“Dora” (SB; monologue)
Dorfman, Allen
Dos Passos, John, 4.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2; Manhattan Transfer, 11.3; U.S.A., 11.4
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: SB writes on, itr.1; and Bely’s Petersburg, 1.1; influence on SB, 1.2; on Russian emotionalism, 1.3; discussed at University of Chicago, 5.1; and Partisan Review writers, 6.1; “The Double” (story), 1.4; “The Eternal Husband” (story), 1.5; The Idiot, nts.1; Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (Le Bourgeois de Paris), 9.1
Doubillon, Annie
Douglas, Paul
Doutiné, Heike
Drabble, Margaret
Drackert, Harry and Joan, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Dreiser, Theodore, 4.1, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2, nts.1; Jennie Gerhardt, 4.2; Sister Carrie, 4.3
Druya, Latvia/Belarus, 1.1, 3.1
Dupee, F. W. (Fred), 7.1, 292, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, nts.1
Durkheim, Emile
Dvinsk (Daugavpils), 1.1, nts.1
Dworkin, Abraham (Louis’s father)
Dworkin, Jack (Louis’s brother): depicted as “Five Properties,” 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Dworkin, Louis: attends Abraham-Lescha wedding, 1.1; and Abraham’s move to Chicago, 3.1, 3.2; background and business, 3.3; helps Abraham’s new business, 4.1; on Berel, nts.1; marriage, nts.2
Dworkin, Rose, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2
Dworkin, Susan, 14.1, 14.2
“Eagle, The” (SB; Augie extract)
Eakin, Jane
Early Morning (Russian newspaper),
Eastland, Sen. James
Eastman, Max
Echanges (magazine), nts.1
Echeles, Louis
Edel, Leon, 10.1, 11.1
Edelman, Alvin
Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor)
“Einhorns, The” (SB: Augie extract), nts.1
Einstein, Albert, 10.1, nts.1
Eisenhower, Dwight D., itr.1, 9.1, 12.1, 14.1
Eliade, Mircea
Eliot, T. S.: as modernist, 7.1; in London, 9.1; Schwartz on, 10.1; Berryman quotes, 12.1; supports Pound, 12.2; on death of the novel, 12.3, 12.4; “Burnt Norton,” 13.1; The Confidential Clerk, 11.1, nts.1; The Idea of a Christian Society, 4.1; “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”: Yiddish parody, 5.1
Elkin, Stanley
Elledge, Scott
Elliot, William Y.
Ellis, Albert
Ellison, Fanny, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Ellison, Ralph: as Volkening author, 8.1; at Princeton, 10.1; fracas over Elizabeth Schwartz (née Pollet), 10.2; and SB in Nevada, 12.1; and SB’s home in Tivoli, 12.2; on pseudo-Negro dialect, 12.3; teaches at Bard and occupies Tivoli house, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3; and SB’s return to Chicago, 12.5; and Sasha, 13.4; criticizes Trilling, 13.5; on SB’s mental needs, 13.6; and The Noble Savage magazine, 13.7; and breakdown of SB-Sasha marriage, 13.8; letter from SB in Europe, 13.9; and SB’s return from East European tour, 13.10; pet dog, 13.11; SB’s relations with, 13.12; social life at Tivoli, 13.13; letters from SB in Puerto Rico, 14.1; University of Chicago post, 14.2; leaves Tivoli, 14.3; The Invisible Man, 10.3; “Society, Morality and the Novel,” 13.14
Ellman, Richard, itr.1, 9.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, nts.1
Elster, Esther
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Encyclopaedia Britannica: SB works on Syntopicon project, 7.1, 7.2
Engel, Brenda, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Engel, Monroe: on biography of SB, itr.1; at Viking, 8.1; letter from SB in Paris, 9.1; SB reads Gold’s novel to, 9.2; and SB’s abandoning “The Crab and the Butterfly” to write Augie March, 9.3; and SB’s seeking New York apartment, 9.4; SB sends beginning of Augie March to, 10.1; on Rosenfeld’s marriage relations, 10.2; on SB’s meeting with Marianne Moore, 10.3; at Princeton, 10.4; on Riggs’s death, nts.1; on Seize the Day, nts.2
