by Colin Asher
and Wright, 102, 105, 108, 119
Johnson (street fighter), 30–31
Johnson, Denis, 443
Johnson’s club, Albany Park, 42–43, 44
John the Barber (poker player), 428
Jones, Gloria, 479, 483
Jones, James Garrand, 422
Jones, Kaylie, 479–80
Jordan, Bill, 99, 101, 114
Jungle, The (Algren), 358–59n, 381n
Justice Department, list compiled by, 305
Justice, Donald, 428
Kadesh, Joan, 415
Kalar, Joseph, 82
Kalisher, Louis and Gette, 16
Kaufman, Philip, 415, 425
Kay, Linda, 462–63, 464
Kazin, Alfred, 356, 358, 445
Kelley, Robert D. G., 195n
Kenna, Hinky Dink, 298
Kennedy, Robert F., 433
Kentucky Derby (1958), 372–74
King, Martin Luther Jr., 433
Kirkland, Jack, 333, 341, 350, 357–58
Kisor, Henry, 465
Klemick, Herman “Blue,” 53
Koestler, Arthur, Darkness at Noon, 146
Kontowicz, Amanda Leocadia, 125–27
and Cazarian, 158–59, 163
and Conroy, 150–51
and divorce, 214, 325, 327, 336, 340–41, 352, 359
and Finch, 162–63, 189
in Hollywood, 282, 284
and money, 321
move to San Francisco, 190–91, 208
and Nelson, 37, 128–31, 138–40, 152, 189–91, 196–97, 213–14, 240, 287, 328, 352, 361
and Nelson, marriage, 140, 157–59, 163, 191, 309
and Nelson, remarriage, 293, 294, 308–11, 316–17, 360
and Nelson’s breakdown, 361–63
and Nelson’s writing, 317, 341
Korean War, 290–91, 292, 304, 317
Kowalski, Stanley, 438
Kozlowski, Ted, 396
Kroch’s & Brentano’s bookstore, Chicago, 354–55
Kruck, Red, 152
Kuprin, Aleksandr, Yama, 134, 135, 237
Kushner, Rachel, xiii
Lamb, Robert, 377
Lanzmann, Claude, 308, 384
Larson brothers, 368
Last Carousel, The (Algren), 441–47, 453, 465, 477
Law, Oliver, 139
League of American Writers, 118–20
and Algren, 118–19, 120, 133, 139, 146, 152–53, 170–71, 314
and Communist Party, 142–43, 146, 169
and Conroy, 118, 119, 152–53
and FBI, 314
founding of, 108, 118, 120, 133
and HUAC, 169
and John Reed Club, 108, 118
and Wright, 108, 119–20, 133, 139, 142
Lebworth, Marion, 367, 370, 371, 372
Leekley, Richard, 126–27, 128, 129, 158
Left Front, 99, 101, 102, 105, 107–8, 147
Lemon, Frankie, 145, 156
Le Sueur, Meridel, 119, 126, 148, 326
Levin, Meyer, 155, 156
Levitt, Solly, 431–32
Lewis, Audrey, 91
Lewis, H. H., 82
Lewis, Sinclair, 91
Lindsay, Vachel, 239
Lipton, Lawrence, 115–18, 137
Liss, Ted, 230
Loggia, Robert, xiii, 357
Lowry, Robert, 278
Luciano, Lucky, 121
Luther (in New Orleans), 69–72, 75, 135
Luther Luther, 69–72, 74–75, 80, 135, 327
Macdonald, Dwight, 142n
Macdonald, Ross, xiii, 278
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 48
Macmillan Publishers, 393n
Majewski, Richard, 235, 279, 332
Malamud, Bernard, 410
Malaquais, Jean, 219–20
War Diary, 218n
Malaysia Mail, 398–99, 401–2, 414, 417, 418
Malcolm X, 407
Malraux, André, 227
Mann, Thomas, 447
Man with the Golden Arm, The (Algren), 4
cast of characters in, 270–74, 275, 279–80, 332
critical response to, 254, 267, 278
film adaptation of, 280–84, 287, 289, 297, 332, 335, 341, 349–50, 354, 355, 357, 369
foreign translations of, 261, 477
Hustler’s Heart working title, 250, 254
manuscript completion, 250, 260
National Book Award for, xiii, 284–85
new edition of, 385
paperback rights to, 277
politics reflected in, xiv–xv, 249, 257–59, 276–77, 313, 315
promotion of, 277, 278–79
public reaction to, xiv, 275, 278, 351
release of, 264, 276n, 277, 284, 344
research and planning, 241–48, 268
royalties from, 279, 286, 320
screenplay for, 331–35
stage version of, 333, 341, 357–58
story of, 268–71, 274–75
success of, 266–67
text of, xi–xii, 55–56, 471
theme of, 338
timeliness of, 268
writing of, 230, 231, 236–37, 246
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 48–49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56
Marquand, J. P., 372
Marshall Plan, 262