The Life of Saul Bellow

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by Zachary Leader


  Travels: road trip with Passin (1934), 5.1; visit to Mexico with Anita, 6.1, 6.2; sees Trotsky’s body and funeral in Mexico, 6.3, 6.4; accompanies student group to Spain, 8.1; visits Paris with McCloskys, 8.2; sails for Paris, 8.3, 9.1; life in France, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4; first visits England, 9.5; generosity to visiting writers in Paris, 9.6; flees to Spain, 9.7; visits Auschwitz, 9.8; lecturing in Salzburg, 9.9; touring in Europe, 9.10; returns to USA from Europe, 9.11; returns to Salzburg to lecture on novel (1952), 10.1; visits Nevada (Pyramid Lake) for divorce, 12.1, 12.2; leaves Nevada, 12.3

  Bellow, Susan (née Glassman; SB’s third wife): portrayed in Humboldt’s Gift, itr.1; and SB’s anxieties over Herzog character, itr.2; and SB’s view of brother Maury, 3.1; in SB’s fiction, 4.1, 14.1, 14.2; relations and affair with SB, 13.1, 13.2, 14.3, 14.4; SB writes to from Puerto Rico, 14.5; appearance and background, 14.6; first meets SB, 14.7; Joan Schwartz meets, 14.8; early death, 14.9; and Rosette Lamont, 14.10; works at US Horizon, 14.11, 14.12; correspondence with SB, 14.13; visits SB in Puerto Rico, 14.14; works at Dalton School, 14.15, 14.16; marriage to SB, 14.17; and SB’s work on The Noble Savage, 14.18; invited to White House with SB, 14.19; and Kennedy at White House dinner, 14.20; pictured, 649; birth and age, nts.1

  Bellows, Charlie

  Bellows, Joel (Maury’s son): on grandfather, 1.1, 2.1, nts.1; father’s behavior, 3.1; illus., 117; on Abraham’s second marriage, 5.1; on Carroll Coal accident, 5.2; on SB and Anita’s home life, 6.1; meets Marcie Borok, 10.1; on breach between Maury and SB, 10.2; on father not despairing, 14.1

  Bellows, Joyce (Maury’s second wife), 4.1, 10.1

  Bellows, Kyle (Joel’s son)

  Bellows, Marge (née Yudkoff; Maury’s first wife), 3.1, 117, 5.1, 7.1, 12.1, 14.1, nts.1

  Bellows, Maury (SB’s brother): adopts name, itr.1, 4.1; beaten by father, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, nts.1; and SB’s bootlegging failure, 1.5, 2.1; temper and behavior, 1.6, 3.1; appearance, 1.7; birth, 1.8, 1.9; as street hustler in Chicago, 3.2; attends law school and works for Libonati, 3.3; influence on SB’s Americanization, 3.4, 3.5; contempt for family feelings, 3.6; moves to Florida, 3.7; business interests and career, 3.8; illegitimate son, 3.9, 10.1; portrayed in SB’s fiction, 3.10, 3.11, 14.1; eating, 3.12;

  Bellows, Maury (SB’s brother): marriages, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 10.1; and women, 3.2, 10.2; on SB’s award of Nobel Prize, 3.3; death, 3.4; illus., 117; involvement in father’s coal business, 4.2, 4.3; hostility to Orthodox Jewry, 4.4; business deals with brother Sam, 4.5; disdain for sister Jane, 4.6; and SB’s refusal to betray Harris’s whereabouts, 4.7; moves to South Side, 5.2; lends money to SB, 5.3; on Carroll Coal accident, 5.4; and SB’s first marriage (to Anita), 6.1; as mother’s favorite, 6.2; stores SB’s furniture, 7.1; episode of illegitimate son in Augie March, 10.3, 10.4; separation from siblings, 10.5; breach with SB, 10.6; embarrassed by SB at father’s funeral, 11.1; Sasha disparages, 12.1; struggle with Robert (“Barny”) Baker, 12.2; threatened with lawsuit by Chicago, 12.3; claims to find SB’s books unreadable, 14.1; divorce from Marge, 14.2; gives tweed coat to SB, 14.3; driving, nts.1; and SB’s Nobel Prize money, nts.2; Marcie Borok attempts to shoot, nts.3

  Bellows, Nina (née Kahn; Sam’s wife), 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 12.1, 14.1

