Dan Green
Jane Green
Yuko Hagiwara
Dalma Heyn
Lone Jones
Daniel Kevles
Elizabeth Cooke Levy
Kit Lukas
Richard Marek
Angie Marrero
Angela Martinez
Elaine McGann
Greg Mears, MD
Jay Meltzer, MD
Cheryl Mendelson
Lester Migdal
Amy Militar
Helen Milonas
Leo Milonas
Victor Navasky
the late Hugh Nissenson
Marilyn Nissenson
Kathy O’Brien
Owen O’Conner, MD
Mary O’Neil
Cecilia Paasche
Franz Paasche
Vita Paladino (director of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center—also Sean Noel, associate director; and Ryan Hendrickson, assistant director for mss.)
Kathleen Paratis
Alison Pavia
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Andrea Rabinovitch
Elsa Rush
Norman Rush
Joanne Scabila
Peggy Shapiro
Selma Shapiro
Ronnie Scharfman
James H. Silberman
David C. Sperling, MD
Marilyn Taveras
Joseph Tenenbaum, MD
Barbara Trilling
Carolyn Trois
Phyllis Wender
Lynn Zivin
I have probably left people off this list who belong here, and I hope I am forgiven for any oversights.
SOURCE NOTES
The Diana Trilling Papers, 1921–1996, at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University were my primary and most important research tool in the writing of this book. The collection contains sixty hefty boxes of documents—letters, notes, drafts, diaries, books, reviews, interviews, tapes, articles, poems, and photographs. I also relied on much material found in the Lionel Trilling Papers, 1899–1987, especially LT’s journals, held at the same library. I also consulted material from the Oral History Research Office, although most of the transcribed interviews eventually became part of the Diana Trilling Papers.
In my chapter notes I use the abbreviation “DTP” for the Diana Trilling Papers, and the abbreviation “LTP” for the Lionel Trilling Papers. The box number where the material is found will be listed and, if required, the title and description of any documents as well.
I am forever grateful to the staff at the library for their guidance, patience, and expertise during the years of my research. (Some names will be listed in my acknowledgments, but there are so many people I just didn’t get a chance to know. I extend my thanks to them—all of them—for their efforts on my behalf.)
I also thank the many, many people who agreed to be interviewed for this book. Some are listed in the chapter notes as well as in the acknowledgments.
PREFACE
Information in the preface was drawn from the following:
DTP: Box 12, Folder 1, Edna Rubin to DT, August 10, 1960; Box 13, Folder 12, DT to Dr. Norman Reider, Oct. 4, 1965; Box 21, Folder 2, draft of “The Education of a Woman,” by DT; Box 21, Folder 6, “Radcliffe”; and Box 38, Folders 14 and 15.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Natalie Robins, Alien Ink (New York: William Morrow, 1992), 76.
Natalie Robins, Living in the Lightning (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999).
Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993).
Stephen Koch, “Journey’s Beginning: A Talk with Diana Trilling,” New York Times, Feb. 19, 1989.
Patricia Bosworth, draft of Partisan Review interview of DT, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
Natalie Robins, FBI interviews Box 27, Folder 14, and Box 20, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, “From The Library of Lionel and Diana Trilling.”
Some descriptions of 35 Claremont Avenue come from the following people: Patricia Bosworth, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Natalie Robins, and James Trilling.
1. ESCAPE INTO FICTION
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
DTP: Box 1, Folder 1, application forms; Box 1, Folder 8, Diaries, 1922; Box 10, Folder 3, DT to Priscilla Cohen, Editor, Radcliffe News, Oct 23, 1944; Box 18, Folder 6, Leah Salisbury to DT, May 13, 1930, and Sept. 2, 1931, also letter to Leah Salisbury from the story editor at Columbia Pictures; Box 19, Folder 3, drafts of childhood memoir; Box 19, Bettina Mikol Sinclair marriage note in Wisconsin Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1928; Box 19, Folder 3, drafts of Beginning of the Journey; Box 20, Folders 4, 7, and 8, childhood memoir; Box 21, Folder 4; Box 21, Folder 6, more information on Radcliffe; Box 22, Folders 6 and 7, drafts of childhood memoir; Box 22, Folder 6, undated draft of “Memoir of a Marriage”; Box 31, Folder 7, draft of “The Education of a Woman”; Box 36, Folder 3, “Snitkin.” All the transcripts of the tapes between DT and Christopher Zinn (the “oral history” component) are located in Boxes 38, 39, 40, and 41; Box 60, Folders 1, 2, and 3, drafts of “Biography of a Marriage.”
ARTICLE
Diana Trilling, “The Girls of Camp Lenore,” New Yorker, August 12, 1996.
