The Life of Saul Bellow
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Travels: road trip with Passin (1934), 5.1; visit to Mexico with Anita, 6.1, 6.2; sees Trotsky’s body and funeral in Mexico, 6.3, 6.4; accompanies student group to Spain, 8.1; visits Paris with McCloskys, 8.2; sails for Paris, 8.3, 9.1; life in France, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4; first visits England, 9.5; generosity to visiting writers in Paris, 9.6; flees to Spain, 9.7; visits Auschwitz, 9.8; lecturing in Salzburg, 9.9; touring in Europe, 9.10; returns to USA from Europe, 9.11; returns to Salzburg to lecture on novel (1952), 10.1; visits Nevada (Pyramid Lake) for divorce, 12.1, 12.2; leaves Nevada, 12.3
Bellow, Susan (née Glassman; SB’s third wife): portrayed in Humboldt’s Gift, itr.1; and SB’s anxieties over Herzog character, itr.2; and SB’s view of brother Maury, 3.1; in SB’s fiction, 4.1, 14.1, 14.2; relations and affair with SB, 13.1, 13.2, 14.3, 14.4; SB writes to from Puerto Rico, 14.5; appearance and background, 14.6; first meets SB, 14.7; Joan Schwartz meets, 14.8; early death, 14.9; and Rosette Lamont, 14.10; works at US Horizon, 14.11, 14.12; correspondence with SB, 14.13; visits SB in Puerto Rico, 14.14; works at Dalton School, 14.15, 14.16; marriage to SB, 14.17; and SB’s work on The Noble Savage, 14.18; invited to White House with SB, 14.19; and Kennedy at White House dinner, 14.20; pictured, 649; birth and age, nts.1
Bellows, Charlie
Bellows, Joel (Maury’s son): on grandfather, 1.1, 2.1, nts.1; father’s behavior, 3.1; illus., 117; on Abraham’s second marriage, 5.1; on Carroll Coal accident, 5.2; on SB and Anita’s home life, 6.1; meets Marcie Borok, 10.1; on breach between Maury and SB, 10.2; on father not despairing, 14.1
Bellows, Joyce (Maury’s second wife), 4.1, 10.1
Bellows, Kyle (Joel’s son)
Bellows, Marge (née Yudkoff; Maury’s first wife), 3.1, 117, 5.1, 7.1, 12.1, 14.1, nts.1
Bellows, Maury (SB’s brother): adopts name, itr.1, 4.1; beaten by father, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, nts.1; and SB’s bootlegging failure, 1.5, 2.1; temper and behavior, 1.6, 3.1; appearance, 1.7; birth, 1.8, 1.9; as street hustler in Chicago, 3.2; attends law school and works for Libonati, 3.3; influence on SB’s Americanization, 3.4, 3.5; contempt for family feelings, 3.6; moves to Florida, 3.7; business interests and career, 3.8; illegitimate son, 3.9, 10.1; portrayed in SB’s fiction, 3.10, 3.11, 14.1; eating, 3.12;
Bellows, Maury (SB’s brother): marriages, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 10.1; and women, 3.2, 10.2; on SB’s award of Nobel Prize, 3.3; death, 3.4; illus., 117; involvement in father’s coal business, 4.2, 4.3; hostility to Orthodox Jewry, 4.4; business deals with brother Sam, 4.5; disdain for sister Jane, 4.6; and SB’s refusal to betray Harris’s whereabouts, 4.7; moves to South Side, 5.2; lends money to SB, 5.3; on Carroll Coal accident, 5.4; and SB’s first marriage (to Anita), 6.1; as mother’s favorite, 6.2; stores SB’s furniture, 7.1; episode of illegitimate son in Augie March, 10.3, 10.4; separation from siblings, 10.5; breach with SB, 10.6; embarrassed by SB at father’s funeral, 11.1; Sasha disparages, 12.1; struggle with Robert (“Barny”) Baker, 12.2; threatened with lawsuit by Chicago, 12.3; claims to find SB’s books unreadable, 14.1; divorce from Marge, 14.2; gives tweed coat to SB, 14.3; driving, nts.1; and SB’s Nobel Prize money, nts.2; Marcie Borok attempts to shoot, nts.3
Bellows, Nina (née Kahn; Sam’s wife), 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 12.1, 14.1
