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Pasmezoglu, Ariadne (Paz), 264, 287, 292, 332, 470
Pasteur, Louis and Marie, 481-82
Patty, Ann, 476, 484-85, 488, 500-501
Peacock, Allen, 460-61, 476, 484, 519
Peale, Norman Vincent, 354
“Peanut Vendor, The,” 306
Penguin Books. See Viking Penguin
Pennebaker, Donn A., 75, 227-28, 398, 528, 531
People , 405-6, 433, 436
Percy, Walker, 463-64
Petrillo family, 28
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, 9, 230, 264
Philadelphia Inquirer , 498-99
Philip II, 115, 130
Philips, Carol, 377
Picador, 433-34
Picasso, Pablo, 395
Pirandello, Luigi, 90, 94, 97, 135-36
Pius XII, 170, 172
Plato, 233, 308-9, 454, 516, 526
Playhouse 90 , 230-31
Plimpton, Freddy Espy, 421
Plimpton, George, 319, 381, 420-21
Plon, Éditions, Plutarch, 526-27
Poe, Edgar Allan, 286
Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), 38
Porter, Arabel J., 264-65
Porter, Katherine Anne, 11, 84-85, 86, 92, 98, 104, 106, 108, 531
Poseidon Press, 476, 484, 488, 490
Postman Always Rings Twice , 109
Potter, Carole, 34
Poulaille, Henri, 380
Pound, Ezra, 122
Prado (Museo del), 122, 153, 184, 494
Prairie Schooner , 232, 247, 249, 250, 255, 372
Praz, Mario, 371-72
Preminger, Otto, 291-92
Prescott, H. F. M., 148
Prescott, Peter S., 298
Presses de la Cité, 449
Prosser, William L., 423, 432, 447, 459, 469, 474, 487-88, 490
Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn, 459
Publishers Weekly , 294, 311, 313, 415, 420, 520
Pulitzer Prize, 374, 464, 510-11, 528
Puzo, Mario, 319
Pynchon, Thomas, 279, 281-82, 304, 362, 366, 380, 382, 385-86, 387, 419, 442
Pyrrho, 67-68
Quayle, Dan, 476
Queen’s Quarterly , 282
Quesenbery, William Doyle, Jr., 298
Quintet , 346
Raban, Jonathan, 498-99, 501
Ramuz, C. F., 95, 98
Randolph, John, 113
Ray, William, 405-6
Reagan, Ronald, 360, 393, 396, 402, 408, 440, 466
Recognitions , Clementine, 162, 210-11
Reeve, Benjamin, 309
Rehnquist, William, 438
Rembrandt, 296
Resnais, Alain, 286
Review of Contemporary Fiction , 363, 369-70, 375-76, 380, 439, 455
Reynal, Eugene, 384-85
Rhodes, Oscar, 88
Rhys, Jean, 403-4
Riesman, David, 322-23
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 93, 97, 453
Ring of the Nibelung (Wagner), 366, 378, 443
Roberts, Robin, 174-75
Rockefeller, John D., 159-60, 454
Rockefeller Foundation, 274-75, 451
Rockwood, Roy, 15-16
Rolfe, Frederick, 297
Rolling Stone , 413-14
Rolo, Charles J., 233-35
Romondi, Mr., 17
Roosevelt, Polly, 502-3
Rorem, Ned, 334
Ros, Amanda, 374
Rosenberg, Anton, 527
Rossi, Deborah, 357
Roth, Philip, 281
Rougemont, Denis de, 121, 306
Rousset, David, 86-87
Roux, Guillermo de, 79
Rowohlt Verlag, 371, 384, 419-20, 443-44, 457, 500, 517, 521
Rushdie, Salman, 489-90
Rusk, Dean, 266
Sade, Marquis de, 205
Safer, Elaine B., 394, 411, 434
Sager, Gordon, 168-69
Saint Petersburg Times , 321
Saks, Keren, 472
Salinger, J. D., 115, 362, 450-51, 479, 491, Salter, Nina, 450
Saltus, Edgar, 306-7
San Francisco Chronicle , 245
San Francisco Review , 246-47
Sand, George, 493
Sanda, Dominique, 430
