Vyshinsky, Andrei Yanuarevich
Wagner College: writing conference (1962), 14.1, nts.1
Wakefield, Dan
Waldberg, Patrick
Wanning, Andrews, 11.1, 11.2, 480, 12.1
Ward, Judith Freifeld
Ward, William R.
Warren, Cinina
Warren, Eleanor (née Clark)
Warren, Robert Penn, 7.1; on Augie March character, itr.1; marriage, 7.2; letter from SB at Minnesota, 8.1; at Vanderbilt University, 8.2; moves to Minnesota, 8.3; and SB’s eating, 8.4; SB takes over creative writing seminar at Minnesota, 8.5; and creative inspiration in foreign country, 9.1; SB asks for help in finding academic post, 9.2; and SB’s changes to Augie March, 10.1; Cawley consults over SB, 10.2; SB reports completion of Augie March, 10.3; reviews Augie March, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3; refers to troubles, 12.1; supports Pound, 12.2; regard for Huntington Brown, nts.1; All the King’s Men, 8.6; Understanding Poetry, 8.7
Warshow, Robert
Wasserman, Harriet, 8.1, nts.1
Weber, Max
Webster, Harvey Curtis
Weidenfeld, George
Weidenfeld and Nicolson (London publishers)
Weil, Joseph (“Yellow Kid”)
Weiss, Renée
Weiss, Ted, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1
Wellfleet, Mass.
Welty, Eudora
West, Anthony, 11.1, nts.1
West, James
West, Rebecca, 3.1, 3.2
Westreich, Lisa
Weybright, Victor, 7.1, 7.2
“What Kind of a Day Did You Have?” (SB; story), itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1, 10.1, 14.1
“Where Do We Go from Here?” (SB; Hopwood lecture)
White, Katherine
White House, Washington: SB and Susan invited to
Whitman, Walt, 11.1; “Song of Myself,” 11.2
“Who Breathes Overhead” (SB; novella)
Wieboldt Hall, Chicago
Wiener, Fannie: “Memories,” nts.1
Wiesenfeld, Barbara
Wilder, Thornton, 5.1, 12.1
Wilford, Hugh: The New York Intellectuals, 6.1
Williams, Alan
Williams, Roger, 3.1, 3.2
Wilson, Edmund: Colt Press publishes, 6.1; praises Dangling Man, 6.2; as literary editor of The New Republic, 7.1; as Guggenheim referee, 7.2, 8.1, nts.1; SB and Berryman disagree over, 7.3; SB meets at Princeton, 10.1; attends Riggs’s parties, 10.2; on American progressive culture, 10.3; contributes to The American Jitters, 13.1; at White House dinner, 14.1; cofounds the Library of America series, 14.2
Wilson, Elena
Wilson, William
Windsor, Ontario
Wineberg, Arthur, 4.1, 5.1
Winnicott, D. W.
Winter-Berger, Robert
Wisconsin, University of, Madison: SB studies at, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4; SB leaves to return to Chicago, 5.5
Wisse, Ruth, 1.1, 5.1, 12.1
Wittke, Carl: Tambo and Bones, 12.1
Wohlstetter, Roberta
Wolf, Bertram D.
