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The Honorable Robert M. Haft is a justice of the Supreme Court of New York City.
Barbara Hale lives in East Hampton, where she teaches nature classes to children and young adults.
Nike Mylonas Hale has taught art in New York City. She lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with her husband, Robert Beverly Hale.
Robert Beverly Hale organized and headed the department of American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was also an instructor of drawing and a lecturer on anatomy at the Art Students League of New York. His own work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richard Hare is a decorator who lives in New York City and East Hampton.
Mishka Harnden works in the film industry in Los Angeles.
Pico Harnden is a photographer who lives in New York City.
Alan Harrington is the author of The Revelations of Dr. Modesto; Life in the Crystal Palace; The Secret Swinger; The Immortalist: An Approach to the Engineering of Man’s Divinity; and Psychopaths. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Luba Harrington has taught linguistics at Yale. She lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, Long Island.
Neil Hartley is a senior producer for Tony Richardson’s Woodfall Films. His latest film is The Hotel New Hampshire. He lives in Los Angeles.
Drue Heinz is the publisher of Antaeus magazine, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a celebrated hostess on both sides of the Atlantic.
Daphne Hellman has been described in The New Yorker as a “salon-keeper, famous New York beauty, aviarist, and extraordinary harpist. She invented Hellman’s Angels, a unique trio—harp, guitar, bass—which has been up and down the country and over a good part of the world.” She lives in New York City; St. James, Long Island; and Cape Cod.
Addie Herder is a painter who lived in Paris for many years and now lives in New York City. Her most recent show of collage constructions featured façades and shallow interiors.
Correction Officer John Hernandez works in the deputy warden’s office at the Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island.
Edward Hershey is the assistant commissioner for public affairs in the New York City Department of Correction.
Sarah Hines is an assistant district attorney for the Borough of Manhattan.
James M. Hubball retired as headmaster of the Buckley School in New York City. He lives in Connecticut and Florida.
Paul Jenkins is a painter whose work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. He is the producer of a film, The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work, the author of a play, Strike the Puma, and the subject of two biographies. He lives in New York City.
Jasper Johns has had one-man shows in museums and galleries all over the world.
Gloria Jones, the widow of novelist James Jones, is a consulting editor at Doubleday & Company. She lives in New York City and Bridgehampton.
James Jones died in 1977. He is the author of From Here to Eternity, Some Came Running, The Pistol, The Thin Red Line, Go to the Widow-maker, The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories, The Merry Month of May, A Touch of Danger, Viet Journal, World War II, and Whistle.
Céline Roll Karraker is a granddaughter of Céline and Leo Hendrik Baekeland. She lives in Connecticut.
James Kingsland is a partner in a large architectural firm in New York City.
F. Clason Kyle served on the board of directors of the Victorian Society in America. He is currently compiling a pictorial history of Columbus, Georgia, where he works for the Ledger and Enquirer newspapers.
Paule Lafeuille taught French to several generations of Americans in Paris.
Peter Lake is a writer who lives in Venice, California.
Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman is a painter who lives in New York City and Dutchess County, New York.
Francesca Draper Linke lives in Los Angeles. She is married to an actor and is the mother of two young children.
Sylvia Lochan was registrar at the National Academy School of Fine Arts at the National Academy of Design in New York City. She lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Duncan Longcope lives in Boston and the Berkshires. He is at work on a novel.
Dr. E. Hugh Luckey was chief physician at New York Hospital for ten years, then president of its medical center for eleven. He is an internist now in private practice in New York City.
Peidi Gimbel Lumet, a former wife of Peter Gimbel, is now married to the film director Sidney Lumet. She lives in New York City and East Hampton.
John McCabe retired from the New York City police force.
Terence McLinskey is now director of security and a vice-president at Sotheby’s in New York City.
Dr. Thomas Maguire, M.A., M.B., B.Ch., F.R.C.Psych., D.P.M., D.M.J., is consultant forensic psychiatrist at Broadmoor Special Hospital. He is also in private practice in nearby Wokingham.
