For help with individual queries relating to their particular areas of interest, knowledge or expertise, I would like to thank Monique Beudert; The Viscount Boyd; David Bradshaw; Helen Brunner-Spira; Elizabeth Carmichael, Curator of the Latin American Collection at the Museum of Mankind; Colin Clark; John V. Cody; Alison Falby; Flora Fraser; Philip Hurst; Dr. Abbas Kelidas; Mr. Roger Marwood; Harold E. Masback III; Ian Patterson; Emeritus Professor John Postgate FRS; Andreas Reyneke; Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads; Ian Rod; James Taylor of the Imperial War Museum; Margaret Bradham Thornton; and Joan Weeks, Public Affairs Specialist at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Sally Brown, Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library, gave me special assistance with Isherwood’s manuscripts and typescripts, and also at the British Library many members of the Reading Room staff repeatedly furthered my research.
Some friends can always be relied on for help, and I am once again grateful to John Fuller, Nicholas Jenkins, Richard Davenport-Hines, and, in particular, Christopher Phipps for tracking down information for me. I am especially grateful to Edward Mendelson for engaging in so many discussions with me and also for reading several parts of this book in typescript and offering his usual demanding observations. Peter Parker, Isherwood’s biographer, has been generous and forbearing, not only in the tact with which he has awaited the completion of this volume but also in the tact with which he has commented on nearly everything I have done in it with Isherwood’s text; he has also shared his chronology with me. Christopher Potter has also worked particularly hard to make a contribution to this book. A number of friends and acquaintances gave valuable time translating and identifying texts: Francis Lamport, David Luke, Axel Neubohn, and above all Thomas Braun of Merton College, Oxford.
Somehow or other, various members of my own family knew things I have never known, and they have at last shared them with me so that I could use them in this book. I would like to thank Lucy Bucknell, Dr. Edward Carter, Louise Carter, George E. B. Maguire, J. Robert Maguire, Dr. Pauline T. Maguire, and Dr. Frank Reilly. I would also like to thank, from the bottom of my heart, my husband, J. Robert Maguire, Jr., my children Bobby and Lucy Maguire, and Sally Whitaker and Alison Lovegrove.
I have had very strong support throughout this project from Caroline Dawnay, and I would like to thank a number of hardworking editors who became more and more involved in this book as it neared completion, Mary Chamberlain, Michael Earley, and Douglas Matthews. I would also like to thank Helena Beynon, Harvey Starte, Jim Fox, Michael di Capua, and above all, Geoffrey Strachan, who seems to have understood and cared deeply about every nuance in this volume and many nuances that are not in it.
Index
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NOTE: Works by Isherwood appear directly under title; works by others appear under authors’ names.
Abel, Mrs. (Haverford refugee), 210–11, 215
Abell, David, 816
Acheson, Edna, 168–9
Ackerley, Joe Randolph, 391, 583
Acosta, Mercedes de, 68
Actors’ Studio, 613, 768n
Adams, Dick, 793
Adelaide Drive, Hollywood, xlv, 827, 829
Adler, Buddy, 657
Adler (Haverford refugee), 227
Adler, Polly, 881
