Balanchine, George, xii, 13, 36, 115, 124, 150, 166
Bali, 116, 155, 156, 205, 223, 249, 253
Ballad for Americans (Latouche), 166, 183
Ballad of the Sad Café, The (McCullers), xiv, 156–58, 163, 222, 223–24, 256
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 15, 226, 251
Balzac, Honoré de, 90
Bankhead, Tallulah, 162
Barker, Jack, 149–51, 176–77, 194, 215–18, 229, 245
Barnes, Djuna, 11
Barr, Alfred, 166
Barry, Philip, 161. See also Liberty Jones
Bartlett, Ethel, 154, 202, 235, 238
Bates, H. E., 31
Bates, Sylvia Chatfield, 6
BBC, 123, 188, 235, 257–58
Bedford Hotel, 209
Belgium, 3, 27, 48
Bellini, Giovanni, 170
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 126
Bérard, Christian, 11, 23, 89
Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood, 116, 200, 253
Berlin. See Germany
Berman, Eugène, 166, 207
Bernstein, Leonard, 116, 183–84, 251
“Bilious Margaret,” 18
Bishop, Elizabeth, 16, 31
Blake, William, 53
Blitzstein, Marc, 116, 148, 150, 159, 183, 200
Blondell, Joan, 252
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 81
Bogan, Louise, 203, 216
“Borough, The” (Crabbe), 236–37
Boston, Massachusetts, 8, 9, 239
Boston Symphony Orchestra, 239
Botticelli, Sandro, 166
Boulanger, Nadia, 184
Bowery, the, 17, 18, 106
Bowles, Jane, 207
and Auden, 190–94
birthday of, 164–65
eviction of, from Middagh House, 195–96
after Middagh House, 200, 208, 250–51
at Middagh Street, xii, xiii, xiv, 160–62, 165–66, 169–73, 183–86, 216, 257
Bowles, Paul, 191, 199, 206
and Dalí, 169, 253–54
epigrams from, 181
eviction of, from Middagh House, 195–96
in Mexico, 161, 200, 208
after Middagh House, 200–201, 250–51, 255
at Middagh Street, xii, xiii, xiv, 160–62, 169–73, 192–94, 216, 235, 257
Boyd, Ernest, 95
Boyle, Kay, 11–12, 204, 254
Braun, Eddy, 82, 90
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 26–27, 31, 72, 91, 115
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote), 251
Brecht, Bertolt, 13, 20, 40
Breton, André, 12–13, 167
Breuer, Bessie, 225
Brevoort Hotel, 9
Brice, Fannie, 84
Bride and Her Brother, The. See Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers)
Bridge, Frank, 170
Brigadoon, 251
British Ministry of Information, 27
Britten, Barbara, 122, 170, 182, 184, 235, 238, 239
Britten, Benjamin, 29, 39, 51, 61, 128, 188, 204, 232
archives materials relating to, 256
and Auden, 118–21, 133–36, 154–56, 170, 182–83, 198–203, 213, 233, 237, 239, 240–42, 247–49, 256–58
and Bobby Rothman, 239–41
in California, 233–36
and Copland, 116, 119, 173, 174, 184, 249
epigrams from, 113, 159, 213
and Great Britain, 122, 188, 234–35, 247, 253
leaves Middagh Street house, 202–3, 242
at Mayers’ house, 69, 140, 238–40
at Middagh Street, xii, xiii, xiv, 109–11, 115, 116–23, 132–36, 138, 141, 148, 150, 153–56, 159, 161, 169–74, 181–82, 184–85, 190, 197–203, 216, 257
as pacifist, 122–23, 127, 145, 254
See also Pears, Peter; titles of works by
Brodovitch, Alexey, 15
Brodsky, Joseph, 72–73
Brooklyn Bridge, xi, 36, 60, 62, 172, 251
Brooklyn College, 50, 73, 105, 174
Brooklyn Dodgers, xii
Brooklyn Heights
Auden’s apartment in, 33, 35, 38, 39
author’s experiences in, xi–xiv
