The Life of Saul Bellow
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Rosenfeld, Sam (Isaac’s father), 4.1, 12.1
Rosenfeld, Vasiliki (née Sarantakis), 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, nts.1
Rosenthal, Ray
Ross, Alicia
Ross, Harold
Ross, Ralph: at Minneapolis, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2; and Rosenfeld’s memorial, 12.3; and Berryman’s suicide, 12.4; appearance, 13.3; Sasha on, 13.4; and Sasha’s hostility to SB, 13.5; and SB’s learning of Ludwig’s affair with Sasha, 13.6; praises SB’s prose, 14.1
Rostow, Walter
Rotblatt, Leonard, 3.1, 4.1
Rotblatt, Lynn (née Bellows; Maury’s daughter), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 117, nts.1
Rotblatt, Mark (Maury’s grandson), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
Roth, Philip: on character of Augie March, itr.1; and difficulty of immigrants, 1.1; relations with SB, 1.2; on SB’s love of monsters, 2.1; interviews SB, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1; meets SB in London, 3.3; on language of Augie March, 3.4; on Trilling, 3.5; and SB’s views on Leopold-Loeb case, 4.2; and SB’s move to New York, 7.1; and SB’s view of French anti-Americanism, 9.1; and SB’s view of European nihilism, 9.2; and SB’s epiphany in Paris, inspiring Augie March, 9.3; on Humboldt’s Gift, 10.2; on SB’s style, 11.2; and SB’s dislike of WASP establishment, 11.3; and Trilling’s hostility to Augie March, 11.4; on SB’s spontaneous writing, 12.1; and New York in Seize the Day, 12.2; SB confesses to disliking Seize the Day, 12.3; in Chicago, 12.4; career, 12.5; and Henderson the Rain King, 13.1, 13.2; introduces Susan Glassman to SB, 14.1, 14.2; on Susan Glassman’s character, 14.3; on Herzog, 14.4; “The Conversion of the Jews,” 12.6; The Ghost Writer, 1.3, 12.7, nts.1; Goodbye, Columbus, 12.8; “Re-reading Saul Bellow,” nts.2
Roth, William
Rothko, Mark, 11.1, 14.1
Rousset, David, 9.1, 9.2; L’Univers concentrationnaire, 9.3
Rovere, Richard, 4.1, 11.1
Royce, Josiah
Rozanov, Vasily, n63
Rubenfeld, Florence
“Ruben Whitfield” (SB), see “Very Dark Trees, The”
Rubin, Michael: A Trip into Town, 11.1
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, Diarmuid
Russell, George William (AE)
Russell and Volkening Literary Representatives
Russia (and Soviet Union): position of Jews in, 1.1, 1.2; 1905 revolution, 1.3; influence on SB, 1.4; 1917 revolution, 1.5, 1.6, 5.1; invades Finland (1939), 6.1; territorial annexations, 9.1; Jewish emigrants to North America, nts.1
Ryerson, Martin
Sabin Junior High School, Chicago, 3.1, 3.2
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
St. Petersburg: massacre (“Bloody Sunday,” 22 January 1905), 1.1; Jewish population, 1.2, 1.3; SB’s parents in, 1.4, 1.5
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1929)
Sale, Roger
Salinger, J. D., 10.1; “Franny,” 10.2
Salzburg: SB teaches and lectures at American University, 9.1, 10.1
Samuelson, Paul
Sánchez Salazar, Colonel Leandro A.
