by Anna Porter
Salivarova, Zdena, 359–60, 414
Sandberg, Sheryl, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, 198
Sari, Aunt, 7, 203
Sarlos, Andy, 390–91
Saturday Night, 37, 38, 183, 193, 220, 298, 373–74
Saul, John Ralston, 214
Savage, Candace, 339
Schlesinger, Joe, 245n
Schroeder, Andreas, Founding the Writers’ Union of Canada, 31n
Schwarz, Herbert:
Norval Morrisseau: Travels to the House of Invention, 134
Tales from the Smokehouse, 134
Windigo and Other Tales of the Ojibways, 134
Scientologists, 284
Scotiabank Giller Prize, 426n, 427
Scott, Ian, 296
Seal Books, 180, 189, 242
Anna as president and publisher of, 213, 215, 217–22, 231, 243, 292, 321, 330, 431
First Novel Award, 180, 182, 188, 214, 347
and McClelland, 188, 215, 304, 306, 321, 331
sale of, 331
Sears, Dennis T. Patrick:
Aunty High Over the Barley Mow, 42
The Lark in the Clear Air, 41–42
Sears, Val, Hello Sweetheart, Get Me Rewrite, 261
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, 336, 376
Second World War, 69, 72, 78–79, 125, 135, 156, 322, 336, 349, 373
Seligman, Ellen, 62, 65, 138
September 11 attacks, 401–2
Service, Robert, 96–97
Sessions, Bob, 327
Sewell, John, 252
Shah and Shahbanu of Iran, 150, 170–74
Shakespeare, William, 8, 117, 224, 310
Shaw, David, 45, 139
Shebib, Donald, 252
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 8
Sherman, Geraldine, 95, 161, 162, 192, 210
Sherrin, Muriel, 224
Shields, Carol, and Marjorie Anderson, Dropped Threads: What We Aren’t Told, 192, 429
Shipton, Rosemary, 137
Shorter, Ned, 252
Shulman, Morton, 284
Siegler, Karl, 403n
Silcox, David, 252
Sinclair, Gordon, 260
68 Publishers, 360
Skalbania, Nelson, 129
Skvorecky, Josef, 342, 344, 359–61, 414
The Bass Saxophone, 360
The Cowards, 359
Two Murders in My Double Life, 415
When Eve Was Naked, 361, 394
Slaight, Allan, 126n
Slaight, Annabel, 247, 333
Slater, Ian, Firespill, 219
Slavin, Bill, 347
Slinger, Joey, 426
Slopen, Beverley, 254
Smith, A. J. M., 123
poem to Julia, 180–81
Smith, Peter, 22
Smith, W. H., 77, 78
Smithbooks, 369
Snow, Michael, Canada Geese, 262
Sogides, 299
Solecki, Sam, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Letters of Jack McClelland, 114, 315
Sordsmen’s Club, 96
Soros, George, 415–16
Souster, Raymond, 50, 122
Southam Press, 244, 365
Southey, Tabatha, 348
Soviet Union:
Anna’s vehement dislike of, 7, 31, 34, 39
end of, 365, 414
Hungary invaded by (1956), 7, 8, 31, 34, 72, 401, 413
spies in Canada, 288
Twentieth Congress of Communist Party (1956), 33
writers persecuted by, 31n
Soyinka, Wole, 79, 148
Spanish, Ontario, 353–54, 355
Spanish Civil War, 32, 33n, 336
Spark, Muriel, 167
Spencer, Steven, see Szigethy, István
Spinoza, Baruch, 117
Staines, David, 122n, 426
Stalin, Joseph, 7, 33, 34, 430
Stanfield, Robert, 108, 253, 285, 293–94, 296
Starowicz, Mark, 214
Steele, James, 85
Stendahl, 6
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, 32, 71, 139n
Stevens, Geoffrey, The Player: The Life and Times of Dalton Camp, 385
Stevens, Sinclair, 283
Stevenson, Larry, 369, 371, 402
Stoddard, Jack, 403–5
Stratford Festival, 223–25
Stravinsky, Igor, 350
Struzik, Ed, and Mike Beedell, The Northwest Passage, 271
Styron, William, 180
Supreme Court of Canada, 198
Susann, Jacqueline, 180
Sutton, Joan, 252
Swinton, George, 133–34, 137
Eskimo Sculpture, 78
Sculpture of the Eskimo, 133
Symons, Scott, 25–29, 116, 129, 231–32
Civic Square, 25–28
Helmet of Flesh, 29
Heritage: A Romantic Look at Early Canadian Furniture, 28–29