Wolfe, Thomas
women: in SB’s fiction
Wood, James: and SB’s portrayal of real people, itr.1; on Seize the Day, 12.1, 12.2; “Give All,” nts.1nn34, 1.1
Wood, Nancy (née Tate)
Wood, Percy, 10.1, 10.2
Woolf, Virginia, 6.1, nts.1
Wordsworth, William: on “visionary gleam,” itr.1; influence on SB, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1, 10.1; Hazlitt on, 2.3; mother’s early death, 2.4; relations with Coleridge, 4.2; Chambers questions SB on, 7.1; creative inspiration in Germany, 9.1; and return to nature, 10.2; and Henderson the Rain King, 13.1; “The Idiot Boy,” 2.5; Lyrical Ballads (1800 preface), 12.1, nts.1; The Prelude, 9.2, nts.2 nts.3 nts.4; “Resolution and Independence,” 10.3; “The Tables Turned,” 11.1; “Tintern Abbey,” 3.1
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
World Congress of Peace (1949)
World War II: SB’s attitude to, 6.1; ends, 7.1
Wouk, Herman
Wrecker, The (SB; one-act play), 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Louis
Wright, Richard, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
“Writer from Chicago, A” (SB; lecture)
“Writers, Intellectuals, Politics, Mainly Reminiscence” (SB), 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, nts.1 nts.2
Yaddo, New York, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, nts.1
Yeats, William Butler, itr.1, 8.1, 12.1; “The Choice,” nts.1
Yiddish language: in Augie March, 11.1; character, 11.2; SB translates from, 11.3, nts.1
Young, Kimball
“Young Apprentice, A” (SB; novel—tentative title)
Young Communist League
Yudkoff, Fanny
Zabel, Morton Dauwen
“Zetland and Quine” (SB; unfinished novel), 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, nts.1 nts.2
“Zetland: By a Character Witness” (SB; story), itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, nts.1 nts.2
“Zetland” manuscripts (SB), 7.1, 7.2, 12.1, nts.1 nts.2
Zipperstein, Steven J., 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously unpublished material:
Rosie Alison: Excerpt of letter from Barley Alison to Saul Bellow, December 12, 1960. Reprinted by permission of Rosie Alison.
Linda Asher: Excerpt of letter from Aaron Asher to Saul Bellow, December 23, 1964. Reprinted by permission of Linda Asher.
Monique Behrstock: Excerpt of letter from Julian Behrstock to Saul Bellow, February 23, 1995. Reprinted by permission of Monique Behrstock.
Dean Borok: Excerpts of letters from Dean Borok to Saul Bellow, December 12, 1977, and November 24, 1990. Reprinted by permission of Dean Borok.
Keith Botsford: Excerpt from Fragments by Keith Botsford. Reprinted by permission of Keith Botsford.
Joan C. Covici: Excerpt of letter from Pascal Covici to Saul Bellow, November 8, 1955. Reprinted by permission of Joan C. Covici.
Monroe Engel: Excerpt of undated letter from Monroe Engel to Saul Bellow. Reprinted by permission of Monroe Engel.
Joseph Epstein: Excerpt of letter from Edward Shils to Saul Bellow, September 12, 1963. Reprinted by permission of Joseph Epstein.
Lindsay Harris: Excerpt from “I Come to Bury Caesar” by Sydney J. Harris. Reprinted by permission of Lindsay Harris.
William R. Goetz: Excerpt of letter from John Goetz to Saul Bellow, December 6, 1975. Reprinted by permission of William R. Goetz, personal representative of the Estate of John R. Goetz.
Lynn Hoffman: Excerpt of letter from Ted Hoffman to Saul Bellow, January 5, 1950. Reprinted by permission of Lynn Hoffman.
Carol Alane Rollings: Excerpt of undated letter from Richard Stern to Saul Bellow. Reprinted by permission of Carol Alane Rollings, sole literary executor and custodian of Richard Stern’s work.
Eleni Sarant Rosenfeld: Excerpt of letter from Isaac Rosenfeld to Saul Bellow, September 29, 1953. Reprinted by permission of Eleni Sarant Rosenfeld.
Andrea Tamkin and Ruth H. Tamkin: Excerpt of letter from Arthur S. Tamkin to Saul Bellow, December 24, 1956. Reprinted by permission of Andrea Tamkin and Ruth H. Tamkin.