Adrian, Gilbert, 688–9, 765–6
Adventure in Baltimore (film, originally Judgement Day in Pittsburgh), xxiv, 384, 391
Affair to Remember, An (film), 732
“Afterwards” (C.I.; story), xlv, 816, 820–2, 827, 830–1, 835, 858
Agar, John, 384
Agate, James: A Shorter Ego, 574, 576
Agee, James, 450
Ahmed, Jalal, 700
AJC Ranch, 492, 685–6, 699
Akhilananda, Swami, 298, 708
Albee, Edward: The Sandbox, 899
Aldeburgh Festival (1948), 387, 393, 406
Alderson, Nik, 129
Alderson, Wroe, 186–7, 204, 208, 216
Alessandria (Italy), 555–7
Alexander, King of Yugoslavia, 36
Alguadiche, Madame (Haverford refugee), 210–11
Ali Khan, 564
All the Conspirators (C.I.), xxxiii, 689, 691, 701, 762–3, 811
Allais, David, 496
Allen, Mrs. (Hollywood landlady), 148
Allen, Gracie, 727, 731
Allen, John Edward, 405
Allen, Rita, 530
Allen, Steve, 844, 894
Alvensleben, Werner von, 7
Amann, Dorothy, 189, 208
Amann, Eva, 189, 208
Amann, Paul, 189, 200, 207, 227
Amann, Peter, 189, 200, 207, 225, 227
“Ambrose” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit), xlv–xlvi, 811–12, 814–16, 822, 825–6, 827, 830–1, 834–6, 836, 840, 845–9, 852–3
American Friends Service Committee, 140, 157, 160–2, 164–5, 171, 184, 206, 221, 224
American Red Cross, 106
Ames, Bill, 553
Amis, Kingsley: Lucky Jim, 586; That Uncertain Feeling, 578, 586
Amiya (Ella Corbin; later Countess of Sandwich): works with Prabhavananda, 150, 257, 268, 270, 315; on learning submission, 290; at Peggy’s, 292; and blue jay, 296; relations with C.I., 302, 371–2; Madhabi opposes, 306, 314; looks after Bok boys, 322; Christmas preparations, 330; C.I. treats for birthday, 333; and John Latham’s death, 338–40; neglects worship, 357; and Vernon Old, 360, 371–2, 378; Sudhira gossips to, 362; hurts leg, 367; on Mrs Kellog, 373; and Sister’s death, 412; C.I. meets in London, 566, 594–5, 607; and C.I.’s mother, 570, 860, 865; C.I. discusses with Heard, 612; fails to write to C.I., 623; reports C.I.’s jaundice to C.I.’s Mother, 629; drunkenness in California, 782–4; at cinema with C.I., 783; C.I. gives party for, 785–6; egomania, 787; writes from Wyberslegh, 870
Amsterdam, 91
Ananda Bhavan (house), Ladera Lane, Montecito, 359, 363, 367, 369–74, 466
Ananta see Shenkel, John
Anastasia (film), 623
Anatomy of a Murder (film), 731
Andelson, Sheldon, 683
Anderson, Judith, 805
Anderson, Maxwell, 4
Andrea Doria (ship), 539, 544, 634
Andrews, Betty, 599, 666, 739, 873–4
Andrews, Christopher, 739
Andrews, John, 400, 562
Andrews, Marinette, 816, 818, 820–1
Andrews, Oliver, 599, 698, 744, 873
Andrews, Robert Hardy, 533
Andy Hardy Comes Home (film), 783
Angeli, Pier, 478
Angelo see Ravagli, Angelino
Angelo, Waldo, 417
Angelus Silesius (Johann Scheffler), 302
Anhalt, Edward, 706, 782
Anhalt, Jackie George, 706
Anne Frank (film), 873
Anouilh, Jean: The Lark, 537, 650–1
Anstee, Paul, 563
Aparna, 291, 293
Appelbaum, Gertrude, 882
Approach to Vedanta, An (C.I.; earlier Approach to Ramakrishna); 771
Archer, Mr. and Mrs. John, 505
Arensberg, Walter, 390
Argo, Leif, 417
Arlen, Michael, 792n
Armendariz, Pedro, 408, 485, 487, 499
Arnold, Benedict, 819
Arnold, Edward, 134
Arnold, Edwin: The Light of Asia, 287
Arnold, George, 47
Arup see Critchfield, Kenneth
Arvin, Newton, 386, 392
Ascent of F6, The (C.I. play; with Auden), 13, 308
Asheshananda, Swami, 446, 496
Ashokananda, Swami, 240, 323–4, 326–7, 447, 765
Asit (Prabhavananda’s nephew) see Ghosh, Asit
Astaire, Adele, 111
