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by Thornton Wilder


  Balzac, Honoré, 426

  Bankhead, Tallulah, 532–33, 540, 544–45, 548–49, 552, 554, 586

  Barker, Creighton, 391

  Barrie, J. M., 109

  Barry, Philip, 241

  Barrymore, Ethel, 479

  Barrymore, John, 154, 163

  Bassanesi, Giovanni, 584

  Bates, “Tia” Anna, 520, 672

  Beach, Sylvia, 198, 262, 278

  Beaumont, Hugh “Binkie,” 557, 562, 624, 625–26, 629

  Beerbohm, Max, 413

  Beer-Hofmann, Richard, 492

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, Ninth Symphony, 284

  Bel Geddes, Norman, 234, 646

  Bell, Alexander Graham, 86

  Benét, Rosemary, 587

  Benét, Stephen Vincent, 160, 161

  and S4N, 177

  at Yale, 148, 149, 152, 175, 176, 177

  Benét, William Rose, 149, 161, 163, 233, 236, 237, 242, 577

  Bennett, Arnold, 312

  Benson, Sally, 537

  Bentley, Eric, 622, 634

  Berea College, Kentucky, 134, 139–40, 141–44

  Berenson, Bernard, 413

  Bergman, Ingmar, 699

  Bergner, Elisabeth, 568

  Bergson, Henri, 224, 438

  Bernstein, Leonard, 648

  Bingham, Hiram III, 159

  Bissell, Bill, 191, 243

  Blaine, James G., 114

  Blumer, George, 235

  Bokum, Dick, 397, 400

  Boleslavsky, Richard, 175, 221, 222, 233, 252–53, 272, 273, 275, 285, 287–88

  Bolívar, Simón, 581

  Boni, Albert, 241–43, 296, 300, 333; see also Albert & Charles Boni, Inc.

  Book-of-the-Month Club, 300, 388, 394, 587, 589, 675

  Booth, Shirley, 646

  Bordeaux, Henry, 150

  Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio, 600

  Borkh, Inge, 653, 674

  Boston:

  Merchant tryout in, 471

  Our Town film premiere in, 488–89

  Our Town stage tryout in, 450–52

  Boston Transcript, 168, 243

  Bourdet, Édouard, 290

  Brett, Dorothy, 658

  Brewster, Kate, 355

  Brice, Fanny, 532

  Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (TNW):

  characters and plot of, 185, 259, 307–12, 313, 499

  evolution of, 262, 271, 272, 273, 276, 277, 278–81, 284, 291, 294, 295–96, 298, 333, 558–59, 628, 648

