father’s attraction to another woman in “Alternatives,” 38
range of fiction based on parent’s marriage, 260, 349
stories with theme of family unit of loving parents and children, 34
unpublished story on parents’ romance, 17
visiting burial sites of parents, in short stories, 374
wife’s reaction to husband’s affair in “Roses, Rhododendron,” 38
Adams, Timothy “Tim,” 169, 176, 231, 240, 346, 367, 413, 450
Adams, Virginia (aunt), 16, 19, 31
Adams family, 16
Addison, Thomas, 488, 554n
Adventures of Augie March, The (Bellow), 173, 177–78
After the War (novel) gay and lesbian characters in, 398
plot and themes of, 478–79
publication of, 483–84, 498, 507
real-life inspiration for, 478
as sequel to Southern Exposure, 478
writing of, 479, 507
After You’ve Gone (story collection), 69, 391, 424, 431, 507
Agee, James, 215, 533n
“Alaska” (story), 349, 361–62
Albright, Madeleine, 484
Alfred A. Knopf publishers, 110, 168, 202, 261n, 295, 305n, 306, 323, 325, 326, 343, 344, 353, 363, 366, 372, 402n, 411–12, 427, 432, 433, 463, 464, 473, 494, 497–98, 506
Alice Adams (movie), 9n
Alice Adams (Tarkington), 9
Allure magazine, 436
Almost Perfect (novel), 432 early notes for, as “Book of Bob,” 431, 435, 439, 443
plot and themes of, 443–46
publication of, 447, 457, 507
reactions to, 443, 446, 448, 457
real-life inspirations for, 443, 444, 445n, 446
sex and sexuality in, 443–44, 446
writing of, 443, 449
“Alternatives” (story), 38, 104n, 201, 290, 300
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 442, 472, 507
American Association of University Women’s magazine, 161–62
American Audio Prose Library, 412
American Revolution, 16
“America’s Room, and Mine” (unpublished essay), 393
Anasovich, Philip “Phil,” 396–98, 429, 440, 472, 480, 491, 494n, 497, 500, 508
“Another Love Story” (Steele), 196, 303–305
Antioch Review, 287
“Are You in Love?” (story), 19, 42–43, 300
Armstrong, Louis, 64, 184–85, 232n, 383n
Arnoux, Elaine Badgley, 421n, 447–48, 449
Art and Antiques magazine, 429
Arteseros, Sally, 327–28
“At First Sight” (story), 39–40
“At First Sight: Love and Liking, a Memoir” (essay), 500–501
Athas, Daphne, 36, 63–64, 82n, 193–94, 341, 482, 499–500
Atlantic Monthly, 125, 371
Atlantic Monthly Press, 183, 241, 261, 300
Atlas, James, 178, 219n
“At the Beach” (story), 322, 355
“At the Races” (story), 421
Auletta, Ken, 428
Babitz, Eve, 334, 367
“Bachelor’s Fate” (unpublished story), 230–31
Bachhuber, Mary, 90, 91, 108
Badgley, John, 277–78
Badgley Arnoux, Elaine, 277, 278, 421n, 447–48
Bailey, Blake, 333
Bailey Island, Maine, 413, 419n
“Balcony Scenes” (story), 524n
Baldwin, James, 145, 194, 294, 423
Ball, Davideen, 256
Ballantyne, Sheila, 307, 494, 494n
Barbary Shore (Mailer), 168
“Barcelona” (story), 376
Barnard Hall, Radcliffe College, 90–92
Barney, Joseph Nicholson and Anne Dornin, 16
Barney family, 16
Barth, John, 362
Barthelme, Donald, 232, 236, 337, 362
Bates, Ralph and Eve, 109, 113, 118, 166–67, 174–75, 214
Bates College, 413
Bates Guinee, Barbara, 78, 81, 121
Bateson, Mary Catherine, 123, 401n
Bausch, Richard, 399
“Beautiful Girl” (story), 318–20, 338, 441, 506
Becker, Stephen, 107
Bellow, Saul, 145, 173–75, 177–78, 201, 215, 219–20, 239, 244, 246, 318, 346, 471, 504, 506
Belmeur, John, 226
Belmeur, Ruth Gebhart, 218, 226, 286, 465, 535n
Bentley, Beverley, 231, 236
“Berkeley House” (story), 279, 349
Berriault, Gina, 310, 333
Berry, Virginia “Ginny,” 90, 109, 119, 121, 240, 318
Berryhill, Norma, 461
Best American Short Stories, The, anthologies Adams as guest editor of, 435–36
