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  Adams’s later reactions to, 86–87, 88, 90

  Careless Love setting and, 79, 80, 81

  Sales, Grover, 329–30

  Salter, Jean, 70, 75–77, 83, 91, 109

  Salter, Stephanie, 427, 496

  Salzburg Seminars, 133, 142, 166, 173 Alice and Mark Linenthal at, 122–25, 126–28, 138, 442

  “Related Histories” setting and, 125–26, 126–27

  Salvemini, Gaetano, 128

  San Francisco Art Institute, 232, 269, 273, 281, 282, 283, 505

  San Francisco Chronicle, 246, 280, 307n, 333n, 378, 388, 398, 412, 437, 461n, 492

  San Francisco Review of Books, 329

  San Francisco State College, 180, 185, 504

  Saturday Evening Post, 98, 262

  Schaefer, Jay, 409

  “School Spirit” (unpublished story), 85–86

  Schorer, Mark, 99, 335

  Schwartz, Lynne Sharon, 329, 335, 432, 466

  Scott, Cynthia, 176

  Scowcroft, Richard, 367

  “Sea Gulls Are Happier Here” (story), 253, 261

  Second Chances (novel), 409, 417 plot and themes of, 401, 439

  publication of, 411–12, 507

  reactions to, 413

  real-life inspirations for, 273, 401, 404, 431

  writing of, 401, 412n

  See, Carolyn, 335, 366, 369–70, 412, 428, 432–33, 437–38, 442, 449, 483, 494

  Seeff, Norman, 405

  Segal, David, 235, 242–44, 245–46, 255, 260–61

  Segal, Lore, 338

  “Sending Love” (unpublished story), 486–87

  Settle, Mary Lee, 194, 427n

  Sex and the Single Girl (Brown), 210

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (Kinsey), 210

  Shakespeare, William, King Lear, 486, 498

  Shaw, George Bernard, 57

  Shawn, William, 262, 409, 507

  “Shock Treatment” (story), 276n

  Shore, Richard, 414, 415, 417

  Silverman, Beatrice, 91, 134–35, 148, 384n, 504

  Silverman, Phyllis, 91, 134, 136

  Simmons, Mary Bachhuber, 90, 91, 108

  Simon, Daniel Stewart “Dan,” 439–42, 449–51, 452, 454–55, 464, 494, 495

  Simon and Schuster publishers, 242, 295

  S. I. Newhouse publishers, 410

  Singer, Mark, 450, 451, 452, 465

  Sinton, Nell Walter, 207, 381, 420

  “Sintra” (story), 213–14, 219, 376, 377, 380–81, 545n

  Slade School, London, 268, 281, 282

  Slow Days, Fast Company (Babitz), 334

  Smith, Anna Deavere, 479

  Smith, Anne Mollegen, 304, 328

  Smith, Bessie, 244, 315

  Smith, Betty, 41n

  Smith, Joan, 457, 461n, 463

  Smith, Lee, 462, 463

  Smith, Mary, 41n

  Smith, Raymond, 400

  Smith, William Jay, 472

  “Snow” (story), 292, 395

  Sommerfeld, Franz, 225, 226–27, 228, 230, 234, 262, 505

  Sorbonne, Paris, 123, 133, 136, 144, 145, 146

  Southern Exposure, A (novel) After the War as sequel to, 478

  plot and themes of, 462, 463

  publication of, 463–64, 507

  reactions to, 462–63, 478

  real-life inspirations for, 41, 43, 50, 61, 462

  writing of, 456–57, 462

  Southern Review, 485

  “Southern Spelling Bee, A” (story), 42, 104n, 278

  Spanish Civil War, 37, 55, 70

  Sparks, Deborah, 255, 257, 447, 448, 497n

  “Spell in San Francisco, A” (unpublished novel), 261, 294

  Spellman, Erica, 318, 334

  Spock, Benjamin, 175

  Stanford University, 153, 187, 290, 368, 369 Adams’s jobs at, 154

  Adams’s seminars taught at, 158, 367

  Linenthal’s doctorate at, 150, 167, 178–79, 180, 187, 188, 504, 505

  Linenthal’s teaching positions at, 156, 167, 175

  writing program, 145–46, 150, 151, 158, 367

  Stanford University Hospital, 452–53, 454, 455, 465

  Stansky, Peter, 241, 261, 338, 388, 429, 459, 481

  Stead, Christina, 294

  Steele, Diana, 242, 244, 247, 255, 293, 340, 341, 460, 382, 499, 500, 505

  Steele, Henry Maxwell “Max,” 145, 193–95, 215, 347, 498–99, 503 on Adams in fellowship application letter, 241–42

