Harper Novel Prize, 194
Harper’s magazine, 136, 195, 331
Harris, Jeanne, 370–71
Harris, Leon, 89
Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti, 330
Harrison, Earl G., 125
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, 497
Harvard University, 22, 91, 93, 145, 151, 163 Adams and, 93, 94, 95, 98, 104, 152, 263, 345, 480
friends from, 109, 139, 154, 158, 224, 225, 309
Linenthal at, 1, 110, 111–12, 121–22, 135, 146, 153, 158, 312, 504
Radcliffe students and, 88–89, 93, 94, 111
Rich Rewards setting and, 350–51
Salzburg Seminars and, 122–23
“The Swastika on Our Door” setting and, 263, 264
World War II and, 88–89, 93, 105
“Haunted Beach, The” (story), 322, 441
Haussmann, Sonja, 472
Hawkes, John, 107
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 51, 423
Hedelman, Sidney, 439
Heilbrun, Carolyn, 116, 147
Heller, Clemens, 122
Heller, Joseph, 294, 378
Helms, Chet, 248
Hemenway, Bob, 262, 265, 279, 288, 436
Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), 201
“Henry and the Pale-Faced Indian” (story), 261
Henry Holt & Co. publishers, 28, 37, 39, 109–10, 115, 116, 118, 166
Heritage of Spain, The (Nic Adams), 18, 28, 55
Hersh, Seymour, 352
“Her Unmentionables” (story), 485
Hesse, Hermann, 282
“Hills, The” (unpublished story), 136
Hinckle, Warren, 294
Hitler, Adolf, 55, 56, 60, 69, 70, 76, 77, 105, 122, 125, 132, 142, 228, 229, 478, 503
Hochschild, Adam, 471
Hochschild, Arlie, 471
Hoffer, Eric, 425
Hogan, Linda, 448, 496, 497n
Hokinson, Helen, 161
Holbrook, Joy, 273
Holiday, Billie, 81–82, 83, 101, 117, 244, 284, 285, 305, 321, 333, 416, 504
Hollywood Ten, 152, 157
Holt, Patricia, 398–99
Holt publishers, 28, 37, 39, 109–10, 115, 116, 118, 166
“Home Is Where” (story), 303, 304, 347n, 500, 506
Horn, Walter, 229
Horne, Lena, 315
Houston, Noel, 109, 174, 462
Howard, Gerald, 137, 402–3
Howards End (Forster), 111, 300, 350, 477
Howe, Irving, 166, 225, 233–34, 235–36, 246, 333–34, 403
Hower, Edward, 482
Howl and Other Poems (Ginsberg), 186
Hughes, Robert, 12
Human Be-In, San Francisco, 266–67, 505
Hurston, Zora Neale, 25
Imaginary Crimes (Ballantyne), 307
Imperial Waltz (Abrahams), 156
“Impersonators, The” (unpublished novel), 132, 137, 140–42, 145, 155, 158–59, 165–66, 168
Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship, 235–36, 241
Inklings magazine, 80
International Creative Management, 318, 506
“Introduction” Best American Short Stories of 1991, 435–36
Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 381, 457
Irving, Washington, 51
Isherwood, Christopher, 233, 344
“Islands, The” (story), 391, 400–401, 441
Jacobs, Paul, 223, 287, 294
Jacobs, Ruth, 203, 223, 287
James, Alice, 93
James, Henry, 4, 39, 93, 142, 151, 352, 372, 386, 471
James, William, 93
James Family, The (Matthiessen), 93
Jen, Gish, 402, 466
Jenkins, Ruth, 90
Jervey, Anne, 55
Jervey, Frank (cousin), 174, 278–79
Jervey, Mary Elizabeth (cousin), 41–42, 55, 78
Jessner, Lucie, 194, 200, 276n, 277n, 291 Adams’s depression and, 273, 343
Adams’s love affairs and, 195, 216, 217–18, 251, 255–56, 259, 340, 346
Adams’s relationship with Steele and, 2, 247, 340, 343
Adams’s return to North Carolina and, 2, 192, 193, 197
declining health and death of, 346, 347, 348, 354, 506
“Elizabeth” short story on, 347–48
letters between Adams and, 216, 237–38, 249, 251, 255–56, 272, 281, 289, 292, 300, 311, 314, 326, 327, 340, 341, 343, 394–95, 400
“Jobs for the Helen Hokinson Crowd” (Agatha Adams talk and article), 161–62
John Paul II, Pope, 345
Johnson, Andrew, 12, 16
Johnson, Curt, 290
Johnson, Diane, 290, 324, 346, 353, 358, 365, 366–67, 370, 423, 442 Adams’s memorial and, 491, 494n
