Upon graduation from college in June, 1938, he married Margaret Sturm, who became the successful mystery novelist Margaret Millar. In 1938, Millar entered the University of Toronto, where he studied to become a high school teacher. Both husband and wife determined at that time to become writers. In the spring of 1939, Millar fathered a daughter (who died at the age of 31) and began his professional writing career by contributing verses, humorous sketches, and his first few realistic stories to
Saturday Night, a Toronto political and literary weekly.
Largely due to his wife's professional success, Millar left high school teaching after two years to accept a full-time fellowship at the University of Michigan. The decision to return to the United States in 1941 to begin work on a doctorate in English was an important one. His mother had taught him from early childhood that California was his natural home and birthplace. He was a citizen of the United States, but also of Canada, and dual citizenship had produced a psychological sense of illegitimacy which the return to Ann Arbor did not wholly alleviate, though his feeling was relieved partially by his service as a communications officer in the United States Naval Reserve during World War II.
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