Santos, Juan Antonio, 406
Sardanapalus, 146-47
Saroyan, William, 42
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 81-82, 94
Saturday Review , 222, 232, 244, 245-46, 305
Sawyer, Thomas, 363, 378
Scaramelli, Richard, 426
Scharlatt, Hal, 289
Schaufelberger, Albert, 396
Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov), 38, 44
Schnabel, Julian, 441-42, 456, 474, 496, 528
Schoenberg, Arnold, 122-23
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 40
Schreibheft , 444, 457
Schumaker, E. F., 466
Schwartz, Delmore, 411
Schwartz, John, 499
Scott, Hazel, 39
Scott, Mr., 77
Scott, Robert, 171
Seabrook, William, 98-99
Secker & Warburg, 214, 216, 225-26, 241, 383
Seelye, John D., 232, 244-47, 249-50
Selmer, Renate, 444
Serra, Richard, 451
Seven Lively Arts , 231
Sewell, Camilla, 40, 41
Shakespeare, William, 48, 52, 90, 110, 114-15, 121, 127, 213, 284, 297, 352, 356-57, 377, 439, 471, 474
Shapiro, Karl, 232, 249, 372
Shaw, George Bernard, 45, 482
Sheldon, Sidney, 480-81
Shell, Marc, 423-24
Sherry, John and Dorothy, 323, 330, 334, 376, 398, 403, 407, 531
Shu, Eddie, 386-87, 527
Sidney, Sylvia, 45
Sifton, Elisabeth, 358-59, 410, 433-34, 436, 446
Silberman, Jim, 318
Sillitoe, Alan, 286
Silone, Ignazio, 107, 109
Silverado Savings & Loan, 466
Silverblatt, Michael, 307
Simon & Schuster, 449-50, 460-61, 468, 472, 484, 492, 494, 499, 501, 505, 510-11, 518-19
Sipper, Ralph, 396-97
Skolnik, Irene, 395
Skorzeny, Otto, 253-54
Smith, Constance, 82, 101, 104
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 122
Smith, Worth, 66-67, 96, 98
Snow, C. P., 439
Snow, John, 38, 40, 41, 45, 48, 67, 86, 91, 119, 146
Socarides, Charles, 10, 45-46, 48, 88-89, 204, 242
Socrates, 246, 308
Solataroff, Ted, 303-4
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 358
Sons o’ Fun , 56
Sontag, Susan, 319
Sophocles, 485, 507-8
South, Eddie, 39
Southern, Terry, 248, 515
Spaeth, Sigrid, 407, 435
Spectator , 225
Spengler, Oswald, 107, 109
Spenser, Theodore, 46-47, 48, 125
Spinoza, Baruch, 50
Sports Illustrated , 221
St John-Stevas, Norman, 225-26
Stade, George, 298, 330
Stalin, Joseph, 160
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, 28
Stannard, Martin, 477-78, 481
Stanton, Louis L., 437, 440
“Star-Spangled Banner,” 518
Steenken Madonna , 395
Stein, Gertrude, 42, 84-85, 86
Stein, Jean, 407, 442
Steinberg, Saul, 11, 407, 435, 437, 459, 461-62, 465, 480, 483, 524
Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures , 437, 440, 459, 461-62
Steiner, George, 308-9, 326, 365, 386, 440, 464
Stevens, Roger L., 262
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 102, 104, 182, 221
Stevenson, William, 508-9
Stingl, Nikolaus, 500, 517-18
Stoffel, Jean-Jacques, 170
Strange Woman , The , 61, 65
Summers, Montague, 306
Superman , 346
Susann, Jacqueline, 272-73, 331
Susskind, David, 297-98
Suter, Clive, 423-24
Svevo, Italo, 333, 363
Swaggart, Jimmy, 410-11
Swanberg, W. A., 342
Swift, Jonathan, 22-23
Swinburne, Algernon, 498-99
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” 178
Tabbi, Joseph, 453-54
