as window on culture of young for Adams, 273
RELATIONSHIPS WITH MOTHER’S LOVERS Bob McNie, 253, 255, 268, 280, 392, 394, 395, 410, 417, 418, 429, 434, 446, 449, 494–95, 497n
Dan Simon, 440, 455, 495
dislike of Vasco Pereira, 215, 220
Felix Rosenthal, 230
Franz Sommerfeld, 227
Max Steele, 197, 198, 208, 242, 343
on meeting men Adams dated, 215, 228
Norman Mailer, 170
Lish, Gordon, 326–27, 362
Listening to Billie (novel), 106 plot and themes of, 284–85, 327
publication of, 327, 329, 337, 506
reactions to, 329–31
real-life inspirations for, 117, 170n, 239, 250, 266, 284–86, 288, 291–92, 315
writing of, 283–84, 288, 305, 322, 326
Little, Brown publishers, 242
Loma Linda University Medical Center, California, 454–55
London, Jack, 151
Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe), 22, 50, 65
Looney, Maureen, 283, 284, 286–87, 537n
Lopate, Phillip, 471–72
Los Angeles Times, 329–30, 449, 492
“Lost Luggage” (story), 321, 338–39, 345
“Love and Work” (story), 438–39
Love Out of Season (Leffland), 307
Lowry, Beverly, 399–400, 411, 416, 421, 449, 494
Lowry, Glenn, 399, 482
Lubell-Naiman, Adeline, 91, 93, 109n
Lurie, Alison, 378, 442 later friendship with, 309–10, 318, 335, 365, 387, 390, 438, 439, 457, 482, 483, 484
Radcliffe enrollment with, 89, 92, 94, 106, 378
Lying Low (Johnson), 307, 335
Lynn, Kenneth, 122, 127–28, 135, 138, 139, 141, 145, 149–50, 159, 166, 170, 171, 172, 173n, 175, 178
Lyon, Fred, 255, 256
“Mac” (boyfriend), 73–74, 76, 77
Mac (pet dog), 44, 47
Macmillan, Dougald, 29, 36, 60, 61, 247
MacMillan, Josephine, 29, 43–44, 374
Macmillan, Robert, 29, 47, 48, 60, 61, 73, 482, 483
Maddox, Brenda, 56
Madison, James and Dolly, 10
Maher, Jack, 91, 100n
Mailer, Adele Morales, 168, 220
Mailer, Barbara, 91–92, 100n
Mailer, Beatrice “Bea” Silverman, 91, 133, 134–35, 136, 144, 145, 148, 157, 168, 384n, 504
Mailer, Norman, 91, 143, 148, 152, 153, 168, 206n, 243, 267, 294, 366, 378, 403, 507 Adams’s relationship with, 1, 135–37, 139, 144, 153, 157–58, 159, 160, 162, 166, 168, 178, 220, 221, 235, 236, 245, 246, 279–81, 504
Barbary Shore publication and, 168
first meeting with, 133–34
Linenthal’s Harvard literary group with, 111–12
The Naked and the Dead publication and, 143–45, 149, 504
Paris stay of, 133–37, 139, 141, 143–45
Superior Women character based on, 384
Malamud, Bernard, 290
Malaquais, Jean, 144–45, 152
Maltz, Albert, 157
Mangum, Bryant, 86, 305n, 375, 379, 401–2, 500
Mann, Thomas, 282
Manso, Peter, 136, 144, 152, 158n, 280
Martin, Peter D., 185–86
Marx, Karl, 157
Massey, Scott, 434, 488, 492
Matson, Peter, 246n, 249, 261–62, 279, 288, 291
Matthiessen, F. O., 88, 93, 527n
Maxwell, William, 202, 328
McBride, Diana, 127
McCall’s magazine, 74, 506
McCarthy, Eugene, 267
McCarthy, Mary, 52, 82–83, 181, 215, 385, 473
McClamroch, Sandy, 42
McCorkle, Jill, 500
McCullers, Carson, 215, 294
McDermott, Alice, 423
McFadden, Cyra, 466
McFarland, Dennis, 368, 460, 479
McGovern, George, 291
McIntosh, McKee & Dodds, 237
McMullan, James Baugham “Jim,” 64, 73, 77, 114
McNie, Deen, 252, 254, 256–57, 316, 449
McNie, Jesse Kyle, 315, 317
McNie, Joch Allis “Winky,” 255, 257, 269, 273, 316, 317, 506
McNie, Morissa, 257, 317, 497n Adams’s relationship with, 275, 293, 314, 315, 418–19
father Bob McNie and, 255, 256, 276, 420, 421, 447, 448, 449
Listening to Billie character and, 315
Peter Linenthal and, 314–16, 497n
McNie, Robert Kendall “Bob,” 251–52 bisexuality of, 292n, 446–47, 448–49
death of, 448, 497n
gay men attracted to, 338
health problems and surgeries of, 410, 411, 412, 415, 418, 419–21
