Hello, Dolly!, 251
“Hell’s Half Acre.” See Sands Street district
Hemingway, Ernest, 11, 81, 95
“Herman Melville” (Auden), 37
Herrero, Billy, 79
Hess, Rudolf, 211
Hitler, Adolf, 58, 100, 124, 211–12, 221, 243, 254. See also Evil; Nazism
Holland, 3, 27, 57, 94, 197
Hollywood, California, 18, 37, 52, 53–54, 84
Horizon, 59, 144–45, 188, 189
Hot-cha!, 90
Hotel Columbia, 255
Houghton Mifflin Company, 163, 224
Hound and Horn, 36
House in Bali, A (McPhee), 249, 253, 257
Hovick, June. See Havoc, June
Hovick, Louise. See Lee, Gypsy Rose
Hovick, Rose, 80, 84, 86, 90
Hubert’s Museum, 79
Huis Clos (Sartre), 254
Hungary, 211
Huxley, Aldous, 53, 59, 95, 128, 144–46, 202
I
I Am a Camera (Isherwood), 16
Ida (Stein), 205–6
“If I Could Tell You” (Auden), xiv
Illuminations, Les (Britten), 119, 120, 184, 201
“I’m Going to Asia” (Cheever), 31
In Cold Blood (Capote), 251
Infants Terribles, Les (Cocteau), 11
Influenza epidemic, 10
“In Sickness and in Health” (Auden), xiv, 112, 175, 232, 256
International Brigade, 43
In the Summer House (J. Bowles), 207, 251
Introduction and Rondo alla Burlesca (Britten), 154
Irving Place Theater, 83, 102
Isherwood, Christopher, 44, 56, 210, 218, 245
and Britten, 118, 119, 239, 249
in California, 18, 26, 37, 52, 53–54, 95, 96, 143, 146, 174, 202, 211
decides to move to the U.S., 47–50
and Great Britain, 52, 59, 96–97, 122, 144–46, 188, 211
Harper’s Bazaar’s publication of works by, 16, 45
on Middagh Street house, 219
in New York, 16–18, 38, 48, 50, 51, 57, 71, 99–100, 123, 252
as pacifist, 53–54, 127–28, 145, 202, 219, 254
and Peter Grimes, 248
photographs of, 49, 72
in Weimar Germany, 40, 41, 160–61, 173
Italy, 211, 221, 254, 255
J
James, Harry, 86
James, Henry, 73, 76, 97–98, 164, 206, 230. See also “At the Grave of Henry James” (Auden)
Japan, 16, 117, 211, 234, 242
Jews, 42, 221. See also specific Jews
Johnson, Philip, 166
Journey to a War (Auden and Isherwood), 16, 45, 46, 49
Joyce, James, 81, 210
Juilliard School, 6–7
Julien Levy Gallery, 168
Jung, Carl, 73, 74, 231
K
Kafka, Franz, 152, 172, 191–93
“Kairos and Logos” (Auden), 128, 232
Kallman, Chester, 55–56, 91, 94, 254
and Auden, 50–53, 97–100, 105–6, 117, 122, 129, 148–51, 170–71, 174–76, 194–95, 213–19, 227–31, 233, 244–47, 256, 257
“Aunt Sadie” story of, 74–75, 111
and Barker, 149–51, 176–77, 194, 215, 218, 229, 245
Middagh Street visits by, 72, 73–76, 104–6, 109, 110, 117, 118, 122, 139, 215
Kallman, Edward, 74, 99, 109, 148–50, 176
Kansas City Star, 164
Kaye, Danny, 155
Kelly, Gene, 136
Kierkegaard, Sören, 91, 100–101, 129, 151
King, Queen, Knave (Nabokov), 40
King Lear (Shakespeare), 68
Kirstein, Lincoln, 17, 31, 121, 151, 154, 161, 186
marriage of, 208
and Middagh Street house, 36–38, 60, 77, 152, 162
as Middagh Street visitor, 72, 109, 110, 115, 148, 166
military service of, 255
Koussevitsky, Serge, 239, 247
Krakow, Poland, 4
Kroll Quartet, 239
Ku Klux Klan, 163
L
Ladies Home Journal, The, 9
Lady in the Dark, 25, 117, 136, 154–55, 255
