Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

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by John Sutherland

Bagnold, Enid Algerine (later Lady Jones) 358–9

  Bagnold, Ralph 359

  Bail, Murray 738

  Bailey, Blake 517, 624, 625

  Bainbridge, Beryl Margaret 656, 663–6

  Baird, Dorothea 159

  Baker, Ida (‘Lesley Moore’) 349

  Baker, Jane Cooney 567, 568

  Baker, P. 408

  Baker, William 174

  Baldwin, David 601, 602

  Baldwin, James Arthur 601–3, 615

  Baldwin, Stanley 317

  Bales, J. 157

  Ballantyne, James 55, 143

  Ballantyne, Jane (‘Jeanie’) Dickson (née Grant) 145

  Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) 143–5, 195

  Ballard, J. G. (James Graham) 97, 342, 604, 605, 640–42, 729

  Ballard, Mary 641

  Balzac, Honoré de 284, 401, 466, 469, 781

  Barber, Lynn 663, 666

  Barber, M. 466

  Barclay, Revd Charles W. 245–6

  Barclay, Florence Louisa (née Charlesworth) 245–7

  Bardot, Brigitte 620

  Barker, J. R. V. 123

  Barker, Paul 705

  Barnacle, Nora 320, 321

  Barnes, Djuna Chappell 367–8

  Barnes, Elizabeth (née Chappell) 367

  Barnes, Jonathan 748, 749

  Barnes, Julian Patrick 225, 582–3, 748–53, 779, 797

  Barnes, Pat (née Kavanagh) 582, 583, 750, 751–2

  Barnes, ‘Wald’ 367

  Barnhardt, Wilton 791

  Barrie, David 232

  Barrie, Sir James Matthew 156, 160, 186, 232–5, 314, 419

  Barrie, Mary (née Ansell) 233

  Barrymore, John 342

  Barth, John Simmons 642–4, 651

  Barth, Karl 676

  Barthelme, Donald 644, 651–3

  Barthelme, Donald, Sr 651

  Barthes, Roland 537, 642–3

  Basu, Sayoni 353

  Bates, Kathy 774

  Batista, Fulgencio 631

  Battestin, Martin and Ruth 18

  Baudelaire, Charles 98, 99, 100

  Baum, Benjamin 212

  Baum, F. J. 213

  Baum, Lyman Frank 211–13

  Baum, Maud (née Gage) 212

  Baum, Vicki (Hedwig Baum; later Prels, later Lert) 340–42

  Bauman family 211, 212

  Bayley, John 410, 552

  Beach, Greta 305

  Beach, Rex Ellingwood 304–5

  Beach, Sylvia 322

  Bean, Sean 480

  Beardsley, Aubrey 229, 230, 265

  Beauchamp, Sir Harold 348, 349

  Beauchamp, Mrs 349

  Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Lord 358, 444

  Bechet, Sidney 602

  Beckett, Frank 473

  Beckett, Samuel Barclay 322, 473–6, 632, 683, 728, 766

  Beckett, Suzanne (née Deschevaux-Dumesnil) 475

  Beckford, William 60

  Beckman, L. H. 245

  Bedford, Sybille 385

  Bedford-Jones, Henry James O’Brien 338–40

  Beer, Thomas 283

  Beerbohm, Max 196, 292

  Beeton, Mrs 224

  Behn, Aphra (‘Aphora’; née Eaffrey Johnson) 3–6, 85

  Behn, Hans 4

  Beichman, A. 531

  Belafonte, Harry 444

  Belford, B. 190, 251

  Bell, Clive 326

  Bell, Dr Joseph 224

  Bell, Quentin 325

  Bellow, Saul (born Solomon Belov) 426, 525–9, 556, 593, 614, 693

  Belov, Abram 525

  Belov, Liza 525

  Benchley, Peter 585, 586, 773

  Benchley, Robert 330

  Benfey, Christopher 283

  Benjamin, Walter 461, 793, 795, 797

  Bennett, Alan 389

  Bennett, Arnold (Enoch Arnold Bennett) 228, 265–7, 341, 378, 500

  Bennett, Dorothy (previously Cheston) 266, 267

  Bennett, Joan (Frankau) 228

  Bennett, Victoria 266

  Benny, Jack 589

  Benson, Gale 671

  Bentham, Jeremy 746

  Bentley, George 204

  Bentley, Phyllis Eleanor 377–9

  Bentley, Richard 89, 90, 108, 109, 112

  Berch, Victor A. 340

  Bergen, Candice 533

  Berger, John Peter 617–19, 707

  Bergman, Ingmar 626

  Berlin, Isaiah 410, 591

  Besant, Walter 174

  Betjeman, Sir John 389, 451

  Beveridge, Lord 240

  Bhutto dynasty 770, 772

  Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett 181–2, 516

