by Anna Porter
Porter is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the Order of Ontario. She lives in Toronto with her husband, Julian Porter.
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Index
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Abella, Irving, and Harold Troper, None Is Too Many, 342, 349–50
Abella, Rosalie, 274, 349–50
Achebe, Chinua, 148
Acorn, Milton, 50, 54–55, 122
Adams, Ian, S: Portrait of a Spy, 212, 288
Agnelli, Gianni, 364
Aldana, Patsy, 139, 142, 144
Alexander, Clare, 327
Alexander, Lincoln, 328
Alfons (Anna’s mother’s third husband), 8–9, 17, 19, 102, 156–57
al-Ilah, Crown Prince Abd, 288
Allan, Norman, 33
Allan, Ted, 31–34, 275
Lies My Father Told Me, 33
The Scalpel, the Sword (with Sydney Gordon), 31
This Time a Better Earth, 33n
Willie the Squowse, 33
Allen, Charlotte Vale, 320
Alliance Communications, 247n, 343, 390n
Al Purdy Was Here (documentary), 54
Amazon, 402, 403
Amazon Canada First Novel Award, 431
American Booksellers’ Association, 182, 255, 318, 338
Amiel, Barbara, 219, 289
Amis, Kingsley, 167
Amis, Martin, 342
Anderson, Doris, 193, 194, 197–201, 252
Rebel Daughter, 197n, 201
Rough Layout, 199
The Unfinished Revolution, 200–201, 320
Anderson, Marjorie, 192, 429
Andrews, Keith, 45
Anishinaabe people, 134, 353, 355
Anne of Green Gables (TV), 217
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 416
Aquin, Hubert, 83, 137
Arany, János, 6, 57
Argus Corporation, 177, 363, 364
Arthur, Eric:
The Barn: A Vanishing Landmark of North America, 42, 79, 80n, 269, 270
Toronto, No Mean City, 79
Ashevak, Kenojuak, “Enchanted Owl,” 135
Ashoona, Pitseolak, 135
As It Happens (CBC radio), 159–60, 162
Asper, Izzy, 365
Association of Canadian Publishers, 84, 139, 403
Atkins, Norman, 294
Atwood, Margaret, 58, 61–67, 81, 82, 108n, 122, 124, 151n, 166, 211, 295, 305, 335, 398n, 416n
Alias Grace, 67
Angel Catbird (with Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain), 67
awards and honors to, 61, 64, 426
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda, 370
Bodily Harm, 64
Cat’s Eye, 63, 64
The Circle Game, 61
Edible Woman, 61–64, 67
and Gibson, 65–66
Hagseed, 67
The Handmaid’s Tale, 64, 431
inventions of, 66, 411
The Journals of Susanna Moodie, 63
Lady Oracle, 64, 180
Life Before Man, 64
and M&S, 61–65, 137, 138, 180, 279, 305
and McClelland, 61–62, 65, 309
“Owl and Pussycat, Some Years Later,” 64
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut, 370
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, 370
Surfacing, 64
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, 107–8
“True North,” 67
and women’s issues, 193, 194, 232
“Writing the Male Characters,” 192
The Year of the Flood, 66–67
“You Fit into Me,” 64
Auden, W. H., 54, 59
Auschwitz Birkenau, 349, 410
Austen, Jane, 8, 117
Axworthy, Lloyd, 200, 223
Azzopardi, Trezza, 348
Bacque, Jim, 83
Balzac, Honoré, 6
Bantam Books, 179–80, 182, 186, 214, 217, 241–42, 253, 292
Bantam Doubleday Dell International, 318, 331
Barfoot, Joan, 348
Barlow, Maude, 261
Barnes & Noble, 402, 405
Baron, Carole, 292
Barreto-Rivera, Rafael, 43
