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by Glenway Wescott


  Kauffer, Edward MacKnight, 147

  Keats, John, 90, 91, 154

  Kennan, George, 156

  Kennedy, Jacqueline, 80, 92

  Kennedy, John F., 52, 62, 63, 79–80, 83, 91, 92, 213

  Kennedy, Robert F., 80, 157–158

  Kierkegaard, Soren, 243

  King, B. B., 166

  Kinsey, Alfred C., 3, 11, 12–13, 17, 19, 28, 71, 146, 150, 216

  Kinsey, Clara, 59

  Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, 7, 23, 60, 69–70, 90–91, 134, 135, 139, 183

  Kirchner, Raphael, 36

  Kirstein, Fidelma (Cadmus), 18

  Kirstein, Lincoln, 8, 17–18, 61, 262, 269

  Knowles, John, 104

  Krementz, Jill, 223, 267

  Kuelthau, Earl Rex, 84

  Lal, P., 134

  Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di, 66

  Lansdale, Nelson, 104

  Larducho, Vincente, 142–143

  Lawrence, D. H., 149, 209

  Lawrence, Seymour, 118

  Lawrence, T. E., 126, 209, 212

  Lèautaud, Paul, 164–165

  Leduc, Violette, 140

  Lerman, Leo, 41

  “Letters to a Circle of Friends: 1932–1966” (GW and KAP), 117–118, 139, 149, 154, 162, 165

  Lewis, W. S., 63

  Lifrieri, Michael, 173

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 214

  Loos, Anita, 95, 129, 163

  Lord, James, 61

  Lorrain, Claude, 76, 178

  “Love of New York, The” (GW), 72

  Lowry, Malcolm, 222

  Luce, Clair Booth, 120

  Ludwig, Dieter, 199

  Lunt, Alfred, 171

  Lynes, George Platt, viii, 5, 7, 8, 10–11, 13, 17, 25, 78, 104, 114, 115, 186–187, 214, 268

  Lynes, Russell, 10–11, 43, 118, 278

  Mailer, Norman, 93, 166, 179

  Malouf, Carl, 27, 244

  Malraux, André, 184, 243

  Mann, Thomas, 50, 51, 68, 73

  Mansfield, Jayne, 58

  Marcuse, Herbert, 166

  Marshall, George C., 185–186

  Massenet, Jules, 163

  Matisse, Henri, 67, 130

  Maugham, Robin Cecil Romer, 163

  Maugham, William Somerset, 3, 6, 7, 13, 15, 18, 20, 37, 39, 49, 51, 56, 60–61, 97, 117, 121, 137, 139, 141, 143, 148, 163, 204, 209, 211, 244, 252

  Maxwell, William, 5, 7, 36, 49, 66, 193, 195, 212, 250, 252, 278, 279

  McCarthy, Gene, 158

  McCarthy, Joseph, 150

  McCarthy, Mary, 93

  McCormick, Anne, 142

  McCullers, Carson, 244

  McGovern, George, 218

  McIlhenny, Henry, 13, 79

  McLuhan, Marshall, 131

  “Memories of the Twenties” (revised as “Memories and Opinions”) (GW), 58, 64, 122, 182, 219

  Mendl, Lady (Elsie de Wolfe), 155

  Michelangelo, 138

  Miksche, Michael, 28, 61, 100–101

  Miller, Arthur, 71

  Miller, Charles, 71

  Miller, Henry, 103, 251

  Miller, William, 8, 27, 54

  Millet, Jean-Francois, 135

  Mineo, Sal, 57

  Miró, Joan, 190

  Mishima, Yukio, 212

  Mistinguett, 266

  Modigliani, Amedeo, 67

  Monet, Claude, 169

  Monnet, Jean, 80

  Monroe, Marilyn, 52, 71, 74

  Montague, Lord Edward Baron, 150

  Montaigne, Michele de, 53, 172, 188, 203

  Moody, Harriet (Mrs. William Vaughan Moody), 62

  Moore, Douglas, 41

  Moore, John Warner, 150

  Moore, Marianne, 3, 7, 40–41, 48, 96, 134, 136, 142, 147, 150–151, 161, 182, 213, 214, 266

  Moore, Thomas, 226

  “Moral of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The” (GW), 72

  Morath, Inge, 71

  Morgan, Ted, 252

  Mortimer, Raymond, 7, 25, 45, 80, 101, 119, 169, 170, 172, 178, 185, 220, 222, 247, 256, 257, 259, 265