Inge Mahn is head senior counselor of the Richmond Fellowship in New York City.
Phyllis Harriman Mason is a painter. She lives in New York City and Small Point, Maine.
David Mead is a composer and musical director. He lives in New York City.
Willie Morris, a former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, is the author of an autobiography, North Toward Home; a novel, The Last of the Southern Girls; and a memoir, James Jones, A Friendship, among many other books. He lives in Mississippi.
John Mortimer is an English playwright, novelist, and lawyer who is best known for creating the character Rumpole of the Bailey. He is also the author of an autobiography, Clinging to the Wreckage.
Elsa Mottar lives and works in New York City.
John Murray lives and works in New York City.
Howard Nabor, former deputy warden of the Anna M. Kross Center at Rikers Island, works in the private sector.
Patricia Neal, the actress, recently moved to New York City from England.
Michel Negroponte is a filmmaker who lives in New York City.
Robert Orenstein, former assistant director of the Richmond Fellowship, is a social worker in private practice in New York City.
Daisy Hellman Paradis plays sitar and is chairman of the board of Ali Akbar College of Indian Music in San Rafael, California.
Bernard Pfriem is a painter who has had one-man shows in America and Europe. He has taught art at Sarah Lawrence College and is currently the director of the Lacoste School of the Arts in France.
Dr. Stanley L. Portnow is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City.
Karen Radkai has been a photographer in America and Europe since 1948. Since 1953, she has worked primarily for Vogue and House & Garden. She lives in New York City and the Berkshires.
Sue Railey was born in Rochester, New York, lived for thirty-three years in Paris, and now lives in New York City, where she is in charge of public relations for Christie’s auction house.
John Rakis, former suicide prevention coordinator and director of health for the New York City Department of Correction, is now deputy executive director of the New York City Board of Correction.
James Reeve is an English painter. He lives in a village in rural England.
Alastair Reid is a staff writer at The New Yorker, to which over the years he has regularly contributed poems, reviews, comment, translations, stories, and extensive reportage. He has translated the writings of many Latin Americans, particularly Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges. He is the author of more than twenty books and lives in New York City and Mallorca.
Lena Richards is a practical nurse. She lives in New York City.
Helen Rolo, a former researcher at Time magazine and fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar, lives in New York City.
Toby Ross is a photographer who lives in New York City.
Irving Sabo lives and works in Connecticut.
John Sargent is chairman of the board of Doubleday & Company. He is a trustee of the New York
Zoological Society, the New York Public Library, and the American Academy in Rome. He lives in New York City and Water Mill, Long Island.
May Sarton is the author of seventeen novels, fourteen volumes of poetry, and several nonfiction books. She is the daughter of George Sarton, a noted science historian, and Mabel Elwes Sarton, a painter, who were friends of Céline and Leo Hendrik Baekeland. “The genius was old Mr. Baekeland, Dr. Baekeland as he was called,” she wrote recently. “The great person was [his wife] ‘Bonbon.’” She lives in York, Maine.
Ellen Schwamm is the author of two novels, Adjacent Lives and How He Saved Her. She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer Harold Brodkey.
Samuel Parkman Shaw retired from the private practice of law in New York City and is counsel for a corporation in Connecticut.
Martin J. Siegel is a lawyer who practices in New York City.
Sylvie Baekeland Skira lives in Maine, where she runs an art gallery. Her present husband is a naval architect.
Sandra Lewis Smith, former deputy director of public affairs for the New York City Department of Correction, is now its director of special events.
Marjorie Fraser Snow lives in Ohio.
George Staempfli owns and runs the Staempfli Gallery in New York City.
Rose Styron is a poet and a longtime board member of Amnesty International. She lives with her husband, William Styron, in Connecticut.
William Styron is the author of Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968, and Sophie’s Choice, which won the American Book Award in 1980.