Bellows, Samuel (Shmuel; SB’s brother): character, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2; birth, 1.2; on father’s escape to Canada, 1.3; in Montreal, 2.1; as street hustler in Chicago, 3.1; reacts against family sentiment, 3.2; attends SB’s Nobel Prize ceremony, 3.3; involvement in father’s coal business, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5; family duties, 4.6; marriage, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1; ambitions to study medicine, 4.9, 4.10; portrayed in SB’s fiction, 4.11, 4.12; business success, 4.13; Jewish orthodoxy, 4.14, 4.15; buys apartment in Jerusalem, 4.16; refuses to let wife work, 4.17; relations with sister Jane, 4.18; changes name, 4.19; and Carroll Coal accident, 5.2; and SB’s argument with father, 5.3; and illegitimate nephew, 10.1; Sasha describes, 12.1; and Larry Kauffman’s suicide, 13.1; in Florida, 14.1; as Chicago Jewish Community “Man of the Year” (1963), nts.1
Bellows, Shael
Belo, Berel (SB’s grandfather), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 3.1; death, 1.5
Belo, Jenny (Willie’s wife)
Belo, Shulamith (SB’s grandmother), 1.1, 3.1, nts.1
Belo, Willie (Elya Velvel; Abraham’s brother), 2.1, 6.1
Bely, Andrei: Petersburg, 1.1
Bender, Thomas
Bennett, Arnold: Lillian, 12.1
Bennett, Robert
Bennett, William J.
Bentley, Eric, 9.1, 11.1
Benton Harbor, Michigan
Berdyaev, Nikolai
Bergstein, Elinor
Bernal, Jorge Enjuto, 14.1, 14.2
Berryman, Ann (John’s second wife), 12.1; and SB’s view of suffering, 12.2; at Minnesota, 12.3; and SB-Sasha marriage breakdown, 13.1; divorce, 13.2; and SB’s fight with Sasha, 14.1
Berryman, Eileen, see Simpson, Eileen
Berryman, John: interview with Chambers, 7.1; friendship with Mitzi McClosky, 8.1; friendship with SB, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1; on Guggenheim Fellowship, 10.2, 10.3; Schwartz recommends for Princeton post, 10.4; Edel on, 10.5; Schwartz confesses writer’s block to, 10.6; instability and alcoholism, 10.7, 10.8, 12.4, 12.5, 13.2; at Princeton, 10.9, 10.10; approach to writing, 10.11; affair with Anita Maximilian, 10.12; threatens Podhoretz, 11.1; SB complains to of Anita, 11.2; and SB’s writing of “Memoirs of a Bootlegger’s Son,” 11.3; and SB’s divorce from Anita, 12.6; letter from SB in Tivoli, 12.7; claims not to understand Seize the Day, 12.8; and SB’s view of suffering, 12.9, 12.10; at Minnesota, 12.11, 12.12; breaks leg, 12.13; helps plan memorial meeting for Isaac Rosenfeld, 12.14; SB discusses Henderson with, 12.15, 12.16; suicide, 12.17; language, 12.18, 12.19, 13.3; literary celebrity and awards, 12.20; gives reading at University of Chicago, 12.21; portrayed in Humboldt’s Gift, 12.22; letter from SB at Northwestern, 12.23; defends Pound, 12.24; SB invites to Tivoli, 13.4; and The Noble Savage magazine, 13.5; and effect of SB’s divorce from Sasha, 13.6; “A Note on Augie,” 11.4; The Dream Songs, 12.25, 12.26, nts.1; His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, 12.27; “Homage to Mistress Bradstreet,” 10.13, 10.14; Love & Fame, 12.28; Recovery, 12.29, 12.30, 12.31
Berryman, Kate (John’s third wife)
Bessie, Simon Michael, 9.1, 11.1
Best, Marshall, 12.1, 13.1
Bettelheim, Bruno
Betty: SB’s affair with, 8.1, 8.2
Bhave, Vinoba
Bierce, Ambrose
biography: itr.1, itr.2; Naipaul on, nts.1
Birstein, Ann, see Kazin, Ann
Bitzer, Barbara
Blackmur, R. P.: portrayed in Humboldt’s Gift, itr.1; at Princeton, 10.1, 10.2; and Schwartz, 10.3, 10.4; praises SB, nts.1; “Mugging the Muse” (essay), itr.2
Blair, Walter
Blake, William, 14.1, 14.2; “The Divine Image,” nts.1; For Children: The Gates of Paradise, 13.1
Bloom, Allan: portrayed as Ravelstein, itr.1, nts.1; Love and Friendship, itr.2, nts.2
Blotner, Joseph
Blücher, Heinrich, 11.1, 11.2
Blumberg, Baruch S.