“Tani, La,” 184-85
Tanner, Tony, 290-91, 383, 385, 416
Tarnower, Herman, 377
Taylor, Bill, 113-15, 116, 119, 124-25, 127, 132, 178
Taylor, Peter, 426, 463-64
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 366, 496-97
Tenzing Norgay, 239-40
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 36-37, 48, 128
Thielemans, Johan, 312, 337, 352, 367, 410, 419
Thomas, Dylan, 283, 285, 506
Thompson, Hunter S., 447
Thompson, John, 270-71, 291
Thompson, Judith. See Gaddis, Judith
Thoreau, Henry David, 216-17, 372, 497
Thorndike, E. L., 454
Thousand and One Nights , 242
Time , 80, 220, 245-46, 297, 387
Tintoretto, Il, 116
Titian, 116, 216
Toklas, Alice B., 84
Tolstoy, Leo, 107, 410, 484
Tolstoy, Sonya, 410
Tomlinson, H. M., 159-60
Toole, John Kennedy, 374
Tosca (Puccini), 204
Towbin, A. Robert, 399
Towers, Robert, 514
Toynbee, Arnold J., 73, 101, 103, 104, 105, 107, 110, 132
Toynbee, Philip, 251
Trask, Mrs., 46, 47
Traver, Robert, 236-37
Treasure Island , 221
Trollope, Anthony, 159, 346-47
Truman, Harry S., 158
Tudor Pole, David, 185-91, 194-95, 199, 209, 228, 230, 408
Twain, Mark, 121, 306, 344, 428, 439, 472
Überhoff, Thomas, 517
Ulansey, David, 491
Ulysses (film), 263
Under the Volcano (film), 406-7
Union Minière, 307
United States Information Agency, 314, 402-3, 429, 431
United States Information Service, 189, 196
Updike, John, 382, 411, 483, 501-2, 519-20
Uris, Leon, 236-37
Uxbridge, Henry Paget, Earl of, 177
Vail, David, 132
van Meegeren, Han, 363
Van Strum, Stevens, 255
Vandercook, John W., 17
Vanity Fair , 436, 446
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 425
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 199
Vega, Lope de, 45
Velásquez, Diego, 116
Vermeer, Jan, 363
Veronese, Paolo, 116
Viking Penguin, 358, 362, 395, 405, 408, 410, 413, 415, 433-34, 436, 446, 476, 479-80, 484, 494, 500
Villa, Pancho, 102, 104
Village Voice , 369, 374, 473, 476
Virgil, 515
Voice of America , 203-4
Voltaire, 196, 270, 449
Wagner, Richard, 204, 306, 366, 378, 443
Wall Street Journal , 359-60
Wallace, Alfred A., 69
Wallace, Irving, 507-8
Warburg, Fredric, 214-16, 221, 241, 244, 383-84
Ward, F. Champion, 390
Ward, Robert, 51
Ware, Francis, 36, 38, 40-41, 42
Washington Post , 498-99
Watson, Thomas J., 454
Waugh, Evelyn, 10, 85, 119, 122, 253, 297, 329, 362, 477-78, 481, 508
Way, Ida Williams, 25, 33, 34, 42, 49, 87, 91, 102, 104, 148, 186, 198, 514-15
Way, Robert Dickinson, 268
Weisenburger, Steven, 364-66, 369-70, 387, 401-2
Weissenberg, Sigismund, 176
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 177, 218, 250
Wells, H. G., 96, 98, 171, 242-43
Wertheim, Larry M., 516
Wescott, Glenway, 94-95, 98
West, Nathanael, 107
West, Rebecca, 95, 98
Wharton, Edith, 270, 436
Whately, Richard, 306-7
Wheatland, Richard, 153-54, 166, 170, 174-75, 178, 180, 181
Wiebel, George, 154
Wiener, Norbert, 337-38, 453
Wiesel, Torsten, 442
Wilder, Thornton, 271, 309, 342, 435, 530
Williams, Dr., 36, 37
Williams, Ernest, 106
Williams, Jan, 56
Williams, Joy, 320-21, 332, 528