interior design business of, 251, 253, 255, 256, 257, 258, 266, 292, 293, 322, 350, 351, 359–60, 363, 446, 481
Norman Mailer’s attack on, 279–80, 281
Peter Linenthal and, 395, 417, 420, 434, 494, 496
physical appearance of, 252, 256, 258, 277, 280, 309–10, 316, 328, 331, 403, 420, 475, 494–95
psychiatric hospital stay of, 419–20
severe depression of, 359–60, 363, 410, 412, 414, 415, 417, 418–21, 484
FAMILY BACKGROUND AND MARRIAGE, 256–57 children, 257, 268, 269–70, 273, 314–15, 316–17, 418–19
divorce from wife, 251, 252, 253, 254, 257
grandchildren, 314–15, 418, 419
RELATIONSHIP WITH ADAMS, 240, 252–58, 265–66, 292, 305, 321, 331, 341, 353, 358, 366, 375–76, 377, 382, 390, 420, 468, 475 Adams on McNie, 251–52, 253, 254, 255–56, 259, 321, 331, 375–76, 416–17
Adams’s decision to break with McNie, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422
Adams’s desire for independence, 377, 394, 404, 417, 418, 429
Adams’s notebook entries on McNie, 4, 251–52, 254, 257, 292n, 415, 417, 421, 422–23, 429, 431, 439
birthday celebrations for Adams, 249, 251, 321, 403–4, 506
clothing recommendations for Adams, 255, 265, 331, 437
Diane Johnson on McNie, 421–22
drinking and alcoholism, 253, 319, 417, 320, 348, 358, 359, 369, 370, 393, 394, 404, 410, 413, 417, 419
enthusiasm and support for Adams’s writing projects, 265, 292, 302, 310–11, 345, 349, 381, 412
extramarital affairs, 421n, 447
fiction based on experiences with McNie, 253, 258–59, 292, 293–94, 319, 320, 322, 376, 377, 415, 425, 428, 431, 434, 435, 438, 440, 441, 443–44, 446, 457, 475, 486
fights with Adams, 393, 394, 404
financial difficulties of McNie, 359–60, 393, 410–11, 412
first meeting with Adams, 251–52, 331
growing discontent over Adams’s success, 369, 393, 404
Judith Adams on McNie, 240
living with Adams in 3904 Clay Street apartment, 254–55, 268, 350, 359, 390
marijuana use with Adams, 273
new house (2661 Clay Street) purchase with Adams and redecoration, 390, 391–92, 393, 410–11, 434, 465, 496–97
Nic Adams’s death’s impact on Adams, 276, 277, 278, 342
People magazine profile of Adams and McNie, 331, 506
reason for not marrying Adams, 256, 331, 420
social events with Adams, 277–78, 286, 287, 308, 309–10, 316, 327–28, 338, 345, 346, 354, 358–59, 368, 369–70, 382, 403, 417
Truckee River house, 257, 258–59, 287, 292, 306, 350, 354, 359, 417, 420
vacations with Adams, 272, 289, 290–91, 293, 327, 333, 338, 345, 346, 354, 356, 360, 364, 376, 377, 379, 390, 410, 413, 438, 445n
LIFE AFTER BREAK WITH ALICE Adams’s feelings toward McNie, after break, 423, 424, 427, 429, 431, 439–40, 441, 477
attendance at memorial celebration for Adams, 494–95
daughter Morissa’s supervision of McNie, 419–20, 421
Elaine Badgley Arnoux relationship, 421n, 447–48, 449
house with Linda Hogan, 448, 496–97
living alone in Webster Street apartment, 420, 446–47
visit wi
th Adams after her surgery, 454
McNie, Robert Kyle II “Robbie,” 257, 425, 497n Adams’s relationship with, 255, 268, 275, 317, 365n, 420
father Bob McNie and, 255, 280n, 316, 419, 420, 449
Golden Gate Bridge climb by, 269–70, 537n
Peter Linenthal and, 268, 270, 273, 497n
McPherson, James Alan, 290
Medicine Men (novel), 452, 480 plot and themes of, 464–65, 467
publication of, 507
reactions to, 465–67, 486
real-life inspirations for, 454, 464–65
Mehta, Sonny, 411
Meigs, Mary, 180
Mencken, H. L., 21
Mendelsohn, Erich, 229
Mendelson, Edward, 173
Mexico Agatha Adams’s travel journal on, 56, 58
Alice Adams’s love of, 56
Almost Perfect setting in, 445–46
Careless Love setting in, 217
“Elizabeth” setting in, 348
Nic and Agatha Adams’s trips to, 55–58
