“Don’t Ask Questions,” Saturday Evening Post, September 30 through November 11, SN.
WICKFORD POINT, N.
1940
“Gone Tomorrow,” McCall’s, September through January, 1941, SN.
“Come On, Prince,” McCall’s, March, SS.
“March On, He Said,” Saturday Evening Post, June 29, SS.
“Children’s Page,” Saturday Evening Post, August 31, SS.
1941
H.M. PULHAM, ESQUIRE (“Gone Tomorrow”), N.
“My Boston: A Note on the City by Its Best Critic,” Life, March 24, NF.
“These Are People Like Ourselves,” Asia, July, NF.
“Mercator Island,” Collier’s, September 6 through October 25, SN.
“H. M. Pulham, Esquire,” screenplay by Elizabeth Hill, December, MP.
1942
LAST LAUGH, MR. MOTO (“Mercator Island”), N.
“Merry Christmas, All,” Cosmopolitan, January, SS.
“Doctor’s Orders,” Collier’s, May 9, SS.
“Taxi Dance,” Good Housekeeping, May, SS.
“Good Soldiers Can’t Be Introverts,” Harper’s Bazaar, June, NF.
“It’s Loaded, Mr. Bauer,” Collier’s, June 13 through August 1, SN.
1943
SO LITTLE TIME, N.
“The Island,” Good Housekeeping, September, SS.
“I Heard an Old Man Say,” Good Housekeeping, October, SS.
1944
“The Late George Apley,” with George S. Kaufman, P.
“The End Game,” Good Housekeeping, March, SS.
1945
“Iwo Jima Before H-Hour,” Harper’s Magazine, May, NF.
“Lunch at Honolulu,” Harper’s Magazine, August, SS.
“Repent in Haste,” Harper’s Magazine, October, November, SN.
REPENT IN HASTE, N.
1946
B. F.’S DAUGHTER, N.
1947
“The Late George Apley,” screenplay by Philip Dunne, April, MP.
“Why the Navy Needs Aspirin,” Harper’s Magazine, August, NF.
“Close to Home,” Good Housekeeping, November, SS.
“Banking Is an Art,” Atlantic Monthly, November through January, 1948, SN.
1948
“B. F.’s Daughter,” screenplay by Luther Davis, March, MP.
“Point of No Return,” Ladies’ Home Journal, December through April 1949, SN.
1949
POINT OF NO RETURN (incorporating “Banking Is an Art”), N.
“Return Trip to the Stone Age,” Atlantic Monthly, April, NF.
“Fitzgerald: ‘This Side of Paradise,’” Saturday Review of Literature, August 6, NF (book review).
1950
“Sun, Sea, and Sand,” Cosmopolitan, May, SS.
“The Gargle Case,” Flair, August (reprinted from the Harvard Lampoon, 1914), NF (humor).
1951
“Melville Goodwin, U.S.A.,” Ladies’ Home Journal, May through December, SN.
MELVILLE GOODWIN, U.S.A., N.
1952
“Point of No Return,” by Paul Osborn, P.
“Inquiry into the Military Mind,” New York Times Magazine, March 30, NF.
“Two’s Company,” McCall’s, November, SS.
1953
“Boston,” Holiday, November, NF.
1954
THIRTY YEARS, collection of short fiction and nonfiction.
“Sincerely, Willis Wayde,” Ladies’ Home Journal, November through March, 1955, SN.
1955
“‘Happy Knoll’ Series,” Sports Illustrated, June through November, SS.
SINCERELY, WILLIS WAYDE, N.
1956
“‘Happy Knoll’ Series,” Sports Illustrated, February, May, July, August, SS.
NORTH OF GRAND CENTRAL: THREE NOVELS OF NEW ENGLAND (“The Late George Apley,” “Wickford Point,” “H. M. Pulham, Esquire”).
“Apley, Wickford Point, and Pulham: My Early Struggles,” Atlantic Monthly, September, NF.
“Top Secret Affair” (“Melville Goodwin, U.S.A.”), screenplay by Roland Kibbe and Allan Scott, MP.
“Rendezvous in Tokyo,” Saturday Evening Post, November 24 through January 12, 1957, SN.
1957
LIFE AT HAPPY KNOLL, SS collected from Sports Illustrated.
STOPOVER: TOKYO (“Rendezvous in Tokyo”), N.
“Stopover: Tokyo,” screenplay by Richard L. Breen and Walter Reisch, MP.
1958
“Women and Thomas Harrow,” Ladies’ Home Journal, July through November, SN.
WOMEN AND THOMAS HARROW, N.
1960
TIMOTHY DEXTER, REVISITED, NF.
