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Index
The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable.
Ackerman, Diane, 70, 128, 150
Albaret, Céleste, 63–68
Allen, Hervey, 40
Allen, Woody, 87
Angelou, Maya, 96, 149–50
Asimov, Isaac, 28, 113
Atwood, Margaret, 87–88
Auden, W. H., 61
Bahlmann, Anna, 55–57
Balzac, Honoré de, 11–17, 95
Beauvoir, Simone de, 19
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 75
Bell, Quentin, 97
Bell, Vanessa, 97, 99
Bosanquet, Theodora, 142
Bradbury, Ray, 59, 61, 95, 166–67
Branch, James, 139–40
Breit, Harvey, 132
Brett, Dorothy, 116–17
Brontë, Emily, 75–76
Buchwald, Art, 134
Budgen, Frank, 107–08
Burroughs, William S., 157
Byrne, Donn, 139–40
Capote, Truman, 113, 153–57
Carroll, Lewis, 103
Carver, Raymond, 85, 166
Carver, Maryann, 85
Cather, Willa, 96
Cerf, Bennett, 104
Chabon, Michael, 120
Chandler, Raymond, 28, 77–78
Christie, Agatha, 128
Codman, Jr., Ogden, 55
Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle, 69–75
Colum, Padraic, 108–09
Cook, William, 80
Dahl, Roald, 101
Dawkins, Cecil, 161
Day, A. Grove, 136
Díaz, Junot, 120, 128–29
Dickens, Charles, 37, 45–47, 49, 78
Didion, Joan, 9–10, 95
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 8, 142
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 28
du Maurier, Daphne, 50–51
Dumas, Alexandre, pére, 21–25, 27
Eckermann, Johann Peter, 1
Egan, Jennifer, 119
Eliot, T. S., 76
Faulkner, William, 10, 104
Fitzgerald, Robert, 163
Fitzgerald, Sally, 163
Flanner, Janet, 115–16
Foot, Michael, 27
Forster, John, 37, 45
Franklin, Benjamin, 17–18, 128
Frost, Robert, 7–8, 36, 101
Gauthier-Villars, Henry, 71–72
Gillet, Louis, 106
Giroux, Robert, 43–44
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1–3, 61
Golding, William, 27
Goudeket, Maurice, 70
Graham, George, 42
Greene, Graham, 29, 61, 112
Hanway, Jonas, 19
Hardy, Thomas, 120
Hegermann-Lindencrone, Madame de, 128
Heller, Joseph, 87
Hemingway, Ernest, 61, 77, 83, 95, 131–34, 149
Hester, Betty, 160
Hooper, Walter, 19
Horgan, Paul, 162
Hughes, Langston, 103
Hugo, Adèle, 31
Hugo, Victor, 31–34, 61
Huxley, Aldous, 36–37, 117
Imb, Bravig, 83
James, Henry, 53–54, 142
Johnson, Samuel, 19–20
Jouvenel, Henry de, 72–73
Joyce, James, 29, 105–12
Kafka, Franz, 9
Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry, 79
Kauffmann, Stanley, 167
Kaufman, George S., 137
Kerouac, Jack, 43–44, 113
King, Stephen, 28, 120
Kipling, Rudyard, 103
Körner, Christian Gottfried, 2
Lapsley, Gaillard, 54
Larbaud, Valery, 105, 109
Lawrence, D. H., 115–17, 119
Lawrence, Frieda, 116
Le Carré, John, 86–87
Lee, Harper, 119–20, 157
Lewis, C. S., 19, 61
Linton, Eliza Lynn, 46
Lockhart, John Gibson, 86
London, Jack, 61, 89–93, 95
Lowell, Robert, 163
Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, 77
Mailer, Norman, 27
Mann, Thomas, 61
Maquet, Auguste Jules, 24
Márquez, Gabriel García, 61
Maugham, W. Somerset, 61, 96, 112, 127
Mauris, Maurice, 34
Maxwell, William, 8, 143
McCullers, Carson, 61
Milton, John, 141
Moore, H. T., 115
Moore, George, 50
Morrison, Toni, 60–61
Morton, Charles, 78
Nabokov, Vladimir, 61, 85, 121–25, 127
Nichols, Mary Gove, 41–42
Nin, Anaïs, 115
Noailles, Anna de, 65
Nussey, Ellen, 75–76
Oates, Joyce Carol, 59
O’Connor, Flannery, 49–50, 61, 149, 159–66
Parker, Dorothy, 29, 129
Pavie, Victor, 32
Plath, Sylvia, 61
Plimpton, George, 133–34, 150
Poe, Edgar Allan, 39–43, 49, 76–77
Pope, Alexander, 18
Porter, Katherine Anne, 60–61
Proust, Marcel, 63–68
Quincey, Thomas de, 36
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 141
Rogers, William, 80–81
Rostand, Edmond, 127–28
Roth, Philip, 59
Sackville-West, Vita, 99
Salinger, J. D., 8–9
Schiller, Friedrich, 1–7
Scott, Sir Walter, 86
Shaw, George Bernard, 150
Sitwell, Dame Edith, 150
Snitkina, Anna Grigorievna, 142
Stegner, Wallace, 60–61
Stein, Gertrude, 79–83, 85
Steinbeck, John, 29, 75, 135–41, 149
Stendhal, 95–96
Stephens, James, 111–12
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 35–36
Stevenson, Wallace, 38
Streicher, Andreas, 5
Styron, William, 76
Surville, Laure, 12–13, 15–16
Swift, Jonathan, 18
Talese, Gay, 157–58
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 24–25, 141
Thoreau, Henry David, 36
Thurber, James, 29
Toklas, Alice B., 79–82
Tolstoy, Leo, 61
Trollope, Anthony, 28, 61
Twain, Mark, 150–151
Vidal, Gore, 61
Voltaire, 17, 96
Vonnegut, Kurt, 61
Walker, Alice, 103
Waugh, Evelyn, 112, 120
Welsh Hemingway, Mary, 131
Welty, Eudora, 86, 143–47, 149
Wharton, Edith, 53–57, 59, 6
1
Wiesel, Elie, 87
Wilder, Thornton, 96, 133
Williams, Jean, 166
Willy, Henry, 71–72
Wodehouse, P. G., 29
Wolfe, Tom, 7, 28–29, 95
Woolf, Leonard, 98
Woolf, Virginia, 37–38, 61, 75, 97–99, 101, 103
Wordsworth, William, 36
Yeats, William Butler, 37, 50
About the Author
Celia Blue Johnson graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in English and American literature, and went on to edit fiction and nonfiction at major publishing houses. She is the creative director of Slice Literary, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Poets&Writers. Celia is also the author of Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway: Stories of the Inspiration Behind Great Works of Literature. She lives with her husband and daughter in Portland, Maine.
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