Grass, Günter, 640
Graves, Robert, 194, 634
Great Depression, 230, 232
Green, Adolph, 698n218
Green, Paul, 278
The House of Connelly, 251
Greene, Graham, 700
Greenway, Isabella, 624
Greet, Sir Philip “Ben,” 9
Grenfell, Sir Wilfred, 213
Grey, Orpha, 59
Griffith, D. W., 118n205
Gris, Juan, 277
Gropius, Walter, 496
Guinan, Texas, 265
Guinness, Alec, 670
Guiraud, Edmond, La Bonheur de Jour, 549
Guitry, Sacha, 310
Guthrie, Tyrone “Tony,” 504, 527, 531
Gwyn, Eleanor “Nell,” 81
H
Haas, Robert, 372–73
Hadden, Briton, 646
Hadley, Arthur Twining, 172
Hagen, Beulah, 601, 686
Hague, Eleanor, 73
Haight, Gordon, 696n217, 697
Haight, Mary M., TNW letter to, 696–97
Hale, Nathan, 116
Hamilton, James Hamish, 239
Hammerstein, Oscar, 502
Hammond, Kay, 388n49
Handel, George Frideric, 681
Handel Festival, Newport, 467
Hanna, Leonard C., Jr., 285
Hardy, Thomas, 226
Far From the Madding Crowd, 575–76
The Return of the Native, 613
Harper & Brothers, 221–22, 233, 271
and Heaven’s My Destination, 283, 568
and The Merchant of Yonkers, 364n2
Harris, Jed, 251, 261–62, 333, 399, 435, 491
and A Doll’s House, 324, 330, 338, 343–44
and The Fifth Column, 340, 341
and The Green Bay Tree, 262n69, 269n81
and Our Town, 234, 322, 323, 324–25, 328, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 338, 339, 342, 348, 553
and Skin of Our Teeth, 389n52, 391–93, 408
TNW letter to, 332
TNW’s friendship with, 257, 274, 308
Harris, Sam H., 269n80, 408, 417
Harrison, Betsy, 674
Harshe, Robert B., 277n98
Hart, Clive, 694n212
Hart, Jerry, 207
Harvard College, TNW’s wish to attend, 90, 102
Harvard University, TNW on faculty of, 479, 494
Harvard University Press, 479, 480
Hawks, Howard, 474, 475
Hawley, Helen, 426
Haydn, Franz Joseph, 684, 694
Hayes, Helen, 282, 308
in The Merchant of Venice, 345–46
in The Skin of Our Teeth, 532n97, 692
TNW letter to, 457—59
in Victoria Regina, 309
Hayman, David, 694n212
Hazard, Paul, 315
Hazelton, George C., and J. Harry Benrimo, The Yellow Jacket, 91
Hazzard, John E., and Winchell Smith, Turn to the Right, 91
Hearn, Walter, 14
Hearst, William Randolph, 9n5, 232, 284
Hearts of the World (film), 118
Hecht, Ben, 464n171
Miracle in the Rain, 545n122
Heifetz, Jascha, 614
Hellman, Lillian, 370, 667
The Little Foxes, 417n98
Hello, Dolly! ( Broadway musical), 364n2, 582, 583, 618n72
Helmensdorfer, Urs, TNW letter to, 592–93
Hemingway, Dick, 279
Hemingway, Ernest, 155n35, 461, 472, 633
The Fifth Column, 340, 341n218
“Fifty Grand,” 210
The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta), 128–29, 195, 201, 238–39
TNW letters to, 193–95, 227–28, 340–41
TNW’s friendship with, 192–93, 196, 198, 200–201, 207, 220, 492
Hemingway, John Hadley Nicanor “Bumby,” 197n121, 201
Hemingway, Mrs. Ernest, 197–98, 201
Hennessey, Joseph, 304
Henry Miller Theater, New York, 338
Hepburn, Katharine, 261, 262n69, 272, 273
Heraclitus, 72n126
Herlihy, James Leo:
All Fall Down, 650
Midnight Cowboy, 668
TNW letters to, 649–51, 666–69, 671–74
Herlitschka, Herberth, 570
TNW letter to, 471–73
Herodotus, 17
Histoire, 631
Herriot, Edouard, 314n173
Hersey, John, A Single Pebble, 542n116
Heyward, DuBose, Porgy, 237
Heywood, Thomas, A Woman Killed with Kindness, 597
Hichens, Robert, The Fruitful Vine, 171
Higginson, Rebekah, 426
Higginson, Sally, 506
TNW letter to, 509–10
Hilton, Conrad “Nicky,” 498
Hinckle, Bill, 244
