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by James Laughlin

Jesuits, 287–88

  Johnson, Karl, 351

  Jones, Margo, 10–11, 23, 25, 29, 44, 49, 54, 55, 63–64, 85, 89–90, 91n, 97, 102

  Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, xi

  Joyce, James, 17, 113n

  Exiles, 19n

  Stephen Hero, 19n

  Julius Caesar, 133

  J. Walter Thompson Company, xxiii, 27n

  Kafka, Franz, 10, 24

  Amerika, 11n

  “The Burrow,” 85

  The Castle, 133

  Kafka Problem, The (Flores), 11n

  Kahane, Jack, 113n

  Kahn, Michael, 331n

  Kazan, Elia “Gadg,” 90n, 130, 135, 136n, 150–51, 181–84, 187, 187n–88n, 196, 200–202, 205–7, 214n

  Kazan, Molly Day Thacher, 135, 136n

  Keathley, George, 306n, 308n, 311n

  Kennedy, Jacqueline, 231

  Kennedy, John F., xxiv, 221, 231, 234

  Kennedy, Joseph P., 357

  Kennedy Center Honors, 359

  Kent, Jonathan, 350

  Key West, Fla., xxix, 136, 138, 145, 150–51, 153, 163, 170, 181, 183, 189–90, 208, 211, 214, 225, 232, 237–38, 240, 244, 246–49, 251, 255, 256–58, 266, 270, 276, 278, 281, 283, 287, 297, 299, 319, 322, 343, 347–49, 355

  Kirstein, Fidelma Cadmus, 4n

  Kirstein, Lincoln, xi–xiii, xxix, 3, 4n, 5, 7n, 9, 87, 363

  Knight, Shirley, 356n

  Krishnamurti, Jiddu, 18, 19n

  Krutch, Joseph Wood, 35, 36n

  Kubie, Lawrence S., 217n

  Ladies’ Home Journal, xix, 112

  Laguna Beach, Calif., 22, 46

  Lahr, John, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, xxviiin

  Lal, Chatur, 211–12, 213n

  Lamm, Donald S., 339n

  Lanier, Sidney (19th century), 279n

  Lanier, Sidney (20th century), 70n, 278, 278n–79n

  Lanier, Sterling, 69

  Lanier family, xii, 69, 70n

  Lansdowne, Helen, 27n, 28n

  Lasky, Floria, 307, 308n, 339

  Lasky, Melvin J., 307, 308n

  Laughlin, Ann Clark Resor, xxiii, 27, 28n, 112n, 211, 213n, 214–15, 218, 241n, 249, 261–63, 344, 358

  Laughlin, Charles, 305

  Laughlin, Gertrude Freedman Huston, see Huston, Gertrude Freedman

  Laughlin, Henry, 285, 286n

  Laughlin, James, xi

  biography of, xx

  bipolar disorder of, xxv, xxvii, 306n, 368n

  character and personality of, xix

  children of, xvii, 36n, 191n, 240, 241n, 285, 286n, 337

  college lecture tours of, xxvii, 367, 368n, 370–71

  death of, 164n, 193n

  extramarital affairs of, xvii, xxi, 75n, 191n

  family fortune of, xi

  friendship of TW and, xi–xiv, xvi–xvii, xix, xxii–xxiii, xxv–xxxi, 249, 263, 318, 349, 363, 365, 372n, 373

  Harvard education of, xi, xii, 3, 326, 327n

  honors and awards of, xxvi, 361n, 372, 373, 374n

  illness and injury of, 44, 304, 306n, 315, 328

  marriages and divorces of, xvi, xvii, xx–xxi, xxiii, 5n, 36n, 75n, 112n, 177n, 191n, 241n