on Bob McNie and Adams, 421–22, 446
friendship with, 308, 316, 320, 325, 327, 328, 334–35, 341, 343, 345, 352, 395, 412, 418, 428, 429, 439, 472, 474, 486
women writers group with, 307, 506
Johnson, James Weldon, 25
Johnson, Joyce, 186
Johnson, Kevin, 491, 494n
Johnson, Lyndon B., 124, 246, 267, 505
Johnson, Robert Flynn, 422, 455–56
Jones, Charles Miller, 119, 275
Jones, Judith, 202
Jones, Pirkle, 209
Jones, Verlie, 43, 119, 121, 201, 285, 371 Adams’s family employment of, 24–25, 26–27, 29, 55, 160
short stories based on memories of, 24, 27, 300
Jong, Erica, 332
Kahlo, Frida, 330, 416, 429, 443
Kakutani, Michiko, 384, 398
Kanon, Joe, 372, 429
Kaplan, Alice, 147
Katz, Alex, 403
Kazin, Alfred, 124, 125, 128, 166, 442
Keller, Helen, 88
Keller, John Esten, 276
Kellogg, Rhoda, 181
Kemeny, Peter, 261
Kemp, Malcolm, 39, 44, 62, 96, 97, 103, 114, 160, 169, 171, 174, 343, 423, 462
Kempton, Kenneth Payson, 98, 106, 367
Kenan, Randall, 305n
Kendall, Elaine, 88
Kennedy, Jackie, 204, 442
Kennedy, John F., 124, 204, 215, 237, 505
Kennedy, Robert, 267
Kerouac, Jack, 185, 493
Ketcham, Diana, 365
Kiernan, Frances Adams’s death and memorial celebrations and, 492, 494n, 495, 497
editing by, 302, 368, 410, 506, 435, 473
friendship with Adams, 327–29, 331, 363, 431, 446, 449, 457, 459, 460, 473, 475, 483
Kiernan, Howard, 425, 431, 449, 457, 460, 473, 497
Kilby, Mary Elizabeth (Jervey) (cousin), 41–42, 55, 78
Kilmer, Alfred Joyce, 18
King, Martin Luther Jr., 202, 266
King Lear (Shakespeare), 486, 498
King Leopold’s Ghost (Hochschild), 471
Kingston Trio, 204
Kinnell, Galway, 360
Kinsey, Alfred, 57, 210
Kipen, David, 492
Kirkpatrick, Sidney D., 229
Kirkus magazine, 465
Kizer, Carolyn, 373, 385, 388
Knight, Death and the Devil, The (Leffland), 457
Knopf, Alfred, 27, 110, 124, 166, 442
Knopf, Blanche, 27
Knopf publishers. See Alfred A. Knopf publishers
Knox, Mickey, 152
Korean War, 166–67, 169, 172, 178
Krey, Laura, 161
Kristiansen, Jane, 258, 292
Ku Klux Klan, 25
Kumin, Maxine, 91
Ladies’ Home Journal, 262
Lamott, Anne, 359, 368, 381, 415, 427–28, 471, 494
Landon, Rosalyn Marchant “Ros,” 85, 90, 93–94, 143
Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, San Francisco, 419
Larner, Jeremy, 236, 307
“Last Lovely City, The” (story), 427, 436, 468, 469–70
Last Lovely City, The (story collection), 461, 468, 485, 498, 507
“Last Married Man, The” (story), 540n
Lavelle, Rita, 388–89
Lawrence, D. H., 56
Lawson, John Howard, 157
“Learning to Be Happy” (story), 303, 506
Lee, Francis Lightfoot and Rebecca Tayloe, 10
Lee, Harper, 505
Leet, Marjorie, 368, 437
Leffland, Ella, 137, 307–8, 309, 335, 352, 457, 472–73, 492, 494n, 506
“Legacy” (Agatha Adams poem), 45
“Legends” (story), 357
Leggett, Edwina Evers, 338, 457, 459, 475, 489, 493, 494n, 496
Leggett, John “Jack,” 238, 381, 457, 459, 487, 492, 494n
Lehmann, Rosamund, 212
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, 432
Lennon, Michael, 158n
Leonard, John, 329
“Letter from San Francisco” (poem), 495
Levenson, Charlotte, 124
Levenson, Jacob “Jack,” 111–12, 113, 122, 124
Levin, Martin, 246
Levin, Phyllis, 154
Levy, Phyllis, 262
L’Heureux, John, 335, 367, 368
Lie Down in Darkness (Styron), 171, 243, 336
Lila Stories, 163–64, 394, 421, 430, 436, 485
Linenthal, Anna Davidson (mother-in-law), 112, 113, 119, 120, 122, 149, 175, 187, 192, 198, 312
Linenthal, Frances, 221, 228, 237–38, 269, 280, 312–13
Linenthal, Margaret, 113
Linenthal, Mark Jr. (husband) Adams’s memorial celebration and, 494, 495
Adams’s memory of, on his seventy-fifth birthday, 470