Engels, Friedrich
England: SB first visits (1949)
Epstein, Jason
Epstein, Joseph
Ernst, Ulrich (“Jimmy”)
Erskine, Albert, 8.1, nts.1n66
Ervin, Kingsley
Esquire (magazine), itr.1, 5.1, 14.1, 14.2
Etiemble, René
Europe-America Group (EAG), 9.1, 9.2
Evans, Bergen, 5.1, 5.2, 12.1
Evanston, Illinois
Evergood, Philip
“Exalted Madness, An” (SB; “Zetland” manuscript), 7.1, 7.2
Faber, Janet (née Richards)
“Facts That Put Fancy to Flight” (SB; article)
Fagin, N. Bryllion
Falstaff (Shakespeare character)
Fanon, Frantz
Farbar, “Buzz,”
Farber, Leslie
Farber, Manny
Farber, Marjorie (“Midge”), 7.1, 7.2
“Far Out” (SB; unfinished novel), 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 12.1, nts.1
Farrell, James T., 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, nts.1; Studs Lonigan (trilogy), 6.1, 11.2, 11.3; A World I Never Made, 5.3
Fast, Howard
“Father-to-Be, A” (SB; story), 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 12.2, nts.1
Faulkner, William
Fearing, Kenneth
Federal Writers’ Project
Feiffer, Jules
Ferguson, Miss (English teacher)
Fermor, Arabella (depicted in Pope’s Rape of the Lock), nts.1
Fiedler, Leslie, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, nts.1, nts.2; “Come Back to the Raft, Huck Honey,” 13.2
Field, Marshall, 3.1, 4.1
Fielding, Henry
Finland: USSR invades (1939)
Finn, Mickey
Fitzgerald, Robert
Fitzgerald, Scott, 9.1, 9.2
Fitzpatrick, Catherine
Flanner, Janet, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, nts.1
Flaubert, Gustave
Florence, Italy
Forbes, Frederick E.
Ford, Franklin
Ford Foundation, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1
Fortune (magazine), nts.1
Forvertz, Der (Yiddish newspaper), 2.1, 3.1
Foster, William Z.
Fox, Eleanor, 4.1, 163, 5.1
France: SB’s life in with family, 6.1, 9.1; anti-Semitism, 8.1; civil unrest (1948), 9.2; Dostoyevsky on, 9.3; antipathy to USA and Americans, 9.4; behavior in war, 9.5; effect of Marshall Plan on, 9.6; Jews persecuted in war, 9.7; SB’s view of, 9.8; Kaplan on American relations with, 9.9; Jews deported in war, nts.1
Frank, Joseph, 11.1, 13.1, nts.1
Frank, Marguerite (Giguitte), 11.1, 13.1
Frankfurter, Felix
Frankfurt School
Frauenfelder, Willie, 480
Frederick, John T., 5.1, 6.1
Freeman, Joseph
Freifeld, Ben, 4.1, 8.1
Freifeld, Judith, 3.1, 7.1
Freifeld, Rochelle, 7.1, 8.1, 12.1
Freifeld, Sam: and SB’s father, 1.1; uncle takes offense at character portrayal, 3.1; at Tuley, 4.1, 4.2; qualities, 4.3; in SB’s fiction, 4.4; as SB’s lawyer, 4.5, 8.1; differences with SB, 4.6; in Harris’s poem, 4.7; and SB’s application for post at Time, 4.8; introduces SB to political theory, 5.1; speaks at discussion forum, 5.2; and SB’s relations with Tarcov and Rosenfeld, 6.1; and SB’s plan to leave Chicago, 7.1; army service, 8.2; helps SB secure Minnesota post, 8.3; friendship with McClosky, 8.4; relations with SB, 8.5, 11.1; and SB’s view of Paris, 9.1; and SB’s marriage difficulties, 10.1; and Augie March, 11.2; on SB’s criticizing T. S. Eliot, 11.3; SB complains to of Anita’s financial demands, 11.4, 11.5; and SB’s near-purchase of Long Island house, 11.6; and SB’s divorce from Anita, 12.1; and SB’s relations with Sasha, 12.2; letters from SB at Pyramid Lake, 12.3; and SB’s leaving Nevada, 12.4; and SB’s decision to marry Sasha, 12.5; Sasha on, 12.6; SB’s devotion to, 12.7; visits SB at Northwestern, 12.8; SB’s friendship with, nts.1