Boas, Franz, 5.1, 5.2
Bodnia, Lilian
Boehm, Mr. (Chicago schoolteacher)
Bogan, Louise
Bolingbroke (Shakespeare character), itr.1, nts.1
Bollingen Prize in Poetry (1949)
Booth, Wayne
Borgoras, Waldemar
Borok, Dean (Maury’s illegitimate son), 3.1, 10.1, 11.1
Borok, Marcia (“Marcie”)
Borok, Robert
Borushek, Grisha, 3.1, 6.1
Botsford, Annie
Botsford, Keith: and SB’s interest in gesture and looks, 2.1; and SB’s family leaving for Chicago, 2.2; and SB’s view of anthropology, 5.1; and SB’s attitude to war, 6.1, 6.2; and SB’s isolation in New York, 7.1; and SB’s view of Spain, 8.1; and SB’s view of Sartre, 9.1, 9.2; and SB at Princeton, 10.1; and SB’s social life in New York, 10.2; at Bard College, 11.1, 11.2; friendship with Ludwig, 11.3; pi
ctured, 480; plays tennis with Greg, 12.1; SB names influences to, 12.2; visits Tivoli, 12.3; SB confesses renewed marriage relations with Sasha, 13.1; and The Noble Savage, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2; and SB-Sasha marriage breakdown, 13.3; and Ludwig’s attitude to SB, 13.4; letter from SB on Ludwig and The Noble Savage, 13.5; demands Ludwig’s resignation, 13.6; appointment and salary at Puerto Rico, 14.3, 14.4; letter from SB on Staten Island, 14.5; and SB’s higher education, 14.6; and SB’s view of Chicago, nts.1; Fragments I–VI (memoirs), 14.7, nts.2; “A Half Life” (interview), nts.3, nts.4, nts.5
Bowen, Elizabeth
Brandeis, Irma, 480
Brandeis University: SB’s commencement address (1974)
Bread Loaf School of English, Vermont
Breit, Harvey, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
Breton, André
Broadwater, Bowden
Bronstein, David
Bronstein, Esther
Brooks, Cleanth, 8.1, nts.1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 10.1, 10.2
Browder, Earl
Brower, Reuben
Brown, Huntington, 8.1, 8.2
Brown, Norman O.: Life Against Death, 14.1
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Bruckner, D. J. R., itr.1, nts.1, nts.2
Bryan, William Frank
Buchenwald
Buckman, Gertrude
Bülow, Bernhard von
Burlingame, Edward
Burliuk, David
Burnett, Whit
Burnham, James, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
Burroughs, William
Burton, Sir Richard, 5.1, 7.1
Bus Stop (film),
Bye Bye Braverman (film),
Byron, George Gordon, itr.1th Baron, 7.1; Don Juan, 10.1
“By the Rock Wall” (SB; story), 6.1, 11.1
“By the St. Lawrence” (SB; story), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Caffi, Andrea
Caldwell, Erskine, 6.1; The Sure Hand of God, 8.1
California: SB visits
Campbell, Richard
Camus, Albert, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1; “Portrait of an Anti-Semite,” 8.1; “Two Chapters from ‘The Myth of Sisyphus,’ ” 8.2; The Outsider, 9.4
Canada: SB’s parents arrive in, 2.1; SB’s family leave for Chicago, 2.2; see also Lachine; Montreal
Canadian Jewish Times,
Cannon, James P., 6.1, nts.1
Capitol Coal (company)
Capone, Al, 3.1, 3.2
Capote, Truman
“Car, The” (SB; story), 6.1, 6.2
Carrier, Warren, 480
Carroll Coal Company, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, nts.1
Carter, Jimmy
Carver, Katie, 10.1, 10.2
Cary, Joyce: Except the Lord, nts.1
Case, James H., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
“Case of Love, A” (SB; abandoned novel)
Castell, Alburey, 8.1, 8.2
Caughnawaga Indians (Canada)
Cawley, Robert R.