legends of, 64–65
search for communal house in, 33–40
See also Middagh Street (No. 7); Sands Street district
“Brooklyn Is My Neighborhood” (McCullers), 153
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 78, 220, 255
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, xiv, 255
Brosa, Anthony, 111, 117
Brown, Harry, 71
Brown, Les, 86
Bucket of Blood, 14
Burlesque, 14, 78, 81–84, 101–2, 104, 251–52. See also Lee, Gypsy Rose
Byelorussia, 211
Byron, Lord, 49. See also “Letter to Lord Byron” (Auden)
C
Cabaret, 16
Cabin in the Sky, 166
Cadmus, Fidelma, 208
Cadmus, Paul, 150, 208
Café des Westens, 161
Caldwell, Erskine, 4
California
Britten and Pears in, 202–3, 233–36, 238
Isherwood in, 18, 26, 37, 52–54, 95, 96, 143, 146, 174, 202, 211
Kallman in, 228, 244
Lee in, 84
Mann family in, 29, 202, 245
“Calypso” (Auden), 228
Camelot, 251
Capote, Truman, 251
Carnegie Hall, 117, 154, 181–82, 197
Carnivals, 13. See also Circuses
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 15
Cassandre, A. M., 15
CBS Radio, 201
Censorship Office, 254
Chagall, Marc, 204
Champlain, 48
Cheever, John, 16, 31
Chelsea Hotel, 161, 193
Chiang Kai-shek, Mrs., 45
Chicago, Illinois, 136–38, 140, 162, 186
Child’s Garden of Verses, A (Stevenson), 81
China, 16, 45–46, 56, 78, 228
Chirico, Giorgio de, 36, 89
Chopin, Frederic, 154
Christianity and Power Politics (Niebuhr), 127
“Christmas 1940” (Auden), 128
Christmas oratorio. See For the Time Being
Churchill, Winston, 3, 165, 212, 244
Circuses, xiii, 13
performers in, 160, 162
City of Man, The, 126–27
Clarac-Schwarzenbach, Annemarie, 188
and McCullers, 20–21, 25, 26, 29, 106, 107, 162–64, 205, 225
as Middagh Street visitor, 72, 109
suicide attempt by, 130, 131, 163
Cleveland Orchestra, 238
Clinton, Michigan, 10, 13
Cocteau, Jean, 11, 16, 23, 95, 253
Colette, 16, 31
Collection, The. See Sammlung, Die
Columbia Theater Associates, 121, 133
Columbia University, 6, 84, 121
Columbus, Christopher, 167
Columbus, Georgia, 77
McCullers in, 6, 13, 24, 35, 78, 162, 164, 185–86, 225, 250
Common Sense, 72
Communism, 4, 42, 46, 47, 79
“Composer, The” (Auden), 128
Coney Island, New York, 13, 16, 26, 106
Congress, U.S., 142, 165. See also Lend-Lease Bill
Connolly, Cyril, 59, 144–45, 188
Coolidge, Elizabeth, 239
Copland, Aaron, xii, 109, 161, 183, 200, 251
and Britten, 116, 119, 173, 174, 184, 249
Cosy Corner, 41
Cotton Club, 90
“Court in the West Eighties” (McCullers), 9
Cowles, Fleur, 253
Cowley, Malcolm, 150
Crabbe, George, 236–38
Cradle Will Rock, The, 116
Crnberry Street, Brooklyn Heights, 34, 65
Crane, Hart, 36, 53
Crawford, Cheryl, 115, 138, 150, 166
Crosby, Caresse, 168, 169
Cunard, Nancy, 11, 204
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p; Curio Shop, 66
Curtiss, Mina Kirstein, 37, 151, 245
Czechoslovakia, 47, 48, 50. See also Slovakia
D
Dahl-Wolfe, Louise, xii, 15, 49, 72
Daily Worker, 46
Dalí, Gala, xii, 166, 168, 169, 185, 194
Dalí, Salvador, 13, 15, 184, 185, 194, 207, 253–54, 257
at Middagh Street, xii, 116–69, 171
“Dalí’s Dream of Venus,” 166–67
Dance of Death, The (Auden), 43
Dangerfield, George, 11, 115, 150
“Dark Year, The” (Auden), xiv
