McClosky, Mildred (“Mitzi”; née Gurkin): on SB in Minnesota, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5; and SB’s marriage relations, 8.6, 8.7, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2; Paris holiday with husband and SB, 8.8; and SB’s shipboard affair, 8.9; moves to Prospect Park, Minneapolis, 8.10; on SB’s entertaining, 8.11; social life, 8.12; on Anita, 9.2; letters from SB in Paris, 9.3; lobbies for SB at Minnesota, 9.4; and SB’s life in New York (1951), 9.5; and Rosenberg’s sense of sexual inadequacy, 10.3; SB reports near-completion of Augie March, 10.4; and SB’s view of Tumin, 10.5; SB visits in Palo Alto, 12.1; and SB’s return to Minnesota, 12.2; and SB’s return to Minnesota with Ludwig, 13.1; and Sasha’s stay in Minnesota after leaving SB, 13.2; on Ludwig’s admiration for SB, 13.3; gives parties in Minnesota, 13.4; and SB’s therapy with Meehl, 13.5; on Thomes’s attraction to Sasha, 13.6; Sasha stays with, 13.7; spends year at Berkeley, 13.8; and SB’s working at Tivoli, 13.9
McCormick, John, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1
McDiarmid, E. W.
McGehee, Ed, 8.1, nts.1
McGrath, Carolyn
McKeon, Richard, 5.1, 9.1
McMahon, Tom and Penny
McWilliams, Carey
Mead, Margaret, 9.1, nts.1
Meehl, Alice
Meehl, Paul, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
“Memoirs of a Bootlegger’s Son” (SB; unfinished novel): on SB’s family’s early life in Canada, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 10.1, 11.1, nts.1; and decision to move to USA, 2.10; on misuse of household funds, 4.1; seeded by “Juif,” 6.1; SB abandons, 11.2, 12.1; SB’s father in, 11.3; writing, 11.4; leads to Seize the Day, 11.5
Mencken, H. L., 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 10.1
Menuhin, Yehudi
Mercader, Ramón
Meridian (paperback publishers), 13.1, 14.1
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 9.1, 9.2, nts.1
Merwin, W. S.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (film company)
“Mexican General, The” (SB; story), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, nts.1
Mexico: SB’s and Anita’s affairs in, 6.1, 11.1; SB visits with Anita, 6.2; in Augie March, 6.3, 6.4, 10.1, 10.2, 11.2
Meyer, Philippe, nts.1, nts.2
Michigan, Lake
Michigan, University of: Hopwood Lectures
Milano, Paolo, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1
Miller, Arthur: in New York, 11.1; on Pyramid Lake, 12.1; on Nevada divorce procedures, 12.2; on SB and Sasha at Pyramid Lake, 12.3; and Marilyn Monroe, 12.4, 12.5; visit to Nevada, 12.6; SB and Sasha dine with, 12.7; and The Noble Savage magazine, 13.1
Miller, Henry, 6.1, 13.1
Miller, Karl
Miller, Ruth: biography of SB, itr.1, 6.1; meets SB’s father, 1.1; on SB’s boyhood reading and authorship, 3.1; questioned by Abraham, 3.2; identifies SB’s real-life characters, 4.1; SB teaches, 6.2; visits SB and Anita, 6.3; consoles SB on Abraham’s death, 11.1; and SB’s Nevada divorce, 12.1, 12.2; and SB’s wedding announcement with Sasha, 12.3; and Ludwig’s affair with Sasha, 13.1; on SB’s favoring Henderson, 13.2; on Ludwigs, nts.1
Milton, John, 14.1; “Lycidas,” 12.1
mimesis
Minneapolis Sunday Trader,
Minnesota, University of: SB’s teaches at, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1; anti-Semitism, 8.3, 8.4; student numbers, 8.5; SB’s accommodation, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9; Jewish faculty members, 8.10; WASP attitudes, 8.11; SB’s personal relations at, 8.12; SB’s contract renewed, 8.13; SB’s social life in, 8.14, 13.2; SB takes year’s leave of absence, 8.15; SB revisits, 12.3; Sasha joins SB in, 13.3, 13.4; fails to renew SB’s appointment, 14.1