  New Directions founded by, xi

  Pharos magazine founded by, xvi

  physical appearance of, xi, xiii

  poetry of, xii, xvi, xxix, 58, 74, 75n, 104, 106n, 128, 197, 198n, 328–29, 331n, 332–33, 349, 350n, 371n, 372n

  salaried jobs of, xxi, xxiii, 177, 188n, 195n, 199n, 214

  semi-retirement of, xxvii, 366, 367

  on sex, xix

  ski resort of, xvi, 11, 110, 115

  as TW’s literary executor, 42

  TW’s tribute to, xxvi–xxviii, 364–65, 373, 374n

  Laughlin, James, works of, 375–76

  “Avalanche,” 58

  The Collected Poems of James Laughlin, 313n

  “Generations,” 104

  “In Another Country,” 329n

  “It’s Warm Under Your Thumb,” 198n

  “The Man in the Subway,” 106n

  A Small Book of Poems, xvi, 75n, 104, 106n

  Some Natural Things, xvi, 58n, 104, 106n

  “Tennessee,” 371n, 372n

  “The Trout,” 331n, 332

  The Wild Anemone & Other Poems, 331n

  Laughlin, James, III, 11n

  Laughlin, Leila, see Javitch, Leila Laughlin

  Laughlin, Margaret Keyser, xvi, xx–xxi, 35, 36n, 39, 43, 67n, 91, 131–32, 177n, 191n, 241n, 251n

  Laughlin, Marjory Rea, xxiii, 191n, 276, 291

  Laughlin, Paul, 36n, 191n, 249, 251n, 337

  Laughlin, Robert, 285, 286n

  Lawrence, D. H., xviii, xix, 6, 20, 25, 30, 31, 111–12, 121n, 228

  TW’s plays about, 7n, 111, 113n, 121, 123, 132, 135, 144, 159, 228

  “You Touched Me!,” 25n

  Lawrence, Frieda von Richthofen, 30, 31n, 32, 41, 112, 121, 136, 144, 228, 229n

  Lawrence, Gertrude, 124n

  Lawrence Durrell-Henry Miller: A Private Correspondence (Wickes, ed.), 244n

  Lee, Gypsy Rose, 120, 121n, 131

  Le Gallienne, Eva, 37, 38n, 39, 43

  Lehmann, John, 117, 123, 127

  Lehmann, Rosamund, 158–59

  Leigh, Vivienne, 106n

  Leighton, Margaret, 239n, 272, 301, 309

  Le Rosey School, 11n

  Leverich, Lyle, 247n

  Levin, Alvin, 61

  Love Is Like Park Avenue, 61n

  Library of Congress, 128n, 213n

  Liebling, William, 37, 38n

  Liebling and Associates, 38n

  Little Foxes, The (Hellman), 35n

  Living Theatre, 220

  Lloyd, Harold, 75

  Logan, Joshua, 102, 104n

  London, xxix, 81, 82n, 114, 127, 135, 178, 184, 190, 195, 206, 300, 312, 326, 335

  theater in, xxi, 101, 104n, 106n, 112n, 201, 248, 255, 257, 281, 325, 348, 350–51, 362n

  London Observer, 205

  London Times, 281

  Los Angeles, Calif., 18, 81–82, 323n

  Lowry, Robert, 67, 74, 79

  Casualty, 67n

  “Layover in El Paso,” 67n

  Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 121n

  Lustig, Alvin, xvii, 16, 53n, 83, 105, 114, 115n, 149, 151, 154, 162, 173, 200, 202, 217n, 227, 230

  Lyndon, Andrew, 255, 257n

  Lynes, George Platt, 7n, 40, 42, 67

  MacGregor, Robert, xx–xxi, xxiii–xxvii, 177, 182, 190–91, 194–95, 200, 205–6, 208, 210–11, 213, 216–28, 230–31, 233–34, 236–40, 244, 248–49, 251–55, 257–66, 269–73, 276, 278, 280, 283n, 284–85, 287–88, 299–300, 306n, 308, 313n, 314, 319–20, 327, 330, 334, 335n, 337, 338, 355, 357, 366

  Machiz, Herbert, 238, 247, 251n, 257, 288, 291

  MacKellar, Helen, 75n

  MacLeish, Archibald, 213n

  MacNiven, Ian S.:

  The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935–80 (MacNiven, ed.), 244n

