The Life of Saul Bellow

by Zachary Leader

  “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