Adams’s stories in, 302, 337, 469
“Best Revenge, The” (story), 475
Biernoff, Joseph, 156–57, 159, 171, 175, 220
Black Mountain College, 98, 236, 239
Blake, Michelle, 368, 460, 479
Blau, Herbert, 153, 155, 185
Boise State University, 369
Bonetti, Kay, 412
“Book of Bob” (story). See Almost Perfect (novel)
“Book of Bob”(working title for novel), 431, 435, 439, 443. See also Almost Perfect
Borzoi Knopf publishers, 27
Botkin, Jerome, 450–51, 452, 455, 488
Boucher, Sandy, 258, 273–74, 279n, 283, 286–88, 310, 353, 448
Bowen, Elizabeth, 39, 99, 202
Boyd, Agatha Erskine. See Adams Agatha Erskine Boyd
Boyd, Alice (pseudonym), 291, 506
Boyd, Beverley Munford (uncle), 20, 149, 160
Boyd, Emma Tayloe Munford (grandmother), 10, 12, 29, 30–31, 33, 393, 519n
Boyd, James William (grandfather), 12
Boyd, Sally (cousin), 44
Boyd, Thomas Munford “Munny” (uncle), 9, 14, 21, 376
Boyd, William Watson (great-grandfather), 12
Boynton, James “Jack,” 225, 232–33, 235–36, 257n, 482
Brackett, Mrs. Jeffrey Richardson, 79–80, 85
“Breakfast at Louie’s Café” (story), 428, 434
“Break-In, The” (story), 251, 258–59, 292
Breier, Frederick A. “Fred,” 207, 211, 226, 249, 262, 263, 264, 289
Breier, Virginia, 263, 264, 289
Breyer, Charles, 390, 393, 417, 420, 496
British War Relief Society, 60, 83
Brodkey, Harold, 363–64
Brook, John, 185n
Brown, Helen Gurley, 210, 224, 261
Brown, Linda Michelson, 436
Brown, Margery Finn, 307, 349
Brown, Rosellen, 265
Brown, Stephen, 206, 209, 241, 267–68, 270, 273, 449, 496
Brown, Theophilus “Bill,” 392, 418, 421, 428, 450, 457, 494
Brown, Tina, 476, 507
Browning, Elizabeth and Robert, 212
Brunswick, Ruth Mack, 239
Brunswick, Til (later Stewart), 238–39, 394, 418
Bryan, C. D. B., 334
Buck, Pearl, 13, 54
Burford, Anne Gorsuch, 388–89
Burman, Serena, 419, 477
Butigan, Ken, 387–89
“By the Sea” (story), 365
Caen, Herb, 280, 307, 378, 390, 412
“California Trip, A” (unpublished story), 233
Calisher, Hortense, 294
Calvin, Henry, 322, 354, 382
Calvin, Lavina, 321–22, 382, 393, 401
Canin, Ethan, 434, 471
Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin, 75, 366
Careless Love (novel), 203, 261, 533n affair with Vasco Pereira reflected in, 211, 214, 215, 216–17, 218, 224
plot and themes of, 81–82, 83, 179n, 215, 216–17, 230, 232–33
publication of, 244, 330, 381, 505
reactions to, 244–45, 246–47, 248, 255
real-life inspirations for, 36, 79, 80, 81, 206–7, 210, 232
writin
g of, 224, 230, 252
Carnahan, Peter, 282n
Caroline’s Daughters (novel) plot and themes of, 424–26
publication of, 507, 432, 433
reactions to, 432–33
real-life inspirations for, 425, 431
writing of, 424, 427, 434, 435
Carr, Richard, 371, 381–82
Carroll, Walter, 41n
Carson, Carol Devine, 457
Carson, Rachel, 202
Carver, Raymond, 290, 327, 337, 362
Cassady, Carolyn, 186
Chapel Hill High School (CHHS), North Carolina, 59–60, 61, 62, 63
Charles, Don Hogan, 492
Charm magazine, 2, 3, 202, 208, 209, 210n, 211, 505
“Chase, The” (story), 346
Chasin, Helen, 330
Cheever, John, 99, 183, 262, 290, 361, 507
Cheney, Russell, 93
Chicago Sun-Times, 335, 365, 378
Childbirth Without Fear (Dick-Read), 170n
Child Guidance Clinic, San Francisco, 238–41, 505
Children of the Confederacy, 38
Children’s Crusade, 271
Childress, Mark, 434
“Child’s Play” (story), 29, 52, 57, 374
Chown, Linda, 222, 268
Church, Frank, 352
Church, Thomas, 391
City Lights bookstore, San Francisco, 186, 493
civil rights movement, 233, 284, 326, 470
Civil War (US), 11, 12, 16, 21, 50