Hindemith, Gertrude, TNW letter to, 569–70
Hindemith, Paul, and The Long Christmas
Dinner, 483, 569–70, 577, 581, 622
Hirsch, Sidney, 344
Hitchcock, Alfred, and Shadow of a Doubt, 357, 358, 395, 396, 397, 399, 401
Hitler, Adolf, 307, 648
Hobson, Archibald, 637
Hobson, Verna Harrison, 637n110
Hobson, Wilder, 637n110, 644
Hofmann, Heinrich, 41
Hohenlohe, Furstin, 472
Hokusai, Katsushika, The Great Wave at Kanagwa, 28
Holliday, Judy, 590
Hollywood:
TNW as screenwriter in, 232–33, 266–67, 272, 273–76, 282, 284–85, 291, 311, 350, 357–58, 395, 397, 397, 401, 455, 473–75
TNW’s letters from, 241–44, 278–82, 395–402
Holm, Celeste, 619
Holt, Hamilton, 274n92
Homer, 346
Odyssey (transl.), 245
Hopkins, Arthur, 118–19
Hopkins, Miriam, 331, 417
Hopwood, Avery, 474
Horowitz, Vladimir, 243
Hosmer, Helen, 701
Hotchkiss, Edwin DeWitt, 59, 116
Hotson, Leslie, Mr. WH, 631
Housman, Laurence, Victoria Regina, 309
Howard, Sidney, 341
Alien Corn, 263n71
Hubbard, Elbert, 108n179
Hubbard, Katharine, 108
Hudson Review, 609
Hull, Cordell, 384, 386
Humphrey, Doris, 389n53
Humphrey-Weidman dance company, 389
Hunt, James Leigh, “Abou Ben Adhem,” 470
Hunter, Sir Ian Bruce Hope, 527–28
Huntington Hartford Foundation, 521, 553
Hu Shih, 658–59
Huston, Walter, 247
Hutchins, Franja, 253, 309
Hutchins, Maude, 252–53, 284, 285, 309, 373, 402, 405–6, 511
Hutchins, Robert M., 373, 379, 437n124, 495, 596
career of, 113n189
government service of, 276, 284, 289, 381, 406
and the humanities, 466
at Oberlin, 6, 313n170, 675
second marriage of, 466n174
TNW letter to, 400–402
and TNW’s lectures, 360, 361, 468
and University of Chicago, 231, 247, 252, 260, 288, 294, 466
at Yale, 7, 645
Hutchins, William J., 313n170
Hutton, Barbara (Reventlow), 399
Huxley, Aldous, 379, 438
I
Ibsen, Henrik, 519
A Doll’s House, 234, 324, 330, 338
Hedda Gabler, 72
The Master Builder, 72, 119
Ickes, Harold, 276
I Married a Witch (film), 394n59
Indig, Otto, The Bride of Torozko, 232, 256
Inge, William, Come Back, Little Sheba, 490n14
Institute for Intellectual Cooperation, 234
Isaacs, Edith J. R., 177n83
TNW letter to, 165–68
Istomin, Eugene, 603
It Happened One Night (film), 369
J
Jackson, Mary, 676
Jackson, Rose, 498
James, Henry, 695
“The Altar of the Dead,” 114n191
The Golden Bowl, 460
The Wings of the Dove, 504
James, William, 206, 695
Jane Eyre (film), 369
Jarry, Alfred, Ubi Roi, 533
Jaws (film), 693
Jeffers, Robinson, Medea (adapt.), 619n76
Jerome, Jerome K., Passing of the Third Floor Back, 30, 42
Joan of Arc, 232, 272, 273, 275–76
John, Augustus, 239
Johnson, Lady Bird, 583
Johnson, Lamont, 546n125
Johnson, Lyndon B., 582, 628
Johnson, Mrs. Hobart, 289
Johnson, Thomas H., 579n180
Johnson, Walter Willard “Spud,” 286n119
Jolas, Eugene, 379
Jones, Clifton, 261n68
Jones, Frederick Scheetz, 113, 181n96, 511
Jones, Robert Edmond, 256
Josset, André, Elizabeth la Femme Sans Homme, 310n163
Jouve, Pierre-Jean, Paulina, 216, 217
Joyce, James, 379, 560, 579, 695
death of, 502
Finnegans Wake, 355, 358, 360, 371, 372, 412–14, 480, 483, 495, 595, 598, 609n59, 691, 694n211
James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical Essays (Hart and Hayman, eds.), 694n212
Ulysses, 695
Jung, Carl, 206n141
K
Kafka, Franz, 555, 640
The Trial, 458
Kahn, Michael, 371n16
TNW letter to, 691–92
Kanin, Garson, 523, 554
Born Yesterday, 446n144, 590n9
Do Re Mi, 576n172
