by Anna Porter
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, 22, 253
MacSkimming, Roy, 83, 166, 403n
The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada’s Writers, 139, 254n, 331n, 404
Magic or Medicine (TV), 357, 358
Maillet, Antonine, 83
Mandelstam, Nadezhda, 117
Manguel, Alberto, 327–28, 342, 345n
Manguel, Polly, 327–28
Mann, Ron, 66
Márai, Sánder, Embers, 59
Marchand, Philip, 22–23, 41
Markle, Robert, 100
Marsh, Jim, 85
Martel, Yann, 254, 345n
Martin, Lawrence, Breaking with History, 320
Martin, Paul, 301
Martin, Sandra, 378
Marty, Sid, 123
Mason, Bill:
Path of the Paddle, 280
Song of the Paddle, 280
Masse, Marcel, 317, 318
Matas, Carol, 137
Matthews, Robin, and James Steele, The Struggle for Canadian Universities, 85
Maupassant, Guy de, 6
May, Elizabeth, 334–35
At the Cutting Edge: The Crisis in Canada’s Forests, 335
How to Save the World in Your Spare Time, 335
May, Karl, 6
Mayer, Peter, 307
Mayo, Charles, 193
McCaffrey, Steve, 43
McClelland, Elizabeth, 307, 313, 314
McClelland, Jack, 18–21, 44, 102, 106, 117, 118, 166
and Anna’s children, 109, 180
and Atwood, 61–62, 65, 309
authors critiqued by, 28, 37, 38, 112–13, 122
authors given support by, 31, 50–52, 81, 83–85, 94, 95, 121, 130, 135, 146
and backlist, 343–44
and Beny, 170–74
and Berton, 94–97
and Bookmen’s Lunch Club, 66
and Canadian publishing, 75–79, 84–85, 179–80, 187–88, 240, 280, 321
death of, 398–99
Drawing on Type (memoir), 18n
and Laurence, 146–47, 149–51, 310–11
letters of, 114, 315
listening to authors, 32, 39, 40
as literary agent, 306–7
and M&S, see McClelland & Stewart
and Mowat, 20, 69–71, 73, 95, 135, 173, 279, 309, 311, 376
My Rose Garden (unfinished), 303, 307, 313–15
nationalism of, 77, 83–85, 127, 133, 151, 175, 421–22
publishing authors, not books, 82, 83, 120, 240, 315
retirement of, 306–7, 313, 335
and Seal Books, 188, 215, 304, 306, 321, 331
and staff, 35–36, 41, 95
and Second World War, 78–79
McClelland, Sarah, 307
McClelland & Stewart (M&S), 17–23, 429
Anna’s early days in, 21–23
Anna’s interview for, 18–20
Anna’s responsibilities in, 181–84, 431
Anna’s titles in, 23, 35, 94, 96, 154, 182
archives of, 113, 228n, 315
and Atwood, 61–65, 137, 138, 180, 279, 305
and Bantam, 179–80, 189, 193, 214
building of, 21, 36, 43, 274, 306
Canadian authors published by, 81–82
Carleton Library series, 85
editorial meetings in, 43–44
end of, 397–99
financial issues of, 20, 35, 38, 43, 75–77, 94, 96n, 113, 173–74, 178, 179–80, 257, 279–80, 303–5, 306–7, 398
Four Horsemen (poetry group), 43
and Key Porter, 250, 257, 303–5, 313
and lawsuits, 129
and Mowat, 137, 173, 180, 182, 220, 279
New Canadian Library, 20–21, 43, 121, 122n, 150
in 1972 (a year to remember), 105–8
sales conferences of, 45, 228
sale to Bennett, 306, 307, 313, 315
sense of mission in, 42–43
slush pile of, 22–23, 41–44, 150, 231, 253
staff of, 82, 137–39, 181
and Taylor, 36, 43, 44, 95, 99, 138, 188, 215, 228
warehouse of, 43, 75, 242, 303
McClelland-Bantam Limited, 180, 189
McCutcheon, Fred, 342
McCutcheon, Susan, 102, 177n, 296
McCutcheon, Wallace, 101, 177, 293
McDermid, Anne, 254
McDougald, Bud, 128, 177
McDougall, Barbara, 199n
McEwan, Ian, 320, 342
McFadden, David, 123
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 76
McIntyre, Scott, 23, 45, 138, 403–4, 412
McKeon, Clare, 281
McKnight, Linda, 22, 137–38, 257, 281, 303–4, 393
McMichael, Robert and Signe, 45
McMurtry, Roy, 165
McPhail, David, 394