  “Literchoor Is My Beat,” xx, 175n

  Madam Sophia (dog), 340, 342 343

  Madden, Donald, 288, 289n, 304, 306n, 308n, 311n

  Mademoiselle, 99

  Magnani, Anna, 105, 106n, 141, 213

  Makos, Christopher, 343

  Malina, Judith, 220n

  Manhattan General Hospital, 178

  Mann, Daniel, 163, 164n

  Manners, Hartley J., Peg o’ My Heart, 52n

  Mannes, Marya, 223, 224n

  Man of La Mancha, 277

  Mardersteig, Giovanni, 137n, 331n

  Marlowe, Christopher, 10

  Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 47

  Martin, Frederick R., xxvii, 308–9, 313–15, 318, 329, 337–38, 346–47, 350, 355–57, 362, 363–66

  Martin, Kathy, 313

  Massachusetts, xviii, 111, 121, 171

  Matthiessen, Francis Otto, 69

  American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, 70n

  Maxwell, Gilbert, 245

  Tenness
ee Williams and Friends (An Informal Biography), 247n

  Mayer, Louis B., 84, 86n

  Mayorga, Margaret, 63, 64n

  McCarter Theater, 331

  McCarthy, Mary, 233

  McClintic, Guthrie, 25n, 63, 64n, 107–8

  McCorkle, Francis, 305

  McCullers, Carson, 79, 102–3, 105–6, 121n, 137, 152, 154, 158–59, 255

  The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, 102, 104n, 117, 127

  death of, 285n

  health concerns of, 134, 155

  The Member of the Wedding, 80n, 94n, 136n, 137n, 140

  Reflections in a Golden Eye, 107, 113–14, 116, 120, 122, 125, 131, 134, 140, 143

  McDowell, David, 99, 100n, 151, 166n, 229n

  McGee, Leoncia, 255, 257n, 323n

  McGrath, Leween, 272

  Meacham, Anne, 219

  Meditarraneo [sic] for Mediterráneao (a daily published in Catellón, 1969–85), 344

  Mediterranean Sea, 96, 195

  Merlo, Frank Philip, xx, xxv, 109, 114, 150, 154–56, 161–62, 168, 170, 175, 180, 185, 187, 189–90, 194, 200, 207, 210–11, 220, 225–26, 238n, 246, 247n, 248, 253, 254, 258–61, 262n, 279, 284, 297, 300, 301, 303

  Merrick, David, 10–11, 257, 258n, 281n, 286

  Merrild, Knud, 111, 113n

  Merrill, James Ingram, 219

  Merton, Thomas, 295

  accidental death of, 292n–93n, 299n

  The Asian Journal, 293n, 298, 299n, 314, 318

  The Geography of Lograire, 292, 298

  JL and, 129n, 209, 210n, 292

  The Seven Storey Mountain, 126–27, 129n

  Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), xiv, 15n, 20, 25, 29n, 86n, 206

