The Life of Saul Bellow

by Zachary Leader

  McClosky, Mildred (“Mitzi”; née Gurkin): on SB in Minnesota, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5; and SB’s marriage relations, 8.6, 8.7, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2; Paris holiday with husband and SB, 8.8; and SB’s shipboard affair, 8.9; moves to Prospect Park, Minneapolis, 8.10; on SB’s entertaining, 8.11; social life, 8.12; on Anita, 9.2; letters from SB in Paris, 9.3; lobbies for SB at Minnesota, 9.4; and SB’s life in New York (1951), 9.5; and Rosenberg’s sense of sexual inadequacy, 10.3; SB reports near-completion of Augie March, 10.4; and SB’s view of Tumin, 10.5; SB visits in Palo Alto, 12.1; and SB’s return to Minnesota, 12.2; and SB’s return to Minnesota with Ludwig, 13.1; and Sasha’s stay in Minnesota after leaving SB, 13.2; on Ludwig’s admiration for SB, 13.3; gives parties in Minnesota, 13.4; and SB’s therapy with Meehl, 13.5; on Thomes’s attraction to Sasha, 13.6; Sasha stays with, 13.7; spends year at Berkeley, 13.8; and SB’s working at Tivoli, 13.9

  McCormick, John, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1

  McDiarmid, E. W.

  McGehee, Ed, 8.1, nts.1

  McGrath, Carolyn

  McKeon, Richard, 5.1, 9.1

  McMahon, Tom and Penny

  McWilliams, Carey

  Mead, Margaret, 9.1, nts.1

  Meehl, Alice

  Meehl, Paul, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  “Memoirs of a Bootlegger’s Son” (SB; unfinished novel): on SB’s family’s early life in Canada, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 10.1, 11.1, nts.1; and decision to move to USA, 2.10; on misuse of household funds, 4.1; seeded by “Juif,” 6.1; SB abandons, 11.2, 12.1; SB’s father in, 11.3; writing, 11.4; leads to Seize the Day, 11.5

  Mencken, H. L., 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 10.1

  Menuhin, Yehudi

  Mercader, Ramón

  Meridian (paperback publishers), 13.1, 14.1

  Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 9.1, 9.2, nts.1

  Merwin, W. S.

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (film company)

  “Mexican General, The” (SB; story), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, nts.1

  Mexico: SB’s and Anita’s affairs in, 6.1, 11.1; SB visits with Anita, 6.2; in Augie March, 6.3, 6.4, 10.1, 10.2, 11.2

  Meyer, Philippe, nts.1, nts.2

  Michigan, Lake

  Michigan, University of: Hopwood Lectures

  Milano, Paolo, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1

  Miller, Arthur: in New York, 11.1; on Pyramid Lake, 12.1; on Nevada divorce procedures, 12.2; on SB and Sasha at Pyramid Lake, 12.3; and Marilyn Monroe, 12.4, 12.5; visit to Nevada, 12.6; SB and Sasha dine with, 12.7; and The Noble Savage magazine, 13.1

  Miller, Henry, 6.1, 13.1

  Miller, Karl

  Miller, Ruth: biography of SB, itr.1, 6.1; meets SB’s father, 1.1; on SB’s boyhood reading and authorship, 3.1; questioned by Abraham, 3.2; identifies SB’s real-life characters, 4.1; SB teaches, 6.2; visits SB and Anita, 6.3; consoles SB on Abraham’s death, 11.1; and SB’s Nevada divorce, 12.1, 12.2; and SB’s wedding announcement with Sasha, 12.3; and Ludwig’s affair with Sasha, 13.1; on SB’s favoring Henderson, 13.2; on Ludwigs, nts.1

  Milton, John, 14.1; “Lycidas,” 12.1

  mimesis

  Minneapolis Sunday Trader,

  Minnesota, University of: SB’s teaches at, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1; anti-Semitism, 8.3, 8.4; student numbers, 8.5; SB’s accommodation, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9; Jewish faculty members, 8.10; WASP attitudes, 8.11; SB’s personal relations at, 8.12; SB’s contract renewed, 8.13; SB’s social life in, 8.14, 13.2; SB takes year’s leave of absence, 8.15; SB revisits, 12.3; Sasha joins SB in, 13.3, 13.4; fails to renew SB’s appointment, 14.1