Mellen, Peter:
Group of Seven, 44–45
Landmarks of Canadian Art, 189
Melzack, Louis, 78
Métis, oppression of, 45–46
Michaels, Anne, 399
Michnik, Adam, 415
Miller, Lily Poritz, 22, 137, 313
Milne, David, 252n
Milosz, Czeslaw, 414
Milton, John, 117
Mint, Morty, 10, 17
Mistry, Rohinton, 426
Mitchell, Merna, 221
Mitchell, W. O., 82, 148, 219–21
How I Spent My Summer Holidays, 220
Jake and the Kid, 220
The Kite, 220
The Vanishing Point, 220
Who Has Seen the Wind, 46n, 220
Mobutu, Sese Seko, 288
Mohn, Reinhard, 322
Molnár, Ferenc, The Boys of Paul Street, 6
Monette, Richard, 223, 224
Monk, Lorraine, 169, 281
Between Friends: Entre Amis, 65
Montgomery, Lucy Maud, 20, 217
Montreal International Book Fair, 83, 187–88
Monty Python, 239, 358
Moodie, Susanna, 431
Moore, Brian:
Catholics, 42, 107
The Doctor’s Wife, 180
The Revolution Script, 42, 107
Moore, Christopher, 344
Moore, Jean, 107
Moore, Mavor, 223
Mootoo, Shani, 398
Morgenthaler, Henry, 198
Móricz, Zsigmond, 6
Morningside (CBC), 249–50
Morrisseau, Norval, 134
Morse, Randy, 403n
Motovun Group, 266–67
Mouland, Michael, 338n
Mowat, Claire, 70, 72, 375
Mowat, Farley, 19, 69–73, 77, 81, 253, 304n, 373–76, 378
Aftermath, 373
And No Birds Sang, 69
The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float, 70–71
Born Naked, 335, 365
The Desperate People, 220
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be, 69
and the environment, 107, 133, 333, 336–37, 375, 376
Goddard’s attack on, 373–74
High Latitudes, 335
and In Search of Farley Mowat (film), 220
and Key Porter, 72, 278, 335–36, 365, 393, 394
and M&S, 137, 173, 180, 182, 220, 279
and McClelland, 20, 69–71, 73, 95, 135, 173, 279, 309, 311, 376
My Father’s Son, 335
Never Cry Wolf, 69, 72, 373
People of the Deer, 70, 335, 373
Sea of Slaughter, 336, 375
Sibir: My Discovery of Siberia, 71–72
Wake of the Great Sealers, 72
Walking on the Land, 394
A Whale for the Killing, 107
Mulroney, Brian, 130, 262, 283–84, 294, 365
Munk, Peter, 398, 410
Munro, Alice, 9, 19, 82, 166, 220n, 232, 426–27
Murdoch, Rupert, 364
Musgrave, Susan, 122
The Impstone, 123
A Man to Marry, A Man to Bury, 123
Naked Came the Stranger (literary hoax), 166
Nash,
Knowlton, 96
National Business Book Awards, 363–64
National Film Board, 280
Still Photography Division, 65, 169, 267, 281
Neale, Gladys, 198
Neale, John, 138–39, 181, 242n
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 288
Neurath, Eva, 171
Newfeld, Frank, 18, 19, 23, 37, 38, 71, 133, 139
The Group of Seven (designer), 45
Newhouse, Si, 255
Newlove, John, 50, 112, 122
Lies, 95
Newman, Alvie, 130
Newman, Camilla Turner, 130
Newman, Christina, 126, 128, 130
Newman, Peter C., 71, 77, 81, 84, 87, 88, 99, 125–31, 176, 182, 244, 252, 258, 279, 283–84, 390
The Canadian Establishment, Volumes One and Two, 128–30, 180, 214, 364
Distemper of Our Times, 87
The Establishment Man, 177–78
Here Be Dragons, 126, 128n, 131
Home Country: People, Places, and Power Politics, 127, 128
“Hudson’s Bay” books, 307
and Maclean’s, 53, 108, 125, 127, 258, 363
Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years, 87
New Press, 83, 85, 241n, 254
New Yorker, The, 32, 67, 269, 359–60
New York Times, The, 64, 322
New Zealand, 12–13
Szigethy family as refugees in, 7–9, 17, 205, 389
Nichol, bp, 43
Nichols, Marjorie, 258
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 117
90 Minutes Live (TV), 248
Nixon, Richard M., 127, 365, 411