  Moss, Howard, 117, 266

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 208, 227, 241

  “Mr. Auerbach in Paris” (GW), 72

  Murray, Natalia Danesi, 48, 182, 208, 255

  Muskie, Edmund, 268

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 93

  Nader, Ralph, 173, 190

  Napoleon, Emperor, 146

  National Institute of Arts and Letters. See American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

  Newton, Isaac, 137

  Nicolson, Harold, 130

  Nijinski, Vaslav, 145

  Nin, Anaïs, 103, 120, 239, 251–252

  Nixon, Richard, 162, 167, 173, 183, 200, 218, 225

  O’Connor, Frank, 66

  “Odor of Rosemary” (GW), 182, 195–196

  O’Hara, John, 24, 66

  O’Keeffe, Georgia, 105, 195

  “Old Party: An American Reminiscence of Somerset Maugham, The” (GW), 117, 121, 137, 139, 141, 143, 148, 155, 163, 166, 216

  Pagano, Mark, 57, 119

  “Paris 1938” (GW), 266

  Parker, Dorothy, 164

  Patterson, Isabel, 77

  Pearl, Lora, 185

  Perlin, Bernard, 8, 10–11, 13, 24, 67, 81–82, 85–86, 119, 126, 141, 154, 190

  Peter, Paul and Mary, 89

  Phelps, Robert, vii–viii, 6, 8, 43, 46, 49, 51, 55–56, 61, 102, 105, 118, 134, 142, 159, 178, 182, 189, 195, 210, 213, 215, 228, 233, 239, 240, 246, 248, 249–250, 255, 266

  Phelps, Rosemarie Beck, vii, 55

  Philip IV, King, 142–143

  Picasso, Pablo, 36, 141, 201

  “Picture of Country Life, A” (GW), 72

  Pilgrim Hawk, The (GW), 5, 14, 71, 104, 105, 117, 129, 148, 177, 274

  Pissarro, Camille, 22, 36

  “Pissarro’s Paris” (GW), 72

  Plato, 202

  Pleasence, Donald, 171

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 135, 263

  Pohorilenko, Anatole, viii, 183, 207, 222, 248, 269, 275, 278

  Pomeroy, Ralph, 8, 13, 50, 83, 274

  Pomeroy, Wardell, 265

  “Poor Greuse” (GW), 72

  Porter, Katherine Anne, 3, 7, 14, 15, 38, 42, 51, 65, 66, 68, 70, 73, 74, 94, 95, 114, 117–118, 122, 123, 124, 127, 139, 141, 144, 145, 149, 154, 162, 165, 176–177, 204, 207, 228, 260, 265

  Potter, Pauline. See Rothschild, Baroness Pauline de

  Poulenc, Francis, 167

  Pound, Ezra, 180

  Poussin, Nicolas, 140, 169, 178

  Powell, Dawn, 52

  Presley, Elvis, 268

  Price, Homer, 86

  Prockop, Leon, 54, 139

  Proust, Marcel, 140, 150, 184, 227

  Radiguet, Raymond, 14

  Ray, Man, 52

  Rechy, John, 265

  Reichenbach, François, 23, 240, 256

  Rembrandt, 20, 135, 140, 157, 177–178

  Renard, Jules, 269

  Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 30, 36, 67

  “Rescuer, The” (GW), 72

  Riccio, Il, 199

  Righter, Carroll, 57

  Robbins, Frances Lamont, 206

  Robertson, Cliff, 23

  Robeson, Essie, 81

  Robeson, Paul, 81, 206, 239, 246–247

  Rockefeller, David, 101, 271

  Rockefeller, John D., IV, 190

  Rockefeller, Nelson, 101, 162, 173, 175

  Rodgers, Richard, 267

  Rolling Stones, The, 118, 179

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 100

  Rorem, Ned, 5, 89, 124, 278

  Rosco, Jerry, viii, 6, 262, 277–278

  Ross, Toby, 183, 246, 256

  Roth, Philip, 71, 190

  Rothko, Mark, 202

  Rothschild, Baron Eric de, 169

  Rothschild, Baroness Pauline de, 3, 7, 17, 29–30, 39, 49, 118–119, 139, 140, 141, 144, 146, 157, 165, 168–169, 170, 179–180, 182, 183–184, 185, 192, 193, 197, 205, 222, 225, 226, 228, 232, 240, 245, 247–248, 259, 260
/>   Rothschild, Baroness Philippine de, 183