  publication of, 275, 299–300, 301–2, 388, 456

  public response to, 303–4, 312–14, 324, 408

  setting of, 508, 519, 664

  success of, 312–14, 324, 325, 328, 329, 330, 349

  themes of, 258, 306–7, 336, 351, 569, 602, 629, 686

  Brontë, Charlotte, 631

  Brooke, Rupert, 127

  Brown, John Mason, 240

  Brown, Rollo, 514

  Browne, Sir Thomas, Religio Medici, 107, 108–9

  Brunauer, Dalma H., 686

  Bryce, James, 224

  Buber, Martin, 640

  Buck, Pearl, 616

  Buckwitz, Harry, 653

  Bunche, Ralph, 663

  Burlingham, Dorothy, 409

  Burnett, Whit, 678

  Burton, Richard, 630

  Butcher, Fanny, 355, 396, 397, 400, 675

  Bynner, [Harold] Witter, 658

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 157

  Cabala, The (TNW), 254–55, 260, 288, 299, 302, 388

  as Boy Sebastian, 197, 263

  characters and plot of, 259, 263–67, 271, 305, 306, 335, 342–43

  errata in, 268, 270, 305, 314

  evolution of, 258–59, 262–63, 271, 285

  as Marcantonio, 243–44

  as Memoirs/Year in Rome, 197, 219–20, 221, 225, 226, 238, 242–45, 249, 263

  public response to, 268–70, 272, 278–79, 295, 408

  setting of, 262, 263, 266

  success of, 269–70, 286, 328

  themes of, 256, 258, 265, 267, 336, 351, 589, 670, 686

  as Trasteverine, 207, 208, 263

  Cabell, James Branch, 278, 298, 319

  Cahn, Sammy, 652

  Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 213–14

  California Festival, 462–64

  Campbell, Gladys, 353, 523

  Campbell, Joseph, 545–48, 555–56

  Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 649

  Canby, Henry Seidel, 161, 176–77, 194, 216, 300, 546

  Canfield, Cass, 315, 388, 669, 674

  Capra, Frank, 390, 538

  Carducci, Giosuè, 27

  Carey, MacDonald, 538

  Carney, Art, 652

  Carter, John, 161

  Casals, Pablo, 663

  Cather, Willa, 278, 298, 313

  Catullus, 572

  Century Association, 591

  Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago (1933), 356–57, 390

  Cerf, Bennett, 242, 406, 547

  Chaliapin, Boris, 623

  Chandlee, Harry, 483

  Chaplin, Charlie, 232, 413, 479, 508

  Chekhov, Anton, 206, 253, 254, 306, 687

  Cheshire, Fleming, 61

  Chesterton, G. K., 314

  China:

  APW in Shanghai, 30–31, 32–42, 47–49, 50, 56–57, 61, 67, 75–77, 78–80

  and Hong Kong, see Hong Kong

  missionaries in, 29, 36–37, 41–42, 44, 46, 53–54, 62

  riots in, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 78

  U.S. recognition of, 66

  China Inland Mission School, Chefoo, 40–49, 50–59, 62–63, 68, 71

  Cicero, 572, 580, 581, 589

  Circle in the Square, New York, 651–52

  Claudel, Paul, 263

  Clift, Montgomery, 540, 554, 566, 619, 628, 629–30, 631

  Clodius Pulcher, 572

  Coast Artillery Corps, 165–66

  Cocteau, Jean, 238, 477

  Coffin, Catherine, 650, 658, 665, 699

  Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 699, 701

  Colefax, Arthur, 413

  Colefax, Sibyl:

  death of, 608–9, 694

  as designer, 431

  and friendship, 395, 403, 413–14, 427, 553, 590, 604

  and Harris, 349, 444, 445, 446

  salon of, 413–14

  TNW’s letters to, 332, 338–39, 344–45, 353, 360–61, 412, 418, 419, 472, 473, 474, 498, 508, 552, 565, 665

  and TNW’s work: Alcestiad, 567; Heaven’s, 345, 361; Ides, 581; Merchant, 472; Our Town, 427, 442, 530; Skin, 541, 544

  and war, 467, 525, 526, 529

  Coleman, Ronald, 384

  Collinge, Patricia, 538

  Colum, Padraic, 237, 485, 549

  Con, Louis, 262

  Connelly, Marc, 399, 452, 497, 620

  Green Pastures, 442

  Cooper, Gary, 390

  Copland, Aaron, 648

  Cornell, Katharine “Kit,” 353, 359–60, 395, 403, 406, 418

  Cosmopolitan Productions, 386

  Cotten, Joseph, 537

  Cousins, Norman, 547

  Coward, Noël, 353, 555, 608

  Coward, Tim, 574

  Coward-McCann, 315, 324, 348, 349, 369, 458, 460, 514, 574

  Cowl, Jane, 470, 471

  Cowley, Malcolm, 177, 615, 675, 698–99

  Cowper, William, 317

  Cozzens, James Gould, 332

  Craven, Frank, 445, 452, 465, 479, 480, 483

  Crawford, Cheryl, 479, 668

  Cronyn, Hume, 538

  Crowther, Bosley, 489

  Crozier, Eric, 453

  Cukor, George, 362, 383, 444, 463, 535

  cummings, e. e., 177

  Dadaism, 220

  Dakin, Janet Wilder, 568, 623–24

  death of, 701

  early years of, see Wilder, Janet Frances

  wedding of, 511–13, 517

  Dakin, Winthrop Saltonstall “Toby,” 508, 511–12, 568, 623

  Damita, Lili, 333

  Dana, J. Dwight, 315, 328–29, 333,
346–47, 352, 387, 388, 398, 400, 445, 449, 452, 453, 475, 477, 487, 509, 511, 512, 517, 518, 519, 531, 554, 555–56