Nowell, Iris, 38, 39
Harold Town, 39n
Hot Breakfast for Sparrows: My Life with Harold Town, 39n
Obe, Don, 244
Odjig, Daphne, 134, 394
Official Secrets Act, 213
Olson, Peter, 322
Ondaatje, Christopher, 341–43
Ondaatje, Michael, 22, 81, 124, 138, 253, 341, 342, 431
“Letters and Other Worlds,” 123
Running in the Family, 123
There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do: Poems 1963–1978, 123
Onley, Tony, 82
Ontario (sesquicentennial book), 294
Orban, Viktor, 416
Ouellet, Fernand, 83
OWL, 241, 247
Pachter, Charlie, 62, 64
Paddle to the Sea (film), 280
Pagurian, 342, 343
Painters Eleven, 37
Parliamentary Press Gallery “boys,” 258
Parry Island Indian Reserve, 355
Patterson, Freeman, 277, 280–82
The Garden, 282
The Last Wilderness: Images of the Canadian Wild, 271, 281
Namaqualand: Garden of the Gods, 281
Photography and the Art of Seeing, 281
Portraits of Earth, 281
Patterson, Tom, 224–25
First Stage: The Making of the Stratford Festival, 225
Pattison, Jimmy, 129, 221–22, 259n
Jimmy: An Autobiography, 221
Pearce, John, 138, 292, 319–20
Pearsall, Patricia, 348
Pearson, Lester, 12, 87, 294, 398
Pegasus, wholesaler, 370–71
Pelletier, Gérard, 127
PEN Canada, 138, 430
Pencier, Honor, 240, 411
Pencier, Michael de, 76, 240–42, 243, 245, 247–48, 251, 252, 280, 304–5, 320–21, 338n, 372, 405, 411
Penguin Books Canada, 10, 274
Pennell, Nicholas, 224
Peterson, David, 369
Peterson, Eric, 254
Peterson, Roy, 295
Petőfi, Sándor, 57
Petričić, Dušan, 370
Philby, Kim, 288
Phillips, Eric, 177
Pinsent, Gordon, A Gift to Last, 222
Pockell, Les, 327
Polar Bears (Key Porter), 334
Polk, Jim, 108
Poole, Jack, 129
Porcupine’s Quill, 254
Porter, Anna Szigethy:
The Appraisal, 431
and Bertelsmann, 317–19, 326, 329–32
The Bookfair Murders, 265n, 326–27
Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy, 415–17
Canadian nationalism of, 127–28, 253, 255, 325, 417
on corporate boards, 193–94, 364–65
early years of, see Szigethy, Anna
environmentalism of, 333–35
The Ghosts of Europe, 137, 413–15
Hidden Agenda, 291–92, 319n, 326, 345
Kasztner’s Train, 137, 349, 409–12, 413
and Key Porter, see Key Porter Books
Mortal Sins, 250, 292, 319n, 326
and pink lady (ghost), 210
resignation from M&S Board, 257
and Seal, see Seal Books
search for her father, 203–5
The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies, 5n, 291, 351, 389–90, 391
vampire book by, 402–3
wedding of Julian and, 102–3; see also Porter, Julian
Porter, Catherine (daughter), 73n, 109, 150, 153, 154, 156, 182–83, 184, 185, 210, 214, 227n, 237, 239, 247, 261, 262, 266, 295, 304n, 328, 411, 420
Porter, Jessica (stepdaughter), 101, 103, 177n, 209, 237, 295
Porter, Julia (daughter), 46, 148n, 180–81, 182–83, 184, 185, 210, 214, 239, 249, 266, 295, 325–26, 348, 391, 393n
Porter, Julian (husband), 99–101, 106, 130–31, 173n, 239–40, 266, 305, 328, 341, 358, 401
and Georgian Bay cottage, 156–57, 163, 185, 210–12, 270
and law, 100, 103, 113, 129, 153, 160, 184, 212–13, 217n, 223, 224, 239, 262, 283–84, 321, 412
and politics, 108, 159, 284, 285, 287, 293–96
and Stratford Festival, 223–25
and “the Ex,” 153–54, 185
and Toronto Transit Commission, 223, 296
wedding of Anna and, 102–3
Porter, Suse (stepdaughter), 101, 103, 177n, 209
Potter, Harry (fict.), 45, 371
Pound, Ezra, 54
Powis, Alf, 128
Pratt, Christopher, 82, 252
Pratt, E. J., 50, 54
Preminger, Otto, 193
Price, Tim, 343
Princess Royal Island, 337
Pritchard, Rob, 397
