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
Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives Page 120