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Florida, 177; see also Hobe Sound
Fly Club, Harvard, 42
Fonda, Henry, 217
Forbes, F. Murray, Jr., 209
Ford, Ford Madox, 66
Ford, Henry, 134–35
Forman, Henry James, 178
Fort Bliss, Tex., 54
Fort Devens, Mass., 55, 163
Fort Greene, N.C., 55
Framingham, Mass., 53, 86
Freedman, Harold, 164, 165
Freud, Sigmund, 175
Fuller, Margaret (Marchioness Ossoli), 32
Fuller, R. Buckminster, 32, 276
Gardiner family, 88
Gardiner’s Island, N.Y., 88
Gary, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, 299
Geismar, Maxwell: review of Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., 244–45; review of Point of No Return, 217–18
George Washington (brig), 38
Gibbons, Mr. and Mrs. Cedric, 27; at Treasure Island, 225
Gibbs, Wolcott, 181; parody of H. M. Pulham, Esquire, 141
Gish, Lillian, 135
Glasgow, Ellen, In This Our Life, Pulitzer Prize, 151
Gobi Desert, 109
Good Housekeeping, 129, 188, 194, 228
“Good Morning, Major,” 70–71, 162
Goodwin, Eddie, 295
Gordon, Max, 186
Gould, Beatrice, 228, 288
Gould, Bruce, 228, 233, 288
Gould, Edwin, 181
Gould, Jay, 181
Greene, Col. Joseph I., advice on Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., 230–33
Greenwich, Conn.: Chelmsford (Hookers’ estate), 104–6, 166
Greta, Aunt, see Oakman, Margaret Marquand
Groton, 34, 45, 48
Guernsey, Isle of, 30
Gwathmey, Father, 77
Haggard, Edith, 189
Hale, Dudley, 39, 41, 56; interview on JPM, 207; in Wickford Point, 119, 207
Hale, Edward Everett, 39, 40, 210; in Wickford Point, 120, 125
Hale, Herbert Dudley, 39
Hale, Mrs. Herbert Dudley, see Oakman, Margaret Marquand
Hale, Laura, 119, 210; interview on JPM, 207–8
Hale, Nathan, 39
Hale, Robert B.: interviews on JPM, 207, 267–68; in Wickford Point, 119
Hale, Russell, 40, 41
Hale, Thomas Shaw, 205–6, 208, 210
Hale family (JPM’s cousins), 39–40, 44–45, 56, 106, 107, 113, 117–18, 299; Adelaide and, 126–27, 208, 210, 212; and Curzon’s Mill estate, 203–4; furniture, quarrel about, 126–27, 204, 205; JPM offers to buy their share of Curzon’s Mill, 204–6; lawsuit on Curzon’s Mill, 20, 206–12; in Wickford Point, 119–27, 130, 204, 207–8, 266–68
Hamburger, Philip, 297; J. P. Marquand, Esquire, profile in New Yorker, 28, 245
Hammersley, Gordon, 52–53
Happy Knoll series, 283–85
Harper & Row, 268
Harper’s Magazine, 284
Harrow, 34
Hartford, Conn., 103
Harvard, 34; Board of Overseers, JPM on, 283; Jews at, 242; JPM at, 44–49, 72, 73; JPM’s gift to, 291; JPM’s honorary degree, 247; JPM’s manuscripts requested for library, 150–51; Philip Marquand at, 30
Harvard, clubs of: A.D., 42, 44, 45, 49; Delphic, 42, 43; Fly, 42; Owl, 42, 43; Porcellian, 42–45, 49; Spee, 42–44, 49; Sphinx, 44
Harvard Club, New York, 202–3, 265
Harvard Club, Newburyport, 45, 259
Harvard Lampoon, 47, 88
Haven’s End, 89
Hawley, Cameron: Cash McCall, 262; Executive Suite, 218, 262
Hellman, Lillian, on Marquands in Reservoir Street house, 253–54
Hemingway, Ernest, 66, 125, 244, 260; JPM’s opinion of, 179; Tunney’s story of, 222–23
Hersey, John, 179
Hibbs, Ben, 228
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 38, 125
Highet, Gilbert, 293
Hill, Carol (Mrs. Drew Hill, later Mrs. Carl Brandt), 66, 68–70, 71; JPM dictates to her, 70–71, 75; marriage problems, 74–76; marries Brandt, 78; Wild, novel, 68, 69, 74, 76; see also Brandt, Carol