Pruessen, Linda, 137, 348
Purdy, Al, 27, 50–55, 71, 81, 112, 115, 118, 123, 148, 182, 253, 310
Al Purdy Was Here (documentary), 54
“At the Quinte Hotel,” 53–54
The Cariboo Horses, 51
“The Country North of Belleville,” 55
“For Margaret,” 311–12
Love in a Burning Building, 50, 52
Morning and It’s Summer, 53
Naked with Summer in Your Mouth, 124
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea, 52
“Say the Names,” 52
Storm Warnings, 122–23
and Town, 50–52
Purdy, Eurithe, 50, 51
Pushkin, Aleksandr, 58, 416
Quarrington, Paul, 320
Quasimodo dinner group, 327, 412n
Quebec:
civil liberties suspended in, 159–60
Referendum (1980), 298
separatism in, 12–13, 82–83, 85, 118, 167, 175–76, 298
Quintus Press, 252
Rabinovitch, Jack, 116–17, 423–27
Racz, Therese (grandmother), 7, 102
Racz, Vili (grandfather):
and Anna’s childhood, 5–6, 325, 389
death of, 206
in Hungary, 7, 79, 156, 204, 291, 349, 391, 409, 413
Jolan (Vili’s mother), 102
letters to Puci, 111
marriage of, 102
in New Zealand, 7, 205, 389
as storyteller, 5, 7, 33, 34, 126, 156, 291, 325, 349, 389–90, 412, 430
in First World War, 351
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nbsp; Rae, Bob, 430
Raincoast Books, 45, 371
Rákosi, Mátyás, 7, 34
Ranch, The: Portrait of a Surviving Dream (Derry, Ed), 270
Random House, 79, 255, 397
and Bertelsmann, 322, 397
Random House Canada, 139, 331, 345, 421
Rathgeb, Charles, 128
Ray, Justina C., 334n
RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), 92, 212–13, 260
Rea, Michael, 246, 305
Redhill, Michael, 427
Red Tories, 25, 27, 261
Reeves, John, 102
Reichmann family, 321, 363
Reid, Fiona, 224
Reisman, Heather, 402, 431
Rendell, Ruth, 320
Renouf, Harold, 278
Renouf, Susan, 137, 278, 319, 329, 335, 347–48, 393
Ricci, Nino, 431
Richardson, Scott, 365
Richler, Florence, 32, 107
Richler, Mordecai, 81, 86, 117, 137, 142, 151, 166–67, 250, 421, 424–26
A Choice of Enemies, 32
Cocksure, 21
St. Urbain’s Horseman, 107
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 54, 58, 310
Ripley, Donald, Bagman, 261n
Ripley Entertainment, 221, 222
Ritchie, Larry, 76
Ritter, Erika, 137, 348
The Hidden Life of Humans, 254
Rivera, Diego, 113
Robarts, John, 294
Roberts, Charles G. D., 21
Rodmell, Ken, 246, 252
Rohmer, Richard, 76, 182
Balls, 218n
Exodus/UK, 218
Exxonoration, 218
Separation, 218
Ultimatum, 218–19
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 365
Rosenblatt, Joe, 122
Ross, Gary, 244n
Ross, Krystyna, 275
Ross, Malcolm, 20, 121–22, 150
Ross, Sandy, 245–46, 363
Canadians on the Nile, 245n
publishing ventures of, 245
The Risk Takers, 245
Ross, Sinclair, 21, 81, 148
Roth, Joseph, 143
The Radetzky March, 232
Roth, Philip, 79, 167
Rothschild, Lord, 364
Rotstein, Abe, 84
Roy, Gabrielle, 82, 150, 165, 309, 398
The Tin Flute—Bonheur d’Occasion, 21, 150
Windflower, 42
Royal Canadian Geographic Society, 241
Royal Canadian Yacht Club, 126–27, 130
Royal Commission on Book Publishing, 75–77
Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, 198
Royal Geographic Society, 19, 405
Royal Ontario Museum, 353
Runyon, Damon, 244
Rushdie, Salman, 430
Russell, Charlie, 336
Spirit Bear: Encounters with the White Bear of the Western Rainforest, 337
Ryan, Claude, 84
Ryerson Press, 76
Sacred Heart Convent School, New Zealand, 7, 8, 91, 111, 126, 148n, 203, 210, 390
St. Joseph Corporation, 405
St. Martin’s Press, 415
St. Peter Claver school, Ontario, 354–55
Salinger, J. D., 180