Purves, Libby 628, 629
Puzo, Mario 773
Pynchon, Thomas 653, 782
Q
Quayle, E. 145
Queensberry, eighth Marquess of 205
Queensberry, John Douglas, ninth Marquess of 206
Quinn, Anthony 785
R
Rabelais, François 6, 457
Raby, P. 170
Radcliffe, Ann (née Ward) 44–7, 60
Radcliffe, William 44–5
Raft, George 499
Raleigh, Sir Walter 760
Ramé, Louis 174
Ramé, Mrs (née Sutton) 174
Ramsay, Allan 48
Rand, Ayn (née Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum; later O’Connor) 467–8, 545, 562
Raphael, Frederic 704
Raspail, Jean 686
Ravitz, A. R. 305
Read, Herbert 365, 366
Reagan, Ronald 467, 497, 656, 680
Redgrave, Vanessa 382, 540
Reed, Carol 161, 500
Rees, Goronwy 411
Reeve, Clara 45
Reeves, Amber 263
Reeves, Keanu 732
Reiner, Rob 773
Reisz, Karel 698
Remarque, Erich Maria 340, 366
Rendell, Ruth 572, 590
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 26, 30
Rhodes, Cecil 208
Rhys, Ernest 210
Rhys, Jean 353
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 472, 499
Ricardo, Jan 161
Richards, Grant 244, 321, 443
Richards, John Morgan 267, 268
Richards, Mary Jane ‘Polly’ 300
Richardson, Darrell C. 340
Richardson, Elizabeth 13
Richardson, Helen 287, 288
Richardson, Martha 13
Richardson, Samuel 12–16, 17, 27, 41, 55
Richardson, Samuel, Sr. 12
Richelieu, Cardinal 9
Richetti, John 10
Richthofen, Manfred von 335
Ricketts, Ed 424, 426
Ridley, Jane 83, 85
Riesman, David 526
Rinder, Edith Wingate 211
Rinehart, Stanley 598
Ritchie, Charles 411
Ritchie, Guy 225
Ritson, Joseph 48
Ritt, Martin 608
Robards, Jason 382
Robbe-Grillet, Alain 543, 644
Robbins, Harold (born Harold Rubin) 531–4
Robbins, Lillian 533
Robbins, Lionel 668
Robbins, Tim 774
Roberts, Warren 57
Robertson, Eric 201
Robeson, Paul 602
Robinson, Revd Edmund 122
Robinson, Mrs Edmund 122
Robinson, Richard A. 491
Roche, Regina Maria 60
Rochester, Earl of 4, 452
Rockefeller, John D. 256, 447
Rockwell, George Lincoln 685
Rodda, Charles 500
Rodgers, Richard 430, 488
Roeg, Nicolas 162
Rohmer, E. S. 328
Rohmer, Rose Elizabeth (née Knox) 327
Rohmer, Sax (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward) 327–8
Rollyson, C. 384
Romero, George 773
Rommel, Erwin Johannes 521
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 257, 273, 425, 532
Roosevelt, Theodore 170, 198, 216, 242, 372
Ros, Amanda (Anna Margaret Ross; née McKittrick; second married name Rodgers) 240–41
Rosa, Salvator 45
Rose, J. 675
Rosenberg, Ethel 674
Rosenberg, Isaac 366
Rosenberg, Julius 674
Rosenthal, Tom 712
Ross, Andrew 240, 241
Ross, Harold 428, 515, 645
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 142, 200, 249
Rossetti, Elizabeth (née Siddal) 200, 249
Roth, Herman 692
Roth, Margaret (née Martinson) 693, 694
Roth, Philip Milton x, 88, 426, 531, 613, 675, 690–95, 729, 730
Roth, Sandy 692
Rothermere, Lord 494
Rougier, Richard 422
Rougier, Ronald 421–2, 423
Rourke, Mickey 568
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 52
Rowson, Susanna (née Haswell) 41–3
Rowson, William 42, 43
Rowson family 42, 43
Rozema, Patricia 58
Ruber, Peter 338, 339, 340
Rubirosa, Porfirio 533
Rudd, Martha 148
Rushdie, Anis Ahmed 768, 769
Rushdie, Sir Salman Ahmed 644, 705, 768–72, 794, 796
Ruskin, John 16
Russell, Bertrand 310, 591
Russell, Charles Marion 279, 289