Missner, Vivien (née Dworkin), 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, nts.1
Mitchell, Stephen: and SB’s early devotion to Jesus
Moe, Henry Allen, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, nts.1
Mondale, Walter
Monk, Samuel Holt, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Monroe, Harriet
Monroe, Marilyn, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Montherlant, Henry de
Montreal: Abraham Bellow and family in, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2; Jewish community, 2.3; Yiddish newspapers, 2.4
Montreal Gazette,
Moore, Marianne, 10.1, 12.1
Moran, Bugs
Morante, Elsa
Moravia, Alberto, 9.1, 11.1
More Die of Heartbreak (SB): character of Benn Crader, itr.1; on biography, itr.2; on SB’s father, 1.1; on life in St. Petersburg, 1.2; on Jewish experience of exile, 1.3; exaggeration in, 2.1; character of Vilitzer, 4.1; character of Rudi, 8.1; Dr. Glassman portrayed in, 14.1; Susan Glassman portrayed in, 14.2, 14.3; on marriage, 14.4; and Benn Crader’s mother, nts.1
Mormons
Morris, George L.K., 6.1, 7.1, 292
Morris, Nathan
Morris, Wright, 8.1, 13.1
Morrison, Don
Mortimer, Raymond
“Mosby’s Memoirs” (SB; story), 6.1, 6.2, nts.1, nts.2
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
“Mozart: An Overture” (SB; speech), nts.1 nts.2
Mr. Sammler’s Planet (SB): characters, itr.1; moral behavior in, itr.2; wins National Book Award, itr.3; childhood memories in, 2.1; Arthur’s mother in, 2.2; Schopenhauer invoked in, 4.1; description of New York, 7.1; style, 11.1; writing, 12.1; Moshe Gordin portrayed in, 13.1; condemns Brown and Marcuse, 14.1
Mussolini, Benito, 5.1, 9.1
“My Paris” (SB; article), 9.1, nts.1
Nabokov, Vladimir, 1.1, nts.1
Naftalin, Arthur, 8.1, 13.1
Nagasaki: atom bombed
Naipaul, V. S., itr.1, nts.1
Nakutin, Alexander
Nathans, Benjamin
Nation, The (magazine),
National Book Award for Fiction (1954), itr.1, 11.1
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Nauvoo, Illinois
Nazis and Nazism: rise of, 5.1; persecute Jews, nts.1
Nef, John U., 7.1, 14.1, 14.2
Nelson, Benjamin, 8.1, 13.1
Nemerov, Howard
Nemerov, Margaret
Nevada: SB visits for divorce, 12.1; SB leaves clandestinely for Malibu, 12.2
New Criticism
New Dawn (journal),
New Leader, The (magazine),
New Republic, The (magazine),
Newsday (magazine),
New World Writing (anthology),
New York: SB describes in fiction, 3.1; SB visits on way to Mexico, 6.1; SB moves to, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4; SB’s intermittent visits to, 7.5, 7.6; Tenth Street, nts.1; SB seeks work and accommodation after Europe trip, 9.1; SB stays in while at Bard College, 11.1; as setting for Seize the Day, 12.1; SB’s view of, nts.2; SB disparages, nts.3
New Yorker, The (magazine): publishes Augie March extract, 3.1, 10.1, 10.2; publishes SB’s “A Father-to-Be,” 8.1; offers regular work to SB, 10.3; reviews Augie March, 11.1; declines Seize the Day, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1; reviews Seize the Day, 12.2
New York Review of Books: SB invited to contribute,
New York Times Book Review, The, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1
New York University: SB’s post at
Nicholas I, Czar of Russia
Nicholas II, Czar of Russia
Nichols, Lewis
Nichols, Mike
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 14.1, nts.1; The Birth of Tragedy, 4.2; Ecce Homo, 8.1
Nimier, Nadine, 2.1, 13.1
“9 a.m. without Work” (SB; story)
Noble Savage, The (magazine): founded, 13.1; contributors, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4; correspondence, 13.5; SB’s work with Ludwig on, 13.6, 13.7, 14.1; SB informs Susan Glassman of developments, 14.2; SB contributes to, 14.3