Freifeld, Susan
Freifeld family
Frémont, John Charles
French, Patrick
“Frenc
h as Dostoyevsky Saw Them, The” (SB; foreword), 9.1, nts.1
Freud, Sigmund, 5.1, nts.1
Freuenfelder, Willie
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (Washington law firm)
Friede, Donald
Friedkin, William
Friedman, Hanna Shoshana
Friedrich, Otto
Friends of Literature (Evanston book club)
Fromm, Erich: Escape from Freedom, 6.1, 10.1
“From the Life of Augie March” (SB; extract)
Frost, Eunice
Frost, Robert: “A Drumlin Woodchuck,” nts.1
Fuchs, Daniel, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, nts.1
Fulbright, Sen. James William
Furtwängler, Wilhelm
Fyodorov, Nikolai
Gaffield Place, Evanston
Gajdusek, D. Carleton
Galena, Illinois
Gallo, Louis, 11.1, 14.1
Gameroff, Lena (SB’s cousin)
Gameroff, Louis (SB’s cousin)
Gameroff, Marvin (Rosa and Max’s grandson)
Gameroff, Max (Mikhail; Rosa’s husband): in Canada, 2.1; background and career, 2.2; in SB’s fiction, 2.3, 2.4; reads Yiddish papers in Montreal, 2.5; SB visits in Georgia, 6.1
Gameroff, Meyer (SB’s cousin)
Gameroff, Rosa (earlier Raisa; Abraham’s sister): in Canada, 2.1; qualities, 2.2, 2.3; in SB’s fiction, 2.4
Gameroff, Shmuel David (SB’s cousin), 2.1, 4.1
Gameroff family: life in Montreal, 2.1; portrayed in “The Old System,” 4.1; SB visits (1934), 5.1
García Lorca, Francisco
Garland, Charles
Garrie, Helen
Geist, Eileen, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1
Geist, Stanley, 9.1, 13.1
Genet, Jean, 9.1, 9.2
George III, King of Great Britain
Germantown, Columbia County, New York, 12.1, 12.2
Germany: rearms
Gershenhorn, Jerry
GI Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, 1944), 8.1
Gide, André, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3; The Caves of the Vatican, 9.4
Gill, Brendan
Giménez Caballero, Ernesto
Ginsberg, Allen, 10.1, 12.1
Ginsburg, Harvey, n2
Glassman, Dolores
Glassman, Dr. Frank, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Glassman, Philip
Glassman, Susan, see Bellow, Susan
Glazer, Nathan
Glickes, Erwin
Glotzer, Albert, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Glotzer, Fred, 4.1, 5.1
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goetz, John, itr.1, 13.1
Gold, Edith, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Gold, Herbert, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3nn81, 3.1
Gold, Mike
Goldberg, Sam, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1
Goldenweiser, Alexander, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Golffing, Francis
“Gonzaga Manuscripts, The” (SB; story), 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, nts.1
Goodheart, Eugene
Goodman, Paul, 5.1, 6.1, 10.1, nts.1
Gordin, Mikhail
Gordin, Moses (earlier Imenitov; SB’s maternal grandfather), 1.1, 1.2, nts.1nn17, itr.1, itr.2, nts.2
Gordin, Moshe (Moses Gordin’s grandson), 1.1, 13.1; “Memories,” nts.1
Gordin, Nahum (Nota, Notkam; SB’s uncle): background, 1.1; birth, 1.2; property confiscated by Bolsheviks, 1.3
Gordin, Robert (earlier Rafael; SB’s uncle), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Gordin, Sara (née Gurevich; SB’s maternal grandmother), 1.1, nts.1
Gordon, Caroline
Gorer, Geoffrey
Gorkin, Julián: Murder in Mexico (with Leandro A. Salazar)
Gorky, Maxim
Gorrell, Robert M.
Goshkin, Catherine, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2
Goshkin, Ida, 6.1, 6.2
Goshkin, Jack (JJ), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, nts.1
Goshkin, Jack, Jr.
