, 12, 78, 191, 198, 199, 381
McMillan, Ian “Ike,” 242, 283
McPherson, William, 370–71
MacShane, Frank, 349–50, 366–67, 372, 377, 399, 410, 411
Mailer, Norman, 192, 278, 375, 411
Main Street (Lewis), 289
Malamud, Bernard, 340
Maltese Falcon, The (film), 365
Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett), 29, 92, 124, 140, 233, 259
Manhunt, 13, 142, 151, 152, 154, 179, 398
Man with the Golden Arm, The (Algren), 124, 130
March of Crime, The, 240
Margaret, Aunt, 24–27, 45, 194
Massachusetts Review, 342
Massey, Raymond, 73, 82
Masters, Edgar Lee, 48
Masur, Harold Q., 256, 386
Maugham, Somerset, 342
Maule, Harry, 167
Maurier, Daphne du, 342
MCA, 149, 197, 201
“Meeting Miss Welty” (Clemons), 293, 298
Meisel, James “Hans,” 57, 68
Meisel, Marianne, 57, 60, 63, 67
Melville, Herman, 74
Mencken, H. L., 30, 258, 278
Menlo Park, Calif., 177–84
Mennonite Church, 19
Mermaid (M. Millar), 403
Mersereau, John, 149, 224
Mezzrow, Mezz, 84
Michael Shayne’s Mystery Magazine, 253
Michigan, University of, 13, 45, 47, 50, 52–68, 98–108, 121–22, 125–26, 138–40
KM as recipient of Outstanding Achievement Award of, 327
KM’s first mystery set in, 67
Mickey. Spillane’s Mike Hammer, 197
Mickiewicz, Adam, 187
Midwestern Writers Conference (1948), 97–98
Millar, Anna Moyer (mother):
and birth of KM, 17
as Christian Scientist, 17
and expectations of KM, 23, 27, 30
illness and death of, 37
KM’s reconciliation with, 37
marriage of, see Millar, John Macdonald “Jack”
mood swings of, 23, 27
and payment of KM’s college tuition, 35, 36
premature aging of, 19
stillbirths of, 16–17, 201
Millar, Elizabeth (cousin), 20–22
Millar, John (grandfather), 16, 27
Millar, John Macdonald “Jack” (father), 24, 28, 31, 156, 180, 185, 201, 283
Anna’s marriage to, 15, 16–18
as harbor-boat pilot, 15, 17
illness and death of, 26, 31, 34
insurance policy of, 35
KM’s early memories of, 15, 17