2. UNDERTAKINGS
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 2, Folders 7 and 8, Journals: undated and Sept. 1926–Spring 1929.
DTP: Box 1, Folder 3, Engagement book 1928; Box 17, Folder 4, Harriet Trilling Schwartz to DT, June 30, 1978; Box 18, Folder One, DT to Joanna and Dan Rose, April 13, 1979; Box 19, Folder 3, draft of childhood memoir, p. 34; Box 20, Folder 7, draft of childhood memoir; Box 21, Folder 3, draft of childhood memoir; Box 22, Folder 6, information on LT; Box 31, Folder 17, draft of childhood memoir; Box 37, Folder 24, memoir; Box 44, Folder 1, interview with Kip Fadiman; Box 47, Folder 7, oral history, Elsa and Jim Grossman; Box 53, Folder 6, oral history, Quentin and Thelma Anderson; Box 60, Folders 1 and 2, draft of “Biography of a Marriage”; Box 69, Folder 3, draft of memoir of a marriage.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Michael L. Grace, “The Grace Line History,” Dec. 1, 2009, http://cruiselinehistory.com/the-grace-line/).
John Rodden, “The Trilling Family Romance Report of a Psychoanalytic Autopsy,” Modern Age, Summer 2006.
James Trilling, “My Father and the Weak-Eyed Devils,” American Scholar, March 22, 1999 (re: Cecilia Rubin’s Tourette Syndrome).
Lucy Rosenthal, interview by Natalie Robins, on lunches between her father and DT and her mother and LT.
3. PROLEGOMENON
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 2, Folder 8, Journals: Sept. 1926–Spring 1929; Box 2, Folder 11, 1938–43.
DTP: Box 18, Folder 5, Malcolm Cowley to DT, Oct. 13, 1931; Box 19, Folder 3, draft of childhood memoir; Box 19, Folder 3, draft of The Beginning of the Journey; Box 22, Folder 6; Box 31, Folder 5, undated short story (possibly the story DT wrote on her honeymoon); Box 31, Folder 7, draft of “The Education of a Woman”; Box 46, Folder 4, oral history, Steven Donadio, 1976; Box 50, Folder 3, oral history, Michael Rosenthal; Box 53, Folder 6, oral history, Quentin Anderson; Box 60, Folder 2, draft of “Biography of a Marriage”; Box 60, Folder 1, “Bobolinka’s Neighbor,” Vanity Fair, May 1983.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey, 120–28, 171–76.
Village Voice: Dec. 18, 2007 (information on One Bank Street).
4. ISOLATION AND DESPERATION
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 2, Folder 9, Journals, 1930–31; Box 2, Folder 10, 1934–36; Box 3, Folder 11, late 1930s to 1941.
DTP: Box 5, Folder 6, Elizabeth Ames to LT, April 3, 1931, and; Elizabeth Ames to DT, April 8, 1931; Box 16, Folder 3, Sidney Hook to DT, Jan. 10, 1976;
Box 17, Folder 1, DT to Richard Parker, Jan. 24, 1977; Box 18, Folder 5, Malcolm Cowley to DT, Oct. 13, 1931; Box 18, Folder 6, Leah Salisbury to DT, March 21, 1931; Box 38, Folder 9, DT, interview by Dr. Sarah Alpern, June 21, 1983; Box 48, Folder 3, oral history, Elinor Hays; Box 46, Folder 4, oral history, Steven Donadio, p. 20; Box 53, Folder 6, oral history, Quentin and Thelma Anderson; Box 60, Folder 2, draft of “Biography of a Marriage.”
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey, 171–87.
Natalie Robins, Alien Ink, 299.
Alan Wald, The New York Intellectuals (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987), 58–59.
“About Books,” Junior Bazaar, Sept. 1946 (DT on Partisan Review).
“Forbidden Tunnels Guard CU History,” Columbia Spectator, March 27, 2003.
Alan Blinder, “Pardon for the Last ‘Scottsboro Boys,’ ” New York Times, Nov. 22, 2012.
5. THE REST OF OUR LIVES
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 2, Folder 7, undated journals; also folder 8, Sept. 1926–spring 1929.
DTP: Box 2, Folder 10; Box 17, Folder 3, information on LT at Hunter and DT letters to Mrs. J. R. Spurling, Jan. 16, 1978; Box 19, Folder 3, draft of The Beginning of the Journey; Box 20, Folders 2 and 3, misc. notes; Box 21, Folder 2, childhood memoir and handwritten notes; Box 22, Folder 6, draft of memoir of a marriage; Box 53, Folder 6, oral history, Quentin and Thelma Anderson.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Lawrence R. Samuel, Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013), 2. (re: the term psychoanalysis, first used by Freud c. 1895).
Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey, 259, 229–30.
