The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived
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Louisville Courier-Journal, 108
MacDonald, John D., 2, 8, 286, 371, 377
MacKinlay Kantor Papers, 13, 15, 18, 27, 28, 29, 76, 243. See also Library of Congress
Madison, James, 17, 248
Mad Men (TV show), 326
Mandel Bros., 131, 132, 133, 146
Man of Distinction, 306
Manson, Charles, 67
Maples Were Our Gods, The (Kantor, M.), 47. See also I Love You, Irene
Marjorie Morningstar (Wouk), 303
Martin, Dick and Patty, 298
Massacre Along the Medicine Road (Becher), 202
Maugham, W. Somerset, 247
McCarthy, Cormac, 378
McClure’s, 154, 155, 156
McCormick, Robert, 55
McKesson & Robbins, 223–24, 225
McKinlay, Adam (Mack’s grandfather), 39, 73, 75, 163, 164–65, 166, 177, 215, 240, 379
McKinlay, Benjamin, 33. See also Kantor, MacKinlay “Mack”
McKinlay, Evalyn Bone (Mack’s grandmother), 73, 163–64, 165, 203, 205, 240, 379
McKinlay, William (Mack’s great-grandfather), 33
McNamara, Robert, 351
Medal of Freedom, 267–69, 288, 351
Mencken, H. L., 352
Meredith, Burgess, 342
Miami Herald, 65, 86, 146
Miller, Arthur, 270
Miller, William Burke “Skeets,” 108
Mission with LeMay (Kantor, M.), 6, 24, 25–26, 352–54
Moby Dick (Melville), 302
Monthly Magazine of the Changing Order, A, 50
Monthly Moppage, The, 99
Moody Bible Institute, 124, 126–27
Moran, Bugs, 53
Morean, Charley “Chink,” 56–58
Morse, Robert, 332
Musica, Philip (aka Frank Costa, F. Donald Coster), 222–25
My Father’s Voice (Kantor, T.), 41, 254, 260, 283, 321, 326–27, 330–31, 367
Nabokov, Vladimir, 341–42
narcissism, 7, 28, 232
National Book Award, 315, 378
Nazi Germany, 4, 260
New American Library, 346
New Orleans Times-Picayune, 339
New Republic, 339
Newsweek, 305
New York Daily News, 111
New Yorker, The, 220, 221, 224, 305, 306
New York Times, The, 2, 16, 64, 140, 141–42, 292–93
New York Times Book Review, The, 207, 303, 304, 305, 315
New York World, 244, 274
Nixon, Richard, 24–25, 348
Nobel Prize, 288, 336, 364, 377
Of Human Bondage (Maugham), 247
O’Hara, John, 315, 378
Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway), 288, 377
Old Souls (Shroder, T.), 259
O’Neill, Eugene, 170
O’Reilly, Bill, 266
Oscar winners, 1, 271, 277, 336, 355
O’Sullivan, Maureen, 209
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 313
Pageant magazine, 343–44
Paramount, 208
Pearl Harbor bombed by Japan, 254
“Pearls Before Breakfast” (Shroder, T.), 97–98
Peck, Gregory, 2, 256
Pegler, Westbrook, 225
Penn, Arthur, 256
Peyton Place (Metalious), 322
Philadelphia Public Ledger, 183
Plummer, Christopher, 336
Poitier, Sidney, 355
Polly Ann (B-17), 265–67
publishing
excitement, 84–85, 95–96, 170–71, 175
truths about, 150, 168, 301–2
Pulitzer, Joseph, 22
Pulitzer, Peggy, 244–45, 246–50, 253, 278, 353
Pulitzer, Ralph, 244
Pulitzer Prize, 1, 2, 63, 97–98, 108, 247, 250, 270, 288, 314–16, 317, 321, 335, 345, 350, 352, 353, 356, 362, 378
“Purple” (Kantor, M.), 93, 94–97, 98, 108–9, 385
Putnam, 358, 360
Random House, 354, 377
Ray, Nicholas, 336
Reader’s Digest, 302
real estate expert scandal, John Kantor, 54–55, 75, 76
Rebel Without a Cause (movie), 336
Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane), 207