  Adams in Max’s story “Another Love Story,” 304–5

  Adams on friendship with, 339–40

  Adams’s Chapel Hill visits with, 374–75, 460–61, 482, 501

  burial site of, with Adams, 374, 498, 500

  Careless Love publication and, 242–43, 244, 247

  death of, 498, 507

  divorce of, 340–41

  “Elizabeth” based on, 348

  first meeting with Adams, 2–3, 195

  friendship at first sight with, 200, 481, 500

  friendship with Adams, 202, 208–10, 213, 214, 224, 242, 247, 250, 255, 265n, 276n, 279, 289, 292, 293, 295, 299, 300, 303, 306, 310, 314, 316, 327, 336, 341, 343, 350, 369, 375, 378, 413, 414, 418, 429, 494, 499, 505

  “Home Is Where,” character based on, 303

  internment of Adams’s ashes and, 497, 499–500

  Listening to Billie review of, 330

  Nic Adams’s death and, 272, 275

  “Night Fears” character based on, 197

  Peter Linenthal and, 197, 343, 500

  romance with Adams, 195–98, 199–200, 333

  speech at Adams’s memorial, 495

  “The Visit” based on stay with, 374, 461

  Steele, Oliver, 247, 341, 499

  Stegner, Wallace, 145–46, 150–51, 158, 367–68, 436

  Stein, Gertrude, 37–38, 88, 134

  Stein, Harold, 125–27

  Stein & Day publishers, 261

  Steinbeck, John, 50, 504

  Steinem, Gloria, 294–95, 305, 330

  Stevens, George, 9n

  Stevenson, Adlai, 176

  Stewart, Til Brunswick, 238–39, 394, 418

  Stockinger, Jacob, 366

  Stories of Alice Adams, The (story collection), 507

  Strand, Mark, 413

  “Street Woman” (unpublished essay), 433–34

  Styron, William, 171, 194, 215, 243, 336

  “Summer, Clothes & Love: A Memoir” (essay/story), 196n

  Summerlin, Dollie, 277n, 341

  Summerlin, Sam, 169

  Superior Women (novel), 146, 318, 378 commercial success of, 402, 412, 498

  Jewish theme in, 91, 92, 99

  plot and themes of, 99–100, 101–2, 103–4, 293, 372, 373, 393

  publication of, 378–79, 381, 401, 402, 507

  reactions to, 372–73, 383–87

  real-life inspirations for, 90, 93, 94, 101, 102–3, 110n, 137, 146, 154, 184, 293–94, 364, 384n

  writing of, 354, 371–72, 376

  Swaim, Don, 337

  “Swastika on Our Door, The” (story), 227, 263, 264–65, 271n, 289, 290, 443, 505

  Sydenstricker (later Buck), Pearl, 13, 54

  Talbot, David, 284

  Talese, Nan, 463

  Tan, Amy, 434

  Tarkington, Booth, 9

  Tate, Allen, 22, 116–17, 183

  Tayloe, George Plater, 11

  Tayloe family, 9–12

  Taylor, Billy, 100

  Taylor, Mary Ross, 416, 421, 449, 482, 494n

  Taylor, Peter, 328, 399

  Taylor/Tayloe, William, 9–10

  Teagarden, Jack, 184

  “Teresa”(story), 355n, 356–57

  Terner, Don, 403–404, 465

  Thomson, David, 428, 456

  Thomson, Sedge, 471

  “Tide Pools” (story), 374

  “To a Caller” (Agatha Adams poem), 33

  To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 505

  Toklas, Alice B., 37–38, 134

  “To See You Again” (story),
362, 370

  To See You Again (story collection), 251, 321, 349, 356, 362, 365, 369, 371, 375, 507