  Missner, Vivien (née Dworkin), 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, nts.1

  Mitchell, Stephen: and SB’s early devotion to Jesus

  Moe, Henry Allen, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, nts.1

  Mondale, Walter

  Monk, Samuel Holt, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  Monroe, Harriet

  Monroe, Marilyn, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1

  Montherlant, Henry de

  Montreal: Abraham Bellow and family in, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2; Jewish community, 2.3; Yiddish newspapers, 2.4

  Montreal Gazette,

  Moore, Marianne, 10.1, 12.1

  Moran, Bugs

  Morante, Elsa

  Moravia, Alberto, 9.1, 11.1

  More Die of Heartbreak (SB): character of Benn Crader, itr.1; on biography, itr.2; on SB’s father, 1.1; on life in St. Petersburg, 1.2; on Jewish experience of exile, 1.3; exaggeration in, 2.1; character of Vilitzer, 4.1; character of Rudi, 8.1; Dr. Glassman portrayed in, 14.1; Susan Glassman portrayed in, 14.2, 14.3; on marriage, 14.4; and Benn Crader’s mother, nts.1

  Mormons

  Morris, George L.K., 6.1, 7.1, 292

  Morris, Nathan

  Morris, Wright, 8.1, 13.1

  Morrison, Don

  Mortimer, Raymond

  “Mosby’s Memoirs” (SB; story), 6.1, 6.2, nts.1, nts.2

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  “Mozart: An Overture” (SB; speech), nts.1 nts.2

  Mr. Sammler’s Planet (SB): characters, itr.1; moral behavior in, itr.2; wins National Book Award, itr.3; childhood memories in, 2.1; Arthur’s mother in, 2.2; Schopenhauer invoked in, 4.1; description of New York, 7.1; style, 11.1; writing, 12.1; Moshe Gordin portrayed in, 13.1; condemns Brown and Marcuse, 14.1

  Mussolini, Benito, 5.1, 9.1

  “My Paris” (SB; article), 9.1, nts.1

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 1.1, nts.1

  Naftalin, Arthur, 8.1, 13.1

  Nagasaki: atom bombed

  Naipaul, V. S., itr.1, nts.1

  Nakutin, Alexander

  Nathans, Benjamin

  Nation, The (magazine),

  National Book Award for Fiction (1954), itr.1, 11.1

  National Institute of Arts and Letters

  Nauvoo, Illinois

  Nazis and Nazism: rise of, 5.1; persecute Jews, nts.1

  Nef, John U., 7.1, 14.1, 14.2

  Nelson, Benjamin, 8.1, 13.1

  Nemerov, Howard

  Nemerov, Margaret

  Nevada: SB visits for divorce, 12.1; SB leaves clandestinely for Malibu, 12.2

  New Criticism

  New Dawn (journal),

  New Leader, The (magazine),

  New Republic, The (magazine),

  Newsday (magazine),

  New World Writing (anthology),

  New York: SB describes in fiction, 3.1; SB visits on way to Mexico, 6.1; SB moves to, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4; SB’s intermittent visits to, 7.5, 7.6; Tenth Street, nts.1; SB seeks work and accommodation after Europe trip, 9.1; SB stays in while at Bard College, 11.1; as setting for Seize the Day, 12.1; SB’s view of, nts.2; SB disparages, nts.3

  New Yorker, The (magazine): publishes Augie March extract, 3.1, 10.1, 10.2; publishes SB’s “A Father-to-Be,” 8.1; offers regular work to SB, 10.3; reviews Augie March, 11.1; declines Seize the Day, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1; reviews Seize the Day, 12.2

  New York Review of Books: SB invited to contribute,

  New York Times Book Review, The, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1

  New York University: SB’s post at

  Nicholas I, Czar of Russia

  Nicholas II, Czar of Russia

  Nichols, Lewis

  Nichols, Mike

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 14.1, nts.1; The Birth of Tragedy, 4.2; Ecce Homo, 8.1

  Nimier, Nadine, 2.1, 13.1

  “9 a.m. without Work” (SB; story)