Ruth, Babe 693
Ryan, Chris 695
S
Sabatini (Rafael Sabatini) 297–9, 452, 709
Sabatini, Anna (née Trafford) 297
Sabatini, Rafael-Angelo 298
Sabatini, Ruth Goad (née Dixon) 298
Sabatini, Vincenzo 297
Sackler, Howard 585
Sackville-West, Vita 326, 512
Sade, Marquis de 60, 124
Sadleir, Edith 352
Sadleir, Michael Thomas Harvey (born Sadler) 351–3, 454
Sadler, Michael 351, 352
Saintsbury, George 151
Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) 276–8
Salinger, Claire (née Douglas) 559
Salinger, Jerome David 555–9, 560, 623, 675, 719
Salinger, Miriam (Marie) Jillich 556
Salinger, Sol (Solomon) 556
Salinger, Sylvia (née Welter) 557–8
Salk, Jonas 704
Sallis, J. 503
Salmonson, J. A. 309
Sanders, George 487
Sandow, Eugene 308
Sapper (Herman Cyril McNeile) 353–5
Sarraute, Nathalie 475
Sartre, Jean-Paul 461, 464, 527, 631, 642
Sayers, Dorothy L. 421, 449, 590, 591
Scammell, Michael 462, 464
Schaefer, Jack 241
Scharnhorst, G. 157
Schmeling, Max 741
Schopenhauer, Arthur 217, 748
Schreiner, Gottlob 207
Schreiner, Olive Emilie Albertina (‘Ralph Iron’) 153, 207–9, 244
Schreiner, Rebecca (née Lyndall) 207
Schulberg, Budd 398
Schwabacher, Wolf 383
Scorsese, Martin 253
Scot, William 5
Scott, A. 209
Scott, Charlotte (née Charpentier) 54
Scott, Lady 52
Scott, Paul Mark 575–6, 705
Scott, Penny 576
Scott, Randolph 290
Scott, Robert Falcon 666
Scott, Sir Walter xi, 32, 41, 45, 48–9, 52, 53, 54–6, 67, 75, 89, 90, 98, 106, 120, 143, 176, 232, 294, 307, 315, 418, 419, 588, 666, 700
Scott, Walter, Jr 54
Scott, Zachary 426
Seale, James 180
Seaman, B. 549
Searle, Alan 293
Searle, Ronald 755
Sebald, Anna 743
Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg Maximilian (‘Max’) Sebald) 729, 740–45
Sebba, A. 359
Sebold, Alice (later Gold) 790–92
Sebold, Russell P. 790
Seltzer, David 773
Selwyn, Bishop George 142
Selznick, David O. 417
Senghor, Léopold 514
Sewell, Anna 117
Seymour, Robert 108
Shakespeare, William 30, 59, 183, 200, 204, 302, 470, 547, 550–51, 562, 600, 744
Sharp, Alan 664
Sharp, Elizabeth 210, 211
Sharp, William (‘Fiona MacLeod’) 209–11
Sharrock, R. 3
Shaw, George Bernard 229, 319, 539
Shaw, Joe ‘Cap’ 547
Shaw, Robert Archibald 585–7
Shawn, William 428, 652
Shelden, Michael 450–51, 454
Shelley, Clara 73
Shelley, Harriet 72
Shelley, Mary (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 61, 69, 71–4, 313, 542, 605
Shelley, Percy 73
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 53, 69, 72, 73, 74
Shelley, William 72, 73
Sher, Anthony 668
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 352
Sherry, Norman 450
Shiel, Matthew Phipps 259–61, 327
Showalter, Elaine 167
Sickert, Walter 358, 789
Silverman, K. 100
Sinatra, Frank 430
Sinclair, Bertrand W. 279
Sinclair, Upton 425
Sircar, Dorothy 260
Slater, M. 111
Slawenski, Kenneth 557, 559
Slocum, John Jay 125
Smith, Courtney James 696
Smith, Danielle 696
Smith, Dinitia 646, 647
Smith, Frances 567
Smith, G. Elliot 418–19
Smith, George 115, 122
Smith, H. Greenhough 224
Smith, J. Adam 295
Smith, Maggie 540
Smith, Wilbur Addison 635, 695–7
Smollett, Tobias 471, 729
Smyth, Ethyl 325
Smyth, Nan 479
Snow, C. P. (Charles Percy Snow; later Baron Snow) 469–71
Snow, Dr John 106
Snow, Philip 470
Sobienowski, Floryan 349
Soderbergh, Steven 608