Sandburg, Carl
Sandstrom, John
San Francisco: SB lectures in
Sansom, William
Santayana, George
Sapir, Edward
Sarant, George, 7.1, nts.1
Sarantakis, Vasiliki, see Rosenfeld, Vasiliki
Sarton, May
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, nts.1; Anti-Semite and Jew, 8.2; Being and Nothing (L’Être et Néant), 9.5, 9.6, nts.2; No Exit, nts.3; “Portrait of an Anti-Semite,” 8.3; The Reprieve, 8.4
Saturday Review of Literature, The, 4.1, 6.1, 11.1
Saunders, Lionel (“Davey”)
Saunders family (of Montreal)
Schaeffer, Pierre, 9.1, 9.2
Schapiro, Meyer
Schechner, Mark
Schevill, Ferdinand
Schilder, Paul
Schiller, Friedrich von
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2; The World as Will and Idea, 4.2, 7.3
Schultz, Rachel (née Greengus), 4.1, 4.2
Schwab, David
Schwartz, Delmore: portrayed in Humboldt’s Gift, itr.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, nts.1; on 1930s war threat, 5.1; reviews Dangling Man, 6.1; on Rahv, 7.1; in Partisan Review circle, 7.2; friendship with McCormick, 9.1; and Princeton’s offer to SB, 10.5; at Princeton, 10.6, 10.7; encourages SB’s confidence as writer, 10.8; qualities and unstable behavior, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11; drug-taking, 10.12; literary posts, 10.13; attempted assault on wife, 10.14; Howe on affinity with SB, 10.15; introduces Partisan Review symposium on U.S. literary culture, 10.16; offered tenured post by Princeton, 10.17; and SB’s influential life, 10.18; reviews Augie March, 11.1; feels undervalued, 11.2; projected anthology at Viking, 12.1; portrayed in Seize the Day, 12.2; as influence on SB, 12.3; threatens West, nts.2; “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” 5.2, 7.3, 10.19; “The Vocation of the Poet in the Modern World,” 10.20; The World Is a Wedding, 10.21
Schwartz, Elizabeth (née Pollet), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Schwartz, Joan Ullmann, 14.1, nts.1
Schwartz, Jonas: portrayed in Herzog, itr.1; and SB-Sasha marriage breakdown, 13.1, 14.1; writes to SB on tour, 13.2
Scott, Hazel
Scott, Professor (University of Chicago English Dept.)
Scott, Sir Walter
Scott, Walter Dill
“Sealed Treasure, The” (SB; essay)
Seattle
Sedova, Natalia (Trotsky’s wife)
Seide, Michael
Seize the Day (SB): describes bodily expression, 2.1; mother figure in, 2.2; marriage failure in, 6.1, 11.1; and Schopenhauer, 7.1; on father despising son, 8.1; setting, 10.1, 11.2; Anita portrayed in, 11.3; declined by New Yorker, 11.4, 12.1, 13.1; plot and themes, 11.5, 12.2; writing, 11.6, 12.3, 12.4; proofs, 12.5; publication and reception, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9; ending, 12.10, 12.11, nts.1; style, 12.12; on suffering, 12.13; point of view, 12.14; SB describes to Berryman, 12.15; Roth reads, 12.16; Fuchs on, 13.2; water glasses in, 14.1
Selective Service System (USA)
Selznick, Gertrude (née Jaeger)
Selznick, Philip
Senhouse, Roger
“Sermon by Dr. Pep, A” (SB; monologue), 9.1, 11.1, 12.1
Sexton, Anne
Shachtman, Max, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1
Shakespeare, William: King Henry IV, Pt. 1, itr.1, 6.1; King Henry V, Pt. 1, itr.2; The Merchant of Venice, 4.1
Shapiro, Ben
Shapiro, Karl, 10.1, 12.1, nts.1
Shaw, George Bernard, 4.1, 5.1
Shawn, William
Sheen, Fulton John, Bishop of Rochester
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 10.1, nts.1; Laon and Cythna (The Revolt of Islam), 13.1
Shelomith, Miriam Schwartz
Sheraton, Mimi
Shermanites (Trotskyist faction)
Shils, Edward, 5.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, nts.1 nts.2
Shrifte, Evelyn, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
Shuman, Ik
Siegelman, Ellen, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, nts.1
Siegelman, Philip: on changes in social psychology, 8.1; describes McClosky, 8.2; on composition of university English faculty, 8.3; on intellectuals at Minnesota, 8.4; on SB as reluctant teacher, 8.5; on Ludwig, 11.1, 11.2; and SB-Sasha relations, 12.1;
in Cambridge, Mass., 12.1; on Thomes, 13.1; flies to Rosenfeld’s funeral, nts.1
Silone, Ignazio
“Silver Dish, A” (SB; story), itr.1, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Silverman, Diane
Simmel, Georg
Simmons, Maggie Staats, itr.1, 2.1
Simpson, Eileen (John Berryman’s first wife), 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1; Poets in Their Youth, 7.3, 7.4, 10.4
Simpson, Louis
Sinclair, Upton, 5.1, 5.2
Singer, Isaac Bashevis: “Gimpel the Fool,” 11.1
Singer, Richard G.
