contributed significantly and also profited financially. The film was released with a screenplay credited to Nabokov, but is really an amalgam of Willingham, Nabokov and Kubrick's work, and it was nominated for an Academy Award. Willingham's fifth and final collaboration with Kubrick was One-Eyed Jacks (1961) with Marlon Brando. The three collaborated on the story for a year before Kubrick left and Brando directed himself in the film. Willingham's next assignment was adapting Charles Webb’s novel The Graduate for director Mike Nichols, who discarded Willingham's script in favor of one by Buck Henry. Before the film was released, Willingham insisted that screenplay credit be determined through arbitration with the Writers' Guild, and much to Henry and Nichols's annoyance, Willingham was given shared credit. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Willingham's collaboration with actor Dustin Hoffman continued with an adaptation of Thomas Berger’s Little Big Man, for which Willingham was nominated for Writer's Guild Award. They attempted a third collaboration, an adaptation of Malcolm Braly’s prison memoir On The Yard, but it was never made. During this period, Willingham also wrote an extended treatment for the film Patton (1970) and a screenplay for Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us (1974). Willingham always considered film work secondary to his books. Rambling Rose (1972), his next novel, was an autobiographical story about his childhood in Georgia featuring comic characterizations of his parents and siblings. The one fully fictional character is Rose, an eroticized housekeeper who comes to stay with the family as Buddy, age 12, is beginning to become curious about sex. The Big Nickel (1975) completed the Dick Davenport trilogy conceived 25 years earlier in the wake of first success. His final novel was The Building of Venus Four (1977), a satirical work that was poorly received. Soon after, Willingham went through a cataclysm: His New Hampshire house burned down, destroying all of his personal papers. He stopped working and regained his health, reading and reflecting during a decade of philosophical and spiritual re-evaluation. He re-emerged in 1989 to do movie work again, his first assignment, adapting one of his own novels directly to the screen. Rambling Rose (1991) starred Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd and Laura Dern as Rose. Willingham also began a screenplay for Steven Spielberg in 1994 titled Julie’s Valley about a pioneer family attacked by Native Americans on the Oregon Trail. However,