Referenced In

Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

"This other is Dr. Simmons from U.C.L.A., a specialist in Ortega y Gasset;"

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"an off-site team at UCLA that is doing atmospheric feedback mechanisms, primarily focusing on cloud cover as it varies with temperature change"

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"He told me it just came over her, and she was unable to move and was dark blue before the paramedics showed up and took her to UCLA. She’s been in intensive care all afternoon."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"Evans, who was lying in the emergency room at UCLA with a respirator on his face, just stared."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"She had once heard that students at UCLA and USC talked about using her the way commercial directors talked about using actresses who got a million dollars a picture, but she had never talked to any of them."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"…an actress who had been admitted to UCLA Neuropsychiatry with her wrists cut (the papers said exhaustion, but BZ knew things like that, knew about people, that was why she had called him)"

Mecca
by Susan Straight

"She had just graduated from Stanford, she was teaching summer school, working on her master’s degree in history at UCLA."

Mecca
by Susan Straight

"When Tavares said, 'Boy, I woulda killed to go to UCLA,'..."

Mecca
by Susan Straight

"Fidelia said, "There’s not gonna be College of the Desert for you. And no UCLA for me. No high school. No graduation. Nothing’s coming back for a long time."

Mecca
by Susan Straight

"“I have my … UCLA student ID. I was born in JFK Hospital in Indio. I’m pre‐law at UCLA so you better have warrants signed by a judge.”"

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"…the staff psychologist from Child Protective Services, a twenty-nine-year-old recently minted PhD from UCLA named Jennifer Gelfand-Peña."

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

"Stan, a doctoral student my own age at UCLA, writing his dissertation on the American literary expatriates of Paris."

If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes

"He was a light-brown-skinned guy in his early thirties, good‐looking with slightly Caucasian features and straight brown hair. He was a graduate of U.C.L.A. and didn't take anything from the white folks and didn't give them anything."

If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes

"Anyway, when I enter U.C.L.A. this fall I'll have to go on the graveyard shift, and there might be a better bunch of workers."

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"…I took my jeweler’s glass, or “diamond loupe,” my briefcase, and two dozen good stones to an extension lady’s home—out of UCLA, of course—and spoke to a class of affluent matrons."

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"“Just don’t go to UCLA,” I blurted. “It’s a butcher shop.”"

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"I’m working over at UCLA as a research assistant, what are you doing?"

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"reminding her hulking high school compatriots, who, most of them, had gone on immediately to UCLA or to marriage or both, 'I’m an international courier!"

The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle

"…I talked with the coyote expert at UCLA the other day—Werner Schnitter?—and he says stucco will do the trick."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"I park my car in front of Trent’s new apartment, a few blocks from U.C.L.A. in Westwood, the apartment he lives in when he has classes."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"killed himself at a fraternity party at U.C.L.A."

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"Sixty miles an hour and ten minutes later, there was Westwood to look at. A pretty town, safe, and rich, and if the kids wanted to go to UCLA, perfect for them."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"I also talk to Pierce, some friend from high school, and apologize for not calling him when I got in and I hear Trent telling everyone about how much fun he’s having at the fraternity he joined at U.C.L.A."