“Northwestern Is a Prison” (SB; article)
Northwestern University: Medical School, 4.1; SB attends, 5.1, 5.2; character, 5.3, 5.4; Department of Naval Science and Tactics, 5.5; political activities, 5.6; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 5.7; Herskovits at, 5.8; SB teaches at, 12.1, 12.2
“Nothing Succeeds” (SB; unfinished story), 9.1, nts.1
“Nothing to Declare” (
SB; story)
novel, the: SB idealizes form of, itr.1; SB lectures on, 10.1, 14.1; Covici and, 12.1; SB denies death of, 12.2, 14.2
O’Banion, Dion
O’Brien, Richard: “The Radical Politics of American Fiction,” nts.1 nts.2
O’Connor, William Van
Odessa, Russia
O’Faolain, Sean
“Old System, The” (SB; story), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1
“Olduvai” (or “Olduvai George”; SB; unfinished novel), itr.1, 5.1, 12.1
“On the Platform” (SB; lost story)
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Oregon, University of
orgone energy accumulator (orgone box)
Orgone Institute Press
Ortega y Gasset, José, 10.1, 12.1
Orwell, Sonia Brownell, 9.1, 13.1
Orwin, Clifford
Oz, Amos
Paley, Grace
Palo Alto
Paolozzi, Eduardo
Papandreou, Andreas
Paris: SB visits with McCloskys, 8.1; SB and family spend year in, 8.2, 9.1; SB’s view of, 9.2, 9.3; SB’s life and routine in, 9.4, 9.5; American writers in, 9.6
Park, Robert
Partisan Review: political stance, 5.1; and Wieboldt Hall group, 5.2; publishes SB’s “Two Morning Monologues,” 6.1, 6.2, 7.1; publishes SB’s “The Mexican General,” 6.3, 6.4; attitude to war, 6.5; qualities, 6.6, 7.2; origins and circle, 7.3; SB’s view of, 7.4, 7.5; on modernist painting, 7.6; fiction anthology, 7.7; editorial board, 292; “New French Writing” special
issue, 8.1, 9.1; SB contributes “Spanish Letter,” 8.2; Kaplan writes “Paris Letter” for, 9.2; publishes first chapter of Augie March, 9.3, 11.1; “Our Country and Our Culture” symposium, 10.1, 11.2; publishes Singer story, 11.3; publishes Seize the Day, 11.4; in controversy over Pound, 12.1; reviews Herzog, 14.1, 14.2; internal differences, nts.1; critics, nts.2
Passin, Cora (née Deboer), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Passin, Herb: and SB’s upbringing, 4.1; on Freifeld at Tuley, 4.2; political activities, 5.1; road trip with SB, 5.2; marriage to Cora, 6.1; differences with SB, 6.2; joins SB in Mexico, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6; on University of Chicago project, 6.7; sees Trotsky’s body in Mexico, 6.8; returns to Chicago, 6.9; SB discusses Erich Fromm with, 6.10; sense of identity, 8.1; at Marshall High School, nts.1; writing on Chihuahua, nts.2
Passin, Ruth (née Tarcov)
Passin, Sidney, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 10.1, nts.1
Passin, Tom, 6.1, 6.2
Patterson, Floyd
Patterson, New York
Pattridge, Nora and Pat, 12.1, 12.2
Pearl Harbor
Peck, Ferdinand
Pegler, Westbrook
Peltz, David: depicted in SB’s fiction, itr.1, 5.1; SB’s friendship with, itr.2, 5.2; on carrying coal bags, 4.1; on SB’s single-mindedness, 4.2, nts.1; on Freifeld, 4.3; on early romances, 4.4; on SB’s mother’s death, 5.3; on uncle’s discussion forum, 5.4; political views, 5.5; pulls rickshaw at World’s Fair, 5.6; background, 5.7; medical history, 5.8; qualities, 5.9; asked to escort Hannah Arendt, 5.10; and Algren, 6.1, 13.1; Sasha on, 12.1; visits SB at Northwestern, 12.2; Bruckner interviews, nts.2
Penguin Books
Peniel Community Center, Chicago
People to People (lobbying group)
Perkins, Maxwell
“Personal Record, A” (SB; review)
Perspectives U.S.A. (periodical),
Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College, Chicago, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Petsche, Maurice
Phillips, Edna
Phillips, William: cofounds and coedits Partisan Review, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 292, 10.1, 11.1; and SB’s independence, 7.3; on Agee, 7.4; political opinions, 7.5; background and character, 7.6; visits Paris, 9.1; on Chiaramonte, 9.2; in London, 9.3; meets Schwartz, 10.2; on Edmund Wilson, 10.3; entertains drunken Berryman, 11.2; and launch party for Augie March, 11.3; and SB’s playwriting, 14.1; break with SB, 14.2; regrets publishing review of Herzog, 14.3
Pifer, Ellen, 12.1, 14.1
Pinsky, Robert
Planet of the Apes (film), nts.1
Plath, Sylvia
Plato
Playboy (magazine), itr.1, 5.1
Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von
Plimpton, George
Pobedonostsev, Konstantin, 1.1, 1.2
Podhoretz, Norman, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1; Ex-Friends, 11.3; Making It, 11.4
Poetry (magazine),
Poirier, Richard: criticizes Herzog, 14.1; discusses Herzog with Ludwig, 14.2; “How Far Shall I Take This Character?,” nts.1; Stories British and American (ed. with Ludwig), 11.1
Poland: SB visits
politics (magazine), 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, nts.1
Pollock, Jackson
Pool, Ithiel de Sola
Pool, Mrs. Ithiel de Sola
Pope (English motoring writer)
Pope, Alexander
Pope, Mme
Popular Front (political), 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
Porter, Arabel J.
Portland, Oregon
Positano, Italy
Poster, Herb and Willy (né Bernstein), 7.1, 7.2
“potato love,” 14.1
Pound, Ezra, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
Powell, Anthony
Powers, J. F., 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Prall, David Wright
Prescott, Orville
Price, T. Douglas
Priestley, J. B.
Princeton University: SB’s teaching and life at, 10.1, 10.2; Schwartz’s post at, 10.3, 10.4
Prior, Moody, 5.1, 12.1
Pritchett, V. S., 1.1, 9.1
Pritzker, A. N.
Prohibition
Proust, Marcel
Pryce-Jones, Alan
Puerto Rico, University of, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2; Susan Glassman visits, 14.3
Pullman, George
Pynchon, Thomas
Pyramid Lake, Nevada, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 536
Queens School, New York
Quennell, Peter
Quiroga, Vasco de, bishop of Michoacán
racism
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Rahv, Philip (né Ivan Greenberg): manner, 1.1; on World War II, 6.1; SB meets, 6.2; supports SB’s “Very Dark Trees,” 6.3; on modern pessimism, 6.4; cofounds Partisan Review, 7.1, 7.2, 14.1; background and character, 7.3; on action painting, 7.4; pictured, 292; and SB’s “The Crab and the Butterfly,” 8.1; quarrel with Schwartz, 10.1; and Sondra Tschacbasov (Sasha), 10.2; publishes Singer story, 11.1; affectation, 11.2; on Herzog, 14.2; on Mailer’s An American Dream, 14.3; on Partisan Review critique of Herzog, 14.4; and Phillips, nts.1
“Ralph Ellison at Tivoli” (SB; article)
Rampersad, Arnold, 13.1, 14.1
Random House (publishers), 8.1, 8.2
Ransom, John Crowe
Raoul-Duval, Nadine: SB’s affair with, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Raphael, Chester, 10.1, 14.1 nts.1 nts.2
Ravelstein (SB): characters, itr.1, nts.1; dress and style, 1.1; on looking, 2.1; writing, nts.2
Reagan, Ronald
Redfield, James, 14.1, nts.1
Redfield, Robert, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Reedy, George, 4.1, 5.1
Reeves, Pat
Reichek, Jesse, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1
Reichek, Laure, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1
