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Price, Reynolds, 324–25
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 35
Princess and Curdie, The (MacDonald), 15
Princess and the Goblin, The (MacDonald), 15
Prix de Rome, 253–54
“Profession of Letters in the South, The” (Tate), 296
Prohibition, 232
Pugh, Carolyn, 187, 189–90, 212, 217, 218–22
Pulitzer Prize, 312
Pushmataha, chief of Choctaw, 40
Quebec, 331
Rahv, Natalie, 254
Rahv, Philip, 254
Random House, 183
Ransom, Ellene, 202
Ransom, John Crowe, 167, 173–74, 181–82, 184, 185, 202, 210, 250
Ray, Janey Keys, 143–44
Reconstruction, 157, 164
Reivers, The (Faulkner), 136, 326
Revelation, 193
Rigoletto (Verdi), 227
Roberts, Doris, 324
Roberts, Isabel, 263, 312
Roberts, Laurance, 263, 312
Robinson, John, 203
Rockefeller, Michael, 297
Roman Catholic church, 73, 263–64, 275, 296, 311
Rome, xv, 227–28, 230, 260, 261–67, 273, 278, 279, 281, 284, 300, 302, 304–5, 310–14
Rome and a Villa (Clark), 302
Romeo and Juliet (movie), 225
Ronsard, Pierre de, 175
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 176
Rosenthal Award, 312
Rossellini, Roberto, 262, 269
Rowse, A. L., 309
Rubin, Louis, 330, 331–32
Rusher, Brigadier, 308
Rusher, Jenifer, 309
Rusher, Jim, 309, 314
Rusher, John, 88, 281–85, 304–6, 307–18, 322, 328, 331–33
Rusher, Mrs., 308, 314, 317
Rusher family, 307–10
Russell, Diarmuid, 253, 278
Russell, Rose, 253
Sabatini, Rafael, 34
Salinger, J. D., 252
Salt Line, The (Spencer), 237, 243–44, 326–27
Sanctuary (Faulkner), 164, 270
Sanders, Cot, 98
Sanders, Wilton, 129
Sans Souci Club, 141
Santayana, George, 265
Scala, Gloria, 284
Scott, Mrs., 68–69
Scott, Walter, 11, 14, 35
Segovia, Andres, 203
Sentatobia, Miss., 187, 188, 190
Seton, Anya, 274
Shakespeare, William, 103, 104, 123, 124, 162, 163, 164, 166, 189, 195
Shapiro, Evalyn, 261–62
Shapiro, Karl, 258, 261–63, 284
Shaw, Philip, 91–92
Shaw’s Pond, 54, 91
Shearwater Pottery, 240–41, 243–44
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 114, 164
Sherman, Melba, 193, 194–95
Sherman, William T., 163, 243
Ship Island, 230, 233–34, 241, 243
“Ship Island” (Spencer), 234
Ship of Fools (Porter), 214
Silver, James, 293–94
Skorevky, Joseph, 322
Smith, Lloyd, 131
Snare, The (Spencer), 325, 326–27
Somerville, Beauregard, 76, 79–88, 151, 206
Somerville, Ella, 83, 84, 87, 206–7, 208, 209–11, 274, 290
Somerville, Mr., 81, 83–84
Somerville family, 68, 82–83, 87
Song of the South, 184
“Song of Wandering Aengus, The” (Yeats), 248
So Red the Rose (Young), 209
Souby, Susan, 193, 194–95
Southern Literary Festival, 163–65, 209–11
Southern Railroad, 48–49, 57
Southern Review, 183, 324, 331–32
Spencer, Clarence Wilson, 56
Spencer, Eddie Gray, 49, 51–52, 54–57, 61
Spencer, Edward, 52
Spencer, Elijah Harrison, 49, 55, 56
Spencer, Elijah Lee, 56
Spencer, Ernest, 96
Spencer, Frances League, 36, 152, 200, 287
Spencer, James Luther, Jr., 24, 26–27, 34, 36–37, 52, 56, 58, 66, 71–72, 102, 111, 116, 118, 133, 141, 148, 149, 169, 200, 206, 256, 287, 328–29
Spencer, James Luther, Sr., 8, 21, 24, 29, 48–52, 54–57, 62–63, 66, 70, 71, 79, 82, 86, 87–88, 93–98, 102, 111, 116–19, 126–28, 146, 149–50, 152, 154–55, 157, 194, 199–200, 260, 279, 284, 286–91, 296, 304, 313, 330
Spencer, Jamie, 52–55, 57, 200, 330
Spencer, Jim, 148
Spencer, Julian, 56
Spencer, Lou Ella, 56
Spencer, Louie, Jr., 329–30