Miwa Svinka-Zielinski translates Polish and Russian texts on parapsychology. She has also written a scientific history of hypnosis in the nineteenth century in Russia and her native Poland. She lives in Canada, New York City, and Amagansett, Long Island.
Samuel Taylor is the author of the plays Sabrina Fair, The Pleasure of His Company (with Cornelia Otis Skinner), No Strings (with Richard Rodgers), Beekman Place, Avanti!, A Touch of Spring, Legend, and Gracious Living. He lives with his wife, Suzanne, in East Blue Hill, Maine.
Suzanne Taylor teaches cooking in Blue Hill, Maine, where she also opened a gourmet shop. She is the author of Young and Hungry, a cookbook-memoir of life in the country house of her Norwegian childhood.
René Jean Teillard is an antiques dealer in New York City.
Yvonne Thomas is a French-born painter who lives in New York City.
Pamela Turner, the former service tenant at 81 Cadogan Square, London, has moved with her husband to Brighton.
Johnny Van Kirk lives in Massachusetts, where he plays folk music and is a “contracting consultant.”
Tony Van Roon, a former nurse at Broadmoor Special Hospital, now works at the Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry.
Eleanor Ward, founder of the Stable Gallery, gave the first one-man shows to Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, and Robert Indiana. She also helped to promote the careers of Marisol, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Cornell, Joan Mitchell, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Andy Warhol is an artist, filmmaker, author, and magazine publisher.
Thilo von Watzdorf has been the director of the department of contemporary art at Sotheby’s in London and the director of the department of nineteenth-century European paintings at Sotheby’s in New York. He is now a private art dealer.
Elspeth Wilkie is an official at the United States Consulate in London.
Helen Miranda Wilson is a painter. She lives in New York City.
Clement Biddle Wood is the author of a novel, Welcome to the Club. He and his wife, Jessie, lived for many years in Paris. They now divide their time between Water Mill, Long Island, and the Greek island of Spetsai.
A very few people requested anonymity, for personal or professional reasons, and have accordingly been given pseudonyms: Joanne Anastase, Jake Cooper, Eddie Cruz, Will Davis, Helen Delaney, Vince Firenzi, Dr. W. Lindsay Jacobs, Susan Lannan, Juan Martinez, Jackie Monroe, Geoffrey Parsons, Jose Perez, Henry H. Perkins, Mike Perkins, Jim Robertsen, Erika Svenssen, William Thayer, Nancy Perkins Wallace, and Dr. Helene Weiss.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank the many people quoted in these pages for the time they gave us.
We would also like to thank the following for their contributions to this book: Charles Addams, Al Anderson, John Jay Angevin, Jr., Hetta Asencio, Tony Banwell, Marvin Barrett, Mary Ellin Barrett, Dr. Milton Bastos, Alexander Beard, Patricia Beard, Eleanor Bender, Detective Chief Inspector Roger Bendle of Scotland Yard, Jay Benedict, Rehlein Benedict, Glynne Betts, Zerina Bhika, Dorothea Biddle, June Bingham, David Blasband, Denise Bouché, Heather Bradley, Laurel Buckley, Maureen Bune, Hazel Burke, Captain Jerry Caputo of the New York City House of Detention on Rikers Island, Joel Carmichael, Isobel Cartagena, Blair Clark, Lady Mary Clayton, Michael Cleary, Mike Cobb, David Cohen, Elaine Cohen, Patrick Cook, Jane Cooke, Matthew Cowles, Shelly Dattner, Robert Darling, Elizabeth de Cuevas, Ormonde de Kay, Frances Ann Dougherty, Maggie Draper, Barbara Dunkel, Brooke Edgecomb, Jonathan Fast, Irene Fine, Sarah Fischer, Joseph M. Fox, Captain Harry Foy of the New York City Department of Correction, Leda Fremont-Smith, Fred