by Tom Nissley
“Girl in the Black Helmet, The” (Tynan), 142
Girl Who Played with Fire, The (Larsson), 83
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (Larsson), 314, 399
Girodias, Maurice, 223
Giroux, Robert, 127
Gissing, George, 237, 292, 345, 367, 384, 407
Gladstone, William Ewart, 80, 201
Gladwell, Malcolm, 280
Glaspell, Susan, 235
Glass, Julia, 94, 173
Glass, Stephen, 147
Glass Key, The (Hammett), 130
Glass Menagerie, The (Williams), 197
Gleason, Jackie, 252, 314
Globe Theatre, 60, 288
Glory of Their Times, The (Ritter), 180
Glück, Louise, 103
Godden, Rumer, 353
Gödel, Escher, Bach (Hofstadter), 401
Godfather, The (Puzo), 269
Godwin, Mary. See Shelley, Mary
Godwin, William, 74, 112, 164, 287
Goebbels, Joseph, 36, 190
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 25, 93, 271, 341
Gogol, Nikolai, 90
Goines, Donald, 330, 332
Going Clear (Wright), 262
Golden Age, The (Grahame), 369
Golden Bowl, The (James), 368
Golden Notebook, The (Lessing), 12
Golding, William, 192, 291
Goldman, Francisco, 197
Goldman, William, 229
Gold Rush, The, 20
Goldstein, Al, 174
Goldsworthy, Adrian, 71
Gombrich, E. H., 348
Gombrowicz, Witold, 232
Goncourt, Edmond de, 108, 117, 118
Gone (Adler), 18, 160
Gone Girl (Flynn), 208
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 72, 135, 260, 293
Goodheart, Adam, 193
Goodis, David, 12
Good Morning, Midnight (Rhys), 350
Goodnight Moon (Brown), 280, 358
Good Soldier, The (Ford), xiv, 185, 247
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 9
Gordimer, Nadine, 262, 365, 395
Gordon, Caroline, 144, 317
Gordon, Mary, 399
Gordon-Reed, Annette, 364
Gorey, Edward, 61, 120, 187
Goscinny, René, 350
Gosse, Edmund, 26, 155
Gosse, Philip Henry, 26
Gottlieb, Robert, 134, 165
Gould, Chester, 150
Gould, Glenn, 253
Gould, Stephen Jay, 159
Gove, Philip B., 67
Gozzens, James Gould, 262
Grace, W. G., 268
Graebner, Clark, 285
Grafton, Sue, 129
Graham, Katherine, 225
Grahame, Kenneth, 149, 282, 369
Grandin, Temple, 272
Grann, David, 98
Grant, Robert, 341
Grant, Ulysses S., 111
Granta, 216
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 142, 278
Grass, Günter, 331
Grau, Shirley Ann, 216
Graves, Robert, 386
Grealy, Lucy, 397
Great Brain Reforms, The (Fitzgerald), 207
Great Expectations (Dickens), 328, 403
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 75, 115, 193, 213, 252
Great War and Modern Memory, The (Fussell), 86
Greeley, Horace, 26
Green, Henry, 14, 130, 143, 300, 340
Green, John, 267
Green, Peter Morris, 295
Green, Richard Lancelyn, 98
Greenaway, Kate, 351
Greenberg, Clement, 146
Greene, Graham, 108, 144, 178, 253, 313, 339, 393
Greening of America, The (Reich), 169
Greer, Andrew Sean, 159
Greer, Germaine, 34
Gregory, Lady, 86
Grey, Zane, 334
Griffin, John Howard, 286
Grigorovich, D. V., 99
Grimm, Jacob, 297
Grimod de La Reynière, Alexandre Balthazar Laurent, 6
Grisham, John, 47
Griswold, Rufus W., 26, 320, 355
Groening, Matt, 54
Grossman, David, 255
Grossman, Lev, 199
Grossman, Vasily, 391
Group, The (McCarthy), 172
Guerin, Veronica, 199
Guerre, Martin, 289
Guinness Book of Records, The (McWhirters), 289
Guisewite, Cathy, 282
Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzhenitsyn), 52
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 337, 351
Gunn, Thom, 272
Guns of August, The (Tuchman), 242, 243, 253
Gunther, John, 168
Guralnick, Peter, 394
Gurganus, Allan, 184
Gutenberg, Johannes, 42
Guthrie, A. B., Jr., 131
Guthrie, Woody, 314
Guy Domville (James), 10
Habit of Being, The (O’Connor), 183
