The Untold Journey
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Trotsky, Leon, 61–62
Ure, Mary, 230
Urquhart, Brian, 309
U.S. News and World Report, 347
Van Doren, Mark, 89, 110, 193
Vanity Fair, 339
Viking Press, 111, 115, 124, 184, 235, 258
Vlavianos, Lina, 183, 207–8
Vogue, 119
Waldorf Conference (1949), 137
The Wall Street Journal, 320, 321, 333
The Waste Land (Eliot), 29
Waugh, Evelyn, 108
The Way Some People Live (Cheever), 109–10
Weder, Natalie, 350
Weidman, Jerome, 121
Weiss, Lynn, 354
Welch, Denton, 117
Wells, H. G., 188
We Must March My Darlings (D. Trilling), 281, 287–91
Wescott, Glenway, 120
West, Anthony, 188
West, James, 166
West, Rebecca, 186–88, 323
Westcott, Glenway, 172
Weymouth, Lally, 317
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee), 236–37
Wieseltier, Leon, 351
Willen, Drenka, 276–77, 291, 300
Williams, Tennessee, 120
Wilson, Edmund, 45, 87, 107–8, 116, 167–68, 327
Withers, Carl, 166
Wolfe, Tom, 222
Woolf, Virginia, 133–34
World War I, 13–14
W. W. Norton, 86
Wylie, Andrew, 332
Yaddo, 58–61, 63, 72
Yiddish, 22, 24
You Can’t Be Too Careful (Wells), 106–7
Zinn, Christopher, xv, 311, 313–14
BOOKS BY NATALIE ROBINS
Savage Grace (coauthored with Steven M. L. Aronson)
Alien Ink: The FBI’s War on Freedom of Expression
The Girl Who Died Twice: The Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals
Living in the Lightning: A Cancer Journal
Copeland’s Cure: Homeopathy and the War Between Conventional and Alternative Medicine
Poetry
Wild Lace
My Father Spoke of His Riches
The Peas Belong on the Eye Level
Eclipse
ILLUSTRATIONS
Unless otherwise indicated, these photographs are from the Diana Trilling Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York.
DIANA’S FAMILY LIKED HER TO PLAY HER VIOLIN IN FRONT OF RELATIVES.
AT CAMP LENORE, DIANA (ON RIGHT) “LOVED LEAPING AROUND IN THE OPEN AIR WITH THE SUN BEAMING DOWN ON HER BODY, KNOWING HER MOTHER WOULD PROBABLY DISAPPROVE.”
CANOEING ON LAKE ASHMERE AT CAMP LENORE. DIANA LATER BECAME A COUNSELOR, TEACHING ARCHERY, BASKETBALL, AND DRAMA.
AT RADCLIFFE, 1924 (DIANA ON LEFT). THE PURPOSE OF THEIR EDUCATION WAS ONLY TO “INCREASE THEIR DOMESTIC EFFICIENCY.” … THE PRACTICAL WAS THE GOAL.
DIANA FELT HER RADCLIFFE EDUCATION WAS MUCH TOO FOCUSED ON THE HISTORICAL, INSTEAD OF THE CRITICAL.
RADCLIFFE’S BARNARD HALL, 1924.
ONE OF THE “ODD CHARACTERS” DIANA “PICKED UP” ON HER TRIP TO SOUTH AMERICA WITH HER FATHER AND SISTER, 1928.
“WE LAUNCHED OUR MARRIAGE IN GUILT,” DIANA SAID.
“EVERYONE HAD TO BE LISTENED TO, APOLOGIZED TO, THANKED FOR GIVING US PERMISSION TO LIVE OUR LIVES.”
LIONEL’S MOTHER FAINTED WHEN SHE HEARD OF DIANA’S ENGAGEMENT TO HER SON.
DIANA’S PARENTS, IN A PHOTO TAKEN SHORTLY BEFORE HER MOTHER’S DEATH IN 1926.
DIANA’S PATERNAL GRANDFATHER. HE ALWAYS REFUSED TO SIT AT THEIR NON-KOSHER TABLE. HE REMINDED DIANA OF MOSES.
DIANA’S SISTER, CECILIA RUBIN, 1933.
THELMA ANDERSON, CAPE COD, 1947.
Courtesy of Abraham Anderson
QUENTIN ANDERSON, NEW BRUNSWICK FISHING TRIP.
Courtesy of Abraham Anderson
LIONEL AND DIANA IN RIVERSIDE PARK.
JIM TRILLING. “HER SON WOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF NATURE, AND AS A ONE YEAR OLD HE WAS ALREADY BOLD.”
DIANA IN WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT, 1950.
ARNOLD AND CARROLL BEICHMAN AT A CAFE IN PARIS, EARLY 1950S.
Courtesy of Charles Beichman
THE “VERY INTERESTING, ENTERTAINING AND AFFECTIONATE LITTLE GROUP” AT DINNER. LEFT TO RIGHT: ARNOLD BEICHMAN, STEVEN MARCUS, CARROLL BEICHMAN, LIONEL TRILLING, DIANA TRILLING (HIDDEN FROM VIEW, GENE MARCUS).
Courtesy of Charles Beichman
DIANA ONCE ASKED CARROLL WHY SHE LIKED TO RIDE HORSES IN CENTRAL PARK. “FOR JOY,” SHE TOLD HER. DIANA REPLIED, “HOW WONDERFUL TO BE ABLE TO SAY IT SO SIMPLY.”
Courtesy of Charles Beichman
MIDGE DECTER.
Courtesy of Midge Decter
DIANA AND LIONEL TRILLING, 1967, ON A TWO-WEEK MISSION TO PROMOTE GERMAN-AMERICAN GOODWILL.
NORMAN PODHORETZ. IN TIME, DIANA WOULD BECOME AN EX-FRIEND.
Courtesy of Norman Podhoretz
DIANA, JIM, AND LIONEL TRILLING, 1971. THAT YEAR DIANA HAD PARTICIPATED IN A PANEL HELD AT TOWN HALL IN NEW YORK ON WOMEN’S LIBERATION.
“I THINK OF FEMINISM AS BOTH FIRMER AND GENTLER, LESS COMPETITIVE THAN WOMEN’S LIB,” SHE LATER WROTE.
“WRITERS ARE WHAT THEY WRITE, ALSO WHAT THEY FAIL TO WRITE”—DIANA TRILLING IN THE BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY.
Photo by Thomas Victor
“WE WERE REALLY VERY CLOSE IN SOME WAY,” DIANA TRILLING SAID ABOUT HER FRIENDSHIP WITH NORMAN MAILER.
LILLIAN HELLMAN IN A VOGUE MAGAZINE AD FOR BLACKGAMA.
DIANA ON FIRING LINE WITH WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR., 1981.
DIANA KEPT NOTES IN THE THIRD PERSON.
“DIANA HAD MET PUBLISHER WILLIAM JOVANOVICH AT VARIOUS COLUMBIA GATHERINGS, AND THEY HIT IT OFF RIGHT AWAY.… HE LOVED LITERARY WOMEN.”
Photo by Tom Palumbo; courtesy of Patricia Bosworth