  Dane, Clarence, 286

  Dante Alighieri, 185, 426, 459, 515

  Dark Angel (film), 384

  Davies, Arthur B., 112

  Davies, Marion, 385, 463

  Davis, Robert Frederick, 400, 403

  De Bosis, Adolfo, 192

  De Bosis, Lauro, 192, 238, 278, 584–85

  Defense of Democracy League, 504

  Defoe, Daniel, 631

  De la Mare, Walter, 213

  DeMott, Benjamin, 655

  De Sica, Vittorio, 620, 638

  DeVane, William C., 176

  Dial, 208

  Dickens, Tom, 213

  Dickinson, Emily, 439, 607, 608, 609, 610–11, 615, 616

  Dietrich, Marlene, 383

  Disney, Walt, 412, 479

  Dodge, Mabel, see Luhan, Mabel Dodge

  Donoghue, Margaret, 11, 37, 40, 49, 51

  Dos Passos, John, 342, 525

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 663, 666

  Double Dealer, 207, 243

  Draper, Ruth, 447, 585

  Drevenstedt, Amy, 299, 301

  Drummond, Jack, 70

  Dryden, John, 631

  Duchamp, Marcel, 87–88

  Duse, Eleonora, 232

  Eddy, Nelson, 508

  Edinburgh Festival, 624–25, 626, 629, 635

  Edington, Harry, 383

  Einstein, Albert, 468

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 556

  Eldridge, Florence, 532, 544, 554

  Eliot, T. S., 6–8, 321, 515, 590, 627, 644

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 343, 615–16

  English Book Society, 394

  Ercolano, Dario, 184

  Erickson, Leif, 649

  Erlanger, Abraham Lincoln, 171

  Estabrook, Howard, 558

  Euripides, 334, 605, 627

  Ewell, Tom, 471

  Fadiman, Clifton, 312, 675

  Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 508

  Farquhar, George, The Beaux’ Stratagem, 479

  Farrar, John, 269

  Faulkner, William, 207, 313

  Fay, Larry, 352

  FBI investigation of TNW, 495–97

  Fee, John G., 143

  Fenton, Charles, 177

  Ferber, Edna, 389, 497

  Fielding, Henry, 631

  Findley, Timothy, 631, 650, 674

  Fisher, Lola, 233

  Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 226

  Fitts, Norman, 177, 178, 220–21, 238, 245

  FitzGerald, Edward, 317

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 199, 284, 318–20, 323, 326

  Fitzgerald, Zelda, 199, 284, 319–21

  Flaubert, Gustave, 212, 494

  Florida:

