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by A. Scott Berg


  Publishing “The Crack-Up”: MP to John Biggs, Jan. 26, 1945.

  TW’s reputation and letters: MP to Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, Dec. 22, 1943; AB to MP, ca. June 1, 1943 and June 7, 1943; MP to AB, June 3, 1943; David Randall, Dukedom Large Enough (New York: Random House, 1969), pp. 244, 248; AB to MP, ca. June 7, 1945.

  MP and movies: MP to Evan Shipman, July 22, 1943; PK to ASB (I), Mar. 28, 1972.

  Martha Gellhorn “turns back” on EH: MP to Evan Shipman, July 22, 1943; MP to Sidney Franklin, May 24, 1943; Dr. Gregory Hemingway, Papa (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976), p. 90; Martha Gellhorn to ASB (I), May 10, 1972; EH to MP, ca. Aug. 1, 1943; EH to MP, June 10, 1943; Dr. Gregory Hemingway to ASB (I), Feb. 11, 1972; EH to MP, Aug. 10, 1943; Wallace Meyer to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1972.

  EH goes to war: EH to MP, Oct. 15, 1944.

  MP withdrawing, craving anonymity: Marcia Davenport to ASB (I), Apr. 10, 1972; MP to M. M. Hoover, May 24, 1943; MP to R. W. Cowden, Feb. 9, 1945; MP to EL, Sept. 15, 1943.

  New Yorker Profile: EN to William A. Jackson, n.d. (Houghton Library, 46am7-24v) ; EN to MC, Feb. 23, 1943 (MC notes); MC to William Shawn, Apr. 8, 1943; MC notes; J. H. Wilson’s The Life of John A. Rawlins, quoted in Dictionary of American Biography, vol. VIII, p. 403.

  Faulkner: MP to MC, Jan. 31, 1944; MC to William Faulkner, July 22, 1944; MC to ASB (I), May 18, 1972; The Faulkner-Cowley File (London: Chatto & Windus, 1966), p. 10n.

  The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt: Arthur Train, Mr. Tutt Finds a Way, pp. 9, 16, 228; New York Times, May 16, 1944, p. 23.

  Joseph Stanley Pennell: MP to Samuel H. Watts of New Canaan, Aug. 22, 1944; Look Homeward, Angel, p. vii; MP to Pennell, Feb. 19, 1943; MP to Pennell, Mar. 29, 1943; MP to Pennell, Mar. 19, 1943; Pennell to MP, ca. Apr. 1, 1943; MP to Pennell, Apr. 8, 1943; MKR to MP, Oct. 11, 1944; Marguerite Cohn to ASB (I), Feb. 16, 1972; MP to Pennell, Mar. 29, 1943; Hamilton Basso, The New Yorker, July 15, 1944, pp. 66, 69.

  New Yorker Profile published: MC, “Unshaken Friend,” The New Yorker, April 1 and 8, 1944; MP to Esther Meyer, May 19, 1944; MP to Nancy Hale, Apr. 18, 1944; MC to William Shawn, Apr. 7, 1944; MP to MKR, Apr. 19, 1944.

  MP sick: MP to EH, July 28, 1944; MP to EL, May 18, 1935; MP to MKR, June 23, 1944; MP to MKR, July 27, 1944; MP to MKR, Oct. 17, 1944; MP to EH, July 28, 1944; Carol Brandt to ASB (I), May 17, 1972.

  TC describes MP’s office: TC, The Final Hour, p. 191; MC notes.

  MP indulging EH: MP to EH, Mar. 6, 1945; MP to EH, Mar. 20, 1945; EH to MP, Apr. 14, 1945; MP to EH, Apr. 19, 1945; MP to EH, June 5, 1945.

  MP and infuriated reader: MP to Esther Meyer, May 25 and 31, 1944; MP to Esther Meyer, May 19, 1944.

  MP coping with burdens: MP to EL, June 1, 1945.

  XXII. A TOSS OF THE HAT

  James Jones: JJ to ASB (I), Mar. 3, 1972; JJ, quoted in Twentieth-Century Authors: First Supplement, p. 581; MP to Maxwell Aley, Feb. 28, 1945; JJ to MP, Feb. 10, 1946; MP to JJ, Feb. 15, 1946; JJ to MP, Feb. 17, 1946; MP to JJ, Feb. 19, 1946; dust jacket of From Here to Eternity; JJ to MP, Feb. 22, 1946; MP to JJ, June 5, 1946; JJ to MP, Oct. 21, 1946; MP to JJ, Mar. 27, 1946; MP to JJ, July 30, 1946.

  Vance Bourjaily: Vance Bourjaily to ASB (I), Jan. 17, 1978.