  Bellows, Samuel (Shmuel; SB’s brother): character, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2; birth, 1.2; on father’s escape to Canada, 1.3; in Montreal, 2.1; as street hustler in Chicago, 3.1; reacts against family sentiment, 3.2; attends SB’s Nobel Prize ceremony, 3.3; involvement in father’s coal business, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5; family duties, 4.6; marriage, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1; ambitions to study medicine, 4.9, 4.10; portrayed in SB’s fiction, 4.11, 4.12; business success, 4.13; Jewish orthodoxy, 4.14, 4.15; buys apartment in Jerusalem, 4.16; refuses to let wife work, 4.17; relations with sister Jane, 4.18; changes name, 4.19; and Carroll Coal accident, 5.2; and SB’s argument with father, 5.3; and illegitimate nephew, 10.1; Sasha describes, 12.1; and Larry Kauffman’s suicide, 13.1; in Florida, 14.1; as Chicago Jewish Community “Man of the Year” (1963), nts.1

  Bellows, Shael

  Belo, Berel (SB’s grandfather), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 3.1; death, 1.5

  Belo, Jenny (Willie’s wife)

  Belo, Shulamith (SB’s grandmother), 1.1, 3.1, nts.1

  Belo, Willie (Elya Velvel; Abraham’s brother), 2.1, 6.1

  Bely, Andrei: Petersburg, 1.1

  Bender, Thomas

  Bennett, Arnold: Lillian, 12.1

  Bennett, Robert

  Bennett, William J.

  Bentley, Eric, 9.1, 11.1

  Benton Harbor, Michigan

  Berdyaev, Nikolai

  Bergstein, Elinor

  Bernal, Jorge Enjuto, 14.1, 14.2

  Berryman, Ann (John’s second wife), 12.1; and SB’s view of suffering, 12.2; at Minnesota, 12.3; and SB-Sasha marriage breakdown, 13.1; divorce, 13.2; and SB’s fight with Sasha, 14.1

  Berryman, Eileen, see Simpson, Eileen

  Berryman, John: interview with Chambers, 7.1; friendship with Mitzi McClosky, 8.1; friendship with SB, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1; on Guggenheim Fellowship, 10.2, 10.3; Schwartz recommends for Princeton post, 10.4; Edel on, 10.5; Schwartz confesses writer’s block to, 10.6; instability and alcoholism, 10.7, 10.8, 12.4, 12.5, 13.2; at Princeton, 10.9, 10.10; approach to writing, 10.11; affair with Anita Maximilian, 10.12; threatens Podhoretz, 11.1; SB complains to of Anita, 11.2; and SB’s writing of “Memoirs of a Bootlegger’s Son,” 11.3; and SB’s divorce from Anita, 12.6; letter from SB in Tivoli, 12.7; claims not to understand Seize the Day, 12.8; and SB’s view of suffering, 12.9, 12.10; at Minnesota, 12.11, 12.12; breaks leg, 12.13; helps plan memorial meeting for Isaac Rosenfeld, 12.14; SB discusses Henderson with, 12.15, 12.16; suicide, 12.17; language, 12.18, 12.19, 13.3; literary celebrity and awards, 12.20; gives reading at University of Chicago, 12.21; portrayed in Humboldt’s Gift, 12.22; letter from SB at Northwestern, 12.23; defends Pound, 12.24; SB invites to Tivoli, 13.4; and The Noble Savage magazine, 13.5; and effect of SB’s divorce from Sasha, 13.6; “A Note on Augie,” 11.4; The Dream Songs, 12.25, 12.26, nts.1; His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, 12.27; “Homage to Mistress Bradstreet,” 10.13, 10.14; Love & Fame, 12.28; Recovery, 12.29, 12.30, 12.31

  Berryman, Kate (John’s third wife)

  Bessie, Simon Michael, 9.1, 11.1

  Best, Marshall, 12.1, 13.1

  Bettelheim, Bruno

  Betty: SB’s affair with, 8.1, 8.2

  Bhave, Vinoba

  Bierce, Ambrose

  biography: itr.1, itr.2; Naipaul on, nts.1

  Birstein, Ann, see Kazin, Ann

  Bitzer, Barbara

  Blackmur, R. P.: portrayed in Humboldt’s Gift, itr.1; at Princeton, 10.1, 10.2; and Schwartz, 10.3, 10.4; praises SB, nts.1; “Mugging the Muse” (essay), itr.2

  Blair, Walter

  Blake, William, 14.1, 14.2; “The Divine Image,” nts.1; For Children: The Gates of Paradise, 13.1

  Bloom, Allan: portrayed as Ravelstein, itr.1, nts.1; Love and Friendship, itr.2, nts.2

  Blotner, Joseph

  Blücher, Heinrich, 11.1, 11.2

  Blumberg, Baruch S.