The Wylie Agency LLC: Excerpt of journal entry dated May 26, 1961, by Alfred Kazin, copyright © 1961 by Alfred Kazin; excerpts of letters from Arthur Miller to Saul Bellow, June 2, 1956, and July 8, 1956, copyright © 1956 by Arthur Miller. Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ZACHARY LEADER is Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton in London. He is an American citizen but has lived for more than forty years in Britain. In addition to teaching at Roehampton, he has held visiting professorships at Caltech and the University of Chicago. He was educated at Northwestern, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Harvard, and is the author of Reading Blake’s Songs, Writer’s Block, Revision and Romantic Authorship, and The Life of Ki
ngsley Amis, a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. He has edited Romantic Period Writings, 1798–1832: An Anthology (with Ian Haywood); The Letters of Kingsley Amis; On Modern British Fiction; The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and Their Contemporaries; and Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works (with Michael O’Neill). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
SB’s maternal grandfather, Moses Gordin, shortly before his death, c. 1905 (private collection) (ill. 15)
SB’s paternal grandmother, Shulamith Belo, on her deathbed. There are no surviving photos of Berel Belo, SB’s paternal grandfather. (private collection) (ill. 16)
SB’s maternal grandmother, Sara Gordin (private collection) (ill. 17)
Houses in the Jewish district, Druya (courtesy of Alexander Feigmanis) (ill. 18)
Jewish cemetery, Druya (courtesy of Alexander Feigmanis) (ill. 19)
SB’s favorite portrait of his mother, Liza Bellow (private collection) (ill. 20)
SB’s father, Abraham Bellow (far right), produce broker, St. Petersburg, c. 1907 (private collection) (ill. 21)
Lachine Canal, Canada (courtesy of Alice Leader) (ill. 22)
130 Eighth Street, Lachine, Canada. SB was born in the ground-floor apartment. (courtesy of Alice Leader) (ill. 23)
Rue Napoleon, at the crossing with rue St. Dominique, in the Jewish district of Montreal, with Mount Royal in the distance. SB and family lived at 1092 St. Dominique. “What was wrong with Napoleon Street? thought Herzog. All he ever wanted was there.” (courtesy of Alice Leader) (ill. 24)
The Bellow family, Montreal, c. 1920; from left to right: SB, Liza, Jane, Abraham, Maury, Sam (private collection) (ill. 25)
Royal Victoria Hospital, Mount Royal, where SB spent “four to five” months in 1923, aged eight (Alice Leader) (ill. 26)
Sam and SB, c. 1924 (private collection) (ill. 27)
SB and sister Jane (private collection) (ill. 28)
SB’s first home in Chicago, 2629 West Augusta Street, in Humboldt Park, 2014 (courtesy of John Hellmuth) (ill. 29)
David Peltz, SB’s friend, late teens (courtesy of Kathy Peltz Rivera) (ill. 30)
Sam Freifeld, SB’s friend, early twenties (private collection) (ill. 31)
Ethel and wheelchair-bound Ben Freifeld, the model for Einhorn in The Adventures of Augie March, “the first superior man I knew,” 2160 Division Street, Chicago, early 1940s (courtesy of Judith Freifeld Ward) (ill. 32)
Sydney J. Harris. “Skinny Sydney with his wild ways, his tics and rages, ran the show.” (courtesy of Lindsay Harris) (ill. 33)
Oscar Tarcov at sixteen, 1935 (courtesy of Nathan Tarcov) (ill. 34)
SB at fourteen, summer 1929 (ill. 35)
Isaac Rosenfeld (second from right, top row) at thirteen with his afternoon Yiddish class. A year later he would be addressing the Tuley Debating Club on Schopenhauer. (courtesy of Daniel Rosenfeld) (ill. 36)
The wedding of Maury and Marge Bellows, 1934. Fourth from left, standing, Sam Bellows; then SB; then sister Jane; SB’s stepmother, Fanny Bellow; Maury; and Abraham Bellow. Marge, the bride, is seated between her parents. (private collection) (ill. 37)
Maury Bellows. “For me, the overpowering brother.” (courtesy of Joel Bellows) (ill. 38)
The University of Chicago, with the trees of the Midway in the foreground; Harper Library and the social science offices, including those of the Committee on Social Thought, to the left and behind; and the Loop skyscrapers in the distance
Sam Bellows. “A mild person, clever and thoughtful … American in hatching deals and multiplying bank accounts.” (private collection) (ill. 39)