Goshkin, Max, 6.1, 6.2
Goshkin, Morris
Goshkin, Sonia, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1
Gottlieb, Adolph
Gould, Nathan (né Goldstein; Nate), 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, nts.1, nts.2
Gould, Yetta (later Shachtman; née Barshevsky), 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, nts.1
Gower, Charlotte
Graham, Pauline
Grant, Ulysses S.
Gray, Sir Henry
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (film), nts.1
Great Ideas Today, The (Encyclopaedia Britannica publication), 12.1, 14.1
Great Jewish Short Stories (ed. SB), 1.1, 9.1
Greenberg, Clement: on World War II, 6.1; lends Dangling Man to Kaplan, 6.2; SB’s relations with, 7.1, 7.2; criticizes Rahv for denigrating friends, 7.3; Kazin on, 7.4; on modernist American painting, 7.5; leaves Partisan Review, 7.6; in Paris, 9.1; and Podhoretz’s review of Augie March, 11.1; self-praise, nts.1; “Avant-garde and Kitsch,” 7.7; “Towards a Newer Laocoön,” 7.8
Greenberg, Eliezer (Lazer)
Greenberg, Willie, in Montreal, 2.1, 2.2, nts.1
Greengus, Lesha (née Bellows; Sam’s daughter): on SB’s first wife Anita, 1.1; and Abraham’s wedding, 1.2; and Abraham’s escape from Russia, 1.3; on family retelling stories, 1.4; on Maury’s character, 3.1; on family catchphrase of SB’s, 3.2; on family business, 4.1; on
Abraham’s rudimentary English, 4.1; on Sam’s career, 4.2, 4.3; on Abraham’s religious discussions, 4.4; on Jane, 4.5; on harshness of family language, 4.6; on Maury as mother’s favorite, 6.1; on Dangling Man, 6.2; on Abraham’s dietary rules, 8.1; on family losses in Holocaust, nts.1
Greengus, Sam
Greenwich Village, New York: bohemian life, 7.1, nts.1
Grene, David, 14.1, nts.1
Grenfell, Sir Wilfred
Griffin, The (magazine), 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Grisky, Helen
Gropper, William
Guatemala, 8.1, 8.2
Guggenheim, Pegeen
Guggenheim Foundation: declines SB’s application for fellowship, 7.1; SB reapplies for fellowship, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, nts.1; SB wins fellowship, 8.3, 8.4; SB hopes for renewal of fellowship, 9.1, nts.2; SB awarded second fellowship, 12.1; Rosenfeld fails to gain second fellowship, 12.2; SB recommends authors to, 12.3
Guilloux, Louis, 9.1, 10.1
Guinzburg, Harold, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, nts.1
Hadda, Janet
Haffenden, John
Hal, Prince (Shakespeare character; Prince Henry, later King Henry V)
Halper, Albert
Halperin, Irving, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1
Harding, Warren
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 7.1, 8.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2
Hare, Steve
Harper, Allanah
Harper, Gordon Lloyd
Harper (publisher): publishes Him with His Foot in His Mouth, 12.1
Harper’s Bazaar (magazine), 6.1, 11.1, 11.2
Harrington, Michael
Harris, Jack (né Herscovitz), 5.1, 5.2
Harris, Mark, 13.1; Saul Bellow: Drumlin Woodchuck, itr.1, itr.2, 11.1, nts.1
Harris, Sydney J.: reads Schopenhauer, 4.1; friendship with SB, 4.2, 5.1; career, 4.3; writing, 4.4, 4.5; home life, 4.6; takes juvenile novel to New York, 4.7, 5.2; and SB’s romance with Eleanor Fox, 4.8; political views, 5.3, 5.4; coedits The Beacon, 5.5; on Tuley schoolteachers, nts.1; SB’s “Memorial Speech” for, nts.2nn107, 3.1; “I Come to Bury Caesar” (poem), 4.9
Hartley Hall, Columbia University, n61
Hauser, Emil
Hauser lectures
Hayek, Frederick A., 14.1, 14.2
Hazlitt, William, itr.1, 2.1, nts.1
Hebrew language
Hecht, Anthony, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 480
