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Kauffer, Edward MacKnight, 147
Keats, John, 90, 91, 154
Kennan, George, 156
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 80, 92
Kennedy, John F., 52, 62, 63, 79–80, 83, 91, 92, 213
Kennedy, Robert F., 80, 157–158
Kierkegaard, Soren, 243
King, B. B., 166
Kinsey, Alfred C., 3, 11, 12–13, 17, 19, 28, 71, 146, 150, 216
Kinsey, Clara, 59
Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, 7, 23, 60, 69–70, 90–91, 134, 135, 139, 183
Kirchner, Raphael, 36
Kirstein, Fidelma (Cadmus), 18
Kirstein, Lincoln, 8, 17–18, 61, 262, 269
Knowles, John, 104
Krementz, Jill, 223, 267
Kuelthau, Earl Rex, 84
Lal, P., 134
Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di, 66
Lansdale, Nelson, 104
Larducho, Vincente, 142–143
Lawrence, D. H., 149, 209
Lawrence, Seymour, 118
Lawrence, T. E., 126, 209, 212
Lèautaud, Paul, 164–165
Leduc, Violette, 140
Lerman, Leo, 41
“Letters to a Circle of Friends: 1932–1966” (GW and KAP), 117–118, 139, 149, 154, 162, 165
Lewis, W. S., 63
Lifrieri, Michael, 173
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 214
Loos, Anita, 95, 129, 163
Lord, James, 61
Lorrain, Claude, 76, 178
“Love of New York, The” (GW), 72
Lowry, Malcolm, 222
Luce, Clair Booth, 120
Ludwig, Dieter, 199
Lunt, Alfred, 171
Lynes, George Platt, viii, 5, 7, 8, 10–11, 13, 17, 25, 78, 104, 114, 115, 186–187, 214, 268
Lynes, Russell, 10–11, 43, 118, 278
Mailer, Norman, 93, 166, 179
Malouf, Carl, 27, 244
Malraux, André, 184, 243
Mann, Thomas, 50, 51, 68, 73
Mansfield, Jayne, 58
Marcuse, Herbert, 166
Marshall, George C., 185–186
Massenet, Jules, 163
Matisse, Henri, 67, 130
Maugham, Robin Cecil Romer, 163
Maugham, William Somerset, 3, 6, 7, 13, 15, 18, 20, 37, 39, 49, 51, 56, 60–61, 97, 117, 121, 137, 139, 141, 143, 148, 163, 204, 209, 211, 244, 252
Maxwell, William, 5, 7, 36, 49, 66, 193, 195, 212, 250, 252, 278, 279
McCarthy, Gene, 158
McCarthy, Joseph, 150
McCarthy, Mary, 93
McCormick, Anne, 142
McCullers, Carson, 244
McGovern, George, 218
McIlhenny, Henry, 13, 79
McLuhan, Marshall, 131
“Memories of the Twenties” (revised as “Memories and Opinions”) (GW), 58, 64, 122, 182, 219
Mendl, Lady (Elsie de Wolfe), 155
Michelangelo, 138
Miksche, Michael, 28, 61, 100–101
Miller, Arthur, 71
Miller, Charles, 71
Miller, Henry, 103, 251
Miller, William, 8, 27, 54
Millet, Jean-Francois, 135
Mineo, Sal, 57
Miró, Joan, 190
Mishima, Yukio, 212
Mistinguett, 266
Modigliani, Amedeo, 67
Monet, Claude, 169
Monnet, Jean, 80
Monroe, Marilyn, 52, 71, 74
Montague, Lord Edward Baron, 150
Montaigne, Michele de, 53, 172, 188, 203
Moody, Harriet (Mrs. William Vaughan Moody), 62
Moore, Douglas, 41
Moore, John Warner, 150
Moore, Marianne, 3, 7, 40–41, 48, 96, 134, 136, 142, 147, 150–151, 161, 182, 213, 214, 266
Moore, Thomas, 226
“Moral of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The” (GW), 72
Morath, Inge, 71
Morgan, Ted, 252
Mortimer, Raymond, 7, 25, 45, 80, 101, 119, 169, 170, 172, 178, 185, 220, 222, 247, 256, 257, 259, 265
Moss, Howard, 117, 266
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 208, 227, 241