  Bierce, Marcus Aurelius 181

  Bigland, E. 176, 205

  Birkin, A. 235

  Biswell, A. 537

  Bixby, Horace 171

  Black, Clementina 244

  Blackwood, John 127, 128

  Blackwood, William 219

  Blair, Richard 432

  Blair, Walter 525

  Blake, William 762

  Bloom, Allan 528–9

  Bloom, Claire 694–5

  Blotner, Joseph 403, 404

  Blyton, Enid 376

  Bobrowski, Tadeusz 218

  Boccaccio, Giovanni 643

  Boetticher, Budd 608

  Bogarde, Dirk 161

  Bogart, Humphrey 347, 381, 393

  Bonner, Robert 104, 149–50

  Bonnet, Jacques x

  Bonnie and Clyde 606

  Bono 771

  Boone, Richard 608

  Booth, Martin 225

  Boothby, Guy 327, 328

  Borges, Jorge Luis 517, 644, 737

  Bosanquet, Theodora 186

  Boswell, James 15, 19, 22, 27, 30, 38, 710

  Boucicault, Nina 234

  Bourne, George 125

  Bowden, George 349

  Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (later Cameron) 408–11

  Bowen, Marjorie 451

  Bowen, Z. 644

  Bower, Bertha (née Muzzy; later Clayton, later Sinclair) 278–9

  Bower, Clayton J. 278, 279

  Bowker, Gordon 503, 504, 506

  Bowra, Maurice 410, 471

  Boyd, B. 415

  Boyd, Colin 717

  Boyle, A. 275

  Bracegirdle, Anne 4

  Bradbury, Sir Malcolm Stanley 667–9, 713, 779

  Bradbury, Marguerite (‘Maggie’; née McClure) 564

  Bradbury, Ray (Raymond Douglas Bradbury) 45, 563–5

  Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (later Maxwell) 167–8

  Bradlaugh, Charles 138

  Bradshaw Isherwood, Kathleen 457

  Bragg, Melvyn (Lord Bragg) 534

  Brancart, Auguste 165

  Brand, Max (Frederick Schiller Faust) 368–70, 607

  Branden, Nathaniel 468

  Brando, Marlon 426, 488

  Branwell, Elizabeth 119

  Brecht, Bertolt 457

  Briney, R. E. 328

  Britten, Benjamin (Baron Britten of Aldeburgh) 134

  Broadway, Colin 756

  Brod, Max 415

  Brodie, Deacon William 194

  Brodkey, Harold (born Aaron Roy Weintraub) 645–7

  Brodsky, Joseph 646

  Brome, V. 389

  Bromfield, Louis (né Brumfield) 392–4

  Bromfield, Mary Appleton (née Wood) 392

  Brontë, Anne 120–23

  Brontë, Charlotte 89, 102, 104, 119–23, 154, 671, 723

  Brontë, Elizabeth 119, 120

  Brontë, Emily 47, 119–23, 137, 379, 542

  Brontë, Maria 119, 120

  Brontë, Maria (née Branwell) 119

  Brontë, Revd Patrick (born Prunty) 118–21

  Brontë, Patrick Branwell 119–23

  Brontë sisters 113, 313, 379

  Brook, Peter 784

  Brooke, Rupert 725

  Brooks, Mel 686

  Brooks, Phillips 94

  Broughton, Rhoda 314

  Brown, Anne 331

  Brown,
Charles Brockden 52–3

  Brown, Elijah 53

  Brown, John 206

  Brown, Johnny Mack 279

  Browne, John 178, 179

  Browne, Martha 177–80

  Browne, Sir Thomas 743

  Browning, Frederick ‘Boy’ 161, 162

  Browning, Robert 90

  Brummel, Beau 225

  Brunck, Hermann 760–61

  Brunner, John 604

  Brynner, Yul 734

  Buccleuch, Duke of 49

  Buchan, Alastair 294, 295

  Buchan, Alice 294

  Buchan, John, Jr 294

  Buchan, John (later Baron Tweedsmuir) 265, 294–5, 309, 377, 409, 419, 452, 498

  Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir (née Grosvenor) 294, 409

  Buchan, William 294

  Buck, Carol 372

  Buck, John Lossing 372

  Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker; later Buck, later Walsh) 328, 332, 371–3

  Buckingham, Bob 311–12

  Bukowski, Barbara (née Frye) 567

  Bukowski, Henry (‘Hank’) Charles, Jr (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski) 565–9, 790

  Bukowski, Linda Lee (née Beighle) 568

  Bulwer, Sir Henry 214

  Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton (later Lord Lytton) 79–82, 83, 89, 109, 129, 150, 173, 176, 205, 351