Sinkler, Rebecca
Siqueiros, David
Sitwell family
Six Day War (1967)
Slate, Evelyn
Slate, Herman, nts.1 nts.2
Slesinska, Alina
Smith, Douglas LaRue
Smith, Henry Nash, 8.1, 9.1
Smith, Joseph (Mormon prophet)
Smyth, Joseph Hilton
Snodgrass, W. D.
Soapbox (university magazine), 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, nts.1
Soberg, Carl
Socialist Workers Party
Socrates
Solomon, Barbara Probst
Solotaroff, Ted, 10.1, 14.1
“Something to Remember Me By” (SB; story), 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
Sontag, Susan
Southern, Terry
Soviet Union, see Russia
Soyer brothers
Spain: SB accompanies student group to, 8.1; SB’s trip to from Paris, 9.1, 9.2; SB intends to spend Guggenheim time in, 12.1
“Spanish Letter” (SB; article)
Spencer, Herbert, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Spender, Stephen, 9.1, 13.1
Spengler, Oswald, 4.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1
Spiegel, Leo
Spiekerman, Tim
“Spring Ode” (SB; poem), 9.1, nts.1
Stalin, Josef Vissarionovich (and Stalinism), 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, nts.1
Stark, Margaret
“Starting Out in Chicago” (SB; essay), 6.1, 6.2
Steele, Max
Stein, Arnold
Steinbeck, John, 4.1, 11.1, 12.1; East of Eden, 11.2
Stein, Gertrude, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1
Stein, Reb Shika, 2.1, 2.2
Steiner, Rudolf
Stephenson, Robert (“Sing”)
Stern, Richard: unable to write about SB, itr.1; and SB’s approach to writing, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2; invites SB to University of Chicago, 12.3; admires Seize the Day, 12.4; and SB and Sasha’s entertaining, 12.5; on Larry Kauffman’s suicide, 13.1; contributes to The Noble Savage, 13.2; on Reich and Henderson the Rain King, 13.3; SB writes to on marriage breakdown with Sasha, 13.4; SB writes to from Italy, 13.5; SB writes to on progress of Herzog, 14.1, 14.2; and SB’s post at Chicago University, 14.3, 14.4; invites SB to stay on at Chicago, 14.5; relations with Shils, 14.6
Stevenson, Adlai, itr.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Stoll, E. E.