Athenia (ship), 65
Atman, 127
Auden, Wystan Hugh: in New York, xxvi, xx
xv, 9–13, 99, 441, 469, 537, 595–6; agrees to write lyrics for C.I.’s Berlin musical, xlv, 803, 809–12, 814; in C.I. dream, xlvii, 841; emigrates to USA with C.I., 3–4; view of C.I., 3; Anglo-Catholicism, 6; pacifism, 6–7; finances, 9; and Vernon Old, 9, 12; considers return to England in war, 10, 115–16; takes drugs, 10; supports war, 16; visits to California, 43, 115–16; and Homer Lane, 48; Nicolson attacks for staying in USA, 55; Viertel and, 66; on wartime hatred, 82; and Rodakiewicz, 89; remains in USA during war, 99, 101, 116, 365, 369; disavows pacifism, 115–16; suspicion of Heard’s ideas, 116; smoking, 151; C.I. visits (1941), 180; stays with Caroline Newton, 181, 229, 231; recommends A Winter’s Tale, 204; poetry reading, 229; broadcast, 304; C.I. visits on Fire Island (1947), 386, 391–2; in Paris, 393, 400, 402, 562; appearance, 402, 537; house in Italy, 407, 547; C.I. considers living with, 439; friendship with C.I., 442; in China with C.I., 489; C.I. spends 1954 Christmas with, 793; character, 815; and Rake’s Progress libretto, 850; dieting, 865; moles removed, 865; The Ascent of F6 (with C.I.), 13, 308; The Dog Beneath the Skin (with C.I.), 900; “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” (poem), 11n; Journey to a War (with C.I.), xi; Look, Stranger! (in USA as On this Island), 82n, 304; Poets of the English Language (ed., with Norman Holmes), 629, 638; “Spain” (poem), 494
Auerbach, Frank, 569
Aufderheide, Charles, 394
Aumont, Jean Pierre, 716
Auriol, Vincent, 399
Aurobindo (Ghose), Sri, 149
Austen, Howard (Tinker), 521, 527, 532, 720–1, 777, 801
Austin, Dr., 607
Avadhuta, 703
Avery, Stephen Moorehouse, 383
Ayrton, Michael, 585
Babin, Victor, 713
Baby Doll (film), 604
Bacall, Lauren (Betty Bogart), 467, 495, 498–9, 675, 749, 757
Bach, Frau (Gottfried Reinhardt’s secretary), 76, 78, 80, 82, 90; death, 361
Bachardy, Don: on C.I.’s troubled sleep, ix; relations with C.I., xxxvi–xxxix, xli–xlii, xlvi, xlix, 389, 466–7, 469, 472, 482–3, 489, 491, 500, 508–9, 513, 515, 519, 527–9, 533–5, 578, 603, 611, 613, 616–17, 633, 638, 644, 650, 664, 669–70, 680–2, 686, 688, 696–7, 699, 707–8, 720, 726–7, 742, 745, 751, 759, 764–7, 776–7, 779–82, 790, 820, 823, 826–7, 829, 837, 841, 845–7, 852–3, 862, 884–5, 889, 901; 1955–6 visit to Europe with C.I., xli–xlii, 536, 538, 544, 547–95; takes hashish, xli, 541–3; in hospital with hepatitis, xliii, 610–13; art studies, xliv, xlix, 597, 600, 621, 626–8, 629–30, 635, 639, 644, 655, 675, 680, 692, 700, 733, 739, 744, 752, 782, 786, 836; round-the-world trip with C.I. (1957–58), xliv, 726, 732–3; drawings and sketches, xlix, 503, 581, 752, 811, 816, 820, 858, 861, 865–6, 869–70, 875, 879–80, 888, 890, 893, 900; C.I.’s affection for, 454–5, 458; and brother Ted’s breakdowns, 454, 484; trip with C.I., 456; damages C.I.’s car, 458; draft problems, 465 & n, 466, 472n; lives with C.I., 465; Caskey’s jealousy of, 470, 489; in Mexico, 471–6; education, 476, 480; studies theater arts, 482–4; depressions, 483–4, 494, 501–2, 523, 568–9, 602, 633, 636–7, 655, 670, 694, 708–9, 743, 745–6, 788, 860, 898; untruths, 484; career prospects, 488, 491, 493, 495; outbursts and resentfulness, 491, 493, 496–7, 505, 506, 513–14, 518, 528, 530, 551, 564, 567, 584, 599, 603, 617, 632, 794, 809, 813, 827, 830–1, 838, 843–4, 858, 867, 879–80, 