  Bulwer-Lytton, Lady Emily 81

  Bulwer-Lytton, Robert Lytton 82

  Bulwer-Lytton, Lady Rosina (Anne Doyle, née Wheeler) 79–82

  Buñuel, Luis 641

  Bunyan, John 1–3, 7

  Burdett-Coutts, Angela 109

  Burgess, Anthony (John Burgess Wilson) 337, 514, 534–7, 537, 662, 700

  Burgess, Guy 494

  Burgess, Liana (née Macellari) 537

  Burgess, Lynne (née Jones) 535, 537

  Burghclere, Lady 438

  Burke, Edmund 30, 40, 45

  Burke, Kenneth 592

  Burke, Rusty 483

  Burke, William 69–70, 176

  Burne-Jones, Edward 249, 358

  Burnett, Whit 556

  Burney, Charles, Jr 38, 40

  Burney, Frances (‘Fanny’; later D’Arblay) 37–41

  Burney, Hetty 38

  Burney, Susanna 38

  Burns, Robert 47, 48

  Burr, Raymond 360

  Burroughs, Edgar Rice 296–7, 338, 604

  Burroughs, Emma (née Hulbert) 296, 297

  Burroughs, Major 296

  Burroughs, William S. 65, 328, 504, 542, 561, 641, 644, 702

  Burton, Richard 585, 586

  Bush, George W. 731, 736

  Bush, Jeb 731

  Busson (grandfather of George du Maurier) 158

  Butler, Jennifer 307

  Butler, Samuel 168–70, 461

  Buttinger, Joseph 383

  Byas, Don 602

  Byatt, A. S. 353, 423, 636

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord 14, 55, 69–73, 83, 89, 120, 218

  C

  Caan, James 774

  Cabell, James Branch 424

  Cabrera Infante, Guillermo 630–33

  Cadell, Robert 56

  Cadell, T. 40

  Cadogan, M. 365

  Cage, John 641

  Cain, James Mallahan 346–7, 360, 373–5, 484

  Caine, Hall (Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine) 189, 199–201, 204, 225, 309

  Caine, John 199

  Caine, Michael 621

  Caine, Sarah (née Hall) 200

  Calcraft, William 179

  Callaghan, James, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff 389

  Callil, Carmen 721

  Camberg, Barney 540

  Camberg, Cissy 540

  Camberg, Philip 540

  Cameron, Alan 409, 410, 411

  Cameron, David 359

  Cameron, James 666, 734

  Campbell, James 602, 603, 616, 702

  Campbell, John W. 562

  Campbell, Joseph 424–5, 426

  Campion, Edmund 439

  Camus, Albert 374, 461, 540, 614, 615, 620

  Capote, Truman 556, 579, 687

  Carey, Alison (née Summers) 738, 740

  Carey, John 384, 511–14

  Carey, Leigh (née Weetman) 737

  Carey, Margot (née Hutcheson) 738

  Carey, Matthew 42, 43

  Carey, Peter Philip 736–40

  Carlyle, Thomas 49, 56, 65, 78, 80, 101–2, 129, 436, 621

  Carmean, K. 587

  Carmichael Smyth, Major 104–5

  Carpenter, Edward 311

  Carpenter, Humphrey 438

  Carpenter, John 773

  Carr, John Dickson 476–8

  Carretta, Vincent 36

  Carson, Rachel 604

  Carter, Jimmy 680

  Cartland, Barbara 309, 421

  Cary, Joyce 637

  Cash, A. H. 28

  Castagna, JoAnn E. 150

  Castro, Fidel 560, 631, 632, 633

  Cavafy, C. P. 311

  Cavett, Dick 383

  Cecil, Lord David 126, 410, 511, 687

  Cervantes, Miguel de 6, 165

  Challen, P. 608

  Chamberlain, Neville 793

  Chambers, Jessie 334

  Chandler, Florence (née Thornton) 343, 344

  Chandler, Maurice 343

  Chandler, Pearl Eugenie (Cissy; previously Pascal) 344, 345, 346, 347

  Chandler, Raymond Thornton 343–8, 360, 373, 374, 379, 382, 405, 547, 579, 600, 608, 632, 745

  Chanel, Coco 548

  Channing, Mary 178

  Chaplin, Charlie 28, 288, 394, 557, 714, 754

  Chapman, Edward 436

  Chapman, Frederic 90

  Chapman, Ian 584–5

  Chapman, John 127

  Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales 422, 736

  Charles I, King 5

  Charles II, King 2, 4, 5

  Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) 422

  Charlesworth, Maria Louisa 245

  Charlesworth, Revd Samuel 245

  Charlotte, Queen 39, 40

  Charlton, Alison 229

  Charteris, Colonel Francis 486

  Charteris, Leslie (Leslie Charles Bowyer Charteris Ian (born Yin)) 486–7

 

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