Hill, Drew, 66, 68–69, 138; death, 76; marriage problems, 74–76
H. M. Pulham, Esquire, 141–45, 149–51, 159, 160, 168, 188, 238, 282, 292; Babbitt compared with, 144–45; banned in Boston, 150; Harvard asks for manuscript, 150–51; joint copyright, JPM and Adelaide, 149; JPM as character, 141; Marvin Myles, 23, 122, 141–44, 158; motion picture, 154, 156, 157, 263; in North of Grand Central, 183; sales, 149–50; title, 149
Hobe Sound, Fla., 19, 127, 186, 254; anti-Semitism, 186; coconuts in fireplace, 27
Holicong, Pa., 165
Holiday, JPM’s article on Boston, 233–38, 259
Hollywood, JPM in, 154–57
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 43
Hooker, Adelaide, see Marquand, Adelaide Ferry Hooker
Hooker, Barbara, 102
Hooker, Elon Huntington, 103, 201
Hooker, Mrs. Elon Huntington (Blanche), 103–4, 113, 134, 148
Hooker, Thomas, 22, 103
Hot Springs, Va., 171; Homestead Hotel, 77
Howard, Sidney, 125
Howe, Helen, 46, 110; We Happy Few, satire on JPM, 110
Howe, Quincy, 130
Ipswich, Mass., 112
Jamaica, 113
James, Sidney, 284
Johnson, Gen. Hugh S., 134
Johnston, Richard, 284
Jones, James, From Here to Eternity, 180
Josephas (caretaker at Treasure Island), 221, 224–26
Joyce, James, 66; Ulysses, 293
J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, 56, 58, 59
Kahler, Hugh McNair, 228
Kaufman, George S., 151, 164–65, 167, 188, 253; The Late George Apley, play, 164, 165
Kaufman, Mrs. George S. (Beatrice), 165–67
Keats, John C., The Crack in the Picture Window, 218
Kennedy, John F., 248
Kent’s Island, Newburyport, 18–19, 105, 126, 174, 271, 291; Adelaide’s decorating and remodeling, 111; Adelaide’s last visit, 279; Carl Brandt at clambake, 247; Carol’s decorations, 254; furniture from Curzon’s Mill, 127, 204; JPM at, 131, 153, 185, 251–53, 282, 293–94; JPM buys, 28; JPM’s children inherit, 297, 298; JPM’s death at, 294; after JPM’s funeral, 295; Philip Marquand at, 114
Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 23–24
Kidder, Peabody & Company, 78
Knickerbocker Club, New York, 265, 293
Korean War, 227
Kramer, Stanley, 264
Ladies’ Home Journal, 60, 121, 123, 129, 285; Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. as serial, 228, 232–33, 263; Sincerely, Willis Wayde as serial, 260–61; Women and Thomas Harrow as serial, 288
Lake Como, 268, 269
Lamarr, Hedy, 156
Lamson, Peggy, 297–98
Lamson, Roy, 297–98
Larsen, Roy, 283
Last Laugh, Mr. Moto (or Mercator Island), 161
The Late George Apley, 92–100, 106, 109, 110, 111, 130, 142, 151, 168, 182, 238; error on Athenaeum, 155; Harvard asks for manuscript, 150–51; Horatio Willing as narrator, 92–95; McIntyre’s correspondence with JPM on, 97; Mary Monahan episode, 93–95, 97, 99; motion picture, 99, 199–200, 263; in North of Grand Central, 183; O’Reilly episode and lawsuit, 100–1, 122, 125, 140–41; plans for, 81, 90; play, 99, 164, 165, 187–88; on Porcellian Club, 43; publication, reactions to, 98–99; Pulitzer Prize, 99, 131, 134; sales, 131; setting, 19; writing, style and form, 92–93
Lawrence, D. H., 178
Lawrence, Gertrude, 107
Lawrence Bishop William, 88
Lewis, Sinclair, 74, 125; Arrowsmith, (motion picture), 182; Babbitt, 144–45; JPM with, 183; Main Street, 182; Mayes and, 189
Lewis, Mrs. Sinclair (Dorothy Thompson), 183
