Day twenty-seven of our daily readings from “Dear Los Angeles,” a collection of letters and diary entries from 1542 to 2018, while all of us quarantine in 2020.
Today’s entry from 1972 is from a letter written by crime fiction author Ross Macdonald (the pen name for Kenneth Millar), to another author named Eudora Welty. They had a complex relationship, an “almost romance” which took place mainly through their written correspondence over many years. Their fascinating story is written up here and here.
We love you, Los Angeles!
Kenneth Millar aka Ross Macdonald
Eudora Welty