  Army basic training in, 538–40

  TNW in, 302, 303, 487–88, 538, 616, 693

  Fonda, Henry, 447

  Fontaine, Joan, 535

  Fontanne, Lynn, 171, 353, 446, 530

  Forbes, Mrs. J. Malcolm, 250–51

  Foresman, Edwin Clyde “Tubby,” 204–5, 240, 297

  Foresman, Grace, 298, 378, 379, 385

  Forster, E. M., 238, 526

  Fowler, John, 431

  Franck, César, 238

  Frankfurter, Felix, 508

  Franklin, Benjamin, 609

  Freedman, Harold, 359, 447, 533, 545, 562, 566, 660

  French, Samuel, 288, 359, 460, 624

  French, Warren, 675

  Frenz, Horst, 645

  Freud, Anna, 408, 477, 632

  Freud, Sigmund, 404, 408–9, 427, 438, 467, 475, 477, 491, 500, 637, 671, 694–95

  Friedmann, Ernestine, 411, 515

  Frost, Robert, 141, 634

  Gable, Clark, 539

  Gale, Zona, 232

  Galloway, David, 675

  Gallup, Donald, 679, 696

  Gammon, Agnes, 156

  Garbo, Greta, 383, 385

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 6

  Gaston, William “Big Bill,” 444

  George, Grace, 103, 104, 109

  Germany, TNW’s speech in, 643–45

  Gershwin, George, 298, 354, 413

  Gielgud, John, 417, 650

  Gilbert and Sullivan, 560

  Gish, Lillian, 354, 590, 643

  Glasheen, Adaline, 647, 648

  Glenn, Leslie, 297, 353, 366, 392, 395, 396, 397, 508

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 404, 426, 581, 587, 601–3, 605, 607, 608, 645, 694

  Goethe Festival, 599–603

  Goethe University, 645

  Gold, Michael, 342–44, 350, 435

  Goldoni, Carlo, 404

  Goldsmith, Oliver, 603, 631, 685

  Goldstein, Malcolm, 310

  Goldstone, Richard H., 679–80

  Goldwyn, Samuel, 384, 386, 389

  González Ochoa, Fernando, 519

  Goodliffe, Michael, 630

  Goodspeed, Bobsy (Mrs. Charles), 354, 393, 395, 403, 417, 469

  Gordon, David J., 675

  Gordon, Ruth:

  and acting, 241, 385, 406, 417, 419, 532, 537, 545

  in A Doll’s House, 443, 445, 462

  and friendship, 353, 395, 418, 553, 631

  and Jed Harris, 349, 443–45, 446, 447, 462

  and Merchant/Matchmaker, 469–70, 532, 621, 624–26

  TNW’s letters to, 354, 356, 360, 395, 519, 520, 572, 581, 658, 663, 665, 666, 678, 689, 693

  and TNW’s memorial service, 702

  Goucher College, Baltimore, 243

  Goyette, A. Erland, 451

  Grant, Cary, 535, 603, 604

  Great Depression, 352, 358, 383, 386, 391, 419, 427, 463

  Green, Paul, 385, 386

  Greenbaum, Anita, 449

  Grillparzer, Franz, 404

  Guinan, Texas, 352, 356–57

  Guthrie, Ramon, 177

  Guthrie, Tyrone, 419, 621, 624–25, 629–30

  Guynemer, Georges, 150, 154, 167

  Haberman, Donald, 177

  Hadden, Briton, 176–77, 228

  Hadley, Arthur Twining, 149

  Hamilton, David, 355

  Hammerstein, Oscar I, 463

  Handel, George Frideric, Xerxes, 393–94, 398

  Harding, Ann, 419

  Hardy, Robert, 630

  Harkness, Edward S., 239

  Harper & Brothers/Harper & Row, 315, 388, 472, 580, 584, 669, 684

  Harper’s Magazine, 324

  Harriman, Averell, 504

  Harris, Jed, 317, 348–49, 353, 390, 395, 418, 419, 455, 462, 537, 567

  and Our Town, 443–54, 460, 465, 472–73, 474, 475, 476, 479, 523, 559, 560, 572

  and Skin, 523, 530, 531

  Harris, Jones, 349, 418–19, 462

  Harris, Rosemary, 630

  Harris, Tom, 347

  Hart, Moss, 481, 555

  Harvard University:

  honorary degree from, 613–14, 645

  Norton lectures in, 607, 608, 609–13

  “Thoughts for Our Times” address at, 613–14

  TNW at, 605, 615, 622

  Havoc, June, 649

  Hawks, Howard, 603, 604

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 615, 663

  Hayes, Helen, 171, 385, 406, 418, 447, 636, 649

  Hazlitt, William, 322

  Heap, Jane, 198

  Hearst, William Randolph, 385, 386

  Hecht, Ben, 620

  Heckart, Eileen, 643

  Heeney, Tom, 318, 325

  Heflin, Van, 359

  Heifetz, Jascha, 447

  Hellman, Lillian, 483

  Hemingway, Ernest, 160, 199, 278, 281–82, 283, 292, 298, 302, 313, 319, 323, 326, 332, 343, 455