898–9, 900–1; visits Marion Davies, 491; decorates for Harry Brown party, 494; works for Duquettes, 497–8, 500, 502, 508–9, 512, 515, 519, 520, 522–4, 526; C.I. gives jewels to, 498, 679, 681, 734; photographs of stars, 501; drinking, 506, 556–7, 713, 779; and brother Ted, 509, 634, 644, 652, 845–6; Speed Lamkin advises, 511; visits fortune-teller, 520; in Tangier with C.I., 541–6; black tongue, 547–8, 551, 554–5; hemorrhoids, 565; remains in London during C.I.’s visit to Wyberslegh, 569–71, 577–8; C.I. assesses, 575; play writing, 578; relaxes in friendly company, 581; in Cambridge, 582–3; agrees to see psychiatrist, 585, 603, 609; self-criticism, 592; meets C.I.’s family, 593; disagreement with Spender, 594; return to USA, 595; dolls, 596–7; contribution to Sycamore Road house, 602–3, 608, 610; polio vaccination, 609, 613; reads C.I. letters to Caskey, 614; registers at UCLA, 614; nurses C.I., 620; and Prabhavananda, 622, 623–4; hurts back, 626; physical development, 631; insecurity, 633, 635–6, 720; parking ticket, 634–5; August 1956 holiday with C.I., 640–2; redecorates home, 646, 668–9, 693, 695, 854, 895; sees old films, 652; attends costume ball, 656–8; flying with Vance Breese, 659, 662; and C.I.’s impotence, 660, 688; in C.I.’s will, 675, 677; visits Vedanta Place, 684–5; keeps journal, 693, 752; visits to New York alone, 696–7, 702, 705–8, 756–9, 762; 1957 birthday, 699; patronized by Michael Barrie, 701; nausea, 716, 718; paintings, 718, 736, 740, 767, 769; quarrels with brother Ted, 718; and Thom Gunn, 724n, 771, 844; classes with Vernon Old, 734, 739–40, 744, 751; moustache, 736, 745; quarrels with mother, 743; avoids spiritual exercises, 746; meets Joan Fontaine, 749; birthday party (1958), 752; stays with Lamkins, 757–8; independence, 763, 779, 782–3, 786, 853, 857, 879; paints C.I., 772, 796; trip to Yosemite, 773; at Santa Barbara exhibition, 778; discontinues studies with Vernon Old, 782; character, 791, 823; fortune told, 792, 808; celebrates 1958 Christmas, 793; slaps C.I., 794; in New York with C.I. (January 1959), 799–800; sells drawing of C.I. to Stravinskys, 804; traffic offenses, 808; exhibits at Chouinard, 810; employed by May Company, 811–14; birthday presents from C.I., 813; dismissed by May Company, 815; works for California Stylist, 816, 819; accompanies C.I. on 1959 trip to Europe, 822–3; resents Elsa Lanchester, 827; at Adelaide Drive, 829; draws hats for LeMaire, 832–3; C.I. nurses, 846; Hollywood portraits, 848; birthday (1960), 855; interest in astrology, 858; sells drawings, 863, 880; artistic ambitions, 865; and father, 867; stomach pains, 875; Charles Laughton dismisses, 877, 879n; incident over Millard’s studio, 881–2; The Monsters (play; with C.I.), xlv, 785–92, 794–8, 800, 827
Bachardy, Glade (Don’s mother), 499, 503, 532, 600–1, 630, 671, 698, 714, 743, 792
Bachardy, P. Jess (Don’s father), 630, 867
Bachardy, Ted (Don’s brother), breakdowns, xxxvi, xl, 454–5, 480–2, 484, 630, 843–6; C.I. meets, 417; photographs, 501; relations with Don, 509, 634, 644, 652, 813, 845–6; on leave from hospital, 511; and Hoover, 529, 535, 610, 624; visits C.I., 529, 535, 662; at beach, 625; attends Chouinard Art Institute, 627; arrested for shoplifting, 667–8, 683; C.I. rude to, 671; quarrels with Don, 718; relations with Bart Lord, 718, 749, 760, 845; Brando refuses autograph to, 837
Bacon, Francis, 580, 584, 665n