and Gordon, 441n130, 680
The Live Wire, 490
The Marrying Kind, 490n13
Pat and Mike, 490n13
The Rat Race, 490
TNW letters to, 440–41, 443–46, 522–24, 590–92, 619–21, 685–86
TNW’s friendship with, xiii, xxxvi, 506, 586, 680, 693
Years Ago, 444n143
Kaufman, Beatrice, 380
Kaufman, George S., 269n80
Kazan, Elia, 394, 395, 398n69, 407, 590n9
Keats, John, 135, 140, 144
Keedick, Lee, see Lee Keedick Agency
Keller, Ruth, 75
at Oberlin, 6, 68–70, 108
TNW letter to, 100–101
Kelman, John, 169
Kendall, Beatrice, 515
Kendall, Mrs. Sergeant, 146
Kennedy, John F., 582
Kennedy, Stanton, 250
Keyserling, Alexander, South American
Meditations, 378n29
Kierkegaard, Søren, 435–36, 449, 502, 584
Kilty, Jerome, 582, 622
King, Harold, 95
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 655
King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 431n116
Kipling, Rudyard, 17
Kirkpatrick, Jack, 196
Knee, Ernest and Gina, 285n117, 286
Knickerbocker, H. R., 268
Knight, Marion E., 57
Kokoshka, Oskar, 496
Kommer, Rudolf, 82–83, 94, 166–67, 168, 201, 331
TNW letter to, 76–78
Koppelman, Bill, 691
Kwong Ling, 35, 37, 48
L
La Argentina (Antonia Merce), 242
La Bruyère, Jean de, 171
La Follette, Mrs. Philip F., 253n39
Lahr, Bert, 538
Lamartine, Alphonse-Marie-Louis de, 134
Lamb, Charles, 659
Lamb, Henry, 240n9
Lanchester, Elsa, 282
Landowska, Wanda, 621
Langner, Ruth, 256n47
Lansbury, Angela, 650n132
Lardner, Reginald “Rex,” 225
Lardner, Ringold “Ring,” 225n180
Latin America, TNW’s travels in, 357, 385–87
Laughton, Charles, 253, 279, 311, 455
TNW letter to, 280–82
Laurence, Dan H., ed., Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 641
Law, William, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, 177
Lawrence, D. H., 173, 206n141, 286n120, 608, 614
The Plumed Serpent, 665
Women in Love, 60
Lawrence, Frieda, 286n120
Lawrence, T. E.:
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 245
TNW letter to, 244–45
transl., Odyssey (Homer), 245
Lawrenceville School, New Jersey:
Davis House, 127, 129, 151, 214
TNW on faculty of, 126, 127, 130, 149, 210–11
TNW’s letters from, 150–77, 219–28
Layton, William, 445
League of Nations, 234, 314n173
Lederer, Francis, 255
Lee Keedick Agency, 223n174, 229, 242, 261, 374
Le Gallienne, Eva, 203
Léger, Alexis (Saint-John Perse), 465, 521, 602
Léger, Fernan, 277
Le Grand, Eileen, TNW letters to, 427–29, 439–40, 545–47, 610–12, 678–79, 704–5
Le Grand, Julian, 429n112, 547, 678–79
TNW letter to, 545–47
Le Grand, Roland, 424n106, 427–29, 451n153
TNW letters to, 439–40, 545–47, 610–12, 678–79, 704–5
Lehmann, Lotte, 614
Lehr, Wilson, TNW letter to, 370–71
Leigh, Vivien, 431, 435
in Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra, 501n43, 684
and The Skin of Our Teeth, 429, 430n114, 433
TNW letter to, 489–91
TNW’s friendship with, 443, 444, 450, 489, 577n175, 684
Leinsdorf, Erich, 683
Leopardi, Giacomo, 309–10
Pensieri, 309
Lesser, Sol, 399
and Our Town (film), 367–68, 374–76
TNW letters to, 368–70, 374–76
Lewis, Rosa, 239, 240n9
Lewis, Sinclair, 220, 322, 379, 650
Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon “Lefty,” 158
Lewis and Smith, eds., Horace Walpole’s Correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart, 374
Leyda, Jay, 579–80
Libman, Emanuel, 264
Library of Congress, 357
Lillie, Beatrice, 339
Lillie, Helen M., 313n172
Lillie, Ralph S., 250, 313n172