Story (magazine),
Strachey, John
Strauss, Leo
Strindberg, August
Student Project for Amity Among Nations (SPAN)
Sullivan, Louis
Swadesh, Morris
Swados, Harvey, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Syntopicon (index to Hutchins and Adler “Great Books” series), 7.1, 7.2
Tamkin, Arthur S., nts.1nn47, 1.1
Tanenhaus, Sam
Tanner, Tony
Tanner Lectures (1981), nts.1nn20, 1.1, nts.2
Tarcov, Edith (née Hamberg; Oscar’s wife), 6.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1
Tarcov, Manya
Tarcov, Miriam (Oscar and Edith’s daughter), 6.1, 13.1, nts.1
Tarcov, Nathan (Oscar and Edith’s son), 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 13.1, nts.1 nts.2; graduates, nts.3
Tarcov, Oscar: in SB’s social group at Tuley, 4.1; influenced by Kafka, 4.2; SB reviews, 4.3; SB’s view of, 4.4; and Peltz, 4.5; in Harris’s poem, 4.6; girlfriend, 4.7; coedits Soapbox, 5.1; studies anthropology, 5.2; and SB’s family conflicts, 5.3; visits SB at Wisconsin, 5.4; and SB’s estimate of Rosenfeld, 5.5;
Tarcov, Oscar: and Rosenfeld’s paper on Royce, 5.1; and SB’s return to Chicago, 5.2; arrested and jailed, 6.1; and SB’s marriage to Anita, 6.2, 6.3, 10.1; career, 6.4; friendship with SB, 6.5; and SB’s potential wartime drafting, 6.6; supports SB’s naturalization, 6.7; SB writes to on Bazelon, 7.1; and SB’s move East from Chicago, 7.2; and SB’s life in Paris, 9.1; and SB’s trip to Spain from Paris, 9.2; letter from Anita on SB’s working on Augie March, 9.3; SB writes to from Paris, 9.4; SB writes on Rosenfeld to, 10.2; heart trouble, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2; moves to New York, 12.1; letter from SB in Frankfurt, 13.3; and SB’s “Two Morning Monologues,” nts.1nn75, 2.1; Bravo, My Monster, 4.1; “Twin Bananas” (play), 5.3
Tarcov family
Tarrytown, New York
Tasker, Dana
Tate, Allen, 4.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Tate, Isabella (née Gardner)
Taxco, Mexico, 6.1, 6.2
Taylor, Frank, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Taylor, Peter
Teitelbaum, Meyer
Tel Aviv
Temps Modernes, Les (journal), 9.1, 9.2
“Ten, The” (group of artists)
Terkel, Studs
Theft, A (SB; novella), 1.1, 12.1
Thirlwell, Adam
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Norman, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1
Thomes, A. Boyd, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Thompson, William Hale (“Big Bill”), 3.1, nts.1nn57, 2.1
“Thoughts of Sergeant George Flavin, The” (SB; story), 11.1, 11.2
Tieger, Helene
Tillich, Paul
Time magazine, 5.1, 7.1, 10.1
Tivoli, New York: Sasha returns to with Greg, 6.1; SB buys and occupies house in, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4; Ellison occupies, 13.1, 13.2; SB and Sasha return to (summer 1959), 13.3; house as financial drain, 14.1; Ellison leaves, 14.2; SB revisits (May 1961), 14.3; SB returns to work at (1960), nts.1
Tocqueville, Alexis de
To Jerusalem and Back (SB): on Kollek, 2.1; on SB’s wearing “tzitzes” as boy, 3.1; on SB’s studies at Wisconsin, 5.1; Covici described in, 12.1; on Gordin family, 13.1
Tolstoy, Count Lev (Leo): and Bely’s Petersburg, 1.1; influence on SB, 1.2
Torrio, Johnny
Transcendentalists
Treasury of Yiddish Stories, A (ed. Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg),
Trilling, Diana: reviews Dangling Man, 6.1; at Partisan Review parties, 7.1; on Kazin, 7.2; Kazin offends, 7.3; reviews The Victim, 8.1; praises SB, 10.1; on rough part of Chicago, 11.1; at Gore Vidal’s Edgewater home, 11.2; on demise of American fiction, 12.1; SB mistrusts approval, 12.2
Trilling, Lionel: tours Chicago with SB, itr.1, 11.1; view of Augie March, 3.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4; on Kazin’s On Native Ground, 7.1; Kazin offends, 7.2; on Kaplan’s The Plenipotentiaries, 8.1; SB criticizes, 9.1; supports renewal of SB’s Guggenheim Fellowship, 9.2; praises SB, 10.1; reviews Augie March, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 12.1; and Podhoretz’s review of Augie March, 11.8; teaches Ted Hoffman, 11.9; at Gore Vidal’s Edgewater home, 11.10; on the novel, 12.2, 13.1; dismissed in 1936 from Columbia post, nts.1; The Middle of the Journey, 5.1
“Trip to Galena, The” (SB; excerpt from “The Crab and the Butterfly”), 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 12.1
Trotsky, Leon (and Trotskyism), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1; assassinated in Mexico, 6.2; “War and the Fourth International,” 5.4
Tschacbasov, Esther (Sasha’s mother), 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, nts.1
Tschacbasov, Nahum (Sasha’s father)
Tuchman, Barbara
Tuley, Judge Murray F.