Clark, Dorothy Funk, 50, 52–53, 367
Clark, James, 50, 52–53, 60, 83, 114
Clark, Judith Walker. See Adams, Judith Clark
Clay Street apartment, San Francisco, 180–81, 184, 209, 221, 237, 241, 254–55, 350, 390, 391–92, 410–11, 424, 434, 507
Cleaver, Eldridge, 287, 289, 294
Clinton, Bill, 484–85, 496, 507
Cohen, Edward, 488
“Coin of the Realm” (unpublished story), 188
Colette, 50, 131, 210, 343, 366, 421, 432, 485, 498
Columbia University, 8, 17, 18, 19, 22, 226
Colwin, Laurie, 307, 335
Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (Spock), 175
Connell, Evan S., 194, 208, 307, 335
Cornelisen, Ann, 291, 294, 338, 353, 359
Cornell University, 309, 318
Corn Is Green, The (Williams), 77
Cosmopolitan magazine, 261, 262, 346
Crawford, Scott, 370
Crenshaw, Fanny Graves, 19, 36, 78
Crichton, Robert, 107
“Cruelest Month, The” (unpublished story), 107
Cruz-Salido, Enrique, 123, 138–39
Curb, Randall, 485, 498
“Curtains” (unpublished story), 107
Dally, Anne, 32
Daniels, Jonathan, 57
Daniels, Josephus, 56–57
Dare, Edgar, 31
Dare, Virginia Adams (aunt), 16, 19, 31, 272
Davidson, Kalman, 112
Davison, Peter, 241–42
Death of the Heart, The (Bowen), 39
Deaver, John, 182, 184
Debby (Steele), 194, 196, 533n
de Beauvoir, Simone, 50, 52, 62–63, 82, 120, 130, 133, 194, 504
Deer Park, The (Mailer), 206n
Deming, Barbara “Bobbie,” 176, 180–82, 185, 187, 236n, 294, 353
Deming, Quentin, 157, 236
Deming, Vida Ginsberg, 123, 124, 157, 176, 236
Denier, Alyce, 283–84
Depression, 27–28, 50, 55, 64n, 80, 195, 463, 495
DeRoy, Jewel, 291
DeRoy, Richard “Dick,” 290–91, 369–70
Diebenkorn, Richard, 232, 330, 424
Diederich, Hunt, 139–40
Diederich, Mary de Anders, 139
Dillon, Millicent, 309, 429, 434, 435, 456, 467, 471, 481, 493, 494n, 497
Dissent magazine, 233
Doctorow, E. L., 318, 442
Dodds, John, 237, 238, 241–43
Donne, John, 88, 99
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 18, 56, 160, 471
Dornin, Thomas A. and Anne Moore, 16
Dörrie, Doris, 355–56
Doster, David Cunningham, 174
Doubleday publishers, 137, 308, 327, 463
Dowty, Leonhard, 262
Drabble, Margaret, 262
Draper, Zoe Kernick, 204
Drewes, Caroline, 428, 429–30, 477
Duffy, Trent, 384, 392, 449, 498
Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina, 30–32, 37, 521n
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, 312
Dutton publishers, 372
“Earthquake Damage” (story), 430
Easter Parade, The (Yates), 320, 332
Eder, Richard, 414, 423, 424, 549
“Edge of the Water, The” (unpublished story), 211, 216
Ehrenreich, Barbara, 403
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 105, 125, 176, 184, 229, 504
“Elizabeth” (story), 347–48
Ellison, Ralph, 194, 215, 442
Engels, Friedrich, 157, 353
English, Deirdre, 388, 390, 403–5, 465, 471
Entering Ephesus (Atlas), 64n, 82n
E. P. Dutton publishers, 372
Epoch magazine, 318
Erskine, Margaret and Henry, 12n
Espy, John, 369
Esquire magazine, 245n, 262, 306
Eugenio (Mexican boy), 355–56
Evans, Karen, 352, 412
Fabbri, Anne, 90, 92
Fall of Daisy Duke, The (reissue of Careless Love), 249
“Fall: 1940” (story), 76
Families and Survivors (novel) Alice and Mark Linenthal’s marriage reflected in, 121, 176, 204–5, 222
book award nomination for, 318, 506
publication of, 206n, 295, 299, 300, 306, 307, 322, 323, 506
real-life inspirations for, 61, 64, 65, 96–97, 99, 109n, 112n, 119, 160n, 169, 176, 181n, 198, 204, 222, 274, 275, 276, 281, 308, 310
sexuality in, 59, 61, 176
writing of, 276n, 295, 323
“Favors” (story), 292, 389–90
Faulkner, William, 423, 478, 522n