Hackett, Francis, 341
Haddon, Mark, 266
“Hadji Murat” (Tolstoy), 227
Hadrian the Seventh (Corvo), 337
Haggard, H. Rider, 195
Hailey, Arthur, 5, 110
Hajdu, David, 100
Halberstam, David, 30, 39, 46, 115, 186, 203, 380
Haldeman, H. R., 336
Haley, Alex, 49, 59, 163, 166, 194, 306, 328
Hall, Oakley, 151, 269
Hall, Radclyffe, 318, 361
Hallam, Arthur, 366
Halliwell, Kenneth, 133
Hamilton, Alexander, 208
Hamilton, Donald, 95
Hamilton, Ian, 321
Hamilton, Patrick, 88
Hamilton, William, 386
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 152, 189
Hammer of the Gods (Davis), 236
Hammett, Dashiell, 15, 29, 34, 40, 130, 166, 333, 374, 404
Hamsun, Knut, 58, 190, 387
Hand, Elizabeth, 100
Handey, Jack, 64
Handke, Peter, 385
Handler, Daniel, 67
Handmaid’s Tale, The (Atwood), 198
Hanff, Helene, 114, 316
Hannah, Barry, 128, 328
Hansberry, Lorraine, 17, 47, 163
Hansen, Ron, 108
Hańska, Eveline, 317
Harding, Paul, 117
Hard Revolution (Pelecanos), 109
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 40, 92, 173, 235
Hard Winter, A (Queneau), 225
Hardy, Thomas, 16, 28, 39, 115, 137, 139, 144, 159, 175, 200, 282, 292, 350, 370
Hare with Amber Eyes, The (de Waal), 307
Harington, Donald, 401
Harmonium (Stevens), 90, 284, 386
Harper, Marguerite E., 365
Harper’s, 22, 108, 115, 157, 314, 315
Harriet the Spy (Fitzhugh), 277
Harris, Charlaine, 370
Harris, E. Lynn, 231
Harris, Frank, 53, 301
Harris, Max, 231
Harris, Middleton, 17
Harrison, Harry, 258
Harrison, Jim, 362, 390
Harrison, M. John, 303
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Rowling), 235
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling), 239
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling), 199, 201
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. See Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Hart, Moss, 301, 399
Hartley, L. P., 392
Haruf, Kent, 63, 314
Hašek, Jaroslav, 8
Haslett, Adam, 229
Hathaway, Anne, 373
Haunting of Hill House, The (Jackson), 200
Havel, Václav, 397, 408
Hawkes, John, 154
Hawking, Stephen, 13
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 30, 50, 83, 158, 212, 256, 359
Hayden, Sterling, 20
Hayek, Friedrich von, 94
Hayes, Harold, 328
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Hazlitt, William, 175, 295, 316
Hazzard, Shirley, 31, 35
H.D., 261, 304
Head, Bessie, 122
Hear the Wind Sing (Murakami), 106
Hearst, Patty, 334
Hearst, William Randolph, 22, 221, 257, 279
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (McCullers), 177
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 36, 57, 74
Hearts of Darkness, 326
Heat (Buford), 40
Heaven Is a Playground (Telander), 261
Heaven’s Gate, 199
Hecht, Ben, 31, 123, 186, 211
Hegel, G. W. F., 359
Heidegger, Martin, 165
Heilbrun, Carolyn, 320
Heinlein, Robert A., 112, 148, 215, 239, 247, 268, 361
Heinrich, Bernd, 39, 315
Heinrich, Will, 314
Heller, Joseph, 140, 333
Hell in a Very Small Place (Fall), 46
Hellman, Lillian, 193
Helprin, Mark, 201
Helter Skelter (Bugliosi and Gentry), 251
Helyar, John, 330
Hemings, Sally, 355, 364
Hemingses of Monticello, The (Gordon-Reed), 364
Hemingway, Ernest, 14, 78, 87, 92, 102, 123, 235, 238, 254, 286, 306, 312, 360, 364, 365; injuries, 29, 77, 112, 163, 193, 209, 248, 265, 346,
Hemon, Aleksandar, 286
Hempel, Amy, 393
Henie, Sonja, 61
Henry, O., 232, 246
Henry and Clara (Mallon), 119
Henry V (Shakespeare), 60
Henry VI, Part II (Shakespeare), 181
Henry VIII, 30, 133, 317
Henson, Matthew, 114
Herbert, Frank, 319
Herbert, George, 70, 108
Here, There, and Everywhere (Emerick), 281