Heidegger, Martin
Heine, Heinrich
Hélion, Jean, 9.1, 9.2
Heller, Clemens
“Hell It Can’t!, The” (SB; student story), 5.1, 5.2
Hellman, Lillia
n, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Hellwell, David
Helmsley, Leona
Hemingway, Ernest: SB attacks, 6.1; admires Pío Baroja, 8.1; in Paris, 9.1; and Stephen Crane, 11.1; tough talk, 12.1
Henderson the Rain King (SB): father and mother figures in, 2.1; flour mill in, 3.1; African setting, 5.1; themes, 5.2; anthropology in, 5.3; sources, 5.4; care of child in, 8.1; sumptuous rest and therapy in, 10.1; writing, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2; Pyramid Lake inspires setting, 12.5, nts.1n9; Peggy Marsh praises, 12.6; style, 12.7, 13.3; SB reads aloud, 12.8, 12.9; SB discusses with Berryman, 12.10, 12.11; fantasy Negro characters in, 12.12; complaints of household disorder, 12.13; publication and reception, 13.4, 13.5; character of Henderson, 13.6; Reichianism in, 13.7; rainmaking in, 13.8; women in, 13.9; as self-satire, 13.10; Mailer praises, 14.1; and death of Henderson’s mother, nts.2; sales, nts.3
Henle, James, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Hentoff, Mat
Herbert Berghof Group
“Herbert Sanders” (SB and Harris; juvenile novel), 4.1, 5.1
Herbst, Josephine, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
“Here and Gone” (SB; story), 2.1, 2.2, nts.1, nts.2
Hersey, John
Herskovits, Melville J., 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1, nts.1; The American Negro, 5.3; The Cattle Complex in East Africa, 5.4; The Myth of the Negro Past, 5.5
Herzer, Miss (Chicago schoolteacher)
Herzog (SB): model for Gersbach, itr.1; observation in, itr.2; character of Himmelstein, itr.3, 14.1, 14.2; and SB’s father’s education, 1.1; dacha in, 1.2; on Abraham Bellow’s escape from Russia, 1.3; and 1917 Russian revolution, 1.4, 1.5;
Herzog (SB): violence in, 1.1, 8.1, 14.1, 14.2; family emotions in, 1.2, 11.1, 12.1; repeats “Memoirs” account of family death, 1.3; Max and Rosa Gameroff portrayed in, 2.1; on family look, 2.2; extravagant behavior in, 2.3; and life in Montreal, 2.4; egg wrapped in Yiddish paper, 2.5; hospital stay in, 2.6; on melancholy faces, 2.7; mother figure in, 2.8; on Chicago flowers and trees, 3.1; reaction to family feelings, 3.2; Maury portrayed in, 3.3; Sam Bellows portrayed in, 4.1; on Nietzsche, 4.2; and SB’s mother’s death, 4.3; second marriage in, 5.1; SB’s first wife fictionalized in, 6.1; and SB’s “Juif,” 6.2; on Romanticism, 6.3; as world-changing, 7.1; Benjamin Nelson portrayed in, 8.2; family arguments in, 8.3; loving woman in, 8.4; care for child in, 8.5, 12.2; Jack Ludwig portrayed in, 11.2, 12.3, 13.1; describes SB’s father’s Chicago home, 11.3; inheritance in, 12.4; writing, 12.5, 13.2, 13.3, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7; food in, 12.6; Berryman’s influence on, 12.7; quest for thought as liberating force, 12.8; Meehl portrayed in, 13.4; Nelson portrayed in, 13.5; as self-satire, 13.6; and marriage breakdown, 13.7, 14.8, 14.9, 14.10; Rosette Lamont depicted in, 14.11; SB sends to Susan Glassman, 14.12; first chapter published in Esquire, 14.13; and author’s resolving personal problems, 14.14; on political power and high culture, 14.15; Sasha portrayed in, 14.16; descriptive style, 14.17, 14.18; character of Madeleine, 14.19, 14.20; “potato love” in, 14.21; divine image in, 14.22; success of, 14.23; sense of acceptance in, 14.24; reviewed, 14.25; Nachman character, nts.1
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