Place d’Armes, 26
Szigethy, Anna:
Canada as home of, 81–83, 102, 109
childhood of, 5–8, 156, 325, 326, 389, 390, 401, 431
family background of, 4–5, 6, 102, 351, 391
and Hungarian Revolution, 7–8, 34, 39, 57, 58, 72, 126, 325, 326, 401, 413
jobs taken by, 8, 9, 10–11, 62, 191
languages of, 7, 18, 57, 416
last name of, 18, 71, 103
at M&S, see McClelland & Stewart
marriage of, see Porter, Anna Szigethy
in New Zealand, 7–9, 17, 205, 389
in Sacred Heart Convent School, 7, 8, 91, 111, 126, 148n, 203, 210, 390
travels of, 14, 82
Szigethy, István (father; a.k.a. Steven Spencer), 5, 6, 18, 71, 156, 203–5
Szigethy, Maria “Puci” (mother), 59, 126, 266
Alfons (third husband), 8–9, 17, 19, 102, 156–57
and Anna’s childhood, 6, 389
and Anna’s wedding, 102
and Birney, 111–12
and Charlotte, 109
in Hungary, 156, 191, 326
Istvan (first husband), 5, 6, 18, 71, 156, 203–5
Jeno (second husband), 7n, 389
memorabilia of, 111–12
move to Canada, 157, 239
Tandy, Jessica, 276
Taro, Gerda, 275
Tarragon Theatre, 254–55
Taylor, Charles, Radical Tories: The Conservative Tradition in Canada, 27
Taylor, E. P., 27, 128, 177, 408
Taylor, Firp, 129
Taylor, Ken, 172
Taylor, Noreen, 374
Taylor, Peter, 242n
at M&S, 36, 43, 44, 95, 99, 138, 188, 215, 228
Watcha Gonna Do Boy . . . Watcha Gonna Be?, 36
Templeton, Charles, 81, 94, 96, 153, 182, 211–12, 293
Act of God, 180, 185–86
and Georgian Bay, 155–56
inventions of, 155
The Kidnapping of the President, 155, 180
Templeton, Madeleine, 156, 211
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 8
Thames & Hudson, 170, 171
Thatcher, Colin, 284
Thatcher, Lady Margaret, 365
Thien, Madeleine, 427, 431
This Country in the Morning (CBC radio), 192, 213
Thistledown Press, 253
Thom, Ron, 145
Thomas, Audrey, 81
Thomas, Dylan, 54, 311
Thomson, Judith, 254
Thomson, Lorraine, 96
Thomson, Roy, 128
Thomson, Tom, 45
Thomson organization, 280
Thorsell, William, 161
Thury, Fredrick, 347
Tomašević, Bato, 266–67
Life and Death in the Balkans, 266n
Torgov, Morley, 254
Toronto International Film Festival, 54
Toronto Life, 99, 240–41, 243, 321
Toronto Scottish Regiment, 135
Toronto Star, 23, 37, 127, 130, 166, 227n, 233, 244, 262, 276, 306, 420, 425
&nbs
p; Toronto Sun, 176, 252, 289, 290
Toronto Telegram, The, 288, 289
Toronto Transit Commission, 223, 296
Totten, Sam, 22
Town, Harold, 96, 106–7, 116, 133, 252n
Bald Is Beautiful, 36n
Birney drawing by, 111
Christmas trees of, 39
Drawings, 36–38, 39, 40, 49
fame of, 37
and Nowell, 38, 39
and Purdy, 50–52
Transylvania, Szigethy family’s origins in, 6, 351, 391
Treaty of Trianon (1920), 4–5, 351
Tremblay, Michel, 137, 254
Trinity College School, Port Hope, 26–27
Trivial Pursuit, 15
Troper, Harold, 342, 349
Trotsky, Leon, 113
Trudeau, Justin, 237, 238
Trudeau, Margaret, 235–38, 253
Beyond Reason, 235
Changing My Mind, 237–38
Consequences, 235–38, 300
Trudeau, Pierre Elliott, 53, 108, 118, 127, 170, 260, 296, 297, 298, 381
and Canadian publishing, 85–86
and Margaret, 235–37, 253, 300
Memoirs, 300
opponents of, 43n, 259, 289, 293
and Quebec, 159–60
and “Trudeaumania,” 11–12, 252, 253
Trudeau, Sacha, 237
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 353
Tupper, Sir Charles, 92–93
Turnbull, Janet, 304
Turner, Camilla, 130
Turner, John, 245n, 299, 300
Tweedy, Browne, 366–67
Ubyssey, The, 245, 258
UNESCO Copyright Convention, 102
University of Toronto, 397–98, 421–22
Updike, John, 79
Urquhart, Jane, 138, 398
US Supreme Court, 366–67