  MP’s accident and fatigue: MP to EH, Jan. 9, 1946; Joan Terrall to ASB (I), Mar. 19, 1972; Burroughs Mitchell to ASB (I), Oct. 1, 1970; CS to EH, Aug. 7, 1946; EH to MP, Oct. 4, 1946, MP to EH, Oct. 3, 1946.

  EH working at new novel: Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (New York: Scribners, 1969), p. 454; EH to MP, Oct. 31, 1945; MP to EH, Jan. 9, 1946; MP to JJ, Nov. 19, 1946.

  More deaths: MP to Katherine Newlin Burt, Dec. 2, 1946.

  OMMB: OMMB, p. 332.

  MP on selecting books: CS IV to ASB (I), Feb. 14, 1972; JHW to ASB (I), Oct. 20, 1971; VWB Auto, p. 573.

  Alan Paton: Aubrey Burns to ASB, Apr. 23, 1973; MP to Alan Paton, Jan. 20, 1947; Alan Paton to Aubrey and Marigold Burns, Feb. 9, 1947; Alan Paton to Aubrey Burns, Feb. 11, 1947; Alan Paton to Aubrey Burns, Apr. 9, 1947; MP to Alan Paton, May 6 and 14, 1947; Alan Paton to MP, June 10, 1947; Alan Paton to MP, Apr. 23, 1947; Alan Paton to MP, June 10, 1947.

  MP as teacher: Gilbert Highet, The Art of Teaching (New York: Knopf, 1950), pp. 50, 52; Kenneth McCormick to ASB (I), June 3, 1975; Storer Lunt to ASB, June 22, 1975; Kenneth McCormick to ASB (I), June 6, 1973.

  East Side, West Side: Marcia Davenport to MP, Mar. 9, 1946; Marcia Davenport to MP, ca. Apr. 20, 1947; MP to Marcia Davenport, Apr. 28, 1947; Marcia Davenport to MP, May 18, 1947; MP to Marcia Davenport, June 9, 1947; Marcia Davenport to MP, June 12, 1947; Marcia Davenport to MP, May 31, 1947.

  Final words on EH: MP to EH, June 5, 1947; JHW to ASB (I), Oct. 20, 1971.

  Final advice to JJ: MP to JJ, May 28, 1947; JJ to ASB (I), Mar. 3, 1972; JJ to MP, June 23, 1946.

  MP’s final illness: BSF to ASB (I), Oct. 31, 1971; LSP to EL, July 28, 1947.

  MP’s death: NJ to ASB (I), Apr. 22, 1972; Jean Lancaster to ASB (I), May 22, 1972; EEG to ASB (I), June 11, 1973; LSP to VWB, July 8, 1947; Irma Wyckoff Muench to Mrs. James Boyd, June 26, 1947; War and Peace, Book XII:4.

  Postmortem: CS to EH, June 25, 1947; EH to CS, Sept. 18, 1947; EL to ASB (I), May 24, 1975; EL to LSP, late June, 1947; Chard Powers Smith, “Perkins and the Elect,” The Antioch Review, Spring, 1962, p. 102; VWB to LSP, June 18, 1947; JJ to CSS, ca. June 25, 1947.

  LSP’s final years: Mary Colum to VWB, ca. July, 1947; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 14, 1972.

  Jane Perkins married George Owen, an Englishman, in 1949; Nancy Perkins married Reid Jorgensen in 1953.

  Index

  “Absolution” (Fitzgerald)

  Adams, Evangeline

  Adams, Franklin P.

  Adams, Henry

  Adams, J. Donald

  Adams, James Truslow

  Adding Machine, The (Rice)

  Ade, George

  Africa, Hemingway and

  “Afternoon of an Author” (Fitzgerald)

  “After the Storm” (Hemingway)

  Aiken, Conrad

  Aldanov, Mark

  Aley, Maxwell

  Allen, Hervey

  All the Sad Young Men (Fitzgerald)

  American, The (Adams)

  American Caravan

  American Chronicle, An (Pennell)

  American Earth (Caldwell)

  American Jitters (Wilson)

  American Mercury, The

  American Mercury House

  Anderson, Maxwell

  Anderson, Sherwood

  Antaeus, myth of

  Anthony Adverse (Allen)

  Arlen, Michael

  Armstrong, Anne

  Art and the Life of Action (Eastman)

  Artillery of Time (Smith)

  Art of Teaching, The (Highet)

  Asheville, N.C., reactions to Wolfe in

  Aswell, Edward C.