Céline, Louis Ferdinand (pseud. of L.F. Destouches), 9.1; Les Beaux Draps, 9.2; Journey to the End of the Night, 7.1, 9.3, nts.1
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), nts.1nn, 1.1, 1.2
Century Association, New York, 8.1, 14.1, nts.1
Cerf, Bennett
Cermal, Anton (“Pushcart Tony”)
Chambers, Whittaker, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
Champion, Jack, 6.1, nts.1
Chapman, Chanler, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Chapman, John Jay
“Charm and Death” (SB; unfinished novel), itr.1, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
Cheever, John, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2
Chiaromonte, Nicola, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Chicago: SB’s knowledge of, itr.1, 3.1; SB’s student life in, 1.1; SB’s family move to, 2.1, nts.1; Dworkin’s bakery, 3.2; Humboldt Park, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1; Augusta Street, 3.7, 3.8; SB’s boyhood in, 3.9, 3.10; Jewish community, 3.11; described, 3.12; street life, 3.13, 3.14; corruption and racketeering, 3.15; North Avenue, 3.16; Public Library, 3.17, 4.3; Cortez Avenue, 3.18, 3.19; Auditorium Theatre, 3.20; manufacturing power, 3.21; the Loop, 3.22; Sherry Hotel, 3.23, nts.2, nts.3; in SB’s fiction, 3.24, 7.1, 14.1; Le Moyne Street, 4.4, 4.5, nts.4; writers in, 4.6; school funding crisis, 5.1; World’s Fair (“A Century of Progress,” 1933), 5.2, 5.3; Russian Baths, 5.4; Hannah Arendt visits, 5.5; Kimbark Avenue, 6.1; in Dangling Man, 6.2; SB leaves for New York, 7.2; as intellectual center, 7.3; SB determines to leave, 7.4; in Augie March, 10.1, 11.2; Washington Square Park (“Bughouse Square”), 11.3; Newberry Library, 11.4; Dos Passos on, 11.5; SB views as Babel, 11.6; city threatens Maury with lawsuit, 12.1; gangs and gangsters, nts.5, nts.6; newspapers, nts.7; Covenant Club, nts.8; Shoreland Hotel, nts.9
Chicago, University of: SB and Committee on Social Thought, itr.1, 14.1, 14.2; SB enrolls and studies at, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3; SB leaves for Northwestern, 5.4, 5.5; undergraduate program, 5.6; student life, 5.7; political activism, 5.8; Rosenfeld writes on, 5.9; SB returns to from Wisconsin, 5.10; research into “Negro-White relations,” 6.1; SB gives talk at, 12.1; offers post to SB as “Celebrity in Residence,” 14.3, 14.4, 14.5
“Chicago and American Culture” (SB; talk), nts.1, nts.2, nts.3, nts.4
“Chicago Book” (SB; unfinished), 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1
Chicago Sun-Times
children: in SB’s fiction
“Children of Light and Children of Darkness” (SB; projected novel)
“Closer, The” (SB; unpublished story)
Coca-Cola
Cogan, Zita (earlier Samson), 5.1, nts.1
Cohan, George M.