army air corps call for Korean War, 172
boat residence during divorce, 204
death of, 494, 508
decision to see psychoanalyst, 312
feminism and changes in life of, 313
Harvard master’s degree of, 112, 121–22
Howl trial testimony of, 186
marriage to Frances Pain, 221–22, 237, 238, 266, 313
physical appearance, 120
Poetry Center involvement, 185, 187, 222, 268
Reed College teaching position, 172, 175, 438, 504
relationship with gay brother, 113, 118, 119, 177, 314
Salzburg Seminar and, 122–25, 126–28, 138, 442
San Francisco State College position, 180, 185, 504
Sorbonne certificate using GI Bill benefits, 123, 133, 136, 144, 145, 146
Stanford doctorate, 150, 167, 178–79, 180, 187, 188, 504, 505
Stanford teaching positions, 156, 167, 175
war service and prisoner-of-war camp of, 110–11, 124–25, 129, 504
weekly salon of former students and poetry lovers held by, 494
wish to be a novelist, 153
FAMILY BACKGROUND AND EARLY LIFE birth, 504
childhood relationship with siblings, 113
Harvard literary group started by Mark, 111–12
Harvard undergraduate education, 1, 110, 111–12
high school, 111
parents’ background, 112–13
MARRIAGE TO ADAMS, 1, 504 Adams on the marriage, 225, 494
Adams’s analysis sessions, 156–57, 159, 175
Adams’s divorce considerations, 2, 202, 203
Adams’s divorce decision and filing, 2, 202, 203, 204, 205–6, 293, 311, 474, 505
Adams’s jobs at Stanford, 154
Adams’s loneliness in marriage, 129, 181
Adams’s reasons for marrying Linenthal, 118–20, 225
Adams’s relationship with her in-laws, 149
Agatha and Nic Adams’s visit, 158–59
Billy Abrahams’s friendship, 150, 151–52, 155, 176
Brattle Street, Cambridge, apartment, 121
Cynthia Scott on marital relationship, 176–77
disagreement over Linenthal’s thesis, 178–79
discontent as wife without status in her husband’s world, 154, 185
discussion about having children, 154
as doting parent, 170, 173, 175, 177
early relationship period, 115, 117, 118
first meeting with Adams, 110, 112
Frank Granat on marriage relationship, 155–56
Herbert Blau on marriage, 153
Mailers’ friendship in Paris, 133–37, 139, 141
Mailers’ later visits, 149, 157–58, 168, 231
move to larger house for new baby, 168–69
Nic and Dotsie Adams’s wedding attendance, 187
Palo Alto life, 150–51, 154–55, 176–77
Paris sojourn, 123, 130–39, 142–47, 182
photo from 1950s, 185n
Presidio Heights, San Francisco, apartment, 180–81, 192
recognition of need for change, 192, 197–99
Saul Bellow’s visit, 177–78
summer vacations, 149, 155, 166–67, 187, 188, 505
support for Adams’s writing, 159, 179
travels in France, 139–40
trip to Italy after Salzburg Seminar and, 126–29
wedding celebration in Chapel Hill, 118–19, 120–21
AS FATHER decision for psychoanalytic sessions, 237
as doting parent during first months, 170, 171, 173, 175, 177
gay son coming out to Mark, 282–83
looking forward to parenthood, 167
son as common ground in Linenthal marriage, 172–73
son’s artistic talent, 268
son’s move out of parents’ houses, after divorce, 313–14, 505
son’s reaction to impending divorce, 203–4, 206
ADAMS’S WRITING RELATED TO MARK marriage experiences in Families and Survivors, 112n, 119, 121, 204–5
Paris sojourn in “The Impersonators,” 137–38, 140–42, 136
Paris sojourn in “Winter Rain,” 130, 131–32, 136, 182
Salzburg Seminars setting for “Related Histories,” 125–26, 126–27
Superior Women, 137, 146
Linenthal, Mark Sr. (father-in-law), 113, 122, 149, 159, 175, 187, 314
Linenthal, Michael (brother-in-law), 113, 118, 119, 282, 283, 314
Linenthal, Peter (son) Families and Survivors and, 181n, 206, 274, 281
