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  Hester, Elsa

  Hicks, Granville, 12.1; (ed.) The Living Novel: A Symposium (essays), 12.2, 13.1

  Higson, James, 12.1, 13.1

  Higson, Sand (née House; Suzanne), 12.1, 13.1, 13.2

  Hills, Rust

  Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 6.1, 7.1

  Him with His Foot in His Mouth (SB; collection of stories), itr.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, nts.1

  “Him with His Foot in His Mouth” (SB; story)

  Hiroshima: atom bombed, 7.1, 10.1

  Hirsch, Felix, 11.1, 11.2

  Hiss, Alger

  Hitler, Adolf, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 12.1, 12.2, nts.1

  Hitler-Stalin Pact (1939)

  Hivnor, Robert, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1; The Ticklish Acrobat, nts.1

  Hoagland, Edward

  Hochman, Sandra

  Hoffa, Jimmy, 3.1, 12.1, nts.1

  Hoffman, Lynn, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1

  Hoffman, Ted: background and career, 9.1; in Salzburg, 9.2, 10.1, nts.1; returns to USA, 11.1; welcomes SB to Bard, 11.2; and SB’s courtship of Sasha, 11.3; on Ludwig’s teaching, 11.4; and SB’s resigning from Bard, 11.5; Greg spends weekend with, 12.1; encourages SB over Henderson, 13.1; teaches at Pittsburgh, 13.2; produces Sartre’s No Exit in New York, nts.2

  Holiday (magazine),

  Hollande, François

  Hollander, John

  Holmes, New York

  Hook, Sidney, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Hopwood Lecture, see Michigan, University of

  Horizon (U.S. magazine), 14.1, 14.2

  Howard, Leslie

  Howard, Richard

  Howe, Irving: relations with father, 1.1; praises Rosenfeld novel, 4.1; on Stalinists and Trotskyists, 5.1; describes Rosenfeld as “golden boy,” 7.1; on Rahv, 7.2; on rudeness as Jewish, 7.3; on anti-Semite debate, 8.1; lectures at Princeton, 10.1; on Schwartz, 10.2; groups SB with Schwartz and Berryman, 10.3; and Yiddish language, 11.1; discussion with Berryman, 12.1; on Herzog, 14.1; on panel on “Topics in Modern Literature,” 14.2; meets Rosenberg, nts.1n74; “The Age of Conformity,” nts.2; World of Our Fathers, 1.2

  “How I Wrote Augie March’s Story” (SB; article), 11.1, nts.1nn55, 2.1, nts.2, nts.3, nts.4

  Howland, Bette, itr.1, 14.1

  Hudson Institute, Tarrytown

  Hudson Review, The,

  Humboldt’s Gift (SB): characters, itr.1, itr.2, 10.1, nts.1; Schwartz portrayed in, itr.3, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, nts.2; excerpts published in Playboy, itr.4, 5.1; on grandfather’s knowing Talmud by heart, 1.1; Roth on, 1.2; bodily description in, 2.1; extravagant behavior in, 2.2; mother-son relations in, 2.3;

  lodger in, 3.1; on corruption in Chicago, 3.2; Maury portrayed in, 3.3, 3.4, 14.1; Freifeld portrayed in, 4.1; Eleanor Fox depicted in, 4.2; Peltz portrayed in, 5.1; and SB’s “Juif,” 6.1; trip to New York in, 7.1; loving woman in, 8.1; care of child in, 8.2; Blackmur portrayed in, 10.1; Berryman portrayed in, 12.1; Susan Glassman’s character in, 14.2, 14.3; White House dinner depicted in, 14.4; Shils portrayed in, 14.5; Soviet intelligence references in, nts.1; on duality of human character, nts.2

  Humphrey, Hubert, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 13.1

  Humphrey, William, 11.1, 11.2, 480

  Hungerford, Edward B., 5.1, 12.1

  Huntingdon, Canada

  Huppeler, Mrs. (Chicago rooming house keeper)

  Hurston, Zora Neale

  Husserl, Edmund

  Hutchins, Robert M., 5.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2

  Hutchinson, Pearse

  Hyde Park, Chicago

  Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 14.1, 14.2

  Ibsen, Henrik

  “I Got a Scheme!” (SB/Roth interview), 4.1, 4.2, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3