Reich, Wilhelm: influence on SB, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1; therapy in SB’s fiction, 10.4, 13.1; Character Analysis, 10.5; The Function of the Orgasm, 10.6, 10.7
Reinhardt, Max
Renan, Ernest
Reno, Nevada
Rexach, Jaime Benítez, 14.1, 14.2
Ribnikar, Jara, 13.1, 13.2
Richards, Janet (Mrs. Manny Farber), 7.1; Common Soldiers, 7.2
Richler, Mordecai
Rieff, Philip: The Triumph of the Therapeutic, 10.1
Riggs, Thomas III
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 12.1; Journal of My Other Self
, nts.1n92; Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, 6.1
Rimbaud, Arthur, 9.1, 12.1
Ripley, Mrs. Paul
Robbins, Esther, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Rochberg, George
Rockefeller, David
Rockefeller Foundation
Roditi, Edouard
Rodrigues, Eusebio L., 13.1; “Bellow’s Africa,” 5.1
Roethke, Theodore, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Romanes Lecture (1990)
Rome: SB visits from Paris, 9.1, 9.2; SB and Anita visit with Milano, 9.3; SB hopes to spend half Guggenheim fellowship year in, 12.1
Rompkey, Ronald
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: Cermak solicits, 5.1; SB’s view of, 5.2
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roscoe, Revd. John
Rose, Billy (né Rosenberg), 1.1, 13.1
Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg, Harold: portrayed by SB, itr.1, 7.1; friendship with SB, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4; character, 7.5; on action painting, 7.6; and SB’s exaltation of Herzog, 7.7; comments on Sartre essay, 8.1; on Paris, 9.1; invites SB to board of Longview Foundation, 12.1; Howe meets, nts.1; on Greenwich Village, nts.2; “American Action Painters,” nts.3; “On the Fall of Paris” (essay), 7.8, 9.2, 10.1
Rosenberg, May
Rosenberg, Patia
Rosenfeld, George
Rosenfeld, Isaac: portrayed in SB’s fiction, itr.1, 10.1, 12.1; at University of Chicago, 1.1, 6.1; on Humboldt Park, 3.1; precocity at Tuley High School, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, nts.1; speaks on Schopenhauer at school, 4.4; family background, 4.5, 4.6; qualities, 4.7; influence on SB, 4.8, 12.2; influenced by Kafka, 4.9; instability, 4.10; Jewishness, 4.11; in Harris’s poem, 4.12; and Eleanor Fox, 4.13; at New York University, 5.1, 7.1; coedits Soapbox, 5.2; contributes to The Beacon, 5.3; at University of Wisconsin, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6; parodies T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” 5.7; relations with SB, 5.8, 5.9, 6.2
284, 10.1, nts.1; paper on Royce, 5.1; at Illinois Writers’ Project, 6.1; leaves Socialist Workers Party, 6.2; contributes to The New Republic, 7.1; marriage, 7.2; wins Partisan Review–Dial Press award, 7.3; works in New York, 7.4; writing and reviews, 7.5; on Partisan Review circle, 7.6; bohemian life in Greenwich Village, 7.7, 7.8; Partisan Review view of, 7.9; and Mitzi McClosky, 8.1; complains about Kaplan, 8.2; and Monroe Engel, 8.3; anxieties and depression, 10.2, 11.1; Reichian therapy, 10.3, 13.1, nts.2; SB takes over New York flat, 10.4; marriage breakup, 10.5; death, 11.2, nts.3 nts.4 nts.5; on SB’s happy relations with Sasha, 12.1; Sasha on, 12.2; divorce, 12.3; memorial meeting at Minnesota, 12.4; SB writes on, nts.6; as “golden boy,” nts.7; Farrell on, nts.8; relations with Kazin, nts.9; life in New York, nts.10; An Age of Enormity (anthology), nts.11; “The Colony,” 4.1, 7.10; “Kafka and His Critics,” 4.2; “Life in Chicago,” 5.2; Passage from Home, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, nts.12; “The Precocious Student at the University of Chicago,” 5.3; “The World on the Ceiling,” 4.6
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