Redbook magazine, 195, 196
Reed, Donna, 256
Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 (Pulitzer, P.), 247
Reynolds, Paul, 335–36
Rhodes, Sheridan, 94, 95. See also Kantor, MacKinlay “Mack”
Ricks, Thomas, 352–53
Rock Island (Illinois) Argus, 51
Roosevelt, Elliott, 225
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 115, 225, 276, 347
Ross, Lillian, 306
Rotarian, 190
Roth, Philip, 91–92
Rotten Tomatoes movie website, 256
Ruby, Jack, 313
Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, 173
Sandburg, Carl, 2, 50
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 115, 285
Saturday Evening Post, 4, 53, 172, 209, 247, 260, 261, 349
Saturday Review of Literature, 207
Sercombe, Parker, 50
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles), 54
Shakespeare, William, 47, 85, 341
Sherwood, Robert, 276–77
Ship of Fools (movie), 355
Shroder, Carol Layne (Tom’s mother). See also Kantor, Carol
Ernest Hemingway and, 282–83
Four of Them, The, 312, 318–19, 319–20, 321–22, 323
Glory for Me and, 276
Irene’s health and, 383
Mack and, 7, 8, 260, 321–22, 326–27, 367
politics, 347
William and, 234, 269–70, 319, 321, 324, 357
Shroder, Michael (Tom’s brother), 3, 7, 32, 68, 133, 161, 234, 267, 310, 343, 357, 386
Shroder, Mildred “Gackie” (Tom’s grandmother), 368
Shroder, Millard (Tom’s grandfather), 32, 270, 306–7
Shroder, Susan Irene (Tom’s sister), 3, 32, 161, 162, 180, 187, 210, 267, 269, 321, 327, 357
Shroder, Thomas MacKinlay, childhood
bicycle from Mack, 68–69, 188, 388
birth of, 2, 294, 295
dialogue, “teen” photos, 84–85, 385–86
financial tension in, 193, 195, 196
“happy to meet you” letter to Mack, 392
portable typewriter toy, 11–12
safety patroller lie, 78–80
Shroder, Thomas MacKinlay, family, xi. See also specific Bones, Kantors, McKinlays, and Shroders
ancestry, importance of, xi, 11, 12–14, 16, 289–90, 368–69, 379–81
burial of Mack, 382–83
daughter, 8, 16, 125, 382
family history, drinking, 2, 3, 4, 8, 325–33
Jewish and Scottish heritage, 21, 33
Mack and, 5, 6, 7, 9–10, 32, 85–86, 149, 195–96, 230, 343–44, 368, 371, 372–75
Mack vs., 17, 29, 207, 290, 308, 373–74
marriage of, 124–27, 193–94, 240, 275, 298, 307, 368, 378, 388
paddleboard accident of Sam (son), 104–5
William’s death and, 133
Shroder, Thomas MacKinlay, personal
Andersonville and, 339–40, 341
appearance of, 49, 90, 232
Civil War interest of, 199–205
draft (military) worries, 261
drinking and, 333, 334–35
finances of, 194–95, 374
first mention of existence, 234, 235
flying fear of, 265
Four of The
m, 318–19, 319–20, 321
good messages, life-changing, 133
illicit rendezvous to Washington, 248
politics of, 7, 24–26, 275, 349
Spirit Lake and, 340, 341
Valley Forge and, 365
war view of, 261
women and, 117–18, 232, 233
Shroder, Thomas MacKinlay, writer. See also specific titles
Christmas in Europe, 66–70, 89
Harry Crews role model, 63–66, 70, 91
“meeting” Mack, 392
newspaper reporter, 86–87, 89–91, 92–93, 136, 143, 193, 296, 364
Pulitzer, “honorary,” 316–17
Pulitzer Prize, 97–98
Sally (dog) and, 310–11, 312
Webster City research trip, 378–79, 381, 382, 383, 384–86
writing and editing, 8, 11–12, 17, 28–29, 45, 63, 70, 87, 97–98, 146, 185, 259, 275, 301, 316–17, 322–23