  Boas, Franz, 5.1, 5.2

  Bodnia, Lilian

  Boehm, Mr. (Chicago schoolteacher)

  Bogan, Louise

  Bolingbroke (Shakespeare character), itr.1, nts.1

  Bollingen Prize in Poetry (1949)

  Booth, Wayne

  Borgoras, Waldemar

  Borok, Dean (Maury’s illegitimate son), 3.1, 10.1, 11.1

  Borok, Marcia (“Marcie”)

  Borok, Robert

  Borushek, Grisha, 3.1, 6.1

  Botsford, Annie

  Botsford, Keith: and SB’s interest in gesture and looks, 2.1; and SB’s family leaving for Chicago, 2.2; and SB’s view of anthropology, 5.1; and SB’s attitude to war, 6.1, 6.2; and SB’s isolation in New York, 7.1; and SB’s view of Spain, 8.1; and SB’s view of Sartre, 9.1, 9.2; and SB at Princeton, 10.1; and SB’s social life in New York, 10.2; at Bard College, 11.1, 11.2; friendship with Ludwig, 11.3; pi
ctured, 480; plays tennis with Greg, 12.1; SB names influences to, 12.2; visits Tivoli, 12.3; SB confesses renewed marriage relations with Sasha, 13.1; and The Noble Savage, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2; and SB-Sasha marriage breakdown, 13.3; and Ludwig’s attitude to SB, 13.4; letter from SB on Ludwig and The Noble Savage, 13.5; demands Ludwig’s resignation, 13.6; appointment and salary at Puerto Rico, 14.3, 14.4; letter from SB on Staten Island, 14.5; and SB’s higher education, 14.6; and SB’s view of Chicago, nts.1; Fragments I–VI (memoirs), 14.7, nts.2; “A Half Life” (interview), nts.3, nts.4, nts.5

  Bowen, Elizabeth

  Brandeis, Irma, 480

  Brandeis University: SB’s commencement address (1974)

  Bread Loaf School of English, Vermont

  Breit, Harvey, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1

  Breton, André

  Broadwater, Bowden

  Bronstein, David

  Bronstein, Esther

  Brooks, Cleanth, 8.1, nts.1

  Brooks, Van Wyck, 10.1, 10.2

  Browder, Earl

  Brower, Reuben

  Brown, Huntington, 8.1, 8.2

  Brown, Norman O.: Life Against Death, 14.1

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

  Bruckner, D. J. R., itr.1, nts.1, nts.2

  Bryan, William Frank

  Buchenwald

  Buckman, Gertrude

  Bülow, Bernhard von

  Burlingame, Edward

  Burliuk, David

  Burnett, Whit

  Burnham, James, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

  Burroughs, William

  Burton, Sir Richard, 5.1, 7.1

  Bus Stop (film),

  Bye Bye Braverman (film),

  Byron, George Gordon, itr.1th Baron, 7.1; Don Juan, 10.1

  “By the Rock Wall” (SB; story), 6.1, 11.1

  “By the St. Lawrence” (SB; story), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  Caffi, Andrea

  Caldwell, Erskine, 6.1; The Sure Hand of God, 8.1

  California: SB visits

  Campbell, Richard

  Camus, Albert, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1; “Portrait of an Anti-Semite,” 8.1; “Two Chapters from ‘The Myth of Sisyphus,’ ” 8.2; The Outsider, 9.4

  Canada: SB’s parents arrive in, 2.1; SB’s family leave for Chicago, 2.2; see also Lachine; Montreal

  Canadian Jewish Times,

  Cannon, James P., 6.1, nts.1

  Capitol Coal (company)

  Capone, Al, 3.1, 3.2

  Capote, Truman

  “Car, The” (SB; story), 6.1, 6.2

  Carrier, Warren, 480

  Carroll Coal Company, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, nts.1

  Carter, Jimmy

  Carver, Katie, 10.1, 10.2

  Cary, Joyce: Except the Lord, nts.1

  Case, James H., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3

  “Case of Love, A” (SB; abandoned novel)

  Castell, Alburey, 8.1, 8.2

  Caughnawaga Indians (Canada)

  Cawley, Robert R.