Hergé, 140, 161, 223
Hernandez, Gilbert, 40
Hernandez, Jaime, 321
Hernani (Hugo), 64
Herr, Michael, 46, 256
Herriman, George, 130, 234
Hersey, John, 95, 163, 233, 249
Hersh, Seymour, 357
Herzl, Theodor, 211
Herzog (Bellow), 81
Herzog, Maurice, 154
Hesse, Hermann, 23, 114, 210
Hessler, Peter, 372
Hester, Betty, 183
Heyer, Georgette, 259
Heyerdahl, Thor, 247, 317
Heyward, DuBose, 274
Hicks, Granville, 191
Hicks, Tyler, 88
Higgins, George V., 284, 345, 351
Higginson, T. W., 43, 120
High Priestess, The (Grant), 341
Highsmith, Patricia, 24, 372
High Wind in Jamaica, A (Hughes), 84, 328, 351
Hill, Joe, 177
Hillenbrand, Laura, 82, 154, 166
Hillerman, Tony, 337
Himes, Chester, 106, 357
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 251
Hinton, S. E., 230, 270
Hiroshima (Hersey), 233, 249
His Dark Materials (Pullman), 96
Historical Dictionary of American Slang (Lighter), 254
History of England, The (Austen), 371
History of England, The (Goldsmith), 371
History of Europe, A (Pirenne), 94
History of India, The (Mill), 215
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon), 200, 326
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, The (Williams), 245
History of the Standard Oil Company, The (Tarbell), 66
Hitchcock, Alfred, 303, 383
Hitchens, Christopher, 285, 354, 394
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (Adams), 323, 402
Hitler, Adolf, 130, 163, 190, 341, 379
Hoag, Tami, 25
Hoagland, Edward, 235, 400
hoaxes, 25, 53, 74, 231, 244, 300, 342, 382; false biographies, 45, 298; false memoirs, 335; forgeries, 130; forgeries (Shakespeare), 36, 107; frauds, 147, 367, 370; pseudonyms, 97, 225, 228, 265, 369; pranks, 86, 133, 174, 189, 373; spoofs, 359
Hoban, Russell, 43, 232
Hobbes, Thomas, 110
Hobbit, The (Tolkien), 43, 63, 152, 195, 299
Hobhouse, Janet, 138
Hobhouse, John Cam, 142, 156
Hobsbawm, Eric, 312
Hoffer, Eric, 233, 296
Hoffman, Alice, 87, 94
Hoffmann, E. T. A., 29
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 265
Hofstadter, Carol Ann Brush, 401
Hofstadter, Douglas, 223, 401
Hofstadter, Richard, 335
Holiday, Billie, 190
holidays: autumnal equinox, 92, 300; Boxing Day, 405; Carnival, 62; Christmas, 356, 375, 377–78, 379, 398, 402, 403, 404; Day of the Dead, 347; Easter, 70, 98, 100, 104, 109, 112, 113, 115, 117, 121, 128, 129; Fourth of July, 206–7, 208, 211, 212; Halloween, 342; Lent, 70; Mardi Gras, 58, 68, 70, 71, 73; May Day, 137; Memorial Day, 138, 159; Mother’s Day, 138; New Year’s, 3, 6, 410; Thanksgiving, 345, 368, 370, 372; Whitsun, 139, 167, 176
Hollinghurst, Alan, 165, 209, 350
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 144
Holmes, Sherlock, 92, 98, 297, 320
Homes, A. M., 169, 397
Hongo, Garrett, 169
Hooker, Joseph Dalton, 16
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 138, 139, 181
Hopkinson, Nalo, 399
Horace, 372
Hornby, Nick, 291
Horne, Lena, 163
Hors d’Oeuvre and Canapés (Beard), 134
Hosseini, Khaled, 75
Hotel du Lac (Brookner), 277
Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails (Swofford), 321
Hot Rock, The (Westlake), 199
Houdini, Harry, 74, 306
Houellebecq, Michel, 65, 364
Hours, The (Cunningham), 367
House Behind the Cedars, The (Chesnutt), 151
House for Mr. Biswas, A (Naipaul), 306
Household, Geoffrey, 315
Household Words, 378
Housekeeping (Robinson), 181
House Made of Dawn (Momaday), 236
House of Holes (Baker), 254
House of Leaves (Danielewski), 97
House of Mirth, The (Wharton), 277, 323, 360, 375
House Without a Key, The (Biggers), 221
Howard, Richard, 18
Howard, Robert E., 184
Howards End (Forster), 356, 365
Howe, Irving, 222
Howe, Julia Ward, 43
Howells, William Dean, 48, 150, 358, 388
How I Became Hettie Jones, 324
“How It Feels to Be Forcibly Fed” (Barnes), 283
Howl (Ginsberg), 318
Hoyle, Edmond, 272
Hoyle, Fred, 263
Hubbard, L. Ron, 29, 148
Hughes, Howard, 53
Hughes, Langston, 24, 40, 47, 157, 284, 385, 387, 406
Hughes, Richard, 84, 124, 328, 351
Hughes, Robert, 249
Hughes, Ted, 39, 56, 64, 106, 339
Hugo, Richard, 333
Hugo, Victor, 64, 161, 214, 220
Hull, John M., 55
Human Stain, The (Roth), 284
Humbert, Humbert, 6, 361
Hunger (Hamsun), 387
Hunger Games (Collins), 147
Hungry Hearts (Yezierska), 396
Hunt, Charlotte, 258
Hunt, Leigh, 298, 316, 380
Hunter, Evan. See McBain, Ed
Hurst, Fannie, 62
Hurston, Zora Neale, xv, 12, 36, 149, 258, 314, 316, 327, 387, 398
Hustler, The (Tevis), 252
Huston, John, 97, 268
Hutchinson, Mary, 117
Hutchinson, Percy, 306
Huxley, Aldous, 143, 151, 234, 295, 367, 384
Huxley, Elspeth, 231
Huxley, Laura, 151, 367
Huygens, Christiaan, 325
Huysmans, J.-K., 118, 151
Hyde-Lees, Georgie, 338
I Am a F
ugitive from a Chain Gang, 115
I Am a Strange Loop (Hofstadter), 401
Ibsen, Henrik, 54, 162, 356
Ice Storm, The (Moody), 345, 368
Ice-T, 330
Ideal Husband, An (Wilde), 10
“Idea of Order at Key West, The” (Stevens), 128
Idiot, The (Dostoyevsky), 401
If This Is a Man. See Survival in Auschwitz
I Killed Lincoln at 10:13! (Keeler), 27
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou), 172
I, Libertine (Ewing), 244
I Lost It at the Movies (Kael), 82
“Image of Africa, An” (Achebe), 57
In a Lonely Place (Hughes), 87
“In Another Country” (Hemingway), 123
“In California: Morning, Evening, Late January” (Levertov), 5
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs), 203
In Cold Blood (Capote), 21, 119, 251, 373
Independence Day (Ford), 125, 206
Infinite Jest (Wallace), 51, 362
Ingersoll, Robert, 296
In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash (Shepherd), 378
In Hazard (Hughes), 351
Innocent, The (McEwan), 154
Innocent Voyage, An. See High Wind in Jamaica, A
In Parenthesis (Jones), 326
In Search of Lost Time (Proust), 16, 80, 118, 145, 257, 307
Instant Replay (Kramer), 398
Instead of a Letter (Athill), 400
Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud), 124, 232, 349
In the Land of Wonderful Dreams (McCay), 279
In the Night Kitchen (Sendak), 183
Into Thin Air (Krakauer), 150
Invisible Man (Ellison), 110, 119, 172, 374, 406
Invisible Man, The (Wells), 68
Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 253, 375
Ireland, William Henry, 107
Iron Gates, The (Millar), 47
Ironweed (Kennedy), 175
Irving, Clifford, 53
Irving, John, 73, 403
Irving, Washington, 149, 373
Isaacson, Walter, 159
Isherwood, Christopher, 9, 23, 132, 148, 170
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 74, 353
Island (Huxley), 151, 367
I Spit on Your Graves (Vian), 196
Italics Are Mine, The (Berberova), 64
Ivanhoe (Scott), 43
Ivins, Molly, 36
Iwasaki, Natsumi, 383
I Will Bear Witness (Klemperer), 341
Izvestia, 304, 312
Izzo, Jean-Claude, 31
“J’accuse” (Zola), 18
Jackson, Charles, 129, 299
Jackson, Shirley, 200, 393
Jacobs, Harriet, 78, 203
Jacobs, Jane, 9, 130
Jacob’s Room (Woolf), 248
Jacques, Brian, 188
Jaffe, Rona, 409
Jaggard, Isaac, 353
James, Alice, 11, 113, 201, 393
James, Bill, 316, 329
James, E. L., 159
James, Henry, 10, 11, 67, 79, 90, 113, 120, 170, 260, 262, 282, 329, 360, 361, 368, 378, 385, 393
James, Henry, Sr., 393
James, M. R., 311
James, P. D., 3, 5, 246