“Mr. Auerbach in Paris” (GW), 72
Murray, Natalia Danesi, 48, 182, 208, 255
Muskie, Edmund, 268
Nabokov, Vladimir, 93
Nader, Ralph, 173, 190
Napoleon, Emperor, 146
National Institute of Arts and Letters. See American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
Newton, Isaac, 137
Nicolson, Harold, 130
Nijinski, Vaslav, 145
Nin, Anaïs, 103, 120, 239, 251–252
Nixon, Richard, 162, 167, 173, 183, 200, 218, 225
O’Connor, Frank, 66
“Odor of Rosemary” (GW), 182, 195–196
O’Hara, John, 24, 66
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 105, 195
“Old Party: An American Reminiscence of Somerset Maugham, The” (GW), 117, 121, 137, 139, 141, 143, 148, 155, 163, 166, 216
Pagano, Mark, 57, 119
“Paris 1938” (GW), 266
Parker, Dorothy, 164
Patterson, Isabel, 77
Pearl, Lora, 185
Perlin, Bernard, 8, 10–11, 13, 24, 67, 81–82, 85–86, 119, 126, 141, 154, 190
Peter, Paul and Mary, 89
Phelps, Robert, vii–viii, 6, 8, 43, 46, 49, 51, 55–56, 61, 102, 105, 118, 134, 142, 159, 178, 182, 189, 195, 210, 213, 215, 228, 233, 239, 240, 246, 248, 249–250, 255, 266
Phelps, Rosemarie Beck, vii, 55
Philip IV, King, 142–143
Picasso, Pablo, 36, 141, 201
“Picture of Country Life, A” (GW), 72
Pilgrim Hawk, The (GW), 5, 14, 71, 104, 105, 117, 129, 148, 177, 274
Pissarro, Camille, 22, 36
“Pissarro’s Paris” (GW), 72
Plato, 202
Pleasence, Donald, 171
Poe, Edgar Allan, 135, 263
Pohorilenko, Anatole, viii, 183, 207, 222, 248, 269, 275, 278
Pomeroy, Ralph, 8, 13, 50, 83, 274
Pomeroy, Wardell, 265
“Poor Greuse” (GW), 72
Porter, Katherine Anne, 3, 7, 14, 15, 38, 42, 51, 65, 66, 68, 70, 73, 74, 94, 95, 114, 117–118, 122, 123, 124, 127, 139, 141, 144, 145, 149, 154, 162, 165, 176–177, 204, 207, 228, 260, 265
Potter, Pauline. See Rothschild, Baroness Pauline de
Poulenc, Francis, 167
Pound, Ezra, 180
Poussin, Nicolas, 140, 169, 178
Powell, Dawn, 52
Presley, Elvis, 268
Price, Homer, 86
Prockop, Leon, 54, 139
Proust, Marcel, 140, 150, 184, 227
Radiguet, Raymond, 14
Ray, Man, 52
Rechy, John, 265
Reichenbach, François, 23, 240, 256
Rembrandt, 20, 135, 140, 157, 177–178
Renard, Jules, 269
Renoir, Pierre Auguste, 30, 36, 67
“Rescuer, The” (GW), 72
Riccio, Il, 199
Righter, Carroll, 57
Robbins, Frances Lamont, 206
Robertson, Cliff, 23
Robeson, Essie, 81
Robeson, Paul, 81, 206, 239, 246–247
Rockefeller, David, 101, 271
Rockefeller, John D., IV, 190
Rockefeller, Nelson, 101, 162, 173, 175
Rodgers, Richard, 267
Rolling Stones, The, 118, 179
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 100
Rorem, Ned, 5, 89, 124, 278
Rosco, Jerry, viii, 6, 262, 277–278
Ross, Toby, 183, 246, 256
Roth, Philip, 71, 190
Rothko, Mark, 202
Rothschild, Baron Eric de, 169
Rothschild, Baroness Pauline de, 3, 7, 17, 29–30, 39, 49, 118–119, 139, 140, 141, 144, 146, 157, 165, 168–169, 170, 179–180, 182, 183–184, 185, 192, 193, 197, 205, 222, 225, 226, 228, 232, 240, 245, 247–248, 259, 260
Rothschild, Baron Philippe de, 3, 49, 118–119, 149, 157, 165, 168–170, 179–180, 185, 197, 220, 225, 240, 245, 247–248, 256, 259, 266
Rouault, Georges, 120
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 194–195