Diana Trilling, “The Girls of Camp Lenore,” New Yorker, August 12, 1996.
DT in conversation with Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, early 1990s (re: LT in despair over DT’s criticism).
6. THE GREATEST SERVICE
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 3, Folder 7, 1952–55.
DTP: Box 1, Folder 1, 1921–30: rejection letter with personal note to DT from The Southern Review; Box 3, Folder 4, Kip Fadiman to DT, May 28, 1940; Box 10, Folder 2, Bettina Sinclair to DT, 1935; Box 20, Folder 2, notes; Box 60, Folder 2, draft of “Memoir of a Marriage”; Box 22, Folder 6; Box 34, Folders 10 and 12; Box 30, Folder 14, “Beppo: The Canary Who Sang Muh”; Box 35, Folder 15, simplified Wind in the Willows; Box 51, Folder 2, oral history, Steven Donadio; Box 60, Folder 2, draft of “Biography of a Marriage.”
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey, 317 (re: Norton as publisher of Matthew Arnold), also 244, 318.
Jacques Barzun, “Remembering Lionel Trilling,” Encounter, Sept. 1976, 82.
James Gutman, “The Columbia College Colloquium,” CU Quarterly 1937.
F. R. Leavis, “Arnold’s Thought,” review of LT’s Matthew Arnold, Scrutiny, June 1939.
Edward Rothstein, Jacques Barzun obituary, New York Times, Oct. 26, 2012.
Edmund Wilson, “Uncle Matthew,” review of LT’s Matthew Arnold, New Republic, March 21, 1939.
7. THE NATION CALLS
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 3, Folder 7, 1952–55.
DTP: Box 4, Folder 3, William Maxwell to DT; Box 4, Folder 4, “Dear Diana, affectionately, Peggy,” August 27, 1947; Box 4, Folder 6, DT to David Riesman, June 30, 1976; Box 4, Folder 6, Katherine Anne Porter to DT, Sept.8, 1942; Box 5, Folder 2, Mark Van Doren to DT, 1943; Box 10, Folder 2, New Yorker to DT, Feb. 13, 1941; Box 10, Folder 2, Eliseo Vivas to DT; also Anita Berenbach to DT, PM Daily, Nov. 1, 1943; also Nanine Joseph to DT, March 13, 1940; Box 10, Folder 4, re: Junior Bazaar, Box 10, Folder 4, Leo Lerman to DT and LT, June 1946; Box 10, Folder 3, Pascal Covici, Viking Press, to DT, August 25, 1943, Jan. 16, 1945, and June 14, 1945; Box 10, Folder 4, Rev. Roddey Reid Jr. to DT; Box 12, Folder 3, Ken McCormick, Editor-in-Chief of Doubleday, to DT, May 24, 1962; Box 12, Folder 4, DT to Fred Warburg; Box 18, Folder 1, DT to Current Biography, Feb. 7, 1979; Box 22, Folder 5, DT, interview by John Horder, May 29, 1965, in The Scotsman; Box 23, Folder 2, interview about Jean Harris; Box 32, Folder 24, “Reading Out of Season,” Junior Bazaar, July 1946, Feb., 1946, April 1947; Box 33, Folder 9, “Fiction in Review,” May 8, 1943 (DT’s review of Gideon Planish, by Sinclair Lewis); Box 33, Folder 9, “Fiction in Review,” May 5, 1945 (DT’s review of The Ghostly Lover, by Elizabeth Hardwick); Box 35, Folder 11, reviews; Box 35, Folder17, “The Sale of a Work of Art”; Box 38, Folder 9, DT, interview by Dr. Sarah Alpern, June 21, 1983; Box 60, draft of “Biography of a Marriage.”
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey, 125, 224, 328, 330, 337.
David Laskin, Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 45, 190.
Diana Trilling, Reviewing the Forties, introduction by Paul Fussell (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), 5, 28 (review of John Cheever, April 10, 1943).
Patricia Bosworth, draft of Partisan Review interview of DT at Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
Koch, “Journey’s Beginning.”
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Elizabeth Hardwick obituary, New York Times, Dec. 4, 2007.
Nation, DT’s review of Tilda, by Mark Van Doren, May 8, 1943; also DT’s review of Memoirs of Hecate County, by Edmond Wilson, March 30, 1946.
Paris Review, Winter 1993.
8. NOT MERELY A CRITIC’S WIFE
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 3, Folder 2, Oct. 1944–Sept. 1945; Box 3, Folder 6, Sept. 1948–April 1952.