Friendly, Lou Ganim, Jacqueline Gatz, Ann Geiffert, Abigail Gerdts, Nancy Giagnocova, Virginia Taylor Gimbel, Judy Greif, Letty Grierson, Lew Grimes, the Hon. Desmond Guinness, Sabrina Guinness, Beth Gutcheon, Pat Hackett, Lucile Hamlin, Jones Harris, Robert Harrison, Ann Harvey, Shirley Hazzard, Lillian Hellman, Cathy Henderson, Paul Hoeffel, Sally Iselin, Jill Isles, Ted Johnson, Katrina Hall Jordan, Carl Kaufmann, Anita Herrick Kearns, Judy Kicinski, Tony Kiser, Carol Kitman, Marvin Kitman, Carol Klemm, Hans Koning, Kate Koning, Marcella Korff, Carol Kotwick, Helen Laws, Inge Lehmann-Haupt, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt, Karen Lerner, Ellen Levine, Dr. Richard U. Levine, Olga Lewis, Gael Love, Catherine MacDonald, Gerald MacDonald, Sukie Marlowe, Frances Matthews, Lester Migdal, Hon. E. Leo Milonas, George Mittendorf, Jinty Money-Coutts, Barbara Mortimer, Victor Navasky, Lynn Nesbit, Sue Nestor, Hugh Nissenson, Marilyn Nissenson, Charles Pate, Peter Pennoyer, Robert M. Pennoyer, Victoria L. Pennoyer, Paula Peterson, Emily Read, Piers Paul Read, Hon. Martin Rettinger, K. G. Rimmington, James Rossbach, Sue Rossbach, Digger St. John, May Sarton, Ronnie Scharfman, Denise Scheinberg, Dr. I. Herbert Scheinberg, Barry Schwabsky, Ann M. Seeger, Marvin Siegel, Babs Simpson, Mark Slifer, Betty Ann Solinger, Margaret Sone, Paul Spike, Dr. Robert J. Stoller, Diana Stuart, Douglas Stumpf, David Taylor, Shoe Taylor, Trevor Tester, Gwen Thomas, Lionel Tiger, Virginia Tiger, Captain Earl Tulon of the New York City Department of Correction, Richard Turley, Marian Underhill, Ernst von Wedel, Alison Wakehan, Shelley Wanger, Julius Wasserstein, Jeannette Watson, Jacqueline Weld, A. Matthew Weld, Merida Welles, Lloyd Wells, Tom White, Hilma Wolitzer, Jessie Bruce Wood, Dr. Joseph Youngerman, and Frances Rogers Zilkha.
We would like to thank the following for their cooperation: The Leo H. Baekeland Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Bakelite Museum Society, London; Boston Globe library; Boston Public Library; the Estate of John Philip Cohane; The James Jones Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin; London Weather Centre; National Association for Mental Health, London; New York City Department of Correction; New York Public Library; New York State Department of Correction; the New York Times London Bureau; the New York Times morgue; Sarah Lawrence College Library; Scotland Yard; and Union Carbide Research Library.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
NATALIE ROBINS is the author of four volumes of poetry. Since Savage Grace first appeared, she has published four other nonfiction books, including Alien Ink: The FBI’s War on Freedom of Expression, winner of the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award, and The Girl Who Died Twice: The Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals. Her latest book, Copeland’s Cure, about the war between conventional and alternative medicine, came out in 2005. She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, and i
s at work on her tenth book. (www.natalierobins.net)
STEVEN M. L. ARONSON, a former book editor and publisher, is the author of HYPE, an investigation of the phenomenon of disproportion. He has contributed scores of articles to national magazines, including Architectural Digest (where he is a contributing writer), Vanity Fair, The Nation, Poetry, Town & Country, New York, Esquire, and Vogue. Most recently, he wrote the biographical text for the Taschen Collector’s Edition of the work of the artist and photographer Peter Beard. He lives in New York City.
* Biographical notes can be found on Back Matter.
* The information in these notes was current at the time this book was first published.