Davies, Marion, 15
Davis, George, 253–55, 257
archives materials relating to, 256
and Auden, 16–17, 45, 48, 252
background of, 10–13
birthday of, 164
communal house search by, xii, 33–40
communal living dream of, 31–34, 135–36, 186
conversational style of, 14–15, 77
and Dalí, 166–69
and Decision, 95, 139, 144, 200
and drugs, 17, 49
and Gypsy Rose Lee, xiii, 80–83, 85, 86–88, 101–4, 137–41, 152–53, 186, 204, 207–8, 221, 252, 253
at Harper’s Bazaar, xii, 9, 15–16, 22–23, 26, 27–31, 37, 45, 87, 139, 153, 166, 204, 253
at Mademoiselle, 242, 252–53
and Marguerite Smith, 131, 132
and McCullers, 8–11, 13, 17–18, 22–26, 29, 31, 130, 131, 156, 186, 205, 250, 252
after Middagh Street house demolition, 255
as Middagh Street house manager, 62, 65–68, 70–71, 89–91, 100, 106, 108–11, 115–18, 151, 152, 159–62, 165, 169, 185, 195, 203–4, 216, 221–22, 226, 229, 245, 251
networking by, 71–72, 130, 207
novel by, 12, 104, 139, 159
proposes communal living to Auden, 58, 60–61
and Sands Street district, 77
Day Lewis, Cecil, 44
Decameron (Boccaccio), 81
Decision: A Review of Free Culture, 128, 148, 186, 207
and Davis, 139, 200
demise of, 209–10, 242, 254
and Klaus Mann, xiii, 94–97, 124, 126, 143–45, 221
and McCullers, 130, 140, 205–6, 223
de Mille, Agnes, 251
Democracy, 126–27
Denmark, 3, 57
Detroit, Michigan, 10, 78, 80–81, 87
Diaghilev, Sergei, 15
Dial Press, 168
Diamond, David, 204–5, 222, 223
Dietrich, Marlene, 40
Dior, Christian, 11
Dix, Otto, 40
Dixieland Hotel, 80
Dizzy’s Club, 55–56
“Domesday Song” (Auden), 232
Dominguez, Oscar, 167
Dostoevski, Fedor, 7
Double Man, The (Auden), xiv, 39, 101, 187, 205
Downes, Olin, 199
Draper, Muriel, 17
Drugs
Auden’s use of, 17, 49, 51, 91, 175
Britten’s use of, 169
European refugees’ use of, 20, 94, 130, 211
French writers’ use of, 11
Jane Bowles’s use of, 194
McCullers’s use of, 204
See also Alcohol
Du Barry Was a Lady, 79
Duncan, Isadora, 12, 13
Duncan, Raymond, 12
“Dust” (Huxley), 95
E
Einstein, Albert, 154
“Elegy to Yeats” (Auden), 50
Eliot, T. S., 43
Eluard, Paul, 12
Emergency Rescue Committee, 19, 93–94, 96–97, 109, 163
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 73, 76
“English Composer Sees America, An” (Britten), 122
Ernst, Max, 36, 84, 204
Escondido, California, 202–3, 234, 238
Esquire, 9
Estonia, 4
Evil, 57, 58, 100–101, 127, 214, 217. See also Fascism
Exiled Writers Committee (League of American Writers), 96
F
Fadiman, Clifton, 5, 12
Fancy Free, 251
Fascism
Lindbergh on, 95
in Spain, 42–43, 45, 168
See also Evil; Nazism
Faulkner, Robert “Boo,” 186
Faulkner, William, 4
Fayetteville, North Carolina, 6, 19, 21, 63, 107
“February House,” xiii, 164. See also Middagh Street (No. 7)
Feld, Rose, 5, 164
Ferguson, Elsie, 10
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 124
Finland, 211
Firbank, Ronald, 81
Fiske, Dwight, 83
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 11, 81, 141
Flair magazine, 253
Flanner, Janet (“Genêt”), xii, 10–11, 31, 89, 205
archives materials relating to, 256
and Decision, 95
on Gypsy Rose Lee, 104, 138, 140, 227
and McCullers, 25, 225–26, 254
as Middagh Street visitor, 92, 93, 108, 115, 152
