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In Other Words

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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

 

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