“Lady Weeping at the Crossroads” (Auden), 99
La Guardia, Fiorello, 251
Lahr, Bert, 79
Lane, Homer, 40–41, 74
Latouche, John, 166, 183, 191
Latvia, 4
Lawrence, D. H., 154
Lawrence, D. H., Mrs., 53
League of American Writers, 50, 96–97
League of Composers, 173
“Leaning Tower, The” (Porter), 27–28
“Leap Before You Look” (Auden), 175, 256
Lee, Gypsy Rose, 163
archives materials relating to, 256
background of, 78–88
and Dalí, 167–68
epigrams from, 89
and George Davis, xiii, 80–83, 85, 86–88, 101–4, 137–41, 152–53, 186, 204, 207–8, 221, 252, 253
imitators of, 79
leaves Middagh Street house, 136–40, 160, 162, 165, 242
after leaving Middagh Street house, 143, 152–53, 220, 222, 251–52, 255
and McCullers, 79, 87, 88, 106–8, 111–12, 132, 138, 225
at Middagh Street, xii, xiii, xiv, 87–91, 98, 101–6, 108, 110–11, 115, 116, 118, 121, 130, 132, 216, 256
novel-writing by, 86–88, 101–6, 137–41, 152–53, 207–8, 216, 226–27, 257
strip routine of, 81–82
See also titles of works by
Lend-Lease Bill, 142–43, 165, 181, 220
Leningrad, Soviet Union, 221
Lenya, Lotte, xii, 13, 18, 25, 31, 117, 155, 253, 255
“Letter from Paris,” 10
Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke), 58
“Letter to Elizabeth Mayer” (Auden). See “New Year Letter”
“Letter to Lord Byron” (Auden), 63
Liberty Jones (Barry), 161, 166, 200
Life magazine, 153, 220, 227
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 95
Linscott, Robert, 7–9, 224–25
Lipchitz, Jacques, 204
Listener, The, 236
Lithuania, 4, 211
Little Review, The, 11, 23
London, England. See Great Britain
London Philharmonic Orchestra, 197, 234
London Sunday Times, 234
“Loneliness of the Individual, The” (Auden), 203
Look, Stranger! (Auden), 43, 52
Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe), 4
Look magazine, 253
Los Angeles, California, 53–54, 228, 235, 238. See also Hollywood
Lottie and Jack’s restaurant, 68
“Loved One, The” (Bates), 31
Love in the Western World (Rougemont), xiii, 160, 203, 213–15
Lucas, Jocelyn, 59
Luxembourg, 3
Lynes, George Platt, 92
M
MacCown, Eugene, 14–15
MacDougal, Allan Ross, 14, 15
MacNeice, Louis, 45, 47, 50, 72, 145, 257
on Auden, 76
and Britten, 249
on class relations, 41
departs for Great Britain, 112
on expatriates, 188
as Middagh Street visitor, 91
and politics after World War I, 43, 96–97
Mademoiselle, 109, 207, 252–53
Magritte, René, 167
Mahagonny (Weill), 253
Mahler, Gustav, 93, 182, 234, 240
Mailer, Norman, 8
Mann, Angelus Gottfried (“Golo”), 19, 77, 93, 109–10, 160, 188
leaves Middagh Street house, 184, 242
at Middagh Street, 124, 140, 146
Mann, Erika, 8, 100, 109, 209, 210
and Auden, 18–19, 48, 145–46, 229
and McCullers, 18–21, 26, 29, 224
and Paul Bowles, 161
political activities of, 19, 27, 92–94, 96, 118
, 144, 145–46, 163, 188
Mann, Heinrich, 19, 77, 93, 96, 202
Mann, Klaus, 18–20, 26, 29, 43, 48, 92, 124, 160, 225
Auden’s debate with, 187–88
and Decision, xiii, 94–97, 124, 126, 128, 130, 140, 143–45, 209–13, 221, 242, 254
epigram by, 244
on Kafka, 192