Rubens, Peter Paul, 168, 221
Rubenstein, Helena, 99
Rueckert, William, 89
Russell, Bertrand, 159
Rylands, George H. W., 169
Sade, Marquis (Donatien) de, 184
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 135
Saki (H. H. Monro), 272
Salemme, Betty and Tony, 206, 246–247
Salinger, J. D., 65
Salter, James, vii
Salz, Sam, 22
Sand, George, 135
Sandburg, Carl, 267
Schiff, Nancy Rica, 266
Schlesinger, Arthur, 171
Schubert, Franz, 167
Scott, Walter, 193
Scott, Zachary, 127
Searle, Alan, 60–61, 252
Seneca, Lucias, 53
Sert, Misia, 30
Sessions, Roger, 42
Severn, Joseph, 90
Shakespeare, William, 55, 66–67, 91
Shaw, George Bernard, 13, 56, 137
Shawe-Taylor, Dennis Christopher, 169
Shawn, William, 261
Sheen, Bishop Fulton, 142
Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, 79
“Sight of a Dead Body, The” (GW), 72
Simon and Garfunkle, 187
Singer, Alma, 134
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 134, 200
Sitwell, Dame Edith, 3, 7, 21–22, 39, 121, 171
Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 3, 7, 14, 21–22, 39
Smith, Dorothy, 246, 278
Smith, Liz, 181
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 132, 195
Smutney, Tex, 11
Snyder, Martin, 54
Sohl, Ethel, 52, 53, 55, 97, 147, 155, 165, 171, 217, 224, 278
Sontag, Susan, 5
Sophocles, 202
Soutine, Chaim, 36
Spender, Natasha, 175
Spender, Stephen, 79
“Stallions, The” (GW), 50, 51, 72, 77, 79, 80, 82–84, 117, 121–122, 182, 192
Stanley, Buddy, 11
Stapleton, Maureen, 23
Stein, Gertrude, 267
Stendhal, 128
Stevenson, John, viii, 183, 227–228, 239, 241, 246, 247, 248, 250, 253, 254, 262, 265, 266, 269, 271, 273, 277–278
Steward, Sam, 19
Stewart, James, 223
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 98, 167
Strachey, Lytton, 60–61, 209
Straus, Roger, 255
Strauss, Harold, 71
Strauss, Johann, 167
“Succession of Poets, A” (GW), 266
Sullivan, Tommy, 244
Supremes, The, 139
Sutherland, Graham, 39
Svennson, Clara, 141
Szladitis, Lola, 214
Szold, Bernadine, 134, 207, 213
Tate, Allen, 105
Tchelitchev, Pavlik (Pavel), 29, 78, 85, 88, 90–91, 95, 97, 98, 240
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 75, 130, 135
Thomas, Dylan, 249
Thomson, Virgil, 42, 52, 135
Thoreau, Henry David, 75, 131
Thurber, James, 75
Tichenor, George and Jonathan, 13
Titian, 168
Tolkien, J. R. R., 166
Tolkin, Terry, 262
Tolstoy, Leo, 167, 184
“Transatlantic Glance, A” (GW), 72
Trevor Roper, Patrick, 169
Turgenev, Ivan, 172
Turner, William, 130
Twain, Mark, 167
Twelve Fables of Aesop Newly Narrated (GW), 5
Udall, Stewart, 62
Updike, John, 190
Utrillo, Maurice, 79
Valéry, Paul, 33, 120
“Valley Submerged, The” (GW), 72, 118, 121
Van der Lube, Martin, 91
Van Doren, Charles, 58
Van Gogh, Vincent, 135, 143
Van Vechten, Carl, 52, 105, 222
Velasquez, Diego, 142–143
Verlaine, Paul, 102
Vermeer, Johannes, 140, 143
Victoria, Queen, 98
Vidal, Gore, 29, 192, 247, 249
Vigna, Pier della, 80
“Visit to Priapus, A” (GW), 5, 104–105
Von Ihring, Georg, 23
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 223
Vreeland, Diana and Reed, 17
Vuillard, Édouard, 256
Walpole, Horace, 63, 262