Bagnold, Enid (Lady Jones): The Monsters, 892
Bailey, Bill, 385, 392, 408
Baker, Mrs. (of Sam Jaffe Agency), 31
Baker, John, 579
Balanchine, George, 835
Balchin, Nigel, 649
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski), 673
Balzac, Honoré de: La Comédie humaine, 484n; Le Curé de Tours, 695, 697; Vautrin, 849
Bankhead, Tallulah, 436, 727
Barada (Doris Ludwig), 296, 331, 684, 866–7
Barbarian and the Geisha, The (film), 634, 638, 649n
Barbellion, W. N. P. (i.e., B. F. Cummings): Journal of a Disappointed Man, viii
Barber, Mrs. (Kathleen Isherwood’s helper), 572–4
Barbirolli, John, 93
Bard, Ben, 709
Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead), 27, 80
Barnes, Alfred, 202
Barnes, Jimmy, 496, 759
Barrie, J. M.: Peter Pan, 565
Barrie, Michael: friendship and meetings with C.I., 481, 531–2, 593, 597, 700–1, 709, 767, 828, 855, 887; and Harry Brown’s birthday party, 494; helps cook, 504; Don Bachardy likes, 505; entertains Thom Gunn, 506; and Heard, 509, 631, 828, 855; advises C.I. on finances, 530; drinking, 535; talks of God, 536; Tom Wright maligns, 599; and Stroud, 600–1, 611, 631, 679; helps C.I. move to Sycamore Road, 613; avoids C.I. with hepatitis, 622; flu, 625; relations with C.I., 628, 631; on taking LSD, 701; puts on weight, 709; takes mescaline, 746; operation, 758; at Vera Stravinsky’s exhibition, 75
8; gives party, 764; trip to Hawaii with Heard, 888
Barrow, Ethel H., 97
Barrows, Guy: Chindee, 495
Barrymore, Ethel, 390
Barth twins, 537
Basher, Phil, 148–9, 176
Basserman, Alexander, 91
Bateman, Lady, 250
Bates, W. H.: eye exercise method, 834
Bautzer, Greg, 757
Baxley, Barbara, 639
Baxter, Anne, 503, 692
Bayley, Mrs. (Hollywood landlady), 46, 61, 75, 117
Bayley, Bud, 61, 117
Bayley, Happy, 46, 61, 74, 93, 103
Baz, Ben, 385, 392
Beaton, Cecil, 546n, 724–8, 730, 800–1
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau film), 437
Beckett, Samuel: Act Without Words, 899; Waiting for Godot, 570
Beery, Wallace, 130
Beesley, Alec: C.I. occupies apartment, xxii, 383, 390; C.I. meets, 258–9; as conscientious objector, 259–60; friendship with C.I., 292, 294, 328, 356, 360, 375, 379, 390–1, 393, 439; Benedict Canyon home, 328; suggests I Am a Camera as play, 388; moves to Malibu, 390; C.I. sees in England, 567–8, 580–1, 591; fails to write to C.I., 623; C.I. sends play to, 798–9; C.I. writes to, 808
Beesley, Dodie Smith: C.I. discusses novel with, xxxiv, 418; suggests I Am a Camera as play, xxxv, 388; C.I. meets, 258–9; and dogs, 258, 582; and Alec’s advice to conscientious objectors, 260; friendship with C.I., 292, 294, 328, 353, 356, 360, 375, 379, 390–1, 393, 439; Benedict Canyon home, 328; on Heard, 379; moves to Malibu, 390; disenchantment with van Druten, 457; Easter greeting, 489; C.I. sees in England, 567–8, 580–1, 591; fails to write to C.I., 623; tame thrush, 711; in Don Bachardy’s diary, 752–3; C.I. sends play to, 798–9; C.I. writes to, 808; The Hundred and One Dalmatians, 667; I Capture the Castle, 661; Letter from Paris (play), 457n; These People, Those Books (play), 774
Behr, Mrs. (of Yucca Loma ranch), 94
Behrendt, Heinz, 357
Behrman, S. N., 87
Bekassy, Stephen, 639
Belfrage, Cedric, 64, 81
Belfrage, Mrs. Cedric, 64
Bell, Book and Candle (film), 783
Below the Equator (film), xxv
Belur Math, Calcutta, 305
Ben Hur (film), 699–700
Bennett, Arnold: Journals, 612, 618
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