Mexico: Some Travels and Some Travelers There (nonfiction), 356, 429, 431, 437–38, 507
Michaels, Leonard, 289, 335–36, 428, 435, 494, 494n
Middlebrook, Diane, 428
Miller, Arthur, 137
Miller, Blanton, 182–84
Miller, Henry, 186
Minsky, Margaret, 499
Modern Language Association, 158
Moffatt, Frances, 280
“Molly’s Dog” (story), 400
Moore, Lorrie, 236
Moore, Sara Jane, 389
“Mothering” (unpublished novel), 162–63, 257, 260–61, 279, 294
Mother Jones magazine, 388, 390, 403–5
Mount Airy plantation house, Virginia, 10–12
Mount McKinley State Park, 360
Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco, 415, 417, 419, 465, 487–88
Mrs. Munck (Leffland), 307
Ms. magazine, 295, 330, 383
Mufson, Phyllis, 282n
Mukherjee, Bharati, 434
Munford, Emma Tayloe (grandmother), 10, 12
Munford, Thomas T. (great-grandfather), 12, 519n
Munro, Alice, 265, 333, 361, 362n, 435, 442
Murao, Shigeyoshi, 186
Murdoch, Iris, 261, 400, 445n
Murray, John, 176, 308–10, 352, 429, 472, 493
Mussolini, Benito, 55, 56, 228–39
“My First and Only House” (essay), 24, 35, 46–47, 349–50, 379
Naiman, Adeline, 91, 93, 109n
Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer), 133, 136, 143–45, 149, 158, 166, 383, 504
National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) award, 318, 506
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fiction awards, 379, 387, 506
Native Son (Wright), 25
“Natural Woman, A” (essay), 436–37
Nemerov, Howard, 150, 324
Nesbit, Lynn, 318, 323, 325, 337, 343–44, 363–64, 372, 378, 411, 427, 506
New Yorker magazine, 99, 145, 161, 306, 327–28, 352, 357, 375, 385, 411, 425, 435, 436, 473 Adams’s stories in, 108, 264–65, 270–71, 286, 288, 289, 302, 319, 337, 340, 349, 361, 362, 365, 370, 371, 442, 469, 476, 482, 505
Adams’s submissions to, 136, 262, 276n, 279, 302, 331, 361, 436, 476n, 479
first-look (first-reading) contracts at, 331, 436, 476n
Shawn’s ouster from, 409–10, 507
Nicaragua, 387–88
“Nice Girl, The” (story), 69, 70, 71, 72–73, 74
Nichols, Luther, 225, 308
Nick, John, 103
“Night Fears” (unpublished story), 197
Nixon, Richard, 176, 202, 215, 267, 291, 306, 364, 386, 506
Norma Jean the Termite Queen (Ballantyne), 307
North America (Trollope), 11
North Carolina: The WPA Guide to the Old North State, 26
Oakes, Nancy, 273
Oates, Joyce Carol, 185, 289, 304, 336, 361–62, 399n, 400, 433, 435, 507
O’Brien, Edna, 328
O’Brien, Tim, 387
O’Connor, Flannery, 294, 366
O’Connor, Frank, 478
O’Flaherty, Liam, 135
Of Woman Born (Rich), 164
Ogle, Benjamin, 11
O’Grady, Patty, 258
O’Hara, John, 150, 215
O. Henry Awards, 289, 290, 302, 337, 362, 400, 505, 506
O. Henry Prize Stories, The (anthologies), 225, 289–90, 302, 327, 362
O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement, 362, 362n, 506, 507
“Old Love Affairs” (story), 439, 476, 477
Ontario Review, 400
“On Turning Fifty” (essay), 249, 321
“Opened Heart, An” (unpublished story), 288
Ott, Phyllis Silverman, 91, 134, 136
Ozick, Cynthia, 248, 328, 442, 459
Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, 283, 288, 465
Pain, Duncan, 221, 248
Pain, Frances Jaffer, 221–22, 237, 238, 266, 313
Pain, Lincoln, 269, 312, 313, 221
Pain, Louis, 238, 248
Pain brothers, 268, 270
“Pale and Perfectly Oval Moon, A” (story), 292, 337
Paley, Grace, 294, 330, 353, 400, 442
Palo Alto, California as setting for novel, 176
Paris Review, 144–45, 194, 224, 241, 479, 482, 499
Park, David, 232
Parker, Charlie, 101
Parker, Dorothy, 143, 157
Parmenter, Derek, 457–59, 477, 483, 489, 494, 497, 508
“Partial Truths: Why I Left Home” (unpublished essay), 223, 225, 483
Partisan Review, 276n