Walpole, Hugh, 146
Warhol, Andy, 259
Washington, George, 147
Watson, Peter, 78
Weinhardt, Carl, 97
Welch, Denton, 160–161
Wescott, Barbara Harrison (sister-in-law), 4–5, 8, 13, 24, 29–30, 32, 37, 41, 42, 46, 49, 53, 60, 61, 64, 68, 84–85, 97, 98, 99, 118, 124, 125, 126, 128, 142, 145, 147, 148, 152, 156, 161, 184, 190, 194, 211, 218, 225, 233, 244, 245, 249, 252, 256, 268; as art patron, collector, and philanthropist, 22–23, 36, 52, 157, 159, 177–178, 202, 207, 213, 247, 260; death of, 240, 253, 254
Wescott, Beulah (sister), 45, 73, 74, 138
Wescott, Bruce (father), 41–42, 72, 143, 149, 153, 160, 175, 176, 177, 217, 254, 255
Wescott, Deborah (Debo, niece), 13, 42, 54, 88, 139, 240, 252, 271
Wescott, Elizabeth (sister), 45, 47, 72–73, 120, 123, 156
Wescott, Glenway: on aging, 13, 19, 29, 34, 62, 79, 83, 86, 88–89, 121, 126, 128, 132, 136, 137, 142, 143, 152–153, 154, 156, 157, 176, 180, 184, 187, 188, 190, 191, 193, 194, 198, 201, 203, 207, 215, 216, 217, 218, 220, 224, 242, 244, 245, 247, 250, 252–253, 254, 257, 258, 259, 262, 263, 267, 269–270, 271, 275; autobiographical notes, 62, 125, 129, 139, 159–160, 175, 186–187, 198, 204, 206, 222–223; awards, honors, 40–41, 72, 105, 158–159, 265; childhood, early life, 76, 84, 143, 148–149, 160, 176, 203, 216, 217, 224, 246–247, 261, 272; on death, 8, 11–12, 16, 32, 47, 53, 125, 126, 174, 178–179, 207, 208, 210, 252–253, 261, 262, 268; death of; 278–279; family affairs and relationships, 4–5, 21, 37–38, 145, 151–152, 177, 206, 254, 271; financial affairs, 30–31, 52, 53–54, 121, 269; on Fire Island, 52, 54–55, 182, 208–209; on friends, friendships, 11, 27, 49, 85–86, 88, 172, 261; on gay rights and civil rights, 40, 52, 60, 81, 85, 86–87, 91, 103–104, 147, 150, 160, 166, 183, 208–209; health, illness, 23, 56, 158–159, 182, 219, 239, 250, 265–266, 267, 277–278; on his journals, vii–viii, 44, 48, 67, 148, 178, 189, 210, 211–212, 213, 215, 216, 217, 220, 239–240, 245, 246, 248, 250, 255, 265, 266, 277, 278, 279; on his life, 80, 97, 120, 154–155, 165, 167, 174, 180, 241, 244, 247, 258, 260, 270, 271; on his writing, 14, 19–20, 24, 25–26, 31–32, 33, 36, 43, 44, 49, 63, 64, 68, 71, 73, 77, 78, 84, 92, 93, 101–102, 105, 119, 129, 130, 137, 148–149, 155, 161, 166, 174, 177, 189, 191, 192, 196, 197, 211–212, 213, 219, 225, 226, 244, 247, 250, 257, 258, 260, 268, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 278; homes, residences, 4, 17, 22, 24, 25, 33–34, 39, 44–45, 49, 51, 53, 58, 131–132, 152, 187–188, 196, 240, 268, 269, 277; on homosexuality, homosexuals, 12, 19, 28, 35–36, 75, 80, 86–87, 89, 91, 93, 103–104, 123, 125–126, 128, 150, 156, 165, 166, 183, 199–200, 204–205, 208–209, 210, 223, 225, 226, 227, 246, 254–255, 256, 261; on immortality, 163, 178, 198, 212, 254, 263, 270; lectures, readings, speeches, 12, 14–15, 18, 65, 68, 69, 70, 74, 75, 76, 87, 95, 122–123, 165, 181, 204, 211, 248, 266; on love, 10, 32, 41–42, 47, 202–203, 204–205, 216, 245, 251, 254–255, 263, 275; on male beauty, 16, 27, 30, 124, 204–205, 246; on nature, 27, 31, 37, 39, 45, 46, 54–55, 56, 59–60, 62, 67, 76, 79, 80, 81, 83, 99, 102, 119, 121, 122, 123–124, 126, 131, 136, 143, 151, 152, 157, 160, 163, 169–170, 174, 178–179, 188, 189–190, 191, 192, 193–194, 198, 199, 201, 215, 217, 220, 251, 260, 261; photos, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 229, 230, 231, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238; physical appearance, 65, 156, 164, 213; on politics, 80, 83, 91, 92, 99–