Cohen, Annie (Channah; Abraham’s sister), 2.1, nts.1
Cohen, Arthur A., 13.1, 14.1
Cohen, J. M.: A History of Western European Literature, 12.1
Cohen, Max (Annie’s husband), 2.1, 2.2
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: relations with Wordsworth, 4.1; and Wordsworth’s creative inspiration, 9.1; “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” 4.2, 12.1, 12.2, nts.1
Collected Stories (SB),
Colt Press (San Francisco)
Columbus Elementary School, Chicago
Commentary (magazine), 11.1, 11.2
Committee for Cultural Freedom
Communism, 5.1; repressed in USA, 5.2; and Partisan Review, 7.1; and service in Merchant Marine, 7.2; in France, 9.1; Left opposition to, 10.1
Communist League of America (CLA)
Communists: in German concentration camps
concentration camps (German)
Congress for Cultural Freedom, 9.1, 9.2, nts.1
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Connell, Evan
Connolly, Cyril, 9.1, 14.1
Connolly, Jean
Conquest, Robert
Conrad, Joseph, nts.1; Under Western Eyes, nts.2
Conroy, Jack, 6.1, 7.1
Cook, Reginald
Cookie, Aunt (Sasha’s), 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Cooper, Alfred Duff
Cooper, Russell
Council of Scholars at the Library of Congress
“Cousins” (SB; story), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, nts.1
Covici, Pascal (“Pat”): publishing in New York, 4.1; encourages young Harris, 4.2; as SB’s editor at Viking, 4.3, 10.1, 12.1; gives party for Moravia, 11.1; and Seize the Day, 12.2, 12.3; and “What the Great Writers Say about Writing the Novel,” 12.4; SB describes, 12.5; visits California, 12.6; SB recommends writers to, 12.7; and writing of Henderson, 12.8; and SB’s sessions with Meehl, 13.1; and SB’s work on The Noble Savage, 13.2; and SB’s entertaining Marilyn Monroe, 13.3; and SB’s relations with Sasha, 13.4; writes to SB in Paris, 13.5; letters from SB in Poland and Israel, 13.6; Susan Glassman meets, 14.1; Herzog dedicated to, nts.1; sends royalty check to SB, nts.2; and sales of Henderson, nts.3
Cowley, Malcolm
Cowley, Maurice
Cowling, Maurice
Cox, Mrs. (Chicago schoolteacher)
“Crab and the Butterfly, The” (SB; abandoned novel), 8.1
, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 12.1, nts.1, nts.2
Crane, Stephen, 11.1, nts.1n25
Crane Junior College, Chicago, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
Criterion (magazine),
“Croesus” (SB; prospective novella)
Cunningham, Merce
Curwood, James Oliver
Daily Northwestern (university newspaper), 5.1, 5.2
Dangling Man (SB): characters, itr.1, 6.1, 9.1, nts.1; on American unemotionalism, 1.1; on Montreal, 2.1; death of mother in, 2.2; Kafka’s influence on, 4.1; political views in, 5.1, 5.2; poverty in, 5.3; unemployment in, 6.2; writing, 6.3; as probationary piece, 6.4; qualities and themes, 6.5; as ironic, 6.6; reception, 6.7; publication, 7.1; SB complains of lack of promotion, 7.2; on Chicago, 7.3; McClosky reads, 8.1; Beach reads, 8.2; obnoxious child in, 8.3; sales, 8.4; ending, 9.2; fear of being slighted in, 10.1; style, 11.1; and Joseph’s mother’s death, nts.2
D’Annunzio, Gabriele
D’Arms, Edward (“Chet”)
Darrow, Clarence, 4.1, 5.1
Darwin, Charles
Davidson, Donald
Davis, Ezra, 3.1, 3.2, 11.1, nts.1
Davis, Mrs. (Chicago schoolteacher)
Davis, Robert Gorham
Dean’s December, The (SB): extravagance in, 2.1; mother figure in, 2.2; and SB’s relations with Freifeld, 4.1; Harris portrayed in, 4.2, 5.1; writing, 10.1; style, 11.1
“Deep Readers of the World, Beware!” (SB; article), 13.1, 13.2
De Grasse (ship), 8.1, 9.1
de Kooning, Willem
Delano, Jack
Demetriou, George, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL)
De Quincey, Thomas: Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 7.1
de Regniers, Beebee (née Schenk), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
de Regniers, Peter
Deutsch, André (publisher)
Dewey Commission (1937)
Dewey, John
Diamond, Bess and Martin
Dickens, Charles
Dilling, Elizabeth
Dillinger, John
Diogenes (magazine),
Disraeli, Benjamin
“Distracted Public, The” (SB; Romanes Lecture, 1990), 3.1, 10.1, nts.1
“Distractions of a Fiction Writer” (SB; essay), 12.1, 12.2
Dolnick, Norman
“Don Juan’s Marriage” (SB; unpublished)