Shroder, William “Bill” (Tom’s father), 32, 133, 193, 195, 196, 200, 260, 270, 282–83, 326–27, 343, 347, 389
Siesta Key, Florida, 3–5, 5–6, 207, 209–10, 210–12, 227–28, 230, 233–34, 252, 260, 281–82, 284, 285, 333–34, 342, 349, 350, 361, 362, 366, 371, 386, 387, 388–89
Solomon, Deborah, 141–42
Spaatz, Carl “Tooey,” 268, 269
Spain, 297, 307–8
Spencer-Whitman Center Lecture Bureau, The, 49, 50–51
Spirit Lake (Kantor, M.), 337–39, 340, 341, 342, 346, 364
spoof of high school newspaper, 99
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 22
Stickney, Ella, 95
stock fraud, 60–62, 155, 156
Story Teller (Kantor, M.), 362
Sweitzer, Robert, 52, 53
Taft, William Howard, 222
Talese, Gay, 91
Taradash, Daniel, 355–56
Targ, William, 292, 302, 315
Tate, Sharon, 67
Ten North Frederick (O’Hara), 315
Thompson, Hunter S., 91
Thompson, William Hale “Big Bill,” 52, 53–54, 55, 59, 115, 167
Time magazine, 12, 271, 305, 338–39
Tolstoy, Leo, 246–47, 300, 341
To-morrow Magazine, 49, 50
Tracy, Spencer, 355
True Detective magazine, 178
Trumbo, Dalton, 257
Tucker, Sophie, 43–44, 244
Twain, Mark, 113
Twitchell, Ralph, 212
Unbroken (Hillenbrand), 265
Valley Forge (Kantor, M.), 364, 365
Vietnam War, 6, 24–26
Voice of Bugle Ann, The (Kantor, M.), 209, 212, 251, 255, 343, 364
Volz, Leslie P., 53
VQR, 273
Wallace, George, 6, 348
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 247, 300, 341
Warren, Robert Penn, 315
Washington News, 183
Washington Post, 86, 91, 133, 136, 284, 316, 352
Washington Post Magazine, 97–98
Way of All Flesh, The (Butler), 247
Webster City, Iowa, 5, 10, 26–27, 28, 35, 36, 37, 39, 41, 50, 56, 58, 73, 75, 76, 83, 99, 111, 112, 115, 117, 121, 134, 137, 144–45, 146, 148, 150, 154, 163, 164, 167, 206, 240–41, 259, 330, 378–79, 381, 382, 383, 384–86
Webster City Daily News, 71, 72, 85, 86, 93, 99–100, 115, 134
Webster City Freeman, 217
Webster City Tribune, 35
Weingarten, Gene, 98
Wells, H. G., 50
Western, Dorothea, 102, 105
White, Randy Wayne, 364–65
Whiteman, Dick, 134, 206, 235, 238, 239, 241, 252, 321, 328–29, 337, 348
Who the Devil Made It (Bogdanovich), 257
Wild One, The (movie), 355
Williams, Brian, 266
Wind Across the Everglades (movie), 336
Winfrey, Oprah, 378
Wolfe, Tom, 91, 306
Wood, Grant, 2, 137–43
Woodward, Bob, 91
Workman, Joe, 133
World Publishing, 292, 297, 302, 303, 338
World War I, 46, 114, 208, 262
World War II, 200, 225, 236. See also Kantor, MacKinlay “Mack,” war correspondent
Wouk, Herman, 303
Writing in the Sky (Kantor, M.), 247
Wyler, William, 274, 276, 277
Yale Club, 174, 175, 191
Yale Literary Magazine, 170
Yale Plan Clinic, 328, 330
Yardley, Jonathan, 247
Young, Kendall, 241
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TOM SHRODER is an award-winning journalist, editor, and author of Old Souls and Acid Test, a transformative look at the therapeutic powers of psychedelic drugs in the treatment of PTSD. As editor of The Washington Post Magazine, he conceived and edited two Pulitzer Prize–winning feature stories. His most recent editing project, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, by Brigid Schulte, was a New York Times best seller.
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