Lexington, Mass., 75
Life, 206, 209
Life at Happy Knoll, 283–85
Lindbergh, Charles A., 166, 167, 186; in America First Committee, 135, 136; at Treasure Island, 221, 223
Lindbergh, Mrs. Charles A. (Anne Morrow), 165–66, 186; at Treasure Island, 223
Lineth (servant at Treasure Island), 221
Little Boar’s Head, N.H., 32
Little, Brown & Company, 63, 133, 161, 183, 185, 197, 230, 245, 258, 268, 287, 293; and H. M. Pulham, Esquire, 149; joint copyright agreement, 149, 185; JPM proposes himself as director, 238; end The Late George Apley, 96–98, 100; O’Reilly lawsuit settled, 141; and So Little Time, 168, 171–73; Wickford Point, advertisement, 133
London: Brown’s Hotel, 87; Claridge’s Hotel, 211, 270; JPM and Carol in, 270–72
Long, Ray, 59, 79
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 125
Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, Mass., 286–87
Lorimer, George Horace, 58, 59, 79, 98, 188, 194, 272; in Tarkington’s story, 189–90
Lorre, Peter, 90
Loveman, Amy, 186, 255
Lowell, James Russell, 168
Luce, Clare Boothe, Pilot’s Wife, 157
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 229
McCall’s, 149
McIntyre, Alfred, 96–98, 115, 121–22, 134, 149, 160, 195, 197, 200, 230; JPM’s correspondence with, on The Late George Apley, 97; Saturday Evening Post offended by advertisement, 133–34; and So Little Time, 168, 172, 173; and Wickford Point, 131–33
McIntyre, Helen, 115
McWilliams, Joe, 135
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 180
Maine, University of, 247
Malquinn, Miss (nurse), 18
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 99
Markel, Lester, 189
Marquand, Adelaide Ferry Hooker (JPM’s second wife), 27, 102–7, 126–27, 139, 162, 163, 199, 220, 241, 246, 265, 288; in America First Committee, 134–36, 166, 242; in Aspen, 20, 154, 252; in B. F.’s Daughter, 198; buys houses, 17–19, 21–24, 127, 154, 156–57; character, 20–22, 104–6; children born, 135, 161, 171; Christina compared with, 106, 110; collaboration in JPM’s writing, 115, 148–49, 160, 171, 184–85, 282; and Conney Fiske, 226, 242; Curzon’s Mill estate and lawsuit, 210; death, 298; divorce, 277–79; drinking habits, 152, 242; engagement and wedding, 105–7; European trip with JPM, 211; family connections, 17–18, 103–4; Hale family and, 126–27, 208, 209, 212; at Hobe Sound, 185–86; interior decoration, taste in, 254–55; JPM imitates her, 21–22; after JPM’s death, 297; at JPM’s funeral, 295; and JPM’s love affair with Carol Brandt, 145–46, 158, 174–77, 183–85, 242–45; and Kaufmans, 165–67; at Kent’s Island, 247, 279; and Lindberghs, 165–67; meets JPM, 102; in Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., 229, 232; in Point of No Return, 213; relationship with JPM, 19–22, 110–11, 151–53, 158, 167, 177–78, 240, 242–43, 251, 253–55, 268, 276, 282–83; in Reno, 277; Reservoir Street house, 17–19, 21–24, 251, 253–55; at Rogue River, 156; in So Little Time, 169, 170; at Treasure Island, 223–24; in Washington, 161–62
Marquand, Christina (Tina, JPM’s daughter), 81, 162, 247, 252; birth, 62; illness, 63; in JPM’s will, 296–97; wedding, 238