Williams, Margaret, 9, 120, 122, 124, 125, 128, 137, 142-43, 144-45, 146-57, 158-60, 163, 166, 168, 171-72, 176, 178, 179, 181, 183, 185, 190, 531
Williams, Samuel E., 49, 268
Williams, Tennessee, 118, 121, 137
Wilson, Colin, 243-44, 247
“Windows of the World,” 327, 329
Winebaum, Bernard, 80, 82, 124, 137, 140, 142-43, 145, 146, 470
Winters, Jonathan, 517
Winterset , 42-43
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw, 217
Woiwode, Larry, 310, 386
Wolfe, Peter, 520
Wolfe, Thomas, 89-90
Wood, Douglas, 230-31, 330, 466-67
Woodburn, John and Mary, 71-72, 114-15, 119, 121, 132, 167, 168, 205, 208
Woods (neighbors), 403, 407
Woolf, Virginia, 403-4
Wouk, Herman, 245-46, 247
Wright, Richard, 41
Wright, Stephen, 488-89
Wurlitzer, Rudolph, 279
Wylie, Andrew, 515, 519
Yeats, William Butler, 283, 382, 518-19
Yellin, Herb, 343-44
Yen Hui, 121
Young, Robert, 23
Zanuck, Darryl F., 258
Ziff, Larzer, 447-48
Zola, Émile, 342
Zweitausendeins, 521
About the Authors
WILLIAM GADDIS (1922–98) stands among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. The winner of two National Book Awards (for J R [1975] and A Frolic of His Own [1994]), he wrote five novels during his lifetime, including Carpenter’s Gothic (1985), Agapē Agape (published posthumously in 2002), and his early masterpiece The Recognitions (1955). He is loved and admired for his stylistic innovations, his unforgettable characters, his pervasive humor, and the breadth of his intellect and vision.
STEVEN MOORE is the author/editor of several books and essays on William Gaddis, and has written about many of Gaddis’s acquaintances (Alan Ansen, Chandler Brossard, Jack Green, David Markson, Sheri Martinelli). He is also the author of a two-volume study, The Novel: An Alternative History.
Copyright
Letters © 2013 by the Estate of William Gaddis
Editorial matter © 2013 by Steven Moore
Afterword © 2013 by Sarah Gaddis
First edition, 2013
Some of these letters first appeared in Profils Americaines, Pynchon Notes, New York Times,
Kanreki: A Tribute to Allen Ginsburg, and Conjunctions: 59, Colloquy.
The photographs on the following pages are reproduced courtesy of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries: 14, 17 (left), 27, 54, 75, 111, 138, 164, 197, 198, 220, 229, 238, 252, 259, 261, 398 (top), 430 (bottom), 445. Martin Dworkin’s photographs are reproduced courtesy of Bernard Looks. All other uncredited photos are reproduced courtesy of Sarah and Matthew Gaddis.
A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
Partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
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Cover art: Julian Schnabel, Portrait of William Gaddis (1987). Oil, plates, bondo on wood, 60” x 48”. Courtesy of the artist.
Printed on permanent/durable acid-free paper and bound in the United States of America
BOOKS BY WILLIAM GADDIS
The Recogntions (1955)
J R (1975)
Carpenter’s Gothic (1985)
A Frolic of His Own (1994)
Agapē Agape (2002)
The Rus
h for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings (2002)