  Atlantic Monthly

  “Author’s House” (Fitzgerald)

  Autohiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (Stein)

  Autumn Hill (Caldwell)

  Axel’s Castle (Wilson)

  Baker, Carlos

  Balch, Earl

  Balmer, Edwin

  Barrack-Room Ballads (Kipling)

  Barrymore, Ethel and John

  Barton, Bruce

  Basso, Hamilton

  Beautiful and Damned, The (Fitzgerald)

  Belloc, Hilaire

  Benchley, Robert

  Benefield, Barry

  Benét, Stephen Vincent

  Benét, William Rose

  Benson Murder Case, The (Van Dine)

  Bernstein, Aline

  Perkins and

  suicide attempts of

  Wolfe’s compensation plan for

  in Wolfe’s writings (Esther Jack)

  Bessie, Alvah

  Best, Marshall

  Bierce, Ambrose

  Biggs, John

  “Big Two-Hearted River” (Hemingway)

  Bimini, Hemingway in

  Bishop, John Peale
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  Bishop Murder Care, The (Van Dine)

  Black Cargo, The (Marquand)

  Bobbs-Merrill

  Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon I

  Bonaparte, Pauline

  Bond, Alice Dixon

  Boni & Liveright

  Book-of-the-Month Club

  book reviewers, Depression economies and

  book sales, U.S.

  booksellers

  Bordley, Dr. James

  Bourjaily, Vance

  Boyd, Ernest

  Boyd, James

  Boyd, Madeleine

  Boyd, Thomas

  Boy Who Killed His Mother, The (Fitzgerald)

  Bradley, William Aspinwall

  Brandt, Carl

  Brett, Catherine

  Bridges, Robert

  Briffault, Robert

  Bromfield, Louis

  Brooks, Alden

  Brooks, Eleanor

  Brooks, Van Wyck

  on Perkins

  personal and literary crisis of

  Brownell, William Crary

  Bruen, Frances D.

  Bryan, William Jennings

  “Bull in the Afternoon” (Eastman)

  Burlingame, Edward L.

  Burlingame, Roger

  Burns, Aubrey

  Burns, Marigold

  Burt, Struthers

  Cabell, James Branch

  Caldwell, Erskine

  Caldwell, Taylor (Janet Reback)

  Callaghan, Morley

  Call It Experience (Caldwell)

  Call It Sleep (Roth)

  Calverton. F.

  Campbell, Allen

  Campbell, Mrs. Patrick

  “Canary” Murder Case, The (Van Dine)

  Cane, Melville

  Cape, Jonathan

  Carolina Magazine

  Cathcart, Noble

  Cather, Willa

  Cerf, Bennett

  Chamberlain, John

  Chamberlain, Neville

  “Champion” (Lardner)

  Charge of the Light Brigade, The (film)

  Cherio, Romolo (restaurant)

  “Chickamauga” (Wolfe)

  Chidester, Ann

  Church, Mary

  Churchill, Winston

  Civil War, U.S.

  “Clean Well-Lighted Place, A” (Hemingway)

  Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain)

  Cohan, George M.

  Collier‘s

  Colorado Writers’ Conference (Boulder )

  Colum, Mary “Molly,”

  Colum, Padraic

  Communists, U.S.

  Conquistador (MacLeish)

  Conrad, Joseph

  Coolidge, Calvin

  Cooper, Gary

  Copeland, Charles Townsend “Copey,”

  Copeland Reader, The (Copeland)

  Copeland‘r Translations (Copeland)

  Copey of Harvard (Adams)

  Courthouse Square (Basso)

  Covici-Friede

  Cowley, Malcolm

  Cox, Archibald

  Cox, Archibald, Jr.

  Cox, Fanny Perkins

  Cox, Robert Hill

  “Cracker Chidlings” (Rawlings)

  “Crack-Up, The” (Fitzgerald)

  Crane, Stephen

  Crawford, Joan

  “Crazy Sunday” (Fitzgerald)

  Cross Creek (Rawlings)

  Crowded Hours (Longworth)

  Crown Publishing Company

  Cry, the Beloved Country (Paton)

  Cuba, Hemingway in

  Dana, Richard Henry

  Dandy, Dr. Walter

  Daniels, Jonathan

  Dark Laughter (Anderson)

  Darrow, Whitney

  Dashiell, Alfred “Fritz,”

  Davenport, Marcia

  Davis, Jefferson

  Davis, John W.

  Davis, Richard Harding

  Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway)

  editorial work on

  publication and reception of

  Demon Lover, The (Fitzgerald)

  Depression, publishing in

  De Voto, Bernard

  Dexter, Byron

  Dexter, Timothy

  “Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The” (Fitzgerald)

  Dickens, Charles

  Dodd, Mead

  Donne, John

  Dooher, Murdoch

  Dorgan, Dick

  Dorman, Marjorie

  Dos Passos, John

  Doubleday & Company

  Dreiser, Theodore

  Drums (Boyd)

  Durand, René

  Dutton, E. P., and Company

  Dyer, Sir Edward

  Dynasty of Death (Caldwell)

  “E” (Wolfe)

  Eagles Gather, The (Caldwell)

  “Early Success” (Fitzgerald)

  Earth Is the Lord’s, The (Caldwell)

  Eastman, Max

  East Side, West Side (Davenport)

  Ecclesiastes

  “Echoes of the Jazz Age” (Fitzgerald)

  Edel, Leon

  Eliot, T. S.