  Trentin, Bruno, 126–28, 132, 156, 341, 346, 351–52, 353–54

  Trollope, Anthony, 11, 400, 471

  Truckee River house, California, 257, 258–59, 287, 292, 306, 350, 354, 359, 417, 420

  Truman, Harry S., 125, 135, 152, 167, 504

  “Truth or Consequences” (story), 41, 216n

  “Turkey Season, The” (Munro), 361

  Two People (movie) novelization, 290, 291, 506

  Tyler, Anne, 329

  UNC. See University of North Carolina

  University of Arizona, 250, 272

  University of California Berkeley, 414

  University of California Davis (UC Davis), 309, 353, 362, 370, 465

  University of Minnesota, 183

  University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, 98, 160, 162, 182, 193, 210, 341, 458 Agatha Adams at, 22, 25, 54, 82n, 94–95, 96, 148–49

  Alice Adams’s creative writing course at, 97–98

  Alice Adams’s papers at, 499

  Nic Adams at, 8, 21, 27–28, 36, 65, 71, 96, 160, 187, 276, 503

  no black students and few black employees at, 25

  University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center, 497

  University of Utah, 412–13

  University of Wisconsin, 65, 71

  “Unscheduled Stop, An” (story), 52, 347, 375

  Updike, John, 202, 361–62, 385–86, 402n, 435, 442, 506, 507

  “Up the Coast” (story), 438

  Upton, Lee, 350, 354

  Urban, Amanda, 427–28, 460, 463, 480, 484, 506, 507

  Vedensky, Dmitri, 338, 446

  “Verlie I Say Unto You” (story), 24, 27, 300, 371

  “Very Nice Dog, A” (story), 459–60

  Victor, Thomas, 424

  Vietnam War, 124, 236n, 245n, 267, 268–69, 291, 386, 505, 506

  Viking publishers, 261

  Village Voice, 330, 339

  Virginia Quarterly Review, 42, 319

  “Visit, The” (story), 28, 374, 461

  Vogue magazine, 208, 321, 338, 466

  Volpe, Peter, 401

  “Wake, The” (unpublished story), 36, 57–58, 163

  Walker, Alice, 336, 357, 507

  Wallace, Henry, 75, 126, 144, 152

  Wall Street Journal, 457

  Wandruszka, Adam, 126

  War Between the Tates, The (Lurie), 309

  Warga, Wayne, 326

  Warnecke, Grace Kennan, 279

  Warnecke, John Carl, 279–80

  Warren, Robert Penn, 179, 215

  Washington and Lee University, 15

  Washington Square Bar and Grill writers’ group, San Francisco, 307, 506

  Wasserman, Barbara Mailer, 91–92, 100n

  Weathers, Willie T., 60, 302

  Webb, Bill, 154, 302

  Webb, Nancy, 154, 400

  Webster, Ellis, 314

  Webster, Stephen, 314

  “Week in Venice, A” (story), 128

  Wharton, Edith, 361

  What Maisie Knew (James), 39

  Wheelis, Allen, 393, 394, 404, 414, 418, 423, 464

  “When I Was Queen” (poem), 51

  “When We Dead Awaken” (Rich), 325

  “Why I Write” (essay), 88, 260

  Wideman, John Edgar, 424

  Widow’s Children, The (Fox), 333–34

  Wilbert, Sheliah Renée, 283, 284–86, 326

  “Wild Coasts of Portugal, The” (essay), 379

  Wilson, Dorothy Stearns “Dotsie,” 39, 44 Alice’s inheritance of property from, 413

  Alice’s relationship with, 193, 250, 276–77, 300, 342, 343

  Nic Adams’s initial meeting with and attraction to, 38, 187, 503

  Nic’s declining health and death of, 274–75

  Nic’s marriage to, 187, 192, 193, 215, 272–73, 274–75, 276, 342, 504

  Nic’s pursuit of, 40, 96, 174

  Nic’s will and, 278, 342, 343

  step-grandson Peter Linenthal’s relationship with, 187, 193, 215

  Wilson, Edmund, 109

  Wilson, Erin Cressida, 158n

  Wilson, Lois Mayfield, 158

  Wilson, Rosalind, 109

  Wilson, Thomas J., 28, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40

  Wilson, Tom Jr. “Tombo,” 37, 38, 44, 342

  Wilson, Victoria, 8, 295, 299, 306, 310, 318, 334, 344, 446, 480 Adams’s death and, 494n, 496, 497