* It has not been possible to include, in this list of Marquand’s published work, the many articles, stories, and humorous pieces he wrote as a Harvard Lampoon staffer and editor, or pieces written as a reporter and feature writer for the Boston Transcript and the New York Herald, or the various “fugitive” pieces he produced during his early writing years. Also not included are the many reviews he wrote as a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club News. Check list is based on the John P. Marquand bibliographies prepared by William White.
Image Gallery
John Marquand as a child.
John Marquand at nineteen.
Photographed in the house at Newburyport.
The 1913 staff of the Harvard Lampoon. Marquand is second from the right in the next to the last row, with Edward Streeter on his right. (Christian Herter stands next to Streeter.) Gardiner Fiske is seated on the floor at left.
Christina Sedgwick, photographed a few days before her marriage to John Marquand in 1922.
John Marquand, sketched about the same time.
The announcement of Adelaide Hooker’s engagement in the February 26, 1937, New York Times.
John Marquand in his early forties.
Adelaide and John Marquand at the Brandts’ house in New Jersey, 1937.
Carol Brandt, 1940.
Carl and Carol Brandt.
Robert W. Kelley, LIFE Magazine © Time Inc.
The Kent’s Island house before, during, and after the many additions to the original cottage.
Carol Brandt, 1944.
Halsman
Hedy Lamarr (with Robert Young) in the film role of Marvin Myles.
Chester T. Holbrook
John Marquand in the country.
Marquand with the Fiskes at Kent’s Island, 1948.
The Mill House at Curzon’s Mill, where The Late George Apley was written.
Robert W. Kelley, LIFE Magazine © Time Inc.
The Hale cousins visit “Wickford Point.”
Robert W. Kelley, LIFE Magazine © Time Inc.
Robert W. Kelley, LIFE Magazine © Time Inc
The Hale cousins discussing the upcoming lawsuit. The beautiful Renée Oakman is on the left.
The Yellow House at Curzon’s Mill.
Robert W. Kelley, LIFE Magazine © Time Inc.
Phil Marquand before the trial.
Robert W. Kelley, LIFE Magazine © Time Inc.
John Marquand before the rial.
Robert W. Kelley, LIFE Magazine © Time Inc.
High jinks with chums at Pinehurst.
A Book-of-the-Month Club meeting in the early 1940s, painted by Joseph Hirsch. Left to right: Henry Seidel Canby, Harry Scherman, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John P. Marquand, Clifton Fadiman, Christopher Morley, Meredith Wood.
Museum of Modern Art
The Apleys of Boston as conceived by Hollywood. Ronald Coleman, seated, left, played the title role.
Leo G. Carroll as Apley on Broadway.
John Marquand during his last years.
Index
Abigail Adams, 252
A. D. Club, Harvard, 42, 44, 45, 49
Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 136
Advertising, JPM in, 56, 58
Africa, JPM’s trip to, 293
The African Queen, 252
Agassiz, Lo
uis, 43
America First Committee, 134–36, 148, 170, 186; Adelaide in, 134–36, 166, 242; anti-Semitism in, 135; Lindbergh in, 135, 136
American Association of Manufacturers, 103
American Bridge Company, 32
Anna (housekeeper at Kent’s Island), 18
Anti-Semitism, 135, 164, 166, 186, 242
Argonne, 55
Artichoke River, 35, 40, 119
Aspen, Colo., 19, 20, 127, 154, 157, 177, 209, 252
Atchley, Dana, 118, 246, 278
Athenaeum, Boston, 87, 155
Athens, 211
Atlantic Monthly, 52, 61, 124, 155, 216
Auchincloss, Louis, 253
Austen, Jane, 88, 180, 185; Pride and Prejudice, 88, 90, 180
Bacall, Lauren, 265
Bahamas, 19, 23, 127; see also Treasure Island
Barry, Philip, 27, 186
Basso, Hamilton, The View from Pompey’s Head, 218
Battery A, Massachusetts Field Artillery, 52–54, 72–73, 162
Baumgarten, Bernice, 96, 98, 134, 161
Beach, Sylvia, 66
Belmont, Mrs. August, 253
Benchley, Robert, 56, 181
Bermuda, JPM with Brandts in, 81
Berry, Mr. (caretaker at Kent’s Island), 254–55
Bessie, Aunt, see Marquand, Elizabeth