Bassett, Isabel, 176n, 193, 287
Bassett, John, 176, 287, 289
Bata, Tom, 128
Batten, Jack, 210–11, 258–59, 267
Judges, 262
Bedford, Brian, 224
Bellow, Saul, 167
Belushi, John, 143
Benchley, Peter, 180, 218
Bennett, Avie, 279, 305–7, 309, 313, 315, 321, 397
Bennett, Bill, 284
Bennett, James Leslie, 212, 288
Bentley, Peter, 129
Beny, Roloff, 49, 78, 169–74
Iran, Elements of Destiny, 139, 150, 171–74, 309
People: Legends in Life and Art, 174
Persia, Bridge of Turquoise, 139, 150, 170–72, 173, 270, 309
To Every Thing There Is a Season, 169
and A Visual Odyssey, 1958–1968: Roloff Beny, 169
Bergen, David, 138
Berger, Hyman “Lefty,” 424–25
Bernstein, Harriet, 120
Berry, David, 41
Berson, Barbara, 137
Bertelsen, Ruth, 252
Bertelsmann, 317–19, 321–23, 326, 329–31, 347, 397
Berton, Janet, 93, 212, 378
Berton, Pierre, 77, 78, 81, 91–97, 130, 151n, 245n, 258, 309, 431
The Comfortable Pew, 91
death of, 378–79
Drifting Home, 93n
and Franklin, 93–95, 96, 378–79
The Great Railway Illustrated, 105, 108
The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881–1885, 97, 99, 101, 105, 108
and M&S, 94–95, 107, 182, 279
The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871–1881, 92–93, 97, 105, 108
The Pierre Berton Show (TV), 94
Prisoners of the North, 378
The Smug Minority, 91–92
socializing with, 95–96, 99, 212, 377–78
as storyteller, 92–93, 97, 166
Besant, Derek Michael, 243
Best, Tom, 259, 274
Bethune, Norman, 31, 32
Bevington, Stan, 253
Bezmozgis, David, 398
Bielfeld, Rabbi Arthur, 420
Bird, Heather:
Conspiracy to Murder: The Trial of Helmuth Buxbaum, 284n
Not Above the Law, 284
Birdsell, Sandra, 342
Birney, Earle, 50, 51, 81, 111–14, 118, 123, 182, 245n
“David,” 111, 113
and Low, 41, 111, 112, 113
“The Moon of Pooh Chi,” 111–12
poem to Catherine, 109
and Puci, 111–12
Turvey, 113
Black, Conrad, 130, 175–78, 363–66, 374, 383, 411
Duplessis, 175–77, 366
A Life in Progress, 364, 365
A Matter of Principle, 367
Blackwood, David, 72
Blais, Marie-Claire, 81, 83
Blaise, Clark, A North American Education, 82
Blatty, William Peter, 180, 218
Bodsworth, Fred, 377
Last of the Curlews, 95n
Boggs, Jean Sutherland, 189
Bonner, Margerie, 114
Bonvillain, Tamra, 67
Bookmen’s/Bookperson’s Lunch Club, 66
Book of the Month Club, 97, 142, 254
Borovoy, Alan, Uncivil Disobedience, 349
Bourgault, Pierre, 83
Bowering, George, 53, 122
Braithwaite, Max, 81
The Night We Stole the Mountie’s Car, 139
Brand, Dionne, Ossuaries, 123–24
Braunschweiger, Jürgen, 266–67
Breakwater Books, 254
Breeden, Richard, 366
Brinckman, Mary Anne, 247, 333, 411
Brinkley, David, 364
Bronfman, Peter, 343
Bruce, Harry, 267
Down Home: Notes of a Maritime Son, 246n
Bruce, Phyllis, 137, 280, 281, 299, 313, 344, 427
Bruemmer, Fred, 336
The Arctic World, 271, 337–38
Encounters with Arctic Animals, 78
Seasons of the Eskimo, 78, 135
Survival: A Refugee Life, 135n, 277
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 364–65
Buckler, Ernest, 21, 220n
Buckley, William F., 364
Buckman, Bob:
I Don’t Know What to Say—How to Help and Support Someone Who Is Dying, 357–58
Magic or Medicine, 357