  on Adams’s work, 8, 357, 492, 494

  After the War and, 483–84

  After You’ve Gone and, 424

  Almost Perfect and, 443

  Families and Survivors and, 295–96, 310, 506

  Listening to Billie and, 323, 326

  relationship with, 310, 318, 333, 344, 363, 409, 418, 428, 457, 463, 473, 506

  Rich Rewards and, 344–45

  Second Chances and, 337–38, 411

  short story collections and, 365

  Southern Exposure and, 463

  Superior Women and, 378, 383

  Wilson, Woodrow, 14

  Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, 499

  Winokur, Maxine, 91

  “Winter Rain” (story), 3, 130, 131, 132, 146, 147, 182, 202, 209, 505, 527n

  Wolf, Jacqueline, 32

  Wolfe, Thomas, 22, 65, 95, 160, 162, 182, 503

  Wolff, Tobias, 337

  “Wonderful” (unpublished story), 107–8

  Wood, Susan, 252, 339

  Woolf, Virginia, 106, 324, 437n

  World War I, 14, 17, 23, 27, 37, 84 Nic Adams and, 40, 70

  World War II, 70, 75, 84, 92, 105, 130, 165, 166, 210, 212, 229, 397, 504 Adams’s novels with connections to, 127, 141, 146–47, 372, 462, 478

  Mailer’s novel on, 146–47, 245n

  Mark Linenthal and, 1, 110–11, 124–25, 129, 504

  Radcliffe students and, 85, 88–89, 92–93, 105, 110

  Wright, Ellen, 195

  Wright, Lee, 242

  Wright, Richard, 25–26, 145, 195

  Writing a Woman’s Life (Heilbrun), 116

  “Wrong Virginia, The” (story), 439, 440

  Yardley, Jonathan, 384

  Yates, Richard, 320, 332–33, 378

  “You Are What You Own: A Notebook” (story), 314n

  Young, Al, 434

  Young, Arlene, 382–83

  Young, James Osborne “Trummy,” 101–4, 232n, 503, 507 Adams’s relationship with, 101, 102–3, 117, 118–19, 184, 231–32, 293, 304, 382–83, 423, 477

  Superior Women character and, 101–2, 103–4, 293–94

  Young, Lester, 101, 173

  “Young Couple with Class” (story), 180, 181, 261, 262

  Zane, Maitland, 246

  Zeligs, Meyer, 241

  Zelver, Patricia, 290, 306

  Zihuatanejo, Mexico, 446 Adams’s stays at, 310–11, 322, 338, 354, 356, 364, 382, 390, 409–10, 429, 434, 441, 506

  books set in, 322, 356, 429, 437–38, 441

  Zorrilla, José, 27

  Photo Credits

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  5 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  53 Copyright Dorothy Funk Clark, courtesy of Judith Clark Adams.

  53 Copyright Dorothy Funk Clark, courtesy of Judith Clark Adams.

  67 Courtesy of St. Catherine’s School.

  162 North Carolina Collections, University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill.

  189 Courtesy of Vera Futscher Pereira.

  194 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  297 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  329 Copyright Marion Ettlinger.

  344 Copyright Joyce Ravid.

  398 Copyright Irene Fertik.

  407 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  481 Copyright Christine Alicino.

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  1 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  2 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  3 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  4 Courtesy of LaBudde Spe
cial Collections, UMKC University Libraries.

  5 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  6 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  7 Courtesy of Oliver Steele.

  8 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  9 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  10 Courtesy Vera Futscher Pereira, Retrovisor: Um Album de Família.

  11 Courtesy Vera Futscher Pereira.

  12 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  13 Photograph © Harry Fong.

  14 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  15 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  16 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  17 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  18 Photograph © K. William Leffland, courtesy of David See.

  19 Photograph © Alison Lurie.

  20 Courtesy of Carolyn See.

  21 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

  22 Courtesy of Peter Adams Linenthal.

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