  Rothschild, Baron Philippe de, 3, 49, 118–119, 149, 157, 165, 168–170, 179–180, 185, 197, 220, 225, 240, 245, 247–248, 256, 259, 266

  Rouault, Georges, 120

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 194–195

  Rubens, Peter Paul, 168, 221

  Rubenstein, Helena, 99

  Rueckert, William, 89

  Russell, Bertrand, 159

  Rylands, George H. W., 169

  Sade, Marquis (Donatien) de, 184

  Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 135

  Saki (H. H. Monro), 272

  Salemme, Betty and Tony, 206, 246–247

  Salinger, J. D., 65

  Salter, James, vii

  Salz, Sam, 22

  Sand, George, 135

  Sandburg, Carl, 267

  Schiff, Nancy Rica, 266

  Schlesinger, Arthur, 171

  Schubert, Franz, 167

  Scott, Walter, 193

  Scott, Zachary, 127

  Searle, Alan, 60–61, 252

  Seneca, Lucias, 53

  Sert, Misia, 30

  Sessions, Roger, 42

  Severn, Joseph, 90

  Shakespeare, William, 55, 66–67, 91

  Shaw, George Bernard, 13, 56, 137

  Shawe-Taylor, Dennis Christopher, 169

  Shawn, William, 261

  Sheen, Bishop Fulton, 142

  Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, 79

  “Sight of a Dead Body, The” (GW), 72

  Simon and Garfunkle, 187

  Singer, Alma, 134

  Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 134, 200

  Sitwell, Dame Edith, 3, 7, 21–22, 39, 121, 171

  Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 3, 7, 14, 21–22, 39

  Smith, Dorothy, 246, 278

  Smith, Liz, 181

  Smith, Logan Pearsall, 132, 195

  Smutney, Tex, 11

  Snyder, Martin, 54

  Sohl, Ethel, 52, 53, 55, 97, 147, 155, 165, 171, 217, 224, 278

  Sontag, Susan, 5

  Sophocles, 202

  Soutine, Chaim, 36

  Spender, Natasha, 175

  Spender, Stephen, 79

  “Stallions, The” (GW), 50, 51, 72, 77, 79, 80, 82–84, 117, 121–122, 182, 192

  Stanley, Buddy, 11

  Stapleton, Maureen, 23

  Stein, Gertrude, 267

  Stendhal, 128

  Stevenson, John, viii, 183, 227–228, 239, 241, 246, 247, 248, 250, 253, 254, 262, 265, 266, 269, 271, 273, 277–278