Marquand, Christina Sedgwick (JPM’s first wife), 25, 50–52, 54, 56, 57, 69, 75, 90, 145, 152, 163, 273, 289; Adelaide compared with, 106, 110; character, 50–51, 61–64; children born, 61, 62; children live with her, 162; death, 251; divorce, 81, 105; divorce settlement, 27–28, 90; in Europe, 60, 67; JPM ridicules her, 67–68, 74; JPM’s courtship, 50–52, 55–56; marriage, 60, 107; married life, 61–64, 67–68, 74, 78–81, 103; in Point of No Return, 214; second marriage, 214; separated from JPM, 68; in So Little Time, 169
Marquand, Daniel, 30
Marquand, Elizabeth (Aunt Bessie), 31, 35, 37–39, 40, 205
Marquand, Elon Huntington Hooker (Lonnie, JPM’s son), 171, 247; and JPM’s death, 294
Marquand, Ferry (Blanche Ferry, JPM’s daughter), 18, 186, 247, 254; birth, 134; JPM’s relationship with, 252, 254
Marquand, John, Jr. (JPM’s son), 64, 81, 162, 247; birth, 61; in JPM’s will, 296–97; The Second Happiest Day, 268; trip to Orient with JPM, 268–69; in World War II, 163
Marquand, John Phillips (JPM)
in advertising, 56, 58
in Africa, 293
appearance in youth, 46
birth, 32
as Book-of-the-Month Club judge, 177–82, 199, 219, 255–57, 286–88, 293; reviews quoted, 178–79, 180–82; verbal reviews, 255
Boston, attachment to, 18–19
childhood, 32–34
children, attitude toward, 162, 252, 278
in China, 79, 102–3, 108–10, 269
Chinese soothsayer’s advice to, 108–9
conversation: anecdotes, telling, 72–74, 222; book reviews, 255; explosions of rage, 28; imitations of people, 21, 113; manner and style of, 10, 21; parodies, verbal, 10, 21
at Curzon’s Mill, 35–41, 59, 73, 77
Curzon’s Mill and Hale family quarrel, 203–12; lawsuit, 20, 206–12
death and funeral, 294–95
drinking habits, 153
earnings, 28, 79, 106, 173, 187, 219, 228, 245
family background, 30–31
golf, 240–41
at Harvard, 44–48, 72, 73
health, worries about, 220, 245
heart attack, 18, 20, 248, 251–53
in Hollywood, 154–57
honorary degrees: from Harvard, 247; from other universities, 247
horse named for him, 219–20
income tax, 291
as lonely wanderer, 109, 142
love affair with Carol Brandt, 139, 145–47, 153–54, 158, 163, 167, 174–77, 183–85, 242, 246–47, 257, 279–81
marriage with Adelaide Hooker: engagement and wedding, 105–7; first meeting, 102; relationship in marriage, 19–22, 110–11, 151–53, 158, 167, 177–78, 240, 242–43, 251, 253–55, 268, 276–77, 282–83; Reno confrontation and divorce, 277–78
marriage with Christina Sedgwick: courtship, 50–52, 55–56; divorce, 82, 105; divorce settlement, 27–28, 90; engagement and wedding, 60, 107; married life, 61–64, 67–68, 74, 78–82, 103; separation, 68
military service, 52–55
money, attitude toward, 26–29, 106, 129, 177, 265
O’Reilly lawsuit, 100–1, 122, 125, 140–41
as poor social outcast, 47–49, 51, 105–6, 168
poverty in early life, 26, 31, 35, 40, 45, 47
property and possessions, desire for, 127
Pulitzer Prize, 99, 131, 134, 151, 168
self-dramatization, 130–31
speech and voice, 73
in sports, 46, 241
thrift, 20, 26–27
at Treasure Island, 220–26
will, 295–96
World War I service, 53–55, 162–63
in World War II, 161–63, 167
writers, likes and dislikes, 179–80, 186
writing: Adelaide’s collaboration, 115, 148–49, 160, 171, 184, 282; advice from collaborators, 188, 201–3, 230–32; chronological list, 301–10; development shown in Thirty Years, 258–59; dictates to Carol, 70–71, 75, 79, 269–70; first published story, 57; flashback technique, 89, 125, 290; Harvard asks for manuscripts, 150–51; last novel, work on, 292; as revenge for the past, 123–24; sales figures, preoccupation with, 131, 133–34; style, 89, 91–92, 260; two types of fiction, 128–29, 159–60, 168; wants to write one great novel, 71, 90, 168; see also separate titles