Fee, Willard Jr., 453, 455
Feineman, Neil, 324n
Felker, Clay, 427
Female Eunuch, The (Greer), 281, 505
female identity, 2–3, 43n, 82, 154n, 206n, 210, 316, 365, 367, 383, 426, 437
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 154n, 224, 505
Ferenczi, Sándor, 171
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 185–86, 493
Fiction Network magazine, 409
Field, John and Carol, 459
“First Date” (story), 485
Fisher, Hope, 84–85
Fitzgerald, Ella, 173
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 27, 94, 124, 132, 339, 375, 423, 487, 503
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 145
Five Little Peppers (Sidney), 30
Flanner, Janet, 145
“Fog in the Streets, The” (unpublished story), 183
Folger Shakespeare Library, 399
Fong, Henry, 338
Ford, Gerald, 389, 506
Ford, Marjorie Leet, 368, 437
Ford, Richard, 332, 435
For Her Own Good (Ehrenreich and English), 403
“Former Friends” (unpublished story), 192n
Forster, E. M., 111, 300, 350, 477
Fox, Paula, 333–34
Francisco, Cynthia Scott, 176
Franco, Francisco, 55, 138, 139
Frank, Thaisa, 474
Freeman, Judith, 312
Freud, Sigmund, 171, 239, 478–79
Friedan, Betty, 154n, 206, 224, 505
“Frida Kahlo’s Passion” (essay), 429
Fuller, Blair, 136–37, 145, 221–22, 224–25, 293, 388, 493, 494n
“Furniture, The: A True Story” (unpublished story), 314n
Fussner, Frank Smith, 172, 438
Fussner, Jane Spencer, 172
Gaddini, Eugenio and Renata, 291, 2
95
Gaitskill, Mary, 428, 449, 473–74, 494
Galgiani, Phillip, 249, 273, 282, 283, 394
Gallant, Mavis, 472
Gallo, Julio, 256, 292, 425
Gardner, Leonard, 310
Geist, Eileen, 128, 144
Gendlin, Frances, 346, 417, 456
Gentleman’s Quarterly magazine, 479
Gerbode, Frank L., 283, 287, 465
Gieling, Imogene “Tex,” 228, 231
“Gift of Grass” (story), 270–71, 286, 289, 505
Ginsberg, Allen, 185, 186, 267
Ginsberg, Vida, 123, 124, 157, 176, 236
“Girl Across the Room, The” (story), 322, 328
Gladstone, Myron J. “Mike,” 108–9, 110
“God Bless the Child” (song), 305
Gold, Arthur, 367n
Gold, Herb, 293, 307, 425, 437n, 484
Goldenberg, Judi, 365
Golden Gate Club, San Francisco, 493–94
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 248, 266, 269, 429, 505
Golden Notebook, The (Lessing), 239, 332
Goldilocks and the Three Bears fairy tale, 30, 98
Goldstein, Sydney, 390, 392, 393, 418, 429, 489, 492, 393, 496
Goldwater, Barry, 245n, 280n
Goldwyn, Samuel, 157
Good Housekeeping magazine, 74n, 262
Gordon, Caroline, 22
Gordon, Mary, 461, 486
Gordon, Phoebe, 85
Göring, Hermann, 457, 472
Gorra, Michael, 142
Gottlieb, Robert, 242, 295, 308, 326, 344n, 372–73, 409–10, 436, 476, 507
Gottreich, Norman, 268–69, 273
Gould, Lois, 384, 386
Graham, Frank Porter, 25
Graham, Martha, 116n
“Grape Arbor, The” (story), 163–64
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 50, 504
Gray, Lucy, 428, 470
Great Depression, 27–28, 50, 55, 64n, 80, 195, 463, 495
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 94, 380
Great Promise, The (Houston), 109, 462n
“Great Sex” (story), 477
Green, Geraldine “Gigi,” 418, 457
Green, Larry, 457
Green, Paul, 22, 25–26, 42, 95, 98, 462
“Green Creek” (unpublished story), 15, 26, 193
Greening of America, The (Reich), 273
Greer, Germaine, 281, 505
“Greyhound People” (story), 362, 365
Guerard, Albert J., 106–7, 108, 110, 309
Guggenheim Fellowship, 330–31, 347, 506
Haas, Eleanor, 212, 234
Hall, Don, 176, 180, 437, 464, 484, 486
Hall, Joan, 300
Hall, Kirby, 180
Harper & Row, 238, 260, 381
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