  Illinois: A Descriptive and Historical Guide,

  Illinois Federal Writers’ Project

  “Illinois Journey” (SB; article), 12.1, 12.2

  Imenitov, Nota

  Imenitov, Popa (SB’s great uncle)

  Imenitov, Wulf (SB’s great uncle)

  International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship and War (30 April 1949), 9.1, 9.2, nts.1

  “Interview with Myself, An” (SB)

  “In the Days of Mr. Roosevelt” (SB; essay), 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3

  Irstam, Tor

  “Isaac Rosenfeld” (SB: article)

  Israel: survival, 5.1; SB visits, 13.1

  Italy: SB and Anita travel in

  Jabotinsky, Ze’ev

  Jacobson, Mr. (Tuley schoolteacher)

  Jaffe, Helen, 5.1, 5.2

  Jaffe, William

  James, Henry, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, nts.1, nts.2; The American Scene, nts.3

  Janis, Irving

  Janitzio, Mexico (island)

  Jarrell, Randall, 10.1, 11.1, nts.1

  Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities: SB delivers, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, nts.1

  Jenkins, Mrs. (Chicago schoolteacher)

  Jenkins, Roy (later Baron)

  Jessup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902)

  Jesus Christ: SB’s early view of

  Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

  Jews: status in Russia, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, nts.1; in exile, 1.5; Russian influence on, 1.6; difficulties as migrants, 1.7; immigrants in Lachine, Canada, 2.1; in Montreal, 2.2; and crucifixion of Jesus, 2.3; community in Chicago, 3.1, nts.2; assimilation in USA, 3.2; Orthodox, 4.1; Nazi persecution, 5.1, nts.3; in anthropology, 5.2; rudeness, 7.1; death in German camps, 8.1; Sartre on anti-Semitism and, 8.2, nts.4; persecuted in France in war, 9.1; in Austrian transient camp, 9.2; in Augie March, 11.1; Henry James on, 11.2; SB on repression of, 12.1; and social status, 13.1; pogroms, nts.5nn36, 1.8; literacy in Russia, nts.6; flee Russia for North America, nts.7; see also anti-Semitism

  Jochelson, Waldemar

  Joel, George

  Johansson, Ingemar

  “John Berryman” (SB; foreword)

  John Reed Clubs

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines

  Johnson, Robert, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  Johnson, Samuel

  Jolson, Al

  Joyce, James: SB admires, 4.1, 6.1; Trotskyists read, 5.1; as modernist, 7.1; Caffi on, 9.1; style, 11.1; Auerbach on, nts.1; Ulysses, 11.2, 12.1

  “Juif” (SB; rejected story)

  Kafka, Franz, 4.1, 6.1; The Metamorphosis, 4.2

  Kahler, Erich

  Kahn, Herman

  Kahn, Rabbi Moses Wolf

  Kalb, Bernard

  Kampelman, Max

  Kaplan, Alice, 9.1, 9.2

  Kaplan, Celia, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 380

  Kaplan, Dora

  Kaplan, Harold (“Kappy”): at Wieboldt Hall, 5.1, 6.1; impresses Rahv, 6.2; on Dangling Man, 6.3; spends time with Greenberg, 7.1; on Trotskyists in Merchant Marine, 7.2; edits “New French Writing” for Partisan Review, 8.1;

  Kaplan, Harold (“Kappy”): in Paris, 8.1, nts.1; relations with SB, 8.2; invites SB to stay in Paris for year, 8.3; entertaining in Paris, 9.1, 9.2; finds Paris apartment for SB, 9.3; political-literary activities in Paris, 9.4; on U.S. government service in Paris, 9.5; writes “Paris Letter” for Partisan Review, 9.6; and Europe-America Groups, 9.7; on Caffi, 9.8; style, 9.9; on SB’s effect on women, 9.10; and Nadine Raoul-Duval, 9.11; womanizing, 9.12; pictured, 380; SB spends Christmas 1951 with, 10.1; University of Chicago scholarship, nts.2; on SB’s proposed army service, nts.3; The Plenipotentiaries, 9.13, 9.14; The Spirit and the Bride, 9.15