Tuley High School, Chicago, itr.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.1, 5.2
Tuley Review, The (school magazine), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Tumin, Melvin: SB informs of Guggenheim Fellowship, 1.1; and SB’s view of Freifeld, 4.1; research in Guatemala, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2; and SB’s acquiring agent (Lieber), 6.2; and character of Joseph in Dangling Man, 6.3; supports SB’s application for naturalization, 6.4; and SB’s wartime draft, 6.5; and SB’s Jewishness, 7.1; Kaplan writes to on meeting Greenberg, 7.2; friendship with McClosky, 8.3; and SB’s relations with Kaplan, 8.4; SB’s correspondence with, 8.5; at Princeton, 10.1, 10.2; reads
and dislikes Augie March, 10.1; career, nts.1
Tumin, Sylvia, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Tureck, Rosalyn
Turner, Christopher: Adventures in the Orgasmatron, 10.1
“Two Morning Monologues” (SB; stories), 6.1, 6.2, nts.1
T
yler, Anne
Under the Weather (SB; play), nts.1
Ungaretti, Giuseppe
Unger, Leonard
United States of America: assimilation of Jewish immigrants, 3.1; racism, 5.1; French hostility to, 9.1; cultural identity, 10.1
“University of Virginia, The” (SB; article)
Updike, John: Rabbit at Rest, 3.1
Valéry, Paul, 12.1, nts.1
Valleyfield, Quebec
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Van Doren, Mark, 10.1, 11.1
Van Gelder, Robert
Vanguard Press, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2
Veblen, Thorstein
Venice
“Very Dark Trees, The” (SB; lost novel; earlier “Ruben Whitfield”), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1
Vian, Boris
Victim, The (SB): mother figure in, 2.1; as probationary piece, 6.1; writing, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3; and SB’s rejection by Whittaker Chambers, 7.4; SB defends against Bazelon, 7.5; describes New York, 7.6, 10.1; epigraphs, 7.7; paranoia and prejudice in, 8.4; on anti-Semitism, 8.5; concern for children in, 8.6; publication, 8.7, 8.8; SB inscribes copy for Johnson, 8.9; SB’s anxieties over, 8.10; reception, 8.11; poor sales, 8.12; length, 8.13; selected for distribution to Europe, 9.1; Leventhal character, 9.2; dramatized, 10.2; style, 11.1; Podhoretz admires, 11.2
Victor, Ed
Vidal, Gore: on SB’s reading, itr.1; on John Jay Chapman, 11.1; as SB’s neighbor near Bard College, 11.2, 13.1; on SB’s complaints about money, 11.3; on Jack Ludwig, 11.4; social status, 13.2
Vienna
Vigneron, Robert
Viking (publishing house): as SB’s publisher, 8.1, 9.1; and publication of Augie March, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1; payment to SB, 11.2; Schwartz and SB’s projected anthology for, 12.1; and publication of Seize the Day, 12.2; publishes Kennedy’s Ironweed, 14.1
Vivas, Eliseo, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 8.1
Volkening, Henry: and SB’s abandoning “Olduvai,” itr.1; SB complains to of poor sales of The Victim, 8.1; and SB’s leaving Henle and Vanguard, 8.2; background, 8.3; partnership with Russell, 8.4; as SB’s agent, 8.5; SB writes to from Europe, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1; and SB’s abandoning “The Crab and the Butterfly” for Augie March, 9.6, 10.2; seeks Princeton post for SB, 9.7, 10.3; and completion of Augie March, 10.4; SB notifies change of address, 10.5; SB writes to on love, 10.6; and success of Augie March, 11.1; and SB’s divorce from Anita, 12.1; SB writes to from Nevada, 12.2; and SB’s Seize the Day, 12.3; SB recommends authors to, 12.4; Susan Glassman meets, 14.1; letters to SB, nts.1; and SB’s “Charm and Death,” nts.2; health decline and death, nts.3; represents Ellison, nts.4