Pastrick, Marie, 387–89
Paul Green of Chapel Hill (Agatha Adams), 462
Peacock, Mary Ellen, 308
People magazine, 182n, 222, 331, 506
Pereira, Vasco, 211–12, 425, 503, 507, 533n Adams’s relationship with, 211, 212–18, 219–20, 223, 224, 227, 233–34, 252, 317, 342n, 376–77, 381, 391, 416n, 423, 471, 477, 503
Careless Love character and, 211, 214, 215, 216–17, 218, 224, 533n
later career of, 218–19, 328n, 376, 379, 380–81
“Sintra” short story and, 213–14, 219, 376, 377, 380, 381, 545n
Pereira, Vera Futscher, 211, 212, 533n
Perlman, Anne and David, 306
Piercy, Marge, 312
Playboy magazine, 26
Plimpton, George, 145, 194, 224, 482
Ploughshares magazine, 461
Pocket Books publishers, 330
Poetry Center San Francisco State University, 185, 187, 222, 268
Poirier, Richard, 43n, 225, 237, 245n, 289, 352, 363, 367, 418, 429, 478, 486, 497
Pollak, Louis, 112
Porter, Katherine Anne, 99, 215, 294
Portrait of a Lady, The (James), 4, 142, 227, 372, 376
Potrero Hill Archives Project, 315
Prentice Hall publishers, 437
Prohibition, 27, 37
Publishers Weekly, 307, 465
Quair magazine, 80, 84
Quart, Barbara, 383
Quest/78 magazine, 329
Quinn, Alice, 345, 476n
Rabin, David, 422
Radcliffe College, 111, 161, 172, 402 Adams at, 1, 86, 88–95, 99, 105, 108–9, 110, 113–14, 196, 263, 403, 504
decision to attend, 85, 88
fiftieth class reunion speech at, 478–80
friendships at, 91–92, 133, 143, 240, 309, 318, 378
romantic relationships at, 108–9
Superior Women setting and, 372–73, 386
World War II and, 85, 88–89, 92–93, 105, 110
“Radiant Ghost” (poem), 500
Raleigh News and Observer, 57
Rand, Ayn, 363
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, 12–13, 22, 54, 95, 114, 160–61, 163, 302
Random House publishers, 242
Raney, William, 136, 143, 159, 166–68
Rascoe, Judith, 290, 309, 3
92, 449, 494, 497
Ravid, Joyce, 457
Reagan, Ronald, 273, 348, 373, 384, 387, 388, 389, 425, 433, 506
Redbook magazine, 74n, 180, 261, 262, 279, 295, 303, 304, 305n, 328, 333, 436, 479
Reed College, 172, 173n, 175, 438, 504
Rehder, Jessie, 163, 195, 210
“Related Histories” (story), 125–27
“Return Trips” (story), 24, 35, 60–61, 64, 227, 314n, 375n
Return Trips (story collection), 398–99, 507
Revolutionary Road (Yates), 332
Revolutionary War, 16
Rice, Jacqueline Miller, 236
Rich, Adrienne, 164, 325
Richmond News Leader, 365
Rich Rewards (novel), 402 gay and lesbian characters in, 398
plot and themes of, 350–52
publication of, 343–45, 353, 506
reactions to, 352, 360, 366, 370, 402
real-life inspirations for, 31, 322n, 341, 344, 350, 351, 352, 354, 358
writing of, 343, 352
Rinehart publishers, 134, 136, 159
Ritter, George, 138
Rocca, Christy, 494
Rodell, Marie Fried, 201–202, 235
Rodriguez, Richard, 395, 396, 438
Roetter, Friedrich, 75–76
Roetter, Jean Salter, 70, 75–77, 83, 91, 109
Roetter, Jurgen, 76n, 91
“Room Alone, A” (unpublished story), 108n, 115
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 37, 55, 75, 105, 152
Rosenman, Ray, 422
Rosenthal, Felix, 225, 228–29, 231, 234, 252, 468–69
“Roses, Rhododendron” (story), 4, 35, 38, 48, 53–54, 272, 301–3, 323, 385, 506, 507
Rowlands, Penelope, 424, 432, 470, 477, 488, 492, 493
Rubin, Jerry, 266
Rubin, Merle, 457
Rubin, Stephen, 463
Rumors of Peace (Leffland), 307
Rush, Charles, 162
Russell, Avery, 42, 43, 98
Russell, Caro Mae Green, 42, 462
Russell, John, 403
Russell, Phillips, 22, 42, 97–98, 260, 263, 462
Russell, Sandra, 427–28, 453
Sage, Lorna, 149
Said, Edward, 467
St. Catherine’s School, Richmond, Virginia, 121, 504 Adams at, 78–80, 81, 83, 84–85
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