as Middagh Street visitor, 72, 77, 100, 109, 118, 124, 150, 242, 257
military service of, 254–55
and Paul Bowles, 161
reviews McCullers’s work, 205–6
See also Decision
Mann, Nelly, 93
Mann, Thomas, xii, 8, 19, 25, 94, 95, 146
in California, 202, 245
and Decision, 209
See also “Goethe in Hollywood” (Flanner)
Mansfield, Katherine, 7
Marius the Epicurean (Pater), 81
Marquand, John, 26
Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Blake), 53
Marseilles, France, 19
Marshall, Helen, 174
Marx, Harpo, 185
Marx, Karl, 43
Massine, Leonid, 226
Maugham, Somerset, 95
Maurois, André, 12
Mayer, Beata, 109, 170
Mayer, Elizabeth, 124, 154, 155, 198, 245
and Auden, 233, 245
and Britten and Pears, 69, 110, 117–18, 140, 201, 203, 233, 238–40, 249
as hostess, 69–70, 109
See also “Letter to Elizabeth Mayer” (Auden)
Mayer, Michael, 109–10, 203
Mayer, William, 124, 154, 155, 198, 224, 234, 238, 245
Mazurka Elegiaca (Britten), 234
McCullers, Carson, 251, 254
alcohol problems of, 24–25, 27, 68, 70, 110, 130–32, 156, 204, 206, 216, 222, 250
archives materials relating to, 256
and Auden, 18, 60, 76–77
birthday of, 164
characters of, 5, 26
and Clarac-Schwarzenbach, 20–21, 25, 26, 29, 106, 107, 162–64, 205, 225
as compelled to write, 139
and Decision, 95, 130, 223
description of, in 1940, 5–6
divorce of, 224, 225
epigrams by, 3, 142, 220
fate of, 249–50, 255
father of, 140, 163–64
and George Davis, 8–11, 13, 17–18, 22–26, 29, 31, 72, 130, 131, 156, 186, 205, 250, 252
in Georgia, 6, 13, 24, 35, 78, 162, 164, 155–86, 225, 250
and Gypsy Rose Lee, 79, 87, 88, 106–8, 111–12, 132, 138, 225
health of, 6, 26, 27, 63, 107, 130–32, 139–40, 153, 185–86, 204, 206, 222, 250
leaves Middagh Street, 139–40, 221
Manhattan apartment of, 35, 186, 204–7
marriage of, 6–7
at Middagh Street, xii, xiii, xiv, 31, 34–36, 38, 61, 62–66, 68, 70, 71, 76–77, 91, 106–11, 115, 122, 129–32, 141, 161, 165, 216, 225, 256–57
Middagh Street visitor, 143, 151–52, 156–59, 163, 169, 205–7, 222, 250
in North Carolina, 6, 19, 21, 63, 107
remarriage of, 250
as stimulated by unsatisfied desire, 41, 158, 204–5, 223
See also McCullers, (James) Reeves; titles of works by
McCullers, (James) Reeves, 6–8, 13, 19, 36, 107–8, 159, 251, 254
behavior of, 20–22, 29, 31, 32, 130–31, 223–24
and David Diamond, 223–24
not included in Middagh Street experiment, 38, 62–63
Middagh Street visits by, 72, 109, 122, 169
military service of, 250, 254
reconciliation attempts of, 204–5
remarriage of, 250
visits Carson in Georgia, 186
McPhee, Colin, 173, 208, 224, 244
as musician, 116, 155, 156, 201, 253, 255
as writer, 205, 223, 253, 258
at Middagh Street, 226, 253, 257, 258
Melville, Herman, 73, 76
Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers)
original title of, 76
writing of, 107, 111–12, 129–30, 132, 157, 163, 207, 222, 224, 249, 257
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 208, 218
Metropolitan Opera House, 226
Mexico, 161, 200, 208, 226
Middagh Street (No. 7)
abandonment of, 203, 208–9, 242