What You Really Need to Know About Cancer, 358
Bukowski, Denise, 254
Bull, William Perkins, 25
Burnard, Bonnie, 254
Burnford, Sheila, The Incredible Journey, 41
Burroughs, William S., Naked Lunch, 22
Burton, Richard, 342
Bush, Jack, 39
Butler, Peter, 412
Butterfield, George and Martha, 239–40
Buxbaum, Helmuth, 284
Calgary Conference on the Canadian Novel (1978), 150–51
Callaghan, Morley, 21, 166
Winter, 29n
Callwood, June, 95, 131, 159, 161, 193, 194, 227, 295, 350, 393n, 419–20, 429
Calvino, Italo, 320, 342
Cameron, Dorothy, 100
Cameron, Stevie, Ottawa Inside Out, 261–62, 283
Camp, Dalton, 76, 285, 294, 381–85
Gentlemen, Players & Politicians, 381
Camp, Linda, 381–82, 383, 385
Campbell, Maria, Halfbreed, 45–46, 354–55
Canada:
Anna’s arrival in, 3–4, 9
Arctic region of, 78, 133–36, 271, 277–78, 334, 337–38, 378
“Baie Comeau” policy, 317
bookstores in, 77–78, 101, 280, 369–72, 402
censorship in, 113, 149–50, 213
Centennial (1967), 18, 246
Constitution of, 298
First Nations, see Indigenous peoples
foreign influence on economy of, 84, 86, 92, 127–28, 175, 218n, 421–22
landscape painters of, 44
literary agents in, 254
literary journals in, 123
nationalism in, 75–77, 84–86, 92, 108, 127–28, 133, 217, 223, 330, 407, 417
national parks of, 338
non-fiction novels, 374
October Crisis (1970), 13
poets of, 50–52, 64, 122–24, 253
political books, 283–86
publishing industry in, 75–79, 83–85, 138–39, 150–51, 179–80, 240, 253–54, 280, 283, 313–15, 317–32, 369–72, 397, 402–5, 421–22, 429–32
Quebec, see Quebec
“Sixties Scoop,” 355
Soviet spies in, 288
theatre in, 254–55
universities in, 84–85
vastness of, 81, 82
victory in Canada-Russia hockey (1972), 108–9, 253
writers in, 42–43, 81–84, 107–8, 150, 179, 253, 430
Canada: A Celebration, 29n, 267–68, 344
Canada: Year of the Land, 246
Canada Council for the Arts, 134, 139, 223, 398
Canadian, The, 53, 244, 246
Canadian Abortion Rights League, 192
Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 200
Canadian Art Club, 44n
Canadian Authors Association, 81, 378
Canadian Book Publishers Council, 84
Canadian Booksellers Association, 149, 301
Canadian Business, 241, 245, 246
Canadian Children’s Treasury, 344
Canadian Conference of the Arts, 153
Canadian Encyclopedia, 85
Canadian Film Centre, 408
Canadian Geographic, 241, 405
Canadian Living, 248, 249
Canadian Medical Association, 358
Canadian National Exhibition (CNE; “the Ex”), 153–54, 185
Canadian Pacific Railway, 92–93, 97, 105
Canterbury University, Christchurch, 8, 17, 19, 63
Canyon Club, 341–42
Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood, 374n
Cariou, Len, 224
Carney, Pat, 199–200n
Trade Secrets, 200n
Caron, David, 430
Carrier, Roch, 82
Carrington, Lord, 364
Cary, Joyce, 148
Cassell & Co., 4, 9, 191
CBC, 58, 378
CBC radio, 12, 81, 159, 213–14, 249
CBC TV, Anna’s job quest at, 13–15
Celan, Paul, 117, 395
Cercone, Philip, 403n
Chamberlain, Neville, 125
Chapters bookstores, 369, 371, 393, 402, 404, 430–31
Chatelaine magazine, 197, 198–99, 211
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 8, 111
Cheetham, Anthony, 320
Chickadee, 241, 247
Chrétien, Jean, 260