  Mexico, 10, 23–25, 33, 37, 43, 46, 47, 62, 65, 89

  Mexico City, 29, 63

  Miami, Fla., 64, 189, 217, 225, 248

  Miles, Sylvia, 325n, 351

  Miller, Henry, xiii, xix, 8n, 19, 49, 72, 82, 87, 112, 113n, 130, 174, 242–44

  The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 72n

  The Phoenix, 30

  Tropic of Cancer, 48

  Miller, Janina Martha Lepska, 82n

  Miller, Valentine, 82n

  Mills, Clark, 98n

  “The Circus,” 16–17

  Mingus, Charles, 220

  Mishima, Yukio, xxiv–xxv, 223, 224n, 271, 272, 305–6

  Killed by Roses, 270

  suicide of, 306n

  Thirst for Love, 306

  Miss Hooligan (dog), 288, 289n

  Molostvova, Alexandra “Sandra,” 204

  Montale, Eugenio, 332

  New Poems: A Selection from Satura and Diario del’71 e del’72, 333n

  Mormons, 46–47

  Morosco Theatre, 203n

  Morrow, Bradford, xxvii, 365n

  Mosher, Gregory, 363n

  Moss, Howard, 13, 14n, 285

  Mr. Moon (dog), 190, 210

  Muir, Edwin, 11n

  Murrow, Edward R., 224n

  Myers, Johnny, 197

  Nantucket Island, Mass., xii, 77–78, 91, 137n, 179

  Naples, 130, 135, 306

  Nathan, George Jean, 36

  Nation, The, 36n

  National Arts Club, 229, 372, 373, 374n

  National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 57n

  National Institute of Arts and Letters, xiv, 339, 341n

  National Theatre, 75n

  Naya, Ramon, 54

  Mexican Mural, 55n

  Neue Rundschau, Die, 183

  New American Library, 173, 179, 227, 228n

  New Critics, 295, 296n

  New Directions, xiii, xviii, xxv, xxix, 48n, 103

  as “advance guard” literary publication, xi

  all works of TW published by, xv–xvi, xxv, xxvi, 52n–53n

  Eighth Avenue offices of, xxvi, 175n, 357

  Fifth Avenue offices of, 6n

  founding of, xi

  jacket designs and print types of, xviii, 53n, 75n, 83, 93–94, 102, 105, 149, 151, 154, 169, 171–73, 200, 202, 217n, 227, 228n, 265, 283, 309, 330, 331n, 332, 346, 347n

  Meadow House offices of, 6n, 16, 164n

  New Classics series of, xv, xviiin, 53n, 107, 115n, 227

  Poet of the Month/Year series of, 129n, 208

  Sixth Avenue offices of, xx, 175n, 355, 357

  staff of, xviii, xx–xxi, xxiii–xxiv, xxvi, xxvii, 67n, 93n, 99n, 175n, 177, 309n, 313n, 335n, 350, 351n

  unreliable finances of, xxiii

  New Directions in Prose and Poetry, xi, 8n, 79, 121, 178, 273, 318, 321

  of 1936, 236n

  of 1942, 61n

  of 1946, 66n, 67n

  of 1968, 282n

  of 1974, 327, 329, 330

  New Directions Ownership Trust, 339n

  New Haven, Conn., 91–92, 183, 238

  New Jersey, 178, 231

  Newman, Paul, 220n

  New Mexico, 17, 22, 62, 77–78

  New Orleans, La., xvii, 10, 33, 71–74, 76, 78, 84, 90, 99, 114, 199, 256–57, 276, 319, 340, 345, 348, 358n

  French Quarter of, 325n

  New York, N.Y., xii, xv, xx, 3, 9, 10, 13, 15, 22, 23, 33, 40, 60, 61, 64, 66, 68, 73, 74, 148, 206–7, 251–52

  Broadway theater, xvii, xxii, xxiv, xxvii, 7n, 11n, 25, 34–35, 37, 38n, 42n, 46, 52n, 71, 79, 86n, 101, 127, 137n, 182, 184, 185, 203n, 224n, 232, 239n, 246, 265n, 281, 350–51, 360

  Brooklyn, 120, 121n

  Gramercy Park, 372n

  Greenwich Village, xxv, 174, 334

  Lincoln Center, 266

  Manhattan, xxvii, 5, 42, 47, 109n, 146, 196, 271

  off-Broadway theater, 207, 220n, 288, 310, 311n

  Staten Island, 357

  Times Square, 53, 205, 213, 214n

  New York Center for Visual History, 368

  New York City Ballet, xii

  New York Drama Critics Circle Award, 239n

  New Yorker, The, 12, 14n, 140, 158, 212, 285

  New York Post, 231, 285n

  New York Public Library, 216, 368n

  New York Star, 111, 113n

  New York State Literary Center, 361n

  New York Times, 76, 77n, 80, 154, 157n, 186n, 189n, 210, 224n, 279, 313n, 321, 349n, 374n

  New York Times Book Review, 76, 348

  New York Times Magazine, 223

  New York University, 355, 357

  Nicklaus, Frederick, 238, 241, 242, 246, 248, 250, 254, 258, 260, 265, 273, 280

  The Man Who Bit the Sun, 238n

  Night of the Iguana, The (film), 181n, 266

  Nixon, Richard M., 329n

  Norfolk, Conn., 5, 6, 16, 67, 81, 90, 126, 164n, 203, 211, 249, 253, 298, 314, 317, 327, 333, 341, 344, 351, 363, 367

  Meadow House in, xivn, xxviii, 6n

  Nottingham Playhouse, 325n

  Obelisk Press, 48n, 113n

  Observer, The (London), 281

  O’Casey, Sean, Juno and the Paycock, 61n

  Oh, Calcutta!, 290

  Old Maid, The (Akins), 327n

  Olivier, Laurence, 105, 106n

  Olympia Press, 113n

  O’Neal, Patrick, 239n

  Ortloff, Frank, 252, 253n, 254

  Packer, Carla, 312, 313

  Page, Geraldine, 220

  Paige, D. D., 165n

  Paris, 20n, 29, 48n, 81, 88, 93, 96, 98–99, 101, 112, 114, 123, 178, 180, 182, 201, 205, 308, 368