Vaile, Sig, 40
Vallières, Pierre, Nègres blancs d’Amérique, 82–83
Vancouver International Writers’ Festival, 77
Vanderhaeghe, Guy, 138
van Herk, Aritha, Judith, 188, 214
van Kampen, Vlasta, 347
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 280
Vardey, Lucinda, 254
Vassanji, M. G., 254, 426
Verne, Jules, 6
Versailles Treaty (1919), 5
Villiers, Marq de, Into Africa: A Journey through the Ancient Empires, 244
Villon, François, 59
Visser, John de, 29, 267–68
Vitale, Alberto, 318–19, 321, 322, 330, 331–32
Vizinczey, Stephen, In Praise of Older Women, 59
Volcker, Paul, 364
Vörösmarty, Mihály, 6, 57
Wahl, Charis, 21, 42, 137
Waldock, Peter, 274
Wales, Johnny, 348
Walker, Norris, 262
Wall, Robert, The Canadians (series), 219
Walter, Jan, 244n
Walters, Barbara, 193
Ward family, 9
War Measures Act (1970), 118
Watson, Paul, 376
Ocean Warrior, My Battle to End the Illegal Slaughter on the High Seas, 336
Waugh, Evelyn, 167, 211
Webb, Jonathan, 246n, 274–75, 338n
Webb, Ken, 172
Webster, Ben, 14n
Webster, Jack, 260–61, 284
Weekend magazine, 53, 135
Wente, Peggy (Margaret), 245–46
West, Rebecca, 211
West Coast Review, 232
Weston, Galen, 128
Westwood, Bruce, 254
Where magazine, 251
Whitcombe and Tombs, 8, 19
Whitman, Walt, 54
Whyte, Ken, 373–74
Wiebe, Rudy, 81, 137
Big Bear, 42
Wieland, Joyce, Reason Over Passion, 236
Wilhelm, Marcus, 322–23, 329, 331
Wilkie, Robert, 23, 274
Will, George F., 365
Williams, William Carlos, 54
Wilson, Catherine, 95
Wilson, Ethel, 82
Wiseman, Adele, 166, 219, 310
Witney, Dudley, 79, 80, 157, 269–71, 277, 402
American Journey by Rail, An, 271
The Moorlands of England, 271
Railway Country: Across Canada by Train, 271
Wolf, Naomi, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women, 194
women:
and #MeToo, 195
and abortion, 192, 198
on corporate boards, 193–94
equality for, 200
feminism, 183, 191–95, 197–201, 232
glass ceiling vs., 191, 199
Métis, 45–46
roles for, 198
unequal pay for, 181, 191–92
Wood, David, The Lougheed Legacy, 285–86
Woodward’s, Vancouver, 271
Woolf, Virginia, 8
Workman, Carolan, 327
World Wildlife Canada, 411
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), 233, 334, 337, 405
Worthington, Peter, 176, 211, 212, 213, 239, 245n, 287–90, 297
Looking for Trouble, 290
Worthington, Yvonne, 193, 239
Wright, Eric, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man, 276, 394
Wright, L. R. “Bunny,” The Suspect, 219
Wright, Richard B., 427
Writers’ Trust, 73, 151, 231
Writers’ Union of Canada, 31n, 66, 77, 123, 139, 149, 166, 183, 231
Wynne-Jones, Tim, 347
Wynveen, Tim, 137, 348
Yaffe, Phyllis, 247
Yeats, William Butler, 54
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, Don’t Die Before You’re Dead, 54
Young, David, 151n
Young Naturalist, 247
Young Naturalist Foundation, 333, 405
Zed, Dr., 247
Znaimer, Moses, 13–14, 186, 213
Zolf, Larry, Survival of the Fattest: An Irreverent View of the Senate, 296
ZoomerMedia, 14
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Vili Racz portrait. Image courtesy of Anna Porter.
Anna on the catwalk. Image courtesy of Anna Porter.
Therese and Anna. Image courtesy of Anna Porter.
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Margaret Atwood in 1969. Image reprinted by permission of Graeme Gibson.
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Harold Town outside the Art Gallery of Ontario. John McNeill / The Canadian Press.
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