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 2
Sonnenfeld, Barry 608
Sontag, Susan 743
Sophocles 793
Sorley, Charles 366
Soulié, Marie Marguerite 265, 266
Sounes, Howard 567, 568, 569
Southern, Terry 460
Southworth, Mrs E.D.E.N. (Emma Dorothy Eliza (née Nevitte)) 135–7
Southworth, Frederick Hamilton 135
Souza, R. D. 633
Soyinka, Wole 636, 638
Spain, Nancy 444
Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah (née Camberg) 194, 540–43, 576
Spark, Robin 541, 543
Spark, Sydney Oswald (‘Solly’) 541
Spencer, Herbert 127, 130, 190, 284, 303
Spender, Humphrey 456
Spender, J. A. 277
Spender, Natasha 347, 383, 408
Spender, Stephen 383, 408, 456, 457, 472, 688
Spengler, Oswald 368, 597
Spenser, Edmund 220, 683
Spielberg, Steven 585, 642, 734
Spignesi, S. 776
Spillane, Mickey (born Frank Morrison Spillane) 544–6, 547
Spinoza, Baruch 127, 129
Spinrad, Norman 482
Spurling, Hilary 373, 576
Stalin, Joseph 2, 524
Stanford, Derek 541
Stannard, Martin 441, 541, 542, 543
Stape, J. 220
Stapledon, Olaf 539
Starr, Ringo 725
Steel, Flora Annie 139
Stein, Gertude 367, 393, 613
Steinbeck, Carol (née Henning) 424
Steinbeck, Elaine (previously Scott) 426
Steinbeck, John 213
Steinbeck, John Ernst, III 423–6
Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle) 93, 469, 588, 744
Stephen, James Fitzjames 21
Stephen, Julia Princep (née Jackson) 323
Stephen, Laura 323
Stephen, Sir Leslie 10, 323
Sternberg, Josef von 467
Sterne, Agnes 24
Sterne, Archbishop 24, 25
Sterne, Elizabeth (née Lumley) 25, 26
Sterne, Jacques 25
Sterne, Laurence 22, 24–8, 30, 42, 59, 797
Sterne, Lydia 25, 26
Sterne, Richard 24
Sterne, Roger 24
Stetson, Charles Walter 236
Stevenson, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Gaskell’s mother) 101
Stevenson, Fanny (née Van de Grift; then Osbourne) 193–4, 195, 196
Stevenson, John 101
Stevenson, L. 93
Stevenson, Robert Louis (born ‘Lewis Balfour’) 193–6, 215, 307, 451, 700, 710
Stevenson, William (Elizabeth Gaskell’s father) 101
Stewart, J. I. M. (‘Michael Innes’) 590, 591
Stinstra, Johannes 12
Stockton, Frank R. 163–5
Stockton, Robert Field 163
Stoker, Abraham (‘Bram’) 188–90, 200
Stoker, Charlotte 188
Stoker, Florence (née Balcombe) 188, 189
Stoker, Irving Noel 189
Stone, Lawrence 18
Stone, Phil 402
Storey, David Rhames 586, 618, 697–700
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 63, 135, 149, 235, 236, 788
Strachey, Lytton 310
Straub, Peter 775
Strauss, D. E. 127
Streep, Meryl 616, 621
Strickland, Agnes 723
Strindberg, August 520
Styron, Rose (née Burgunder) 614
Styron, William 613
Styron, William Clark, Jr 613–16, 687
Sulzberger, A. G. 630
Summers, Montague (the ‘Evil Priest’) 407
Susan, Bob 548
Susann, Jacqueline (born Jacqueline Susan) 547–9, 556
Sutherland, J. 56, 199
Svevo, Italo 517
Swann, Donald 668
Swedenborg, Emanuel 137
Swift, Jonathan 435, 662, 717
Swinburne, Algernon 147, 401
Swinnerton, Frank 314
Sydenstricker, Absalom 371–2
Sydenstricker, Caroline (née
Stulting) 372
Sykes, Christopher 435–6
Sykes, Henrietta 83
Symons, Julian 570
T
Tabachnik, S. E. 473
Talfourd, Thomas Noon 46–7
Tarantino, Quentin 608
Tarkington, Newton Booth 272–4, 529
Tate, Sharon 549
Taylor, Cora 282, 283
Taylor, D. J. 107, 435, 787
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