Marquand, John Phillips (JPM’s grandfather), 31
Marquand, Joseph (JPM’s ancestor), 30–31
Marquand, Joseph (JPM’s uncle), 31
Marquand, Margaret (JPM’s aunt), see Oakman, Margaret Marquand
Marquand, Margaret Curzon (Mrs. John Phillips Marquand, JPM’s grandmother), 31
Marquand, Margaret Fuller (Mrs. Philip Marquand, JPM’s mother), 33, 55, 106, 114; character, 32, 35; death, 113; family background, 32; travels with her husband, 35, 45
Marquand, Mary (Aunt Mollie), 31, 35, 37, 38, 40, 205
Marquand, Philip (JPM’s father), 26, 29–35, 220; in California, 35; and Curzon’s Mill estate, 203, 205; gambling craze, 31–32, 113; gambling debts,
28; at Hale lawsuit hearing, 209; JPM’s attitude toward, 29; JPM’s responsibility for, 113–14; loses his inheritance, 31; old age, 114; in Panama Canal Zone, 45; in panic of 1907, 34–35; in Wilmington, 32, 45, 55
Marquand, Russell (JPM’s uncle), 31
Marquand, Timothy Fuller (JPM’s son), 161, 247
Marquand family, 30–31
Marshall, Gen. George, 243
Mary, Great-Aunt, see Curzon, Mary
Massachusetts Field Artillery, Battery A, 52–55, 72–73, 162
Matthiessen, F. O., book on New England renaissance, 297–98
Maugham, W. Somerset, 178, 179, 185, 228; Mayes and, 188–89; “A Woman of Fifty,” 189
Maule, France, 69, 71, 268
Mayer, Louis B., 22, 152
Mayes, Herbert R., 188–91, 228, 252; and JPM’s stories, 190–91, 194–95; and Lewis, 189–90; and Maugham, 188–89
Mayes, Mrs. Herbert R. (Grace), 189
Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., 227–32, 244–45, 260, 282; Geismar’s review, 244; Greene’s advice on, 230–32; motion picture, 263–65; as serial, 228, 232–33, 263
Mercator Island (Last Laugh, Mr. Moto), 161
Merck, George, 59, 73, 161, 186, 201
Merrimack River, 35
Metcalf, K. D., 150
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 22, 152, 154, 156, 264
Mexico, American troops in, 53
Michener, James, 179; Hawaii, 179
Middlesex School, 45
Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman, 203
Milo Junction story, 73–74
Milton, John, 180
Minton, Balch (publishers), 286
Miss Chapin’s School, 166
Miss Spence’s School, 104
Mr. Moto Is So Sorry, 129
M.I.T., 32, 35
Mizener, Arthur, On Women and Thomas Harrow, 290
Mollie, Aunt, see Marquand, Mary
Mooney, Miss, rooming house, 47, 48
Moore County Hunt, 87
Morley, Christopher, 177, 255, 256
Morris, John, 284
Morristown School for Boys, 41
Morton, Charles, on Geismar’s review of Point of No Return, 217–18
Moto, Mr., stories about, 79–80, 90, 103, 129, 159–61, 219, 263, 268, 270–73
Myopia Hunt Club, 284
Myrtis (servant at Treasure Island), 221
Nassau, 222; see also Treasure Island
Nathan, Robert, 48
National Industrial Conference Board, 103
New Hope, Pa., 165
New South Wales, reformatory in, 265
New York: 1 Beekman Place, JPM’s apartment, 107, 111, 126, 152, 174, 254; Century Club, 202, 265; Colony Club, 22; Cosmopolitan Club, 104; Harvard Club, 202–3, 265; JPM in, 19, 55, 59, 62, 75, 80, 105, 107, 111, 138; JPM’s parents in, 32; Knickerbocker Club, 265, 293; Plaza Hotel, 176; St. Regis Hotel, 175, 191, 257; Stork Club, 189