  Kaplan, Leslie

  Karlen, Arno

  Katz, Stanley

  Kauffman, Charlie, 4.1, 5.1, 12.1, 12.2

  Kauffman, Jane (Zelda; née Bellow; SB’s sister): on grandmother, 1.1; on family’s voyage to Canada, 1.2; piano lessons and playing, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1; on SB’s birth, 2.3; in Montreal, 2.4; occupies own room in Chicago home, 3.2; as stenographer, 3.3; attends SB’s Nobel Prize ceremony, 3.4; brother Sam helps, 4.1; character, 4.2, 4.3; marriage, 4.4; aims and ambitions, 4.5; relations with brothers, 4.6; moves to Lincoln Park, 5.
1; Sasha on, 12.1; SB visits while at Northwestern, 12.2; and SB’s arrival in Chicago, nts.1

  Kauffman, Larry (SB’s nephew): suicide, 13.1, 13.2

  Kaufman, Abe

  Kazin, Alfred (“Avraham Gedolyevitch Kazin”): on Jewish Russian heritage, 1.1; dispute with Philip Roth, 1.2; on Rosenfeld’s fiction, 4.1; SB discusses Dangling Man with, 6.1; as literary editor of The New Republic, 7.1; describes SB in New York, 7.2; supports SB’s application for Guggenheim Fellowship, 7.3; character and manner, 7.4; and Ann Birstein, 7.5; Rosenfelds entertain, 7.6; introduces SB to Lidov, 7.7; separates from wife Natasha, 7.8; and SB’s portrayal of Lidov in Augie March, 7.9; as Guggenheim referee, 8.1; in Salzburg, 9.1; on orgone box, 10.1, 10.2; SB insults, 11.1; distrust of Trilling, 11.2; on affected accents, 11.3; overlooked by The New Republic, 11.4; SB praises Blücher to, 11.5; home in New York, 11.6; on Jack Ludwig, 11.7; visits Wellfleet, 11.8; and Sasha’s leaving public relations job, 12.1; returns to New York from Massachusetts, 12.2; reviews Seize the Day, 12.3, 12.4; on board of Longview Foundation, 12.5; reads McCormick piece in The Noble Savage, 13.1; on Jews knowing about American millionaires, 13.2; praises Herzog, 14.1; SB writes to on Ludwig’s review of Herzog, 14.2; cites D. H. Lawrence, nts.1; on Hook, nts.2; on Mary McCarthy, nts.3; relations with Rosenfeld, nts.4; works at Fortune, nts.5; New York Jew, 7.10, 9.2, 11.9, nts.6; On Native Ground, 7.11; A Walker in the City, 1.3

  Kazin, Ann (née Birstein; Alfred’s third wife), 7.1, 10.1, 11.1; What I Saw at the Fair, 7.2

  Kazin, Natasha (“Asya”; Alfred’s first wife)

  Kazin, Pearl (Alfred’s sister; later wife of Daniel Bell), 11.1, 11.2

  Keats, John, 10.1, nts.1

  Keeley, Robert

  Kees, Weldon

  Kelly, Edward

  Kennedy, John F., 13.1, 14.1, 14.2

  Kennedy, William, 14.1; Ironweed, 14.2

  Kermode, Frank

  Kerouac, Jack

  Kerry, John

  Keys, Ancel

  Khrushchev, Nikita S., 1.1, 1.2, 14.1

  Kierkegaard, Søren, 7.1, 14.1

  Kiernan, Frances

  Kincaid, Illinois

  Kissin, Wolf

  Kline, Franz

  Klinsik, Mrs. (Latin teacher)

  Klonsky, Milton, 7.1, 7.2

  Knight, Frank, 7.1, 14.1, 14.2

  Knopf (publishers)

  Koblitz, Robert

  Koch, Sigmund

  Koestler, Arthur

  Koestler, Mamaine (née Paget)

  Kolakowski, Leszek

  Kollek, Teddy, 2.1, 8.1

  Kotkin, Michael C.

  Kramer, Hilton

  Krieger, Murray

  Krim, Seymour

  Kristol, Irving, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

  Krivitsky, General Walter

  Krueger, Maynard

  Lachine, Montreal, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 11.1

  Lafayette Elementary School, Chicago, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

  Lamont, Rosette, 13.1, 14.1

  Lardner, Ring

  Lasco, Louie, 4.1, 13.1

  Last Analysis, The (SB; play), 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 14.1, 14.2, nts.1

  Laughlin, James, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  “Laughter in the Ghetto” (SB; review)

  Lawrence, D. H., 7.1, 14.1, nts.1; Mornings in Mexico, 6.1, 6.2; The Plumed Serpent, 6.3, 6.4

  Lawrence, Frieda

  Layton, Irving (né Izzie Lazaroff)

  Lazareff, Pierre

  League of American Writers

  “Leaving the Yellow House” (SB; story), 12.1, 12.2

  Leavis, F. R.

  “Lecturer in Vienna, A” (SB; proposed novelette)

  Léger, Fernand

  Le Havre

  Lehmann, John, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1

  Leiper, Bart, 8.1, 10.1

  Leites, Nathan, 5.1, 13.1, nts.1

  Lemelle, Janine

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2

  Lennon, J. Michael

  Leontief, Wassily

  Leopold, Nathan and Richard Loeb case, 4.1, nts.1

  Leopoldskron, Schloss, Salzburg, 9.1, 10.1

  Lesley, Leonard

  Lester, Uncle (Sasha’s)

  Levi, Edward

  Levin, Harry, 11.1, 12.1

  Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien

  Lewis, R. W. B., 10.1, 10.2, 10.3; The American Adam, nts.1

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Lewis, Wyndham, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1

  Libonati, Roland V.

  Lidov, Arthur, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1

  Lidov, Victoria, 7.1, 9.1, nts.1

  Lieber, Max: as SB’s agent, 6.1, 8.1

  Liebling, A. J., 8.1, 12.1, 12.2; “The Lake of the Cui-ui Eaters,” 12.3

  Liebowitz, René

  Lindbergh, Charles, 3.1, 14.1

  Lindley, David

  Lindsay, Catherine, 12.1, 13.1

  Lipset, Seymour Martin

  Listener, The (magazine),

  “Literature” (SB; article), 12.1, 14.1

  Littlejohn, Milton

  Lockwood, Bernard

  London: SB first visits

  Longview Foundation

  “Looking for Mr. Green” (SB; story), 11.1, 12.1

  “Lover from America, A” (SB; unpublished novelette)

  Lovestone, Jay

  Lowell, Cal, 10.1, 13.1

  Lowell, Robert, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1

  Lowie, Robert

  Lowry, Malcolm: Under the Volcano, 8.1

  Lubbock, Percy

  Luce, Henry, 7.1, 7.2

  Ludwig, Brina

  Ludwig, Jack: at Bard, 11.1; Botsford and, 11.2, 11.3; character, 11.4; portrayed in Herzog, 11.5, 12.1, 13.1; Reichian practices, 11.6; popularity as teacher, 11.7; relations with SB, 11.8, 11.9, 12.2; pictured, 480, 588; attends SB-Sasha wedding, 12.3; writes to SB in Nevada, 12.4; and SB’s house in Tivoli, 12.5; visits Sasha during illness, 12.6; affair with Sasha, 12.7, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5; teaching at Minnesota, 13.6; return to Minnesota with SB, 13.7, 13.8; in Winnipeg, 13.9, 13.10; listens to SB’s complaints, 13.11; and The Noble Savage, 13.12, 13.13, 13.14, 14.1; stays with Sasha at McCloskys, 13.15; advises SB over divorce, 13.16; SB learns of affair with Sasha, 13.17; and SB’s visit to Chicago, 14.2; and Sasha in Tarrytown, 14.3; and Poirier, 14.4; contributes to Partisan Review, 14.5; reviews Herzog, 14.6; paranoia, nts.1; Above Ground, itr.1, 14.7; Confusions, 13.18, 13.19; (ed. with Poirier) Stories, British and American, 11.10

  Ludwig, Leya, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  Ludwig, Susie

  Ludwig I, King of Bavaria

  Lumet, Sidney

  Lytle, Andrew

  Macaulay, Rose

  MacCarran, Sen. Pat

  Macdonald, Dwight: coedits Partisan Review, 6.1; rejects SB’s “The Car,” 6.2; and SB’s U.S. citizenship, 6.3; political stance, 7.1, 9.1; publishes politics (magazine), 7.2, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2; resigns from Partisan Review board, 7.3; pictured, 292; on mass culture, 10.3; teaches at Northwestern, 12.1

  MacLean, Norman

  MacNeice, Louis

  Madrid

  Magny, Claude-Edmond

  Maguire, Robert A.

  Mailer, Norman, 10.1, 14.1; An American Dream, 14.2

  Maintenon, Madame de

  Malamud, Bernard: on Jewish migrant parents, 1.1; and Diarmuid Russell, 8.1; SB meets, 10.1; and Augie March, 11.1, 11.2, nts.1; and SB’s style, 11.3; admires Seize the Day, 12.1; SB supports for Guggenheim Fellowship, 12.2; praises Henderson, 13.1; SB’s memorial eulogy for, nts.2

  Malaparte, Curzio

  Malibu, California

  Malinowski, Bronislaw, 5.1, 5.2

  Malmstad, John E.

  Malraux, André, 9.1, 13.1, 14.1

  Mancuso, Fred

  Manea, Norman (interview with SB): on SB’s ambition as writer, itr.1, 6.1; and SB’s desire to meet Trotsky, 6.2; and Partisan Review’s accepting SB piece, 6.3; and SB’s “What Kind of a Day Did You Have?,” 7.1; and SB’s Reichian therapy, 7.2, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1; and SB’s liking for Huber
t Humphrey, 8.1; and SB’s views on Sartre and Céline, 9.1; questions SB about Seize the Day, 12.1; and SB’s view of Henderson, 13.2; and SB’s view of Herzog, 14.1; “Saul Bellow in Conversation with Norman Manea,” nts.1

  Mangan, Sherry

  Mann, Marilyn

  Mann, Thomas

  Mannix, Daniel P., 6.1, 6.2

  Mannix, Jule

  Marcuse, Herbert

  Marine Jumper (ship),

  Marine Tiger (ship), 8.1, 338

  Markels, Bobby: affair with SB

  Markfield, Wallace: To an Early Grave, 7.1

  Marsh, Margaret (“Peggy”), 12.1, 12.2

  Marshall, John, 10.1, nts.1

  Marshall Plan, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

  Martha’s Vineyard

  Marx, Caroline (née French)

  Marx, Charlie

  Marx, Karl: SB reads, 5.1, 5.2; in Paris, 9.1

  Marx, Leo, 8.1, 12.1

  Marxism Leninism, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

  Masses, The (magazine),

  “Matter of the Soul, A” (SB; story)

  Matthiessen, F. O.

  Mauss, Marcel

  Maximilian, Anita, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2

  Maxwell, William, 12.1, nts.1

  Mayer, Milton

  Mazursky, Sabina

  McCall, Lillian Blumberg, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, nts.1

  McCarthy, Sen. Joseph, 5.1, 10.1, nts.1

  McCarthy, Mary: character, 7.1; in Partisan Review circle, 7.2; and Irving Kristol, 7.3; on Kazin, 7.4; on “Sidney Hook gang,” 9.1; and SB’s sarcasm, 9.2; ignores Sasha, 10.1; as judge for National Book Award for Fiction, 11.1; teaches at Bard, 11.2, 11.3; dislikes Kazin, 11.4; attitude to SB, 12.1; on European lecture tour with SB, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3; George Weidenfeld admires, 13.4; Kazin on, nts.1; antagonisms, nts.2; The Groves of Academe, 11.5, 11.6

  McClosky, Herbert: at Minnesota, 8.1, 8.2; background, 8.3; political activities, 8.4, 8.5; character, 8.6; friendship with SB, 8.7, 12.1, 13.1; Abraham stays with, 8.8; takes student group to Europe, 8.9; in Paris, 8.10; Siegelman on, 8.11; letters from SB in Spain, 9.1; and SB’s abandoning “The Crab and the Butterfly,” 9.2; lobbies for SB at Minnesota, 9.3; and SB’s ill health, 9.4; and writing of Augie March, 10.1, 10.2; and SB’s complaint of Tumin, 10.3; and Ted Hoffman, 11.1; and SB’s dislike of New York, 11.2; and SB-Sasha marriage breakdown, 13.2; Sasha stays with, 13.3; and SB’s writing The Last Analysis, 13.4; in Palo Alto, 14.1

 

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