  Céline, Louis Ferdinand (pseud. of L.F. Destouches), 9.1; Les Beaux Draps, 9.2; Journey to the End of the Night, 7.1, 9.3, nts.1

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), nts.1nn, 1.1, 1.2

  Century Association, New York, 8.1, 14.1, nts.1

  Cerf, Bennett

  Cermal, Anton (“Pushcart Tony”)

  Chambers, Whittaker, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

  Champion, Jack, 6.1, nts.1

  Chapman, Chanler, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  Chapman, John Jay

  “Charm and Death” (SB; unfinished novel), itr.1, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3

  Cheever, John, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2

  Chiaromonte, Nicola, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  Chicago: SB’s knowledge of, itr.1, 3.1; SB’s student life in, 1.1; SB’s family move to, 2.1, nts.1; Dworkin’s bakery, 3.2; Humboldt Park, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1; Augusta Street, 3.7, 3.8; SB’s boyhood in, 3.9, 3.10; Jewish community, 3.11; described, 3.12; street life, 3.13, 3.14; corruption and racketeering, 3.15; North Avenue, 3.16; Public Library, 3.17, 4.3; Cortez Avenue, 3.18, 3.19; Auditorium Theatre, 3.20; manufacturing power, 3.21; the Loop, 3.22; Sherry Hotel, 3.23, nts.2, nts.3; in SB’s fiction, 3.24, 7.1, 14.1; Le Moyne Street, 4.4, 4.5, nts.4; writers in, 4.6; school funding crisis, 5.1; World’s Fair (“A Century of Progress,” 1933), 5.2, 5.3; Russian Baths, 5.4; Hannah Arendt visits, 5.5; Kimbark Avenue, 6.1; in Dangling Man, 6.2; SB leaves for New York, 7.2; as intellectual center, 7.3; SB determines to leave, 7.4; in Augie March, 10.1, 11.2; Washington Square Park (“Bughouse Square”), 11.3; Newberry Library, 11.4; Dos Passos on, 11.5; SB views as Babel, 11.6; city threatens Maury with lawsuit, 12.1; gangs and gangsters, nts.5, nts.6; newspapers, nts.7; Covenant Club, nts.8; Shoreland Hotel, nts.9

  Chicago, University of: SB and Committee on Social Thought, itr.1, 14.1, 14.2; SB enrolls and studies at, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3; SB leaves for Northwestern, 5.4, 5.5; undergraduate program, 5.6; student life, 5.7; political activism, 5.8; Rosenfeld writes on, 5.9; SB returns to from Wisconsin, 5.10; research into “Negro-White relations,” 6.1; SB gives talk at, 12.1; offers post to SB as “Celebrity in Residence,” 14.3, 14.4, 14.5

  “Chicago and American Culture” (SB; talk), nts.1, nts.2, nts.3, nts.4

  “Chicago Book” (SB; unfinished), 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1

  Chicago Sun-Times

  children: in SB’s fiction

  “Children of Light and Children of Darkness” (SB; projected novel)

  “Closer, The” (SB; unpublished story)

  Coca-Cola

  Cogan, Zita (earlier Samson), 5.1, nts.1

  Cohan, George M.

  Cohen, Annie (Channah; Abraham’s sister), 2.1, nts.1

  Cohen, Arthur A., 13.1, 14.1

  Cohen, J. M.: A History of Western European Literature, 12.1

  Cohen, Max (Annie’s husband), 2.1, 2.2

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: relations with Wordsworth, 4.1; and Wordsworth’s creative inspiration, 9.1; “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” 4.2, 12.1, 12.2, nts.1

  Collected Stories (SB),

  Colt Press (San Francisco)

  Columbus Elementary School, Chicago

  Commentary (magazine), 11.1, 11.2

  Committee for Cultural Freedom

  Communism, 5.1; repressed in USA, 5.2; and Partisan Review, 7.1; and service in Merchant Marine, 7.2; in France, 9.1; Left opposition to, 10.1