Spencer, Louie, the Third, 329–30
Spencer, Louie Clyde, 49, 51, 54–57, 61, 329–30
Spencer, Mary Beard, 58–59
Spencer, Mary James McCain (“Mimi”), 3, 8, 11, 13–15, 18–29, 34–36, 48–51, 54, 56, 58, 61, 63–64, 66, 68–70, 76, 80–88, 90–91, 93–94, 100–102, 111, 115–19, 123, 124, 126, 130, 133, 141, 143, 145–46, 148–51, 155, 157–58, 163, 194, 199–200, 207, 212, 226, 260, 281, 284, 286, 289–91, 297, 313, 328, 330
Spencer, May, 59, 130, 289
Spencer, Thomas Harrison, 49, 51, 54–59, 130
Spencer, Virginia, 61
Spencer, William Henry (Willie), 49, 56–57, 212
Spencer family, 8, 48–60, 61, 135
Spenser, Edmund, 162, 163
“Spoken at a Castle Gate” (Davidson), 185
Stafford, Jean, 183, 252
Steele, Max, 330
Stein, Jean, 274
Steinbeck, John, 176
Stendhal, 279
Stephens, Will, 308–9
Stevens, Anthony, 308
Stevens, Joe, 129–30
Stevens, Wallace, 255
Stone, Emily, 208–9
Stone, Phil, 141, 208–9
Stone, Robert, 178
“Stopping by Woods” (Frost), 248
Stories of Elizabeth Spencer, The (Spencer), 324–25
Story, 193
Story of the Bible (Foster), 121
Stuart, “Jeb,” 124
Styron, William, 183, 251, 254
Surfacing (Atwood), 322
Surviving (Atwood), 322
Switzerland, 212, 220
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens), 35
Tarzan books (Burroughs), 93, 123
Tate, Allen, 173–76, 179–80, 182, 183–84, 253–54, 257–58, 263–65, 270, 274–77, 295, 296, 318
Tate, Nancy, 257
Taylor, Peter, 183, 251
Teasdale, Sara, 166
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 114, 166, 181
Teoc, 3, 4, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 22, 24–37, 39–40, 47, 48–49, 55, 63, 66, 120, 130, 131, 158, 160, 259
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 34
This Crooked Way (Spencer), 238, 246, 249, 253
Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll), 281–82
Till, Emmett, 287–90
Time Inc. Reading Program, 313
Toledano, Ben C., 325
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich, 33
“To the Warders of the Gate” (Davidson), 177
Traviata, La (Verdi), 226–27
“Trees” (Kilmer), 182
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich, 33, 264
Turner, James Edgar, 92
Two Women, 269
Ulysses (Joyce), 178
Uncle Remus stories (Harris), 184
Unvanquished, The (Faulkner), 164
“Upon Westminster Bridge” (Wordsworth), 165
Vanderbilt Fugitives, see Agrarians
Vanderbilt University, 123, 165–69, 173–85, 186–87, 188, 190, 193–96, 198, 200, 202, 218, 235, 246, 252, 255
Vanity Fair (Thackeray), 35
Vartan, Cynthia, 322
Vartan, Vartanig Garabed (“Tonny”), 255–57, 300, 322
Vassar family, 87, 206
Verdi, Giuseppe, 139, 226–27
Vicksburg, Miss., 69, 71, 134, 155, 256
Vietnam War, 323, 329
Voice at the Back Door, The (Spencer), 146, 184, 259, 278, 281, 284, 286, 290–91, 294, 300, 304, 305, 312–13, 329
Wallace, Ethel Vinette, 69
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 292
Ward-Belmont, 189–91, 193, 210
Warren, Robert Penn, 164, 173–74, 182–85, 198, 205, 216, 235, 249–52, 255, 259, 263, 299, 302–3, 304, 311–12, 319, 324, 332
Washington, D.C., 42, 187, 212, 247
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 166, 174
Waugh, Evelyn, 275
Wayne, David, 303
Welch, Dave, 16, 70–73, 99–101, 103, 105
Welch, Dick, 99–101, 103, 105
Welch, Henrietta, 70–72, 99–101, 103, 105
Wells, Alice, 162–63
Wells, Major, 163
Wells, Rosa (“Dolly”), 252–53