SB in 1957, revisiting Goff House (1326 E. 57th Street), where he roomed as an undergraduate (courtesy of the University of Chicago Photographic Archive, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library; photo by Morton Shapiro) (ill. 40) (ill. 41)
Melville J. Herskovits, professor of anthropology, Northwestern University, early 1930s (Northwestern University Archives) (ill. 42) (ill. 43)
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, with its leafy, lakeside campus ten miles north of the Loop, mid-1930s (Northwestern University Archives)
SB and Anita (private collection) (ill. 44)
Edith and Oscar Tarcov (courtesy of Miriam Tarcov) (ill. 45)
Cora and Herb Passin (courtesy of Jean Passin) (ill. 46)
Vasiliki and Isaac Rosenfeld (courtesy of Daniel Rosenfeld) (ill. 47)
SB, Anita, and Harold (“Kappy”) Kaplan, New York, 1940 (private collection) (ill. 48)
SB and Mel Tumin, Evanston, 1942 (courtesy of Sylvia Tumin) (ill. 49)
Daniel P. and Jule Mannix and their American bald eagle, Aguila, the model for Caligula in Augie March, Mexico, 1940 (courtesy of Getty Images; photo by J. R. Eyerman/LIFE Picture Collection) (ill. 50)
Trotsky assassinated, Mexico City, 1940 (courtesy of Corbis Images) (ill. 51)
SB and Anita, Mexico, 1940 (private collection) (ill. 52)
Lionel and Diana Trilling in Riverside Park, near Columbia University, 1942 (courtesy of James Trilling) (ill. 53)
Alfred Kazin, New York, 1946 (Magnum Images; photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson) (ill. 54)
Heinrich Blücher and Hannah Arendt, 1960 (courtesy of Corbis Images; photo by Fred Stein) (ill. 55)
New York intellectuals: (standing) Lionel Abel; (seated, left to right) Bowden Broadwater (husband of Mary McCarthy), Elizabeth Hardwick, Miriam Chiaromonte, Nicola Chiaromonte, Mary McCarthy, John Berryman; (at bottom, from left) Dwight Macdonald, the actor Kevin McCarthy (brother of Mary McCarthy) (courtesy of Archives and Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries) (ill. 56)
David Bazelon, SB’s friend from Greenwich Village days (courtesy of University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware) (ill. 57)
Clement Greenberg (on the right) and Barnett Newman (on the left) at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village, 1959 (Getty Images; photo by Fred W. McDarrah) (ill. 58)
Harold Rosenberg (courtesy of University of Chicago Photographic Archive, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library) (ill. 59)
Arthur Lidov (courtesy of Alexandra Lidov) (ill. 60)
Mitzi and Herb McClosky, c. 1943 (courtesy of Mildred McClosky) (ill. 61)
SB and Greg (seven weeks old), August 25, 1944 (private collection) (ill. 62)
Eleanor Clark, Robert Penn Warren, and their infant daughter, Rosanna Warren, 1954 (courtesy of Corbis Images; photo by Sylvia Salmi) (ill. 63)
SB in Spain, 1947 (private collection) (ill. 64)
Max Kampelman (in the middle, black curly hair and glasses), SB’s lodger in Minneapolis. A conscientious objector, he is pictured with Civilian Public Service (CPS) workers, a year or so before volunteering for the Minnesota Starvation Project in the mid-1940s. (courtesy of the American Friends Service Committee) (ill. 65)
The Bellow home at 58 Orlin Avenue, Prospect Park, Minneapolis, shared with lodgers Max Kampelman, Bart Leiper, and Ed McGehee (courtesy of Alice Leader) (ill. 66)
Diarmuid Russell and Henry Volkening, SB’s agents (from Michael Kreyling, Agent/ Author, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991) (ill. 67)
Monroe Engel, SB’s editor at Viking, late 1950s (courtesy of Harvard University Archives; photo by Bill Tobey) (ill. 68)
Sidney Hook, 1949, the year he reported for Partisan Review on the International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship and War, in Paris (courtesy of Corbis; photo by Sylvia Salmi) (ill. 69)
24 rue Marbeuf, site of the Bellows’ first Paris apartment (courtesy of Alice Leader) (ill. 70)
The cafés of Saint-Germain, 1946, five minutes from SB’s writing room at the Hôtel de l’Académie on rue des Saints-Pères, the first street to the west (or left here) of Café de Flore (Getty Images, 1946) (ill. 71)
Harold “Kappy” Kaplan, in his apartment at 132 boulevard du Montparnasse, 1940s (courtesy of Leslie Kaplan) (ill. 72)
Paolo Milano (ill. 73)
SB, Anita, and Greg in Rome, 195
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