The Best Short Stories of 1927, 71
Best Short Stories of the War, 71
B. F.’s Daughter, 195, 198–200, 282; motion picture, 199, 263; sales, 199
Birmingham, Stephen, JPM’s advice on manuscript, 9–11
Blaustein, Julian, 267
Bobbs-Merrill (publishers), 245
Bogart, Humphrey, 265
Book-of-the-Month Club, 203, 215, 221, 242, 277; H. M. Pulham, Esquire in, 150; JPM as judge, 177–82, 200, 219, 255–57, 287–88, 293
Bosshard, Walter, 269
Boston: Athenaeum, 87, 155; Beacon Hill, 19, 46, 61, 87, 142, 154; 206 Beacon Street, Fiske’s apartment, 62, 87, 90; Charles Street, JPM’s room, 62; Chilton Club, 87; Common, 19; Commonwealth Avenue, 47; H. M. Pulham, Esquire banned in, 149; Holland Wine Company bar, 48; JPM’s article on, for Holiday, 233–38, 259; JPM’s attachment to, 18–19; The Late George Apley as novel of, 19, 81, 90, 98–99, 122; Louisburg Square, 19, 154; 2 Mount Vernon Square, Christina’s house, 162; New Riding Club, 53; Pinckney Street, 32; Public Garden, 19; Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 20–21, 23–24; social life, 46–47; Somerset Club, 19, 87, 116, 154, 220, 238; Somerset Hotel, 47; 43 West Cedar Street, “Gift Horse,” 61, 64
Boston Symphony, 46
Boston Transcript, 50, 52, 235–36
Botticelli, Sandro, 180
Bowes, Major, 241
Bowles, Chester, 134
Brady, Charles A., Fifty Years of the American Novel, 216
Brandt, Carl, 80, 85, 106, 110, 115, 133, 136–37, 139, 171, 243, 252; in Bermuda, 81; and Carol’s love affair with JPM, 145–47, 157–58, 176–77, 184–85; character, 76–78, 137; children, 137, 176, 184, 276; and Conney Fiske’s article on JPM, 128–31; death, 275, 281; drinking problem, 136, 138, 274–75; early life, 77; and Holiday article, 234–37; illness, 226, 229, 276; JPM in Bronxville with, 79; JPM reads manuscripts for him, 9–10; and JPM’s divorce from Christina, 82; on JPM’s heart attack, telegram, 248; at Kent’s Island, 247; and The Late George Apley, 96–98; letters to Carol, 146–47, 274–75; literary agent for Drew Hill and Carol, 68, 74; literary agent for JPM, 58–63, 160–61, 185, 228, 234–38, 264, 267, 269; marriage, 78; marriage problems, 136–38, 274–76; at Reservoir Street house, 17, 18, 20–24, 253
Brandt, Carl, Jr., 137, 176–77, 184, 276, 296; in Europe, 268–71; at Kent’s Island, 279; at Pinehurst, 242, 291
Brandt, Carol (Mrs. Carl Brandt), 9–10, 17, 80, 85, 107, 110, 115, 151–52, 171, 178, 182, 228, 229, 243, 252, 265, 282, 288, 293; in Bermuda, 81; in Brandt & Brandt firm, 272, 279, 285, 298–99; children, 137, 176, 184, 276; engagement ring for Adelaide, 107; in Europe with JPM, 268–72; JPM dictates to, 70–71, 75, 79, 174–75; JPM in Bronxville with, 79; and JPM’s death, 296; and JPM’s divorce from Adelaide, 277–79; and JPM’s divorce from Christina, 81; and JPM’s trip to Europe, 211; Kent’s Island decorations, 254–55; and The Late George Apley, 96; letters from Carl, 146–47, 274–75; love affair with JPM, 139, 141, 145–47, 153–54, 158, 163, 167, 174–77, 184–85, 242, 246–47, 257, 279–81; marriage, 78; marriage problems, 136–38, 274–76; as Marvin Myles in H. M. Pulham, Esquire, 23, 141, 158; as Mrs. Drew Hill, see Hill, Carol; at Pinehurst, 279, 291; and Pinehurst housekeeping, 285; at Reservoir Street house, 17, 20–24, 253; in So Little Time, 168; third marriage, 296, 298–99; and Timothy Dexter book, 287
Brandt, Erd, 77, 136
Brandt, Vicki, 137, 176, 184, 276, 296
Bronxville, N.Y., JPM with Brandts in, 79
Brookline, Mass., 53
Brooks, Hazel, 225
Brooks, Van Wyck, 125
Brown, John Mason, 293; on JPM’s book criticism, 255
Bucks County, Pa., 165
Bush, Vannevar, 162
Callaway, Harold, 240–41
Cambridge, Mass., 34; 7 Linden Street (rooming house), 47, 48; Mount Auburn Street (Gold Coast), 42, 47; 1 Reservoir Street (Adelaide’s house), 17–24, 251, 253–55, 283, 297–98
Canby, Henry Seidel: in Book-of-the-Month Club, 177, 255–56; at Treasure Island, 222
Canfield, Cass, 44, 203
Canfield, Dorothy, 177