Straight from the Heart, 297–301
Christmas, Johnnie, 67
Citytv, 14–15, 213
Civil Liberties Association, 159
Clairtone, 410
Clan Macmillan, 154
Clark, Joe, 237, 253, 289n
A Nation Too Good to Lose, 277
Clarke, Austin, 81
Clarke Irwin, 280n, 319
Clarkson, Adrienne, 214, 248
Classic Book Shops, 77–78, 369
Cleese, John, 274, 358
Cockwell, Jack, 343
Cohen, Leonard, 22, 50, 81, 118, 315, 399
Beautiful Losers, 121–22
Death of a Ladies’ Man, 137, 187–88
Elizabeth and After, 144
The Energy of Slaves, 122
as ghost writer, 143
Selected Poems 1956–1968, 122
The Spice Box of Earth, 121
Cohen, Matt, 87–89, 182, 218, 219, 232, 344
Columbus and the Fat Lady, 89
The Disinherited, 141–42
Johnny Crackle Sings, 87–89
Korsoniloff, 87, 88, 89
The Leaves of Louise, 142
The Spanish Doctor, 143–44
The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone, 142
Typing, a Life in 26 Keys, 143
Cohen, Nathan, 99–100
Cohon, George, 129
Colbert, Nancy, 254
Colbert, Stan, 254
Cole, Carl, 78
Cole, Jack, 78
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 8
Coles Bookstore Canada, 77, 78, 369
Collier Macmillan, 4, 9, 10–11, 14, 19, 191
Collins, William, 79
Colombo, John Robert, 26
Colville, Alex, 82
Committee for an Independent Canada, 84, 127
Communists, 31, 33–34
Fourth International, 113
Hollywood blacklist, 32
in Hungary, 5, 91, 156, 191, 351, 401
Conklin, Jimmy, 100, 153–54
Connor,
Ralph, 21
Cooke, Dean, 254, 321–22
Cools, Anne, 296n
Copetti, Livio, 277
Copper Thunderbird (Morrisseau), 134
Copps, Sheila, 404
Costello, Ralph, 382
Coward, Noel, 174
Craig, Janet, 92
Crean, Patrick, 41
Creeley, Robert, 54
Creighton, Donald, 289
Crites, Michael, 174
Crittenden, Yvonne, 176, 211, 287
Cronyn, Hume, 224
A Terrible Liar, 276
Cross, James, 13, 159
Crozier, Lorna, 253
Cry of the Wild (film), 280–81
cummings, e. e., 9
Czechoslovakia:
German invasion of, 125
Library of Prohibited Books in, 414
list of informants in, 414–15
Soviet control of, 359–60
Daily Telegraph, 363, 364, 383
Dalai Lama, 288
Daniels, Alan, 344
David (journalist), 11–13, 15, 213
David, Jack, 83n
Davies, Alun, 215, 217, 222, 235, 242, 318, 322, 332
Davies, Robertson, 82, 145–46, 167, 253, 270, 304
Davis, Bill, 127, 287, 294–95
Davis, Fred, 95
Davis, Glen, 334–35
Davis, Nelson, 128, 334
Davison, Peter, 70–71
Delaney, Marshall (pseud.), 39–40, 252
de la Roche, Mazo, 21
DeLillo, Don, 342
Dennys, Louise, 320, 341, 343–45, 359, 360
Derry, Ramsay, 270
Desmarais, Paul, 128, 129
Deutsch, Andre, 79, 182
Deverell, Bill, Needles, 215
Dewar, Elaine:
“The Mysterious Reichmanns: The Untold Story,” 321
The Takeover, 421
Di Cicco, Pier Giorgio, 123, 253
Dickinson, Mark, 394–95
Diefenbaker, George, 154
Diefenbaker, John, 294, 296, 381, 385
Dietrich, Karsten, 329
Doubleday (publisher), 271, 317–22, 397
Doubleday, Nelje, 270
Doubleday Book Clubs, 319, 329, 347
Doubleday Canada, 319–20, 330–31, 431
Douglas, Jim, 23, 45, 138
Douglas & McIntyre, 45, 138–39, 253, 339, 403–5, 415
Dryden, Ken, 109
Dubček, Alexander, 359
Dudek, Louis, 117
“duke and fork” question, 150
Dundurn Press, 84
Dunne, Tom, 327, 415
Duplessis, Maurice, 175–77, 366