  Communist League of America (CLA)

  Communists: in German concentration camps

  concentration camps (German)

  Congress for Cultural Freedom, 9.1, 9.2, nts.1

  Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

  Connell, Evan

  Connolly, Cyril, 9.1, 14.1

  Connolly, Jean

  Conquest, Robert

  Conrad, Joseph, nts.1; Under Western Eyes, nts.2

  Conroy, Jack, 6.1, 7.1

  Cook, Reginald

  Cookie, Aunt (Sasha’s), 12.1, 13.1, 13.2

  Cooper, Alfred Duff

  Cooper, Russell

  Council of Scholars at the Library of Congress

  “Cousins” (SB; story), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, nts.1

  Covici, Pascal (“Pat”): publishing in New York, 4.1; encourages young Harris, 4.2; as SB’s editor at Viking, 4.3, 10.1, 12.1; gives party for Moravia, 11.1; and Seize the Day, 12.2, 12.3; and “What the Great Writers Say about Writing the Novel,” 12.4; SB describes, 12.5; visits California, 12.6; SB recommends writers to, 12.7; and writing of Henderson, 12.8; and SB’s sessions with Meehl, 13.1; and SB’s work on The Noble Savage, 13.2; and SB’s entertaining Marilyn Monroe, 13.3; and SB’s relations with Sasha, 13.4; writes to SB in Paris, 13.5; letters from SB in Poland and Israel, 13.6; Susan Glassman meets, 14.1; Herzog dedicated to, nts.1; sends royalty check to SB, nts.2; and sales of Henderson, nts.3

  Cowley, Malcolm

  Cowley, Maurice

  Cowling, Maurice

  Cox, Mrs. (Chicago schoolteacher)

  “Crab and the Butterfly, The” (SB; abandoned novel), 8.1
, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 12.1, nts.1, nts.2

  Crane, Stephen, 11.1, nts.1n25

  Crane Junior College, Chicago, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1

  Criterion (magazine),

  “Croesus” (SB; prospective novella)

  Cunningham, Merce

  Curwood, James Oliver

  Daily Northwestern (university newspaper), 5.1, 5.2

  Dangling Man (SB): characters, itr.1, 6.1, 9.1, nts.1; on American unemotionalism, 1.1; on Montreal, 2.1; death of mother in, 2.2; Kafka’s influence on, 4.1; political views in, 5.1, 5.2; poverty in, 5.3; unemployment in, 6.2; writing, 6.3; as probationary piece, 6.4; qualities and themes, 6.5; as ironic, 6.6; reception, 6.7; publication, 7.1; SB complains of lack of promotion, 7.2; on Chicago, 7.3; McClosky reads, 8.1; Beach reads, 8.2; obnoxious child in, 8.3; sales, 8.4; ending, 9.2; fear of being slighted in, 10.1; style, 11.1; and Joseph’s mother’s death, nts.2

  D’Annunzio, Gabriele

  D’Arms, Edward (“Chet”)

  Darrow, Clarence, 4.1, 5.1

  Darwin, Charles

  Davidson, Donald

  Davis, Ezra, 3.1, 3.2, 11.1, nts.1

  Davis, Mrs. (Chicago schoolteacher)

  Davis, Robert Gorham

  Dean’s December, The (SB): extravagance in, 2.1; mother figure in, 2.2; and SB’s relations with Freifeld, 4.1; Harris portrayed in, 4.2, 5.1; writing, 10.1; style, 11.1

  “Deep Readers of the World, Beware!” (SB; article), 13.1, 13.2

  De Grasse (ship), 8.1, 9.1

  de Kooning, Willem

  Delano, Jack

  Demetriou, George, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL)

  De Quincey, Thomas: Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 7.1

  de Regniers, Beebee (née Schenk), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

  de Regniers, Peter

  Deutsch, André (publisher)

  Dewey Commission (1937)

  Dewey, John

  Diamond, Bess and Martin

  Dickens, Charles

  Dilling, Elizabeth

  Dillinger, John

  Diogenes (magazine),

  Disraeli, Benjamin

  “Distracted Public, The” (SB; Romanes Lecture, 1990), 3.1, 10.1, nts.1

  “Distractions of a Fiction Writer” (SB; essay), 12.1, 12.2

  Dolnick, Norman

  “Don Juan’s Marriage” (SB; unpublished)

 

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