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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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  ALSO BY ANNA PORTER

  The Appraisal

  Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy

  The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future

  Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

  The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies

  The Bookfair Murders

  Mortal Sins

  Hidden Agenda

  Index

  A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.

  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

 

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