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“School Spirit” (unpublished story), 85–86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“Sending Love” (unpublished story), 486–87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
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