  Ellerslie Mansion

  Ellingson, Dorothy

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Enjoyment of Poetry (Eastman)

  Epic of America, The (Adams)

  Esquire

  Europa (Briffault)

  Evarts, Elizabeth. See Perkins, Elizabeth Evarts

  Evarts, Helen Minerva Wardner

  Evarts, Jeremiah

  Evarts, John

  Evarts, Mehitabel Barnes

  Evarts, Reverend Prescott

  Evarts, Richard

  Evarts, Senator William Maxwell

  “Exiles” (Gellhorn)

  “Facts, The” (Lardner)

  Fadiman, Clifton

  Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway)

  publication and success of

  serialization of

  Far Side of Paradise, The (Mizener)

  fascism

  Hemingway on

  literary critics vs.

  Faulkner, William

  Ferber, Edna

  Fifth Column, The (Hemingway)

  Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories, The (Hemingway)

  Fifth Seal, The (Aldanov)

  “Fifty Grand” (Hemingway)

  Final Hour, The (Caldwell)

  “Financing Finnegan” (Fitzgerald)

  Finnegans Wake (Joyce)

  First and Last (Lardner)

  Fitzgerald, Frances Scott “Scottie,”

  wedding of

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  agent troubles of

  aging feared by

  America as seen by

  biographies of

  breakdowns of

  Catholic roots of

  commercial magazine writing of

  critics and reviewers on

  death of

  depressions of

  drinking habits of

  early success of

  generation identified by

  Graham and

  health problems of

  Hemingway and. See Hemingway, Ernest

  Hollywood sojourns of

  on Hollywood vs. art

  Lardner and

  as literary has-been

  literary judgments of

  money troubles of

  new talents recommended by

  parents of

  in Paris literary scene

  “perfectionist attitude” of

  Perkins as seen by

  Perkins’s editorial judgments on

  Perkins’s personal loans to

  Perkins’s personal views on

  Perkin’s relationship with

  as playwright

  republishing works of

  self-estimations of

  short stories of

  strained friendships of

  taste for luxury of

  will of

  Wolfe and. See Wolfe, Thomas

  Zelda’s novel and

  Zelda’s troubles and. See also
specific works

  Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre

  balletomania of

  breakdown and illness of

  Hemingway’s views on

  as painter

  Perkins and

  Scott’s death and

  as writer

  Fix Bayonets (Thomason)

  Flagg, Ernest

  Flappers and Philosophers (Fitzgerald)

  Flaubert, Gustave

  Flowering of New England, The (Brooks)

  Ford, Ford Madox

  For Dear Life (Jelliffe)

  “Formula” (Louise Perkins)

  Forsyte Saga, The (Galsworthy)

  For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway)

  film version of

  Hemingway’s work on

  Perkins’s views on

  publication and success of

  title of

  Founding of New England, The (Adams)

  Four of a Kind (Marquand)

  Fox, John, Jr.

  Franklin, Sidney

  Freeman, Douglas Southall

  Frere-Reeves, A. S.

  Friede, Donald

  From Death to Morning (Wolfe)

  From Here to Eternity (Jones)

  Frost, Robert

  Frothingham, Edward Perkins

  Frothingham, John

  Fuller, Edward M.

  Galsworthy, John

  Garden Murder Case, The (Van Dine)

  Garden of Eden, The (Hemingway)

  Gaunt Woman, The (Gilligan)

  Geismar, Maxwell

  Gellhorn, Martha. See Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn

  Genghis Khan

  Germany, Wolfe and

  Gide, André

  Gilded Age, The (Clemens)

  Gilligan, Edmund

  Gingrich, Arnold

  Gish, Lillian

  Gluck, Alma

  God’s Little Acre (Caldwell)

  Golden Apples (Rawlings)

  “Golden Honeymoon, The” (Lardner)

  Gordon, Caroline. See Tate, Caroline Gordon

  Gorsline, Douglas

  Gould, Gerald

  Graham, Sheilah

  Grant, Judge Robert

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Gray, James

  Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald)

  final revision of

  Fitzgerald’s views on

  Gatsby’s character in

  Perkins’s views on

  publication and reception of

  title of

  Greene Murder Case, The (Van Dine)

  Green Hat, The (Arlen)

  Green Hills of Africa (Hemingway)

  Guggenheim Foundation

  Guinzburg, Harold

  Hale, Edward Everett

  Hale, Nancy

  Hale, Ruth

 

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