accomplishments of the residents of, xiii, xiv, 256–57
Auden decides to join, 58–61
author’s discovery of, xii–xiv
birthdays celebrated at, 148–49, 164–66
Bowleses admitted to, 161–62
Bowleses evicted from, 195–96
Britten and Pears join, 109–11
Britten and Pears leave, 202–3, 242
as communal living site, xii, 33–40
description of, xii, 219, 242
exclusivity in, 186
as February House, xiii, 164
fate of, xiv, 255
Golo Mann joins, 124
Golo Mann leaves, 184, 242
housewarming gifts to, 66
Lee leaves, 136–40, 160, 162, 165, 242
Lee moves to, 87–88
McCullers joins, 34–36, 38
McCullers leaves, 139–40, 221
name of, 65
neighborhood of, 64–66
pets at, xiii, 91, 140, 160, 169, 184, 185, 253
repairs to, 62–67, 70, 88, 89, 184, 226
rules and organization of, 71, 88–91, 171, 181, 189–90, 194
sexual tolerance at, 117–19
Thanksgiving celebration at, 108–12
visitors to, 72–77, 92–97, 99–100, 108–12, 115–17, 123–24, 129, 137–38, 147, 150, 152, 159–60, 183–84, 204
See also Brooklyn Heights; Sands Street district; specific residents of and workers at
Miller, Charles, 228–30, 233, 241
Miss Kate’s junk shop, 66
Mitchell, Donald, 257
Mizzy, Bob, 84
Modern Music, 205
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 211
Montauk, Long Island, 202, 239
Monteverdi, Claudio, 170
Morcur, Eva, 88, 90, 109, 115, 139, 185, 232
Morocco, 251
Mother Finds a Body (Lee), 208, 252
Munich Accord, 48, 50
Murray, Natalia, 152, 244, 254
Murrow, Edward R., 31, 55
Museum of Modern Art, 15, 36, 92, 166
My Fair Lady, 251
My Life (Duncan), 13
N
Nabokov, Vladimir, 40
Naked Genius, The (Lee), 252
Nanking Massacre, 45
Nantucket, Massachusetts, 26, 29
Nation, The, 12, 49, 72, 127
National Socialist Party. See Nazism
Native Son (Wright), 4, 26
Nazism (National Socialist Party)
democratic countries’ program against, 126–27
denunciation of, 146
efforts to rescue intellectuals from, 19, 93–94, 96–97, 109, 163
films about, 57
refugees from, xii, 93–97, 123–27, 138
rise of, 40–42
satirization of, 18
in World War II, xiii, 3–5, 45–46, 50, 141, 211–12
See also Evil; Fascism; Hitler, Adolf
New English Singers, 121
Newhouse, Edward, 222
Newman, Ernest, 234
New Mexico, 52
New Orleans, Louisiana, 52
New Republic, The, 26, 49, 57, 150
New School for Social Research, 49, 85, 209
Newton, Caroline, 99–100, 175, 213, 218, 228, 229, 245
New Verse, 44
“New Year Letter” (Auden), 39, 57, 68–70, 143, 187
New York City
Auden in, 16–18, 29, 33, 35, 38, 39, 48, 55–61, 119, 160, 257
Barker’s experience of, 149–50
Davis in, 14–15
émigré artists in,
18–20
German immigrants in, 57, 127
heat waves in, 25–26, 212
Isherwood and Auden in, 16–17, 48–50
McCuHers in, 3–9, 12, 17–30
McCullers’s apartment in, 35, 186, 204–7
New Year’s Eve 1940 in, 143
Oliver Smith in, 172
Star Spangled Ball in, 143
See also Bowery; Brooklyn Heights; Coney Island; Harlem; New York World’s Fair; specific places and institutions in
New Yorker, The, 9, 72, 167, 186
Auden’s publication in, 49
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