as New Yorker writer, 10, 25, 94, 124–25
Flaubert, Gustave, 7
Flower Beneath the Foot (Firbank), 81
Flower Drum Song, 251
Ford, Charles Henri, 92
Ford, Ford Madox, 11
Forster, E. M., 56, 236, 239
Fort Benning, Georgia, 7
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 22
Fort Dix, New Jersey, 254
For the Time Being, xiv, 230–33, 240, 241, 245, 248, 249, 254, 256
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 95
France, 19
Boulanger in, 184
Bowleses in, 193
Davis in, 10–14, 24, 166
Flanner on, 95, 124–25
and lead-up to World War II, 46
McCullers in, 254
Nazi occupation of, 3, 5, 27, 58
Franco, Francisco, 43
From Another World (Untermeyer), 29–30
Frost, Robert, 26, 29
Fry, Varian, 125
“Function of the Writer in the Political Crisis, The,” 187–88
G
Greta, 8, 18
Gay New Orleans Review, The, 137, 208
Genêt. See Flanner, Janet
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 251
George Washington Hotel, 48, 55
Germany
Auden after World War II, 254
Auden in Weimar, 16, 40–42, 44, 228
immigrants to U.S. from, 57, 127
Manns exiled from, 18, 27, 94
as setting for Porter story, 27
in World War II, 3–5, 45–50, 52, 55, 57–58, 182, 221
See also Nazism
Gershwin, George, 12
Gershwin, Ira, 25
Gide, André, 12, 254
Glasgow, Scotland, 177
God’s Little Acre (Caldwell), 4
“Goethe in Hollywood” (Flanner), 226
Gold Medal for Poetry, 18, 44
Good-bye to Berlin (Isherwood), 16, 49
Gordon, Waxy, 92
Grandmothers, The (Wescott), 28
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 4
Great Britain
and Auden, 42–47, 52, 55, 59, 101, 122, 144–46, 188–89
Britten decides to return to, 237–38, 247–49
Davis in, 16, 45
Gold Medal for Poetry in, 18, 44
Hess in, 211
and Isherwood, 52, 59, 96–97, 122, 144–46, 188, 211
and lead-up to World War II, 46, 48, 50
in World War II, xiii, 3, 4, 24, 27, 31, 40, 55, 57–59, 92, 93, 122–23, 132–33, 141–43, 150, 170, 181–82, 188, 197, 203, 211–12, 221, 238
Green, Julien, 159
Gregory, Horace, 95
Gris, Juan, 36
Grosz, George, 15, 40
Group Theatre, 115
G-String Murders, The (Lee)
publication and reception of, 226–27
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royalties from, 252
writing of, xiii, xiv, 86–88, 101–6, 137–41, 152–53, 207–8, 216, 257
Guarneri, Victor, 66, 91, 160, 186
Guggenheim grants, 200, 249–50
Guys and Dolls, 251
Gypsy, 252
H
Hale, Nancy, 31
Hammett, Dashiell, 227
Harlem, 17, 90
Harper’s, 9
Harper’s Bazaar
atmosphere at, 23–24
chimpanzee as model in, 160
Davis’s work for, xii, 9, 15–16, 22–23, 26, 27–31, 37, 45, 87, 139, 153, 166, 204, 253
other workers at, 66, 71, 109
photographs for, 49, 79
works published in, 49, 72, 87, 106, 148, 167, 185, 205, 227, 228, 234
Hart, Moss, 25, 159
Harvard Society of Contemporary Art, 36
Harvard University, 36, 99
Havoc, June, 80–81, 85, 136, 138, 153, 253
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 73, 76
Hays office, 84
Heard, Gerald, 53, 218
Hearst, William Randolph, 15
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (McCullers), 3, 5–6, 10, 13, 20, 26, 32, 163
“Heavy Date” (Auden), 51
Hecht, Ben, 14, 15
Hellman, Lillian, 161, 200
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