  Hemingway, Hadley, 281, 282

  Hemingway, John “Bumby,” 281, 282

  Hendrickson, George Lincoln, 180, 181

  Henri, Robert, 112

  Hepburn, Katharine, 362, 383, 497

  Herlihy, James Leo, 675

  Herlitschka, H. E., 639

  Herrick, Mollie, 385

&n
bsp; Hesse, Hermann, 640

  Heyward, DuBose and Dorothy, 298

  Hicks, Granville, 675

  Hindemith, Gertrude, 650

  Hindemith, Paul, 649–50

  Hirsch, Sidney, 450

  Hitchcock, Alfred, 489, 534–36, 537

  Hitler, Adolf, 427, 461, 481

  Hobart, John, 468, 560

  Hobson, George and Helen, 111

  Hollywood, TNW in, 383–87, 462–64, 535–36

  Homer, 246

  Honegger, Arthur, 620

  Hong Kong:

  APW as U.S. consul general in, 15, 16, 21–23, 25, 29–30, 31

  Wilder family in, 18–25

  Hopkins, Arthur, 154, 163, 360, 566, 597, 605

  Horgan, Paul, 538, 694

  Horowitz, Vladimir, 354

  Huebsch, Benjamin W., 546

  Hughes, Gareth, 131, 154–56, 163

  Hughes, Rupert, 385

  Hull, Cordell, 507, 531

  Hunter, Glenn, 171–72

  Hunter, Ian, 626

  Hunter, Mary (Wolfe), 590

  Hu Shih, 526

  Husted, L. B., 65

  Hutchins, Maude, 354–55, 523–24, 526

  Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 274, 331, 345–46, 354, 355, 415–16, 471, 505, 523–24, 526, 536, 592, 593, 597, 599, 600, 601, 679, 688, 702

  Hutton, Barbara (Reventlow), 535

  Ibsen, Henrik, 214, 243, 254

  A Doll’s House, 443, 445, 451, 462, 467, 468

  Indig, Otto, Die Braut von Torozko, 359

  Indy, Vincent d’, 238

  Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle, Paris, 429–30

  Isaacs, Edith, 221, 222, 232, 233, 236, 240–41, 242, 253

  Italy, TNW in, 182–92

  Jackson, Stonewall, 5

  Jaffe, Sam, 359

  James, Henry, 607, 609, 615, 638

  The Ambassadors, 224

  The Aspern Papers, 157, 158

  The Awkward Age, 213

  The Wings of the Dove, 191, 213

  James, William, 108, 139

  Jameson, Storm, 526

  Jeffers, Robinson, 343, 389

  John XXIII, Pope, 663

  Johnson, Lady Bird, 666

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 654, 660, 663

  Johnson, Samuel, 207, 335, 631

  Jonson, Ben, The Alchemist, 286

  Jordan, Edward S., 10

  Jouve, Pierre Jean, Paulina, 293, 295, 296

  Jouvet, Louis, 477

  Joyce, James, 216, 262, 407, 493, 556, 595, 601

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 546

  death of, 546

  Finnegans Wake, 478, 481, 482, 486, 490–91, 545–49, 556, 594, 596, 641, 642, 647–48, 672–73

  Ulysses, 198, 246–47, 263

  Jung, Carl Gustav, 438, 637, 669

  Kafka, Franz, 568, 571, 605, 635, 645

  Kanin, Garson, 572, 621, 624, 631, 658, 663, 666, 678, 689, 693

  Kauffmann, Stanley, 675

  Kaufman, George S., 447, 481, 555

  Kazan, Elia, 481, 531–32, 540, 566

  Keats, John, 186, 238

  Keedick, Lee, 314, 316, 330, 339, 344, 386, 387, 412

 

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