  Noble Savage, The (magazine): founded, 13.1; contributors, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4; correspondence, 13.5; SB’s work with Ludwig on, 13.6, 13.7, 14.1; SB informs Susan Glassman of developments, 14.2; SB contributes to, 14.3

  “Northwestern Is a Prison” (SB; article)

  Northwestern University: Medical School, 4.1; SB attends, 5.1, 5.2; character, 5.3, 5.4; Department of Naval Science and Tactics, 5.5; political activities, 5.6; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 5.7; Herskovits at, 5.8; SB teaches at, 12.1, 12.2

  “Nothing Succeeds” (SB; unfinished story), 9.1, nts.1

  “Nothing to Declare” (
SB; story)

  novel, the: SB idealizes form of, itr.1; SB lectures on, 10.1, 14.1; Covici and, 12.1; SB denies death of, 12.2, 14.2

  O’Banion, Dion

  O’Brien, Richard: “The Radical Politics of American Fiction,” nts.1 nts.2

  O’Connor, William Van

  Odessa, Russia

  O’Faolain, Sean

  “Old System, The” (SB; story), 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1

  “Olduvai” (or “Olduvai George”; SB; unfinished novel), itr.1, 5.1, 12.1

  “On the Platform” (SB; lost story)

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert

  Oregon, University of

  orgone energy accumulator (orgone box)

  Orgone Institute Press

  Ortega y Gasset, José, 10.1, 12.1

  Orwell, Sonia Brownell, 9.1, 13.1

  Orwin, Clifford

  Oz, Amos

  Paley, Grace

  Palo Alto

  Paolozzi, Eduardo

  Papandreou, Andreas

  Paris: SB visits with McCloskys, 8.1; SB and family spend year in, 8.2, 9.1; SB’s view of, 9.2, 9.3; SB’s life and routine in, 9.4, 9.5; American writers in, 9.6

  Park, Robert

  Partisan Review: political stance, 5.1; and Wieboldt Hall group, 5.2; publishes SB’s “Two Morning Monologues,” 6.1, 6.2, 7.1; publishes SB’s “The Mexican General,” 6.3, 6.4; attitude to war, 6.5; qualities, 6.6, 7.2; origins and circle, 7.3; SB’s view of, 7.4, 7.5; on modernist painting, 7.6; fiction anthology, 7.7; editorial board, 292; “New French Writing” special

  issue, 8.1, 9.1; SB contributes “Spanish Letter,” 8.2; Kaplan writes “Paris Letter” for, 9.2; publishes first chapter of Augie March, 9.3, 11.1; “Our Country and Our Culture” symposium, 10.1, 11.2; publishes Singer story, 11.3; publishes Seize the Day, 11.4; in controversy over Pound, 12.1; reviews Herzog, 14.1, 14.2; internal differences, nts.1; critics, nts.2

  Passin, Cora (née Deboer), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

  Passin, Herb: and SB’s upbringing, 4.1; on Freifeld at Tuley, 4.2; political activities, 5.1; road trip with SB, 5.2; marriage to Cora, 6.1; differences with SB, 6.2; joins SB in Mexico, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6; on University of Chicago project, 6.7; sees Trotsky’s body in Mexico, 6.8; returns to Chicago, 6.9; SB discusses Erich Fromm with, 6.10; sense of identity, 8.1; at Marshall High School, nts.1; writing on Chihuahua, nts.2

  Passin, Ruth (née Tarcov)

  Passin, Sidney, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 10.1, nts.1

  Passin, Tom, 6.1, 6.2

  Patterson, Floyd

  Patterson, New York

  Pattridge, Nora and Pat, 12.1, 12.2

  Pearl Harbor

  Peck, Ferdinand

  Pegler, Westbrook

  Peltz, David: depicted in SB’s fiction, itr.1, 5.1; SB’s friendship with, itr.2, 5.2; on carrying coal bags, 4.1; on SB’s single-mindedness, 4.2, nts.1; on Freifeld, 4.3; on early romances, 4.4; on SB’s mother’s death, 5.3; on uncle’s discussion forum, 5.4; political views, 5.5; pulls rickshaw at World’s Fair, 5.6; background, 5.7; medical history, 5.8; qualities, 5.9; asked to escort Hannah Arendt, 5.10; and Algren, 6.1, 13.1; Sasha on, 12.1; visits SB at Northwestern, 12.2; Bruckner interviews, nts.2