  Steward, Sam, 19

  Stewart, James, 223

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 98, 167

  Strachey, Lytton, 60–61, 209

  Straus, Roger, 255

  Strauss, Harold, 71

  Strauss, Johann, 167

  “Succession of Poets, A” (GW), 266

  Sullivan, Tommy, 244

  Supremes, The, 139

  Sutherland, Graham, 39

  Svennson, Clara, 141

  Szladitis, Lola, 214

  Szold, Bernadine, 134, 207, 213

  Tate, Allen, 105

  Tchelitchev, Pavlik (Pavel), 29, 78, 85, 88, 90–91, 95, 97, 98, 240

  Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 75, 130, 135

  Thomas, Dylan, 249

  Thomson, Virgil, 42, 52, 135

  Thoreau, Henry David, 75, 131

  Thurber, James, 75

  Tichenor, George and Jonathan, 13

  Titian, 168

  Tolkien, J. R. R., 166

  Tolkin, Terry, 262

  Tolstoy, Leo, 167, 184

  “Transatlantic Glance, A” (GW), 72

  Trevor Roper, Patrick, 169

  Turgenev, Ivan, 172

  Turner, William, 130

  Twain, Mark, 167

  Twelve Fables of Aesop Newly Narrated (GW), 5

  Udall, Stewart, 62

  Updike, John, 190

  Utrillo, Maurice, 79

  Valéry, Paul, 33, 120

  “Valley Submerged, The” (GW), 72, 118, 121

  Van der Lube, Martin, 91

  Van Doren, Charles, 58

  Van Gogh, Vincent, 135, 143

  Van Vechten, Carl, 52, 105, 222

  Velasquez, Diego, 142–143

  Verlaine, Paul, 102

  Vermeer, Johannes, 140, 143

  Victoria, Queen, 98

  Vidal, Gore, 29, 192, 247, 249

  Vigna, Pier della, 80

  “Visit to Priapus, A” (GW), 5, 104–105

  Von Ihring, Georg, 23

  Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 223

  Vreeland, Diana and Reed, 17

  Vuillard, Édouard, 256

  Walpole, Horace, 63, 262

  Walpole, Hugh, 146

  Warhol, Andy, 259

  Washington, George, 147

  Watson, Peter, 78

  Weinhardt, Carl, 97

  Welch, Denton, 160–161

  Wescott, Barbara Harrison (sister-in-law), 4–5, 8, 13, 24, 29–30, 32, 37, 41, 42, 46, 49, 53, 60, 61, 64, 68, 84–85, 97, 98, 99, 118, 124, 125, 126, 128, 142, 145, 147, 148, 152, 156, 161, 184, 190, 194, 211, 218, 225, 233, 244, 245, 249, 252, 256, 268; as art patron, collector, and philanthropist, 22–23, 36, 52, 157, 159, 177–178, 202, 207, 213, 247, 260; death of, 240, 253, 254

  Wescott, Beulah (sister), 45, 73, 74, 138

  Wescott, Bruce (father), 41–42, 72, 143, 149, 153, 160, 175, 176, 177, 217, 254, 255

  Wescott, Deborah (Debo, niece), 13, 42, 54, 88, 139, 240, 252, 271

  Wescott, Elizabeth (sister), 45, 47, 72–73, 120, 123, 156

  Wescott, Glenway: on aging, 13, 19, 29, 34, 62, 79, 83, 86, 88–89, 121, 126, 128, 132, 136, 137, 142, 143, 152–153, 154, 156, 157, 176, 180, 184, 187, 188, 190, 191, 193, 194, 198, 201, 203, 207, 215, 216, 217, 218, 220, 224, 242, 244, 245, 247, 250, 252–253, 254, 257, 258, 259, 262, 263, 267, 269–270, 271, 275; autobiographical notes, 62, 125, 129, 139, 159–160, 175, 186–187, 198, 204, 206, 222–223; awards, honors, 40–41, 72, 105, 158–159, 265; childhood, early life, 76, 84, 143, 148–149, 160, 176, 203, 216, 217, 224, 246–247, 261, 272; on death, 8, 11–12, 16, 32, 47, 53, 125, 126, 174, 178–179, 207, 208, 210, 252–253, 261, 262, 268; death of; 278–279; family affairs and relationships, 4–5, 21, 37–38, 145, 151–152, 177, 206, 254, 271; financial affairs, 30–31, 52, 53–54, 121, 269; on Fire Island, 52, 54–55, 182, 208–209; on friends, friendships, 11, 27, 49, 85–86, 88, 172, 261; on gay rights and civil rights, 40, 52, 60, 81, 85, 86–87, 91, 103–104, 147, 150, 160, 166, 183, 208–209; health, illness, 23, 56, 158–159, 182, 219, 239, 250, 265–266, 267, 277–278; on his journals, vii–viii, 44, 48, 67, 148, 178, 189, 210, 211–212, 213, 215, 216, 217, 220, 239–240, 245, 246, 248, 250, 255, 265, 266, 277, 278, 279; on his life, 80, 97, 120, 154–155, 165, 167, 174, 180, 241, 244, 247, 258, 260, 270, 271; on his writing, 14, 19–20, 24, 25–26, 31–32, 33, 36, 43, 44, 49, 63, 64, 68, 71, 73, 77, 78, 84, 92, 93, 101–102, 105, 119, 129, 130, 137, 148–149, 155, 161, 166, 174, 177, 189, 191, 192, 196, 197, 211–212, 213, 219, 225, 226, 244, 247, 250, 257, 258, 260, 268, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 278; homes, residences, 4, 17, 22, 24, 25, 33–34, 39, 44–45, 49, 51, 53, 58, 131–132, 152, 187–188, 196, 240, 268, 269, 277; on homosexuality, homosexuals, 12, 19, 28, 35–36, 75, 80, 86–87, 89, 91, 93, 103–104, 123, 125–126, 128, 150, 156, 165, 166, 183, 199–200, 204–205, 208–209, 210, 223, 225, 226, 227, 246, 254–255, 256, 261; on immortality, 163, 178, 198, 212, 254, 263, 270; lectures, readings, speeches, 12, 14–15, 18, 65, 68, 69, 70, 74, 75, 76, 87, 95, 122–123, 165, 181, 204, 211, 248, 266; on love, 10, 32, 41–42, 47, 202–203, 204–205, 216, 245, 251, 254–255, 263, 275; on male beauty, 16, 27, 30, 124, 204–205, 246; on nature, 27, 31, 37, 39, 45, 46, 54–55, 56, 59–60, 62, 67, 76, 79, 80, 81, 83, 99, 102, 119, 121, 122, 123–124, 126, 131, 136, 143, 151, 152, 157, 160, 163, 169–170, 174, 178–179, 188, 189–190, 191, 192, 193–194, 198, 199, 201, 215, 217, 220, 251, 260, 261; photos, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 229, 230, 231, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238; physical appearance, 65, 156, 164, 213; on politics, 80, 83, 91, 92, 99–
100, 156, 157–158, 161–162, 167, 175, 183, 184, 188, 189, 192, 199, 201, 203–204, 208, 218, 225, 250, 268; on sex, 27, 30, 34, 35, 75, 83, 86, 94, 119, 124, 132–133, 141–142, 146, 147–148, 151, 162, 209, 210–211, 217, 225, 241, 255, 258, 265; travel, 60, 118–119, 135, 140–141, 144, 157, 168–170, 177–178, 179–180, 181, 183–184, 196–197, 220–221, 225, 240, 256–257; on writing and literature, 20, 42, 64, 66, 78, 80, 82, 84, 85, 90, 92–93, 96, 100, 105–106, 120, 129, 135, 138, 154, 164–165, 172–173, 177, 184, 196, 201, 215, 216, 241, 246, 251, 252, 258, 263, 270, 272