DTP: Box 1 Folder 1, Quentin Anderson to DT, n.d.; Box 4, Folder 3, DT to Mr. Laughlin, June 23, 1946; Box 6, Folder 4, DT to Susan Moore, August 10, 1982; Box 6, Folder 5, DT to Norman Mailer (c. 1976); Box 10, Folder 3, Pascal Covici to DT, June 14, 1945, also March 4, 1947; Box 10, Folder 4, unsigned letter from unnamed editor at Vogue to DT, Nov. 1946; Box 20, Folder 3, re: Mary McCarthy and Dwight McDonald; Box 31, Folder 7, draft of “The Education of a Woman”; Box 32, Folder 24, various DT book columns in Junior Bazaar, 1946–47; Box 33, Folder 3, “The Marriage of Elsie and John,” by “Margaret Sayles” (DT pseudonym); Box 35, Folder 4, “The Psychology of Plenty,” by DT (penciled note at top of ms. by DT: “I think this was never published.”); Box 35, Folder 11, review of Gentleman’s Agreement, Commentary, March 1947; Box 51, Folder 1, oral history with Jack and Susan Thompson conducted by DT, Feb. 1976; Box 53, Folder 2: “Before Bandwagons,” by Leo Lerman, Vogue, May 11,1944 (a special thanks to Carrie Hintz, head of Archive Processing at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, for locating this column for me); Box 53, Folder 6, oral history, Quentin and Thelma Anderson
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
The Beginning of the Journey, 337 (on Leo Lerman).
Leo Lerman, The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), 3n.
Lionel Trilling, E. M. Forster, preface to the 2nd ed., 3.
“Acne Paper #10,” story by Joan Juliet Buck “Chez Leo and Gray.”
Nicholas Rasmussan: “America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic,” American Journal of Public Health (June 2008): 974–85.
Review of The Portable D. H. Lawrence, Kirkus Reviews, Jan. 3, 1946.
Paul Woolridge, “Lionel Trilling and the Periodical Imagination,” American Periodicals 23 (Nov. 2013): 43–59 (re: Harper’s Bazaar and LT’s short story).
Louis Menand, “The Culture Club,” New Yorker, Oct. 15, 2001.
Liesl Schillinger, “Life of the Party,” review of The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman, edited by Stephen Pascal, New York Times Book Review, April 22, 2007.
Amanda Fortini, “So You Want to Be a Star? Leo Lerman’s Gossipy Journals Offer L
essons on Fame,” Slate, July 2, 2007, www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2007/07/so_you_want_to_be_a_star.html.
9. GLOWING
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 3, Folder 4, Sept. 1946–Sept. 1948; Box 3, Folder 6, journals Sept. 1948–April 1952.
DTP: Box 3, Folder 1, DT to Newton Arvin, March 18, 1949; Box 4, Folder 6, DT to Evie and David Riesman, May 12, 1949; Box 5, Folder 1, May Sarton to DT, March 22, 1948, also April 3, 1948; Box 5, Folder 1, “The Baby Nurses,” by DT; Box 5, Folder 1, William Shawn to DT, May 5, 1952; Box 9, Folder 3, DT to Dr. Marjorie Rosenberg, June 19, 1987; Box 10, Folder 5, Bettina Sinclair Hartenbach to DT, Jan. 15, 1948; Box 10, Folder 5, Betsy Moulton, Feature Assistant, Mademoiselle, to DT, Nov. 29, 1948; Box 11, Folder 2, nursery school report, Jan. 1953; Box 11, Folder 5, re: James T’s fear of elevators; Box 20, Folder 2, notes re: “Biography of a Marriage”; Box 21, Folder 2, DT to Dr. Morris Greenberg, May 21, 1955, and Dr. Greenberg to DT, May 29 and June 5, 1955; Box 22, Folder 3, “Virginia Woolf: A Special Instance,” by DT in New York Times Book Review, March 21, 1948; Box 31, Folder 17, draft of “The Education of a Woman”; Box 31, Folder 21, “Footnote to My Life as a Critic,” by DT, a version of an essay that appeared in Explorations magazine, 1998; Box 34, Folder 1, Fiction in Review, Jan. 31, 1948, DT’s review of Truman Capote’s Other Voices, Other Rooms; Box 38, Folder 9, DT, interview by Dr. Sarah Alpern, June 21, 1983; Box 53, Folder 6, oral history, Quentin and Thelma Anderson.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
The Beginning of the Journey, 192, 248–49, 413–15.
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, 1999, Duke-Edinburgh Edition, http://carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu.
“Living Legacies,” Columbia Alumni Magazine, Summer 2001 (re: Lionel Trilling at Columbia).
Koch, “Journey’s Beginning.”
Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz, interview by Natalie Robins, Oct. 25, 2011. I am grateful to the Oral History Office for letting me read MD’s interview. I later discovered a letter in DT’s archives in which MD angrily asked DT to remove the interview from her proposed book, but DT never did.
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