Lincoln, Abraham, 20n30, 48
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 602
Link, Franz, TNW letter to, 536–37
Lippmann, Walter, 381
Littlefield, Catherine, Philadelphia Ballet, 389
Little Foxes, The (film), 399
Little Night Music, A (musical), 686
Logan, Spencer Hancock, 33
London Mercury, 209n147
Longman, Richard, 223
Longmans, Green & Co., 276
and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, 217
and The Cabala, 128, 197n120
and Heaven’s My Destination, 233
and TNW’s translations, 216
Lonigan, Studs, 651n134
Lope de Vega, see Vega, Lope de
Lord, Pauline, 308, 455
Louis XIV, court of, 164, 571
Lowell, Robert, 602, 603
Lowry, Howard, TNW letter to, 493–96
Lucas, F. L., Tragedy, 258
Luce, Clare Booth, 542, 645
Luce, Henry R., 140, 596
at Chefoo, 4
death of, 645n128
TNW letter to, 541–42
tributes to, 645–46, 658–59
at Yale, 7, 645
Ludwig, Ken, 371n16
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 268
death of, 614n65
salon of, 372
Taos ranch of, 206, 232, 233, 272, 389n52
TNW letters to, 266–67, 273–75, 283–87, 297–98
Luhan, Tony, 614n65
Lukács, George, 641
Lull, Richard S., 616n69
Lunt, Alfred
, 376, 568
TNW letter to, 391–93
TNW’s friendship with, 239, 259n63, 261, 264
M
MacDonald, Margaret, 428n111
MacDougall, Ainslie, 242
MacDowell, Edward Alexander, 217n159, 237
MacDowell, Marian, 216–17n159
MacDowell Colony, 521, 553, 567
TNW’s acquaintances from, 192n113, 237–38, 481, 507n55, 516n72, 517n73, 601–2
TNW’s letters from, 237–40
TNW’s residencies in, 128, 129, 185n102, 188, 229, 231, 234, 273, 356, 378, 480, 650
MacGowan, Kenneth, 276
Macht, Evelyn, TNW letter to, 456–57
MacKaye, Percy, 86, 274
Jeanne d’Arc, 274n91
MacKenzie, Compton, Sinister Street, 113
MacLeish, Archibald, 379, 395n60, 401, 432
Macy, Gertrude, 259n63
Madariaga y Rojo, Salvador de, 314n174
Maeterlinck, Maurice, The Blue Bird, 346
Magee, Joe, 446
Magic Flute (film), 703
Magni, Eva, 614
Mahler, Gustav, 496, 701
Malden, Karl, 650n132
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 516, 552
Malraux, André, 602
Mamoulian, Reuben, 279
Mann, Thomas, 299, 503, 695
Mansfield, Katherine, 509, 614
Mantegna, Andrea, 240n9
March, Fredric:
and The Skin of Our Teeth, 394, 406, 407, 409–10, 417, 528
in We Live Again, 278–79
in Years Ago, 444
Marcin, Max, Cheating Cheaters, 91
Marcuse, Herbert, 656–57
Marivaux, Pierre de, Les Fausses Confidences, 458
Marquand, John P., 380
Marsh, Mae, 118, 201
Martin, Mary, 532n97
Martineau, Henri, 631n100
Marvel, Ik (pen name), 104
Marvell, Andrew, “The Garden,” 622n78
Massey, Doro, 384
Massey, Raymond, 308, 384
Massingham, Dorothy, and Murray
MacDonald, The Lake, 262
Match Girls, The (musical), 641
Matheson, Edith Wynne, 520
Matzenauer, Margaret, 389
Maugham, Somerset, The Circle, 270
Mauriac, François, 700
Maynor, Dorothy, 468
McAfee, Helen, 248, 251n34, 498
McArthur, Charles, 308
McCarthy, Daniel Clifford, 285n117
McCarthy, Lillah, 47, 48n92
McClatchy, J. D., 587n1
McClintic, Guthrie, 260, 263, 308
McCormick, Cyrus, 207n144
McCormick, Muriel, 207
McCormick, Renée de Fontarce, Little Coquette, 426
McCullers, Carson, 560
McCullough, Duff, 223n175, 374
McGinley, Phyllis, TNW letter to, 633–35
McMein, Neysa, 590, 591n10
Mei Lan-Fang, 589
Melville, Herman, 494, 502, 579
Mendelssohn, Eleanora von, 305, 576
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