physical appearance of, 170, 188, 237, 249, 273, 381, 475
CHILDHOOD Adams seen as parent with Peter by others, 177, 237
Adams’s concerns about inheriting “craziness” of parents’ families, 171
adolescent crisis of feelings of something wrong, 237–38
artistic and creative abilities, 238, 248–49, 255, 268, 269
birth, 170, 504
Christmas celebration with Adams grandparents, 215
Clay Street apartment with mother and cats, 209, 237, 253, 268, 391
as common ground in Linenthal marriage, 172–73
doting parents during first months, 170, 171, 173, 175
father’s marriage to Frances Pain, 221, 222, 237, 238, 266, 313
grade school at Town School, 182, 187, 188, 204n, 206, 237, 238, 505
grandfather Nic’s wedding attended with father, 187
high school attendance, 248–49, 267
Human Be-In attendance, 266–67, 505
jokes with mother about favorite teacher, 182
marijuana use, 270
meeting Saul Bellow with mother, 178
Mexican trip with parents, 188, 505
military draft concerns, 268–69
mother’s affair with Vasco Pereira, 212, 213, 214, 215, 220
mother’s writing during his childhood, 182, 209, 244, 263
“Night Fears” story and, 197
parents’ divorce, 186, 192, 203–4, 206, 228, 312
parents’ looking forward to parenthood, 167–68
parents’ political activities, 176
picnics with mother, 181
psychoanalytic sessions, 237
psychological analysis of preschool drawings, 181
reaction to finding mother’s diaphragm, 210
relationship with father, 173, 177, 197, 237
relati
onship with step-grandmother Dotsie, 187, 193
seen by others as a “difficult child,” 177
summer European trip with Stephen Brown, 267–68
summer vacations with mother, 200, 204
surgery for pyloric stenosis, 170
visit to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with mother, 2, 193, 505
visit to a painter’s loft, 232
weekend visits to father’s boat residence, 204
ADULT LIFE children’s book illustration, 457, 480
deepening acceptance of Peter’s gay life by Adams, 398
drug experimentation, 273
gay coming out to parents, 282–83
gay or lesbian characters in mother’s fiction and, 398
library of Adams’s books in Potrero Hill house attic, 315, 497
McNie family relationships, 315, 316
memorial celebration for Adams, 493–95, 496
Mexican trip with Adams and Phil, 483
mother’s arthroscopic surgery, 486
mother’s illness and death, 488–89, 491, 492
mother’s sinus tumor treatment, 450, 451, 453, 454, 455, 456
mother’s will and selling of her house, 496–97
mother’s writing process shared with Peter, 285, 312, 457
move out of parents’ houses, 313–14, 505
moving out of mother’s daily life, 281
New York memorial gathering for Adams, 497, 498
occasional girlfriends, 283, 394–95
Phil Anasovich’s friendship and marriage, 396–98, 429, 491, 508
Point Reyes and Chapel Hill burials of mother’s cremated remains, 497, 499, 500
political protest participation, 353
Potrero Hill house purchase, 314, 315
publication party for Adams, 381
Radcliffe symposium with Adams, 479
relationship with gay uncle Michael, 282, 283, 314
relationship with Phillip Galgiani, 283, 394
Robbie McNie friendship, 268, 270, 273
San Francisco Art Institute attendance, 269, 273, 281, 292, 505
San Francisco gay life and AIDS, 395, 396
sculptures and paintings made by Peter, 392, 397, 430–31
seventieth birthday party for Adams, 475
sexual experimentation, 273–74
shared house with friends on Van Ness, San Francisco, 273, 274, 282
sorting possessions in grandfather’s Chapel Hill house, 343
sureness about gay identity, 395
travels in Spain, 281
uncle Michael’s death and inheritance, 314
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