  Wescott, Josephine (mother), 9, 12, 13, 15, 25, 31, 36, 42–43, 44, 45, 46–47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 63, 115, 116, 128, 143, 149, 176, 216, 217, 250, 254

  Wescott, Katherine (sister), 72–73

  Wescott, Lloyd (brother), 4, 8, 13, 24, 25, 39, 42, 43, 46, 47, 49, 53–54, 56, 64, 72–73, 84, 99, 118, 124, 125, 128, 138, 142, 144–145, 157, 173, 182, 191, 193, 196, 206, 213, 225, 240, 246, 251, 252–253, 271, 277, 278; death of, 279; occupation and public work, 27, 52, 54, 63, 99, 121, 161, 177, 207, 249

  Wescott, Marjorie (sister), 72–73, 118, 138, 148, 156, 208

  West, Rebecca, 204, 252

  Wharton, Edith, 135

  Wheeler, Monroe, viii, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 29, 30, 41, 44, 48, 51, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63–64, 69, 85, 86, 88, 96, 97, 114, 115, 118, 119, 121, 124, 139, 140–141, 142, 144, 150, 151, 161, 163, 169, 171, 189, 193, 194, 195, 200, 203, 205, 206, 210, 213, 224, 228, 239, 273, 277–279; career in arts, 4–5, 7–8, 39, 99, 101, 118, 130–131, 135, 150, 157, 162, 173, 175, 176, 181, 239, 248, 263, 266, 274, 275; death of, 279; and GW , 18, 21, 32, 84, 87, 95, 134, 145, 156, 157, 170–171, 178, 180, 183, 186–187, 192, 196, 198, 201, 203, 206, 207–208, 214–215, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 223, 227, 231, 240, 242–243, 244, 245, 247, 251, 253, 256–257, 258, 262, 265, 266, 270, 271, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278; GW on, 30, 33–34, 39, 45, 154, 227, 258, 259, 276; health, illness of, 31, 54, 57, 63, 138, 144, 186, 190, 207, 218, 219, 239, 258, 263, 266, 271, 274, 275, 277, 278–279

  Whitaker, Rick, 6

  Whitehead, Alfred N., 190

  Whiteman, Paul, 39

  Whitman, Walt, 29, 48, 75, 131, 149, 205, 218, 273

  Wilbur, Richard, 214

  Wilde, Oscar, 87, 143, 150, 156, 209

  Wilder, Thornton, 19, 19–20, 36, 51, 65, 68, 70, 73, 130, 190, 224

  Williams, Tennessee, 23, 54, 56, 245–246

  Wilson, Edmund, 103

  Wind, Edgar and Margaret, 39

  “Windfall, A” (GW), 8, 46, 50, 51, 61, 72, 77, 117

  Winters, Yvor, 4

  Wisner, J., 13

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 191

  Wolfe, Thomas, 123, 174

  Wolfe, Tom, 164

 

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