Carroll, Leo G., 187, 188
Carson City, Nev., 278
Cather, Willa, 216, 218
Century Club, New York, 202, 265
C’Est la Guerre: Best Short Stories of the World War, 71
Channing, William Ellery, 38
Chaplin, Charles, 155
Chapman, John Jay, 43
Chelmsford, Hookers’ estate, 104–6, 166
China, JPM in, 79, 102–3, 108–10, 269
Codman, Charley, 115
Collier’s, 161, 228
Collins, Joan, 272
Colman, Ronald, 99
Colony Club, New York, 22
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 135
Commonweal, 289
Conant, James Bryant, 48, 150
Concord, Mass., 32, 75
Connecticut River, 76
Connelly, James J., 209
Conrad, Joseph, 179
The Constant Nymph, 125
Coonley, Mrs. Avery, 103–4
Copeland, Charles Townsend, 47, 125
Corinne (servant at Treasure Island), 221
Cosmopolitan, 59, 61, 67, 123, 129, 155, 188
Cosmopolitan Club, New York, 104
Country Life, 34
Cozzens, James Gould, 96
Crowther, Bosley, 99
Curzon, Mary (Great-Aunt Mary), 37–38; in Wickford Point, 37, 119
Curzon, Samuel, 35
Curzon’s Mill, 35–41, 59, 73, 77, 117, 126, 142, 291, 299; Aunt Greta’s bequest, 203; furniture, JPM and Adelaide take, 126–27, 204, 205; JPM buried near, 295; JPM offers to buy Hales’ share, 204–6; JPM’s early life at, 35–41, 59, 73, 77; lawsuit, Hales versus JPM, 20, 206–12; Mill House, 126, 204, 205, 210; Philip Marquand at, 113, 114; Red Brick House, 35, 113, 126, 204, 205, 210; in Wickford Point, 36, 37, 119, 130; Yellow House, 35–39, 40, 126, 203, 205, 210
Dallas Morning News, 284
Davenport, Basil, 293
Davenport, Marcia, 268
Davis, Marjorie, 241, 243, 292; in Africa, 292; hopes to marry JPM, 296; at Treasure Island, 221, 224–25
Davis, Murray, 206
Day, John (publishers), 69
“The Day the General Returns” (unidentified story), 264
Dearborn Independent, 135
Delphic Club, Harvard, 42, 43
Del Rio, Dolores, 155, 225
Dexter, Lord Timothy, 286–87, 293
Dodge, L. P., 45, 258–59
Douglas, Kirk, 265
Drury, Allen, Advise and Consent, 256
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y., 104
Edge Moor Iron Works, 45
Edmonds, Walter, Drums Along the Mohawk, 133, 252
Ellery, Uncle, see Sedgwick, Ellery
El Paso, Tex., 54
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 38, 185
“The End Game,” 191–94, 260
England, Society modeled on, 33–34, 43, 47
Eric (servant at Treasure Island), 221, 225
Eton, 34
Europe: JPM with Carol in, 269–72; JPM’s trip to, with Adelaide, 211
Everett, Edward, 39
Fadiman, Clifton: in Book-of-the-Month Club, 177, 186, 255, 256, 293; Thirty Years, introduction and suggestions for, 258–59
Famous Artists, 263, 266
Far East, see Orient, JPM in
Faulkner, William, 179, 244; “Mississippi,” 233
Federal Security Agency, 161
Fêng-shui, 109, 294
Ferber, Edna, 228; Giant, 256; JPM’s interview with, 257
Fielding, Henry, 180, 185
Fifty Best American Stories, 71
Finletter, Thomas K., 253
Fiske, Andrew, 88, 98; in The Late George Apley, 90
Fiske, Constance Morss (Conney, Mrs. Gardiner H. Fiske), 27, 28, 62, 78, 79, 85–88, 106, 110, 112, 139, 163, 220, 242, 243, 278, 292; Adelaide’s attitude toward, 226, 242–43; character, 85–88; death of her husband, 271; JPM gives her a Chinese cricket cage, 294; JPM proposes to her, 291; and The Late George Apley, 90, 96, 98–100, 187–88; as literary critic for JPM, 85, 89, 90, 91–92, 115, 188, 189, 215–16; profile of JPM in Saturday Review, 128–31, 159; relationship with JPM, 298–99; at Treasure Island, 221, 224–25; in Washington, 162
Fiske, Gardiner H., 27, 28, 62, 78, 79, 106, 188, 201, 220, 242, 243, 298; character, 88; death, 271; at Harvard, 47; illness, 226, 242, 275, 292; and The Late George Apley, 98, 99, 187; Somerset Club membership for JPM, 116; at Treasure Island, 221, 224–25; in World War I, 88
Fiske, Gertrude, 88
Fiske family, 88
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 66, 244
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary, 180
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