100, 156, 157–158, 161–162, 167, 175, 183, 184, 188, 189, 192, 199, 201, 203–204, 208, 218, 225, 250, 268; on sex, 27, 30, 34, 35, 75, 83, 86, 94, 119, 124, 132–133, 141–142, 146, 147–148, 151, 162, 209, 210–211, 217, 225, 241, 255, 258, 265; travel, 60, 118–119, 135, 140–141, 144, 157, 168–170, 177–178, 179–180, 181, 183–184, 196–197, 220–221, 225, 240, 256–257; on writing and literature, 20, 42, 64, 66, 78, 80, 82, 84, 85, 90, 92–93, 96, 100, 105–106, 120, 129, 135, 138, 154, 164–165, 172–173, 177, 184, 196, 201, 215, 216, 241, 246, 251, 252, 258, 263, 270, 272
Wescott, Josephine (mother), 9, 12, 13, 15, 25, 31, 36, 42–43, 44, 45, 46–47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 63, 115, 116, 128, 143, 149, 176, 216, 217, 250, 254
Wescott, Katherine (sister), 72–73
Wescott, Lloyd (brother), 4, 8, 13, 24, 25, 39, 42, 43, 46, 47, 49, 53–54, 56, 64, 72–73, 84, 99, 118, 124, 125, 128, 138, 142, 144–145, 157, 173, 182, 191, 193, 196, 206, 213, 225, 240, 246, 251, 252–253, 271, 277, 278; death of, 279; occupation and public work, 27, 52, 54, 63, 99, 121, 161, 177, 207, 249
Wescott, Marjorie (sister), 72–73, 118, 138, 148, 156, 208
West, Rebecca, 204, 252
Wharton, Edith, 135
Wheeler, Monroe, viii, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 29, 30, 41, 44, 48, 51, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63–64, 69, 85, 86, 88, 96, 97, 114, 115, 118, 119, 121, 124, 139, 140–141, 142, 144, 150, 151, 161, 163, 169, 171, 189, 193, 194, 195, 200, 203, 205, 206, 210, 213, 224, 228, 239, 273, 277–279; career in arts, 4–5, 7–8, 39, 99, 101, 118, 130–131, 135, 150, 157, 162, 173, 175, 176, 181, 239, 248, 263, 266, 274, 275; death of, 279; and GW , 18, 21, 32, 84, 87, 95, 134, 145, 156, 157, 170–171, 178, 180, 183, 186–187, 192, 196, 198, 201, 203, 206, 207–208, 214–215, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 223, 227, 231, 240, 242–243, 244, 245, 247, 251, 253, 256–257, 258, 262, 265, 266, 270, 271, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278; GW on, 30, 33–34, 39, 45, 154, 227, 258, 259, 276; health, illness of, 31, 54, 57, 63, 138, 144, 186, 190, 207, 218, 219, 239, 258, 263, 266, 271, 274, 275, 277, 278–279
Whitaker, Rick, 6
Whitehead, Alfred N., 190
Whiteman, Paul, 39
Whitman, Walt, 29, 48, 75, 131, 149, 205, 218, 273
Wilbur, Richard, 214
Wilde, Oscar, 87, 143, 150, 156, 209
Wilder, Thornton, 19, 19–20, 36, 51, 65, 68, 70, 73, 130, 190, 224
Williams, Tennessee, 23, 54, 56, 245–246
Wilson, Edmund, 103
Wind, Edgar and Margaret, 39
“Windfall, A” (GW), 8, 46, 50, 51, 61, 72, 77, 117
Winters, Yvor, 4
Wisner, J., 13
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 191
Wolfe, Thomas, 123, 174
Wolfe, Tom, 164