Welty, Eudora, 167–68, 183, 202–5, 212, 237–38, 251, 252–53, 255, 262, 277–78, 295–96, 302, 303, 312, 326, 332
Westport, Conn., 249–52, 263
Wharton, Vernon Lane, 156
“Where Is That Voice Coming From?” (Welty), 296
White, Charles, 3, 149–50, 152–54
Wilbur, Richard, 246–47
Williams, Howard, 65–67
Williams, Joan, 256–57
Willis, Elizabeth Hamilton, 207–8, 290
Willis, William, 207–8, 290, 293
Wilson, Edmund, 204
Wilson, Purnell, 165
Winona, Miss., 49, 58, 130, 231, 289
Wolfe, Thomas, 178, 298, 304
Wood, Billy, 129
Woolf, Virginia, 179
Woollcott, Alexander, 139
Wordsworth, William, 163, 164, 165
World War I, 13, 140
World War II, 142, 173–93, 235, 308
Wright, Martha, 265
Yale University, 183, 251, 255
Yeats, William Butler, 175, 187, 208, 248, 270
Yewell, Tandy, 94
You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe), 298
Young, Stark, 184, 209–12, 259
Yugoslavia, 270
VOICES OF THE SOUTH
Hamilton Basso
The View from Pompey’s
Head
Richard Bausch
Real Presence
Take Me Back
Robert Bausch
On the Way Home
Doris Betts
The Astronomer and Other Stories
The Gentle Insurrection and Other Stories
Sheila Bosworth
Almost Innocent
Slow Poison
David Bottoms
Easter Weekend
Erskine Caldwell
Poor Fool
Fred Chappell
Dagon
The Gaudy Place
The Inkling
It Is Time, Lord
Kelly Cherry
Augusta Played
Vicki Covington
Bird of Paradise
Elizabeth Cox
The Ragged Way People
Fall Out of Love
R. H. W. Dillard
The Book of Changes
Ellen Douglas
A Family’s Affairs
A Lifetime Burning
The Rock Cried Out
Where the Dreams Cross
Percival Everett
Cutting Lisa
Suder
Peter Feibleman
The Daughters of Necessity
A Place Without Twilight
Candace Flynt
Mother Love
William Price Fox
Dixiana Moon
George Garrett
An Evening Performance
Do, Lord, Remember Me
The Magic Striptease
The Finished Man
Reginald Gibbons
Sweetbitter
Ellen Gilchrist
The Annunciation
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams
Marianne Gingher
Bobby Rex’s Greatest Hit
Shirley Ann Grau
The Hard Blue Sky
The House on Coliseum Street
The Keepers of the House
Roadwalkers
Ben Greer
Slammer
Barry Hannah
The Tennis Handsome
Donald Hays
The Dixie Association
William Humphrey
Home from the Hill
The Ordways
Mac Hyman
No Time For Sergeants
Madison Jones
A Cry of Absence
Nancy Lemann
Lives of the Saints
Sportsman’s Paradise
Beverly Lowry
Come Back, Lolly Ray
Clarence Major
Such Was the Season
Valerie Martin
A Recent Martyr
Set in Motion
Willie Morris
The Last of the Southern Girls
Padgett Powell
Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
The Golden Weather
Evelyn Scott
The Wave
Lee Smith
The Last Day the Dog-bushes Bloomed
Elizabeth Spencer
Landscapes of the Heart
The Night Travellers
The Salt Line
This Crooked Way
The Voice at the Back Door
Max Steele
Debby
Virgil Suárez
Latin Jazz
Walter Sullivan
The Long, Long Love
Sojourn of a Stranger
Allen Tate
The Fathers
Peter Taylor
In the Miro District and Other Stories
The Widows of Thornton
Robert Penn Warren
Band of Angels
Brother to Dragons
Flood
World Enough and Time
Walter White
Flight
James Wilcox
Miss Undine’s Living Room
North Gladiola
Joan Williams
The Morning and the Evening
The Wintering
Christine Wiltz
Glass House
Thomas Wolfe
The Hills Beyond
The Web and the Rock
* This account of the “Carrollton massacre” is taken from The Negro in Mississippi: 1865-1890 by Vernon Lane Wharton, University of North Carolina Press, 1947.