  Parsons, Estelle, 283, 284n

  Pasadena, Calif., 25, 198n

  Pasadena Playhouse, 25n

  Patchen, Kenneth, 163–64, 220

  Patchen, Miriam, 163–64

  PEN, xxvi, 355, 356, 358

  Perry Award, see Tony (Antoinette Perry) Award

  Perse, Saint-Jean, 60

  “Anabasis,” 145

  Selected Poems, 61n

  Perspective of Burma, 214

  Perspective of India, 204n

  Perspectives USA, xxi, 177n, 188n, 199n, 203, 204, 207

  Pharos, xvi, 35, 36n, 39, 40, 43, 46, 47, 63

  Phelps Memorial Hospital, 341n

  Philadelphia, Pa
., 133, 137, 203n, 236n, 281

  Pinter, Harold, 309, 310n

  Pittsburgh, Pa., xi, 193

  “Plastic Theatre, The,” 54, 55n, 75, 163

  Playboy, 321

  Play of the Week (TV show), 229

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 79

  Porter, Katherine Anne, 23, 24n, 25

  Pound, Ezra, 3, 8n, 61n, 88, 125, 166n, 213n–14n, 323, 328, 367–70

  The Cantos, 305, 368

  The Letters of Ezra Pound, 165n

  as mentor to JL, 4

  The Pisan Cantos, 128n

  Selected Letters, 165

  Powell, Dilys, 224n

  Powers, J. F., 87, 88n

  Pratt Institute of Art, 75n

  Graphic Arts Center of, 261

  Prescott, Orville, 156, 157n

  Presentational Theatre, 334, 335

  Princeton, N.J., 155

  Princeton Triangle, 39

  Princeton University, 371

  Prokosch, Frederic, 101, 103n

  Proust, Marcel, 30

  Provincetown, Mass., 35n, 45–48, 89, 109n

  Publishers Weekly, 155, 223

  Pulitzer, Joseph, 327n

  Pulitzer Prizes, 133n

  Punch and Judy shows, 321n

  Purdy, James, 215, 218

  Children Is All, 216n

  Color of Darkness, 216n

  Quinn, Anthony, 335, 336n

  Quintero, José, 220n, 223, 224n

  Radcliffe College, xxiii, 213n

  Raft, George, 289

  Rainbow, The (film), 53

  Random House, xv, xix, 52n, 53n, 58, 99n, 165, 166n, 229n

  Ransom, John Crowe, 296n

  Rapper, Irving, 124n

  Ray, Man, 343n

  Redgrave, Vanessa, 285n

  Resor, Ann Clark, see Laughlin, Ann Clark Resor

  Resor, Stanley Burnet, 27

  Rexroth, Kenneth, 86, 88n, 174, 361

  Richardson, Joely, 285n

  Richardson, Natasha, 285n

  Richardson, Sandy, 236

  Richardson, Tony, 251n, 262n, 284, 285n

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, 209

  Duino Elegies, 310, 311n

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 10

  Illuminations and Other Prose Poems, 11n

  A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat, 11n, 57

  Ringling Brothers Circus, 339–40

  Robeson, Paul, 38

  Rochester, N.Y., xxvi, 361

  Rodríguez y González, Amado “Pancho,” 78, 79n, 80, 96

  Roebling, Paul, 250, 251n

  Roman Catholicism, 54, 129n, 144, 256, 287–88

  Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (film), 223, 224n

  Romantic movement, 161

  Rome, xxi, 86, 96, 98–99, 101–3, 106, 117, 119, 124, 130, 133, 145, 148, 155–56, 180, 195, 209, 223, 286–88, 291, 329

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 84

  Rose Isabel Williams Foundation, 254–56, 339, 371

  Rose Tattoo, The (film), 206n

  Ross, Tony, 60, 61n

  Rossellini, Roberto, 105, 106n, 135, 136n

 

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