  Penguin Books

  Peniel Community Center, Chicago

  People to People (lobbying group)

  Perkins, Maxwell

  “Personal Record, A” (SB; review)

  Perspectives U.S.A. (periodical),

  Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College, Chicago, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

  Petsche, Maurice

  Phillips, Edna

  Phillips, William: cofounds and coedits Partisan Review, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 292, 10.1, 11.1; and SB’s independence, 7.3; on Agee, 7.4; political opinions, 7.5; background and character, 7.6; visits Paris, 9.1; on Chiaramonte, 9.2; in London, 9.3; meets Schwartz, 10.2; on Edmund Wilson, 10.3; entertains drunken Berryman, 11.2; and launch party for Augie March, 11.3; and SB’s playwriting, 14.1; break with SB, 14.2; regrets publishing review of Herzog, 14.3

  Pifer, Ellen, 12.1, 14.1

  Pinsky, Robert

  Planet of the Apes (film), nts.1

  Plath, Sylvia

  Plato

  Playboy (magazine), itr.1, 5.1

  Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von

  Plimpton, George

  Pobedonostsev, Konstantin, 1.1, 1.2

  Podhoretz, Norman, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1; Ex-Friends, 11.3; Making It, 11.4

  Poetry (magazine),

  Poirier, Richard: criticizes Herzog, 14.1; discusses Herzog with Ludwig, 14.2; “How Far Shall I Take This Character?,” nts.1; Stories British and American (ed. with Ludwig), 11.1

  Poland: SB visits

  politics (magazine), 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, nts.1

  Pollock, Jackson

  Pool, Ithiel de Sola

  Pool, Mrs. Ithiel de Sola

  Pope (English motoring writer)

  Pope, Alexander

  Pope, Mme

  Popular Front (political), 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

  Porter, Arabel J.

  Portland, Oregon

  Positano, Italy

  Poster, Herb and Willy (né Bernstein), 7.1, 7.2

  “potato love,” 14.1

  Pound, Ezra, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1

  Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.

  Powell, Anthony

  Powers, J. F., 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

  Prall, David Wright

  Prescott, Orville

  Price, T. Douglas

  Priestley, J. B.

  Princeton University: SB’s teaching and life at, 10.1, 10.2; Schwartz’s post at, 10.3, 10.4

  Prior, Moody, 5.1, 12.1

  Pritchett, V. S., 1.1, 9.1

  Pritzker, A. N.

  Prohibition

  Proust, Marcel

  Pryce-Jones, Alan

  Puerto Rico, University of, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2; Susan Glassman visits, 14.3

  Pullman, George

  Pynchon, Thomas

  Pyramid Lake, Nevada, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 536

  Queens School, New York

  Quennell, Peter

  Quiroga, Vasco de, bishop of Michoacán

  racism

  Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2

  Rahv, Philip (né Ivan Greenberg): manner, 1.1; on World War II, 6.1; SB meets, 6.2; supports SB’s “Very Dark Trees,” 6.3; on modern pessimism, 6.4; cofounds Partisan Review, 7.1, 7.2, 14.1; background and character, 7.3; on action painting, 7.4; pictured, 292; and SB’s “The Crab and the Butterfly,” 8.1; quarrel with Schwartz, 10.1; and Sondra Tschacbasov (Sasha), 10.2; publishes Singer story, 11.1; affectation, 11.2; on Herzog, 14.2; on Mailer’s An American Dream, 14.3; on Partisan Review critique of Herzog, 14.4; and Phillips, nts.1

  “Ralph Ellison at Tivoli” (SB; article)

  Rampersad, Arnold, 13.1, 14.1

  Random House (publishers), 8.1, 8.2

  Ransom, John Crowe

  Raoul-Duval, Nadine: SB’s affair with, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1

  Raphael, Chester, 10.1, 14.1 nts.1 nts.2

  Ravelstein (SB): characters, itr.1, nts.1; dress and style, 1.1; on looking, 2.1; writing, nts.2

  Reagan, Ronald

  Redfield, James, 14.1, nts.1

  Redfield, Robert, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  Reedy, George, 4.1, 5.1

  Reeves, Pat

  Reichek, Jesse, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1

  Reichek, Laure, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1

  Reich, Wilhelm: influence on SB, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1; therapy in SB’s fiction, 10.4, 13.1; Character Analysis, 10.5; The Function of the Orgasm, 10.6, 10.7

  Reinhardt, Max

  Renan, Ernest

  Reno, Nevada

  Rexach, Jaime Benítez, 14.1, 14.2

  Ribnikar, Jara, 13.1, 13.2

  Richards, Janet (Mrs. Manny Farber), 7.1; Common Soldiers, 7.2

  Richler, Mordecai

  Rieff, Philip: The Triumph of the Therapeutic, 10.1

  Riggs, Thomas III

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, 12.1; Journal of My Other Self
, nts.1n92; Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, 6.1

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 9.1, 12.1

  Ripley, Mrs. Paul

  Robbins, Esther, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

  Rochberg, George

  Rockefeller, David

  Rockefeller Foundation

  Roditi, Edouard

  Rodrigues, Eusebio L., 13.1; “Bellow’s Africa,” 5.1

  Roethke, Theodore, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4

  Romanes Lecture (1990)

  Rome: SB visits from Paris, 9.1, 9.2; SB and Anita visit with Milano, 9.3; SB hopes to spend half Guggenheim fellowship year in, 12.1

  Rompkey, Ronald

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: Cermak solicits, 5.1; SB’s view of, 5.2

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Roscoe, Revd. John

  Rose, Billy (né Rosenberg), 1.1, 13.1

  Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius

  Rosenberg, Harold: portrayed by SB, itr.1, 7.1; friendship with SB, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4; character, 7.5; on action painting, 7.6; and SB’s exaltation of Herzog, 7.7; comments on Sartre essay, 8.1; on Paris, 9.1; invites SB to board of Longview Foundation, 12.1; Howe meets, nts.1; on Greenwich Village, nts.2; “American Action Painters,” nts.3; “On the Fall of Paris” (essay), 7.8, 9.2, 10.1

  Rosenberg, May

  Rosenberg, Patia

  Rosenfeld, George

  Rosenfeld, Isaac: portrayed in SB’s fiction, itr.1, 10.1, 12.1; at University of Chicago, 1.1, 6.1; on Humboldt Park, 3.1; precocity at Tuley High School, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, nts.1; speaks on Schopenhauer at school, 4.4; family background, 4.5, 4.6; qualities, 4.7; influence on SB, 4.8, 12.2; influenced by Kafka, 4.9; instability, 4.10; Jewishness, 4.11; in Harris’s poem, 4.12; and Eleanor Fox, 4.13; at New York University, 5.1, 7.1; coedits Soapbox, 5.2; contributes to The Beacon, 5.3; at University of Wisconsin, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6; parodies T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” 5.7; relations with SB, 5.8, 5.9, 6.2

  284, 10.1, nts.1; paper on Royce, 5.1; at Illinois Writers’ Project, 6.1; leaves Socialist Workers Party, 6.2; contributes to The New Republic, 7.1; marriage, 7.2; wins Partisan Review–Dial Press award, 7.3; works in New York, 7.4; writing and reviews, 7.5; on Partisan Review circle, 7.6; bohemian life in Greenwich Village, 7.7, 7.8; Partisan Review view of, 7.9; and Mitzi McClosky, 8.1; complains about Kaplan, 8.2; and Monroe Engel, 8.3; anxieties and depression, 10.2, 11.1; Reichian therapy, 10.3, 13.1, nts.2; SB takes over New York flat, 10.4; marriage breakup, 10.5; death, 11.2, nts.3 nts.4 nts.5; on SB’s happy relations with Sasha, 12.1; Sasha on, 12.2; divorce, 12.3; memorial meeting at Minnesota, 12.4; SB writes on, nts.6; as “golden boy,” nts.7; Farrell on, nts.8; relations with Kazin, nts.9; life in New York, nts.10; An Age of Enormity (anthology), nts.11; “The Colony,” 4.1, 7.10; “Kafka and His Critics,” 4.2; “Life in Chicago,” 5.2; Passage from Home, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, nts.12; “The Precocious Student at the University of Chicago,” 5.3; “The World on the Ceiling,” 4.6