Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
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Chaucer, Geoffrey 334
Cheever, Benjamin 517
Cheever, John 514–17, 652
Cheever, Mary (née Winternitz) 515
Chekhov, Anton 526, 754
Chesterton, G. K. 477
Cheyney, Arthur 394
Cheyney, Dorma (née Leigh) 395
Cheyney, Kate 394
Cheyney, Peter (Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney) 394–6
Childers, Mary (née Osgood) 275
Childers, Robert Erskine 274–5
Chisholm, Kate 38
Cholmondeley, Marquess of 222
Cholmondeley, Mary 222–3
Cholmondeley, Revd 222
Cholmondeley, Victoria 223
Chopin, Kate 238
Christie, Agatha Mary Clarissa (née Miller; later Mallowan) 255, 361–3, 421, 540
Christie, Archie 361–2
Christie, John 491, 641
Christie, Matthew 363
Christie, Rosalind 362
Christy, Roy 620
Churchill, Sir Winston 272, 275, 293, 388, 491, 499
Clairmont, Claire 69, 71, 72
Clairmonte, George Egerton 229
Claire, Cassandra 796
Clark, Dora 282
Clark, Kenneth (Baron Clark of Saltwood) 617
Clarke, Sir Arthur Charles 538–9, 555, 565, 604–5, 746
Clavell, James 184
Cleaver, Eldridge 602, 615
Cleland, John 21–3
Clement, Caroline 312, 313
Clemm, ‘Muddy’ 99
Clifford, Max 727
Clinton, Bill 657, 695
Clute, John 429
Coady, Frances 740
Coates, Robert M. 445
Cobb, Samuel 140
Cobb, Sylvanus, Jr 140–41
Cobbett, William 388, 743, 744
Cockburn, Claud 760
Cocteau, Jean 772
Coe, Jonathan 682, 684
Coel, Old King 439
Coetzee, J. M. (John Maxwell) 727–30
Coghlan, Monica 726, 727
Cohen, Richard 725
Cohn, Harry 447
Colburn, Henry 62, 71, 73, 75, 79, 84, 154
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 12, 52, 60, 65, 69, 447
Coles, G. M. 317
Collins, M. A. 546
Collins, Wilkie 82, 109, 145–8, 149, 174
Colman, Ronald 355
Comte, Auguste 78, 129
Connelly, M. 508
Connery, Sean 650
Connolly, Cyril 432, 436, 451, 461, 465, 492, 493, 495
Conrad, Borys 219
Conrad, Jessie (née George) 219
Conrad, John 219
Conrad, Joseph (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) 36, 183, 217–20, 269, 282–83, 292, 453, 636, 639, 667, 696
Conradi, P. J. 552
Constable, Archibald 54, 55, 56
Constantine, Eddie 395
Constantine, Emperor 439
Contarine, Revd Thomas 29
Cook, R. C. 257
Cook, William Wallace 340
Cooke, Ebenezer 643
Cooke, N. 723
Cookson, Catherine Ann (née Davies/McMullen; later Dame) 478–80
Cookson, Thomas 479
Coolbrith, Ina 302
Cooper, Gary 242, 305, 467
Cooper, James Fenimore 66–9, 289, 307
Corelli, Marie (Mary Mackay) 175, 203–5
Coren, Alan 704
Corfield, Miss (teacher) 479
Cornwell, Charles 788
Cornwell, Patricia Carroll (née Daniels) 358, 788–9
Costello, Elvis 733
Cote, Alan 761
Cotton, Joseph 273
Courvoisier, François 90, 176
Cowan, Robert E. (‘Bud’) 279
Coward, Noël 292, 496
Cowen, Louis 258
Cowley, Malcolm 515
Coxey, Jacob S. 302, 303
Crabbe, George 101
Craigie, Reginald Walpole 267
Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) 150–51
Craik, Dorothy 151
Craik, George Lillie 151
Crane, Agnes 281
Crane, Jonathan Townley 280
Crane, M. Helen 280
Crane, Stephen 280–83
Crawford, Joan 342, 374
Crawfurd, Oswald 250
Creasey, Jean 490
Creasey, John 489–91
Creasey, Martin 490
Creasey, Richard 490
Crichton, John Michael 734–6, 774
Crick, M. 727
Crider, Bill 600
Crisp, Samuel 38
Crockett, S. R. 298, 419
Crompton, Richmal (born Richmal Crompton Lamburn) 273, 363–5
Cromwell, Oliver 1, 7, 268
Cronenberg, David 773
Cronin, A. J. 306
Cronwright, Samuel Cron 208, 209
Cross, John Walter 128
Crowley, Aleister (the ‘Great Beast’) 65, 291, 407
Cruikshank, George 89, 90, 108
Cukor, George 293
Culkin, Macaulay 764
cummings, e.e. 356, 367
Cupp, Miss 425
Curry, William 91
D
Daly, Carroll John 544, 546–7
Daly, Margaret G. (née Blakley) 546
Danby, Frank (Julia Frankau; née Davis) 227–8, 244
Dante Alighieri 474
d’Arblay, Alexander 39, 41
d’Arblay, Alexandre 39, 41
Darwin, Charles 168, 190, 296, 303, 512
Darwin, Erasmus 32, 33
Dasgupta, Rana 792–4, 796
Daugherty, T. 653
David, Elizabeth 269
Davies, Andrew 23, 57, 58
Davies, Arthur H. 275
Davies, Austin 664, 665
Davies, Mary 179
Davies, Terence 253
Davies, W. 40
Davies, W. H. 433
Davis, Angela 655
Davis, Bette 675
Davis, Hope Hale 760
Davis, Hyman 227
Davis, James 227
Davis, Miles 331
Davis, Ossie 503
Davis, Randall, C. 96
Davis, Robert Gorham 761
Dawson, Jennifer (later Hinton) 625–8
de Beauvoir, Simone 461, 631
de Camp, C. Crook 483
de Camp, L. Sprague 483
de la Roche, Mazo (born Mazo Roche) 312–13
de Man, Paul 643
De Niro, Robert 793
De Palma, Brian 773
De Quincey, Thomas Penson 46, 64–6
de Vigny, Alfred 465
Dean, James 330, 426, 534, 641
Deeping, George Warwick 305–7, 403
Deeping, Maude Phyllis (née Merrill) 306, 307
Defoe, Daniel (born Foe) 5, 6–11, 13, 14, 22–3, 90
Deighton, Len 226, 495, 726, 735
Dekker, George 69
Delany, Samuel R. 555
Dell, Ethel M. 433
DeMille, Cecil B. 81, 95
Denard, C. C. 657
Denslow, William W. 212, 213
Derby, Lord 81, 82
DeSalvo, Louise A. 325
Descartes, René 474
Devonshire, Duke of 81
Dhaliwal, Nirpal 772
Dickens, Catherine (née Hogarth) 108, 110
Dickens, Charles John Huffam (‘Boz’) 17, 77, 81, 89, 90, 92, 101, 102, 106, 107–11, 116, 124, 126, 137, 138, 146, 147, 171, 173–6, 199, 211, 307, 323, 326, 411, 436, 437, 519, 687, 705, 739, 763, 766
Dickens, John 107, 108
Dickinson, Emily 753
Dickinson, Thorold 500
Dietrich, Marlene 305, 369
Dirac, Paul 412
Disney, Walt 440, 652
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield 55, 82–5
D’Israeli, Isaac 83
Disraeli, Mary Anne, Viscountess Beaconsfield 83
> Dixie, Albert Edward Wolston 206
Dixie, Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill 206
Dixie, Lady Florence Caroline (née Douglas) 205–7
Dixie, George Douglas 206
Dixon, Ella Nora Hepworth (‘Margaret Wynman’) 220–21
Dixon, Sydney 221
Dixon, Thomas 255
Dixon, Thomas F., Jr 255–7
Dixon, William Hepworth 220, 221
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (Lewis Carroll) 24, 277, 746
Donaldson, Scott 399, 400, 401
Donkin, Sir Bryan 208
D’Onofrio, Vincent 482
Dos Passos, John 425, 597, 598, 643
Dostoevsky, Fyodor 521, 567
Doten, Lizzie 99
Doubleday, Ellen 162, 285
Douglas, Lord Alfred (‘Bosie’) 205
Douglas, Elsa (née FitzGibbon) 270
Douglas, Kirk 523
Douglas, Lloyd C. 306
Douglas, Norman (George Norman Douglas(s)) 269–72
Douglas, Paul 429
Douglas-Home, Henry 492
Downey, Robert, Jr 225
Doyle, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan 100, 189, 191, 223–5, 226, 227, 364, 478, 735, 753
Doyle, C. 366
Doyle, Charles 223
Doyle, Jean (née Leckie) 225
Doyle, John, Governor of Guernsey 79
Doyle, Louise (née Hawkins) 224, 225
Drabble, Margaret 267
Draper, Eliza 27
Dreiser, Herman Theodore 283–8, 445, 765
Dreiser, John Paul 283, 284
Dreiser, Sara Osborne (née White) 285, 288
Dreiser, Sarah 283, 284
Dresser, Paul 284–5
Dreyfus, Alfred 443
Dryden, John 7
du Maurier, Daphne (‘Dame’, later Browning) 159, 160–63, 355
du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson 157–9, 186, 189, 234, 282, 355
du Maurier, Sir Gerald 159, 160, 162, 301, 355
du Maurier, Muriel (nee Beaumont) 160
Duckworth, George 323, 324, 325
Duckworth, Gerald 323, 325
Duer, Douglas 289
Duhamel, Marcel 502
Dumas, Alexandre 56, 307, 338–9, 544
Dumas, Alexandre, père 298, 406
Dunaway, Faye 567, 568
Duncan, Todd 331
Dunlap, William 52
Dunne, J. W. 388
Durante, Jimmy 589
Durrell, Gerald 518
Durrell, Lawrence George 367, 517–19
Durrell, Sappho-Jane 518
Dyall, Valentine 476
Dyer, G. 619
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Eastwood, Clint 68, 290, 662
Eccleshare, Elizabeth 228
Edalji, George 225, 753
Edel, Leon 187
Edgar, Richard Horatio 300
Edgeworth, Maria 41
Edison, Thomas 185
Edman, Irwin 529
Edwards, A. 417
Egerton, George (Mary Chavelita Golding Bright; née Dunne) 228–9
Eichmann, Edolf 586
Einstein, Albert 518
Eisenhower, Dwight 516
Eldredge, Charles 103
Eliot, George (née Mary Anne Evans, later ‘Marian’) 78, 89, 106, 116, 126–9, 130, 152, 177, 183, 197, 223, 285, 724
Eliot, T. S. 366, 368, 452, 518, 542, 588, 604, 611, 647
Elizabeth, Queen, the Queen Mother 570, 571
Elizabeth I, Queen 59
Elizabeth II, Queen 389, 422, 571
Ellis, Bret Easton 730–33
Ellis, David 336
Ellis, Havelock 208
Ellis, P. B. 377
Ellis, Robert Martin 731–2
Ellis, Ruth 179
Ellis, S. M. 90
Ellison, Ralph 428, 602
Ellmann, R. 323
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 127, 575, 576
Engle, Paul 610
Epstein, W. H. 23
Equiano, Olaudah (renamed Gustavus Vassa) 35–6, 450
Erlich, Gloria C. 87, 88
Eulalia, Saint 270–71
Evans, Robert 126, 127
Eyre, Richard 627, 782
Ezenwa-Ohaeto 639
F
Fabrikant, G. 789
Fairbanks, Douglas 298
Fairlie, Gerard 355
Faithfull, Starr 430
Falkner, Murry 401
Falkner, Colonel William C. (né Faulkner) 401, 402
Fallada, Hans 340
Fante, John 566, 568
Farjeon, Benjamin Leopold 173–4
Farjeon, Eleanor 174
Farjeon, Jacob 173
Farjeon, Margaret (née Jefferson) 174
Farnol, Blanche (née Hawley) 308, 309
Farnol, Edward 307, 308, 309
Farnol, Ewart 307, 309
Farnol, Henry 307
Farnol, John Jeffery 254, 307–9, 421
Farnol, Phyllis 309
Farnum, Dustin 242
Farrell, J. G. (James Gordon) 704–7, 711
Farrington, Samuel 103
Farris, John 773
Farson, Daniel 189, 389, 392
Fast, Howard Melvin 523–4, 661
Faulkner, Estelle 402
Faulkner, William Cuthbert (born Falkner) 170, 347, 370, 372, 381, 401–4, 527, 593, 612, 613, 614, 643, 654, 737
Faust, Dorothy (née Schillig) 369
Faust, Rhoda 719
Fawcett, Catherine 478, 479
Fehlbaum, Valerie 221
Feilding, Edmund 16, 17
Feist, Raymond E. 776
Felt, Joseph B. 87
Ferber, Edna 329–30, 371
Ferdinand, King of the Two Sicilies and Infante of Spain 119
‘Fern, Fanny’ (Sarah Payson Willis; later Eldredge, Farrington, Parton) 103–4, 135
Ferrer, Mel 299
Feuchtwanger, Leon 340–41
Field, Inspector Charles 81
Field, Kate 115
Fielding, Charlotte 17
Fielding, Henry 15, 16–18, 19, 59, 106, 426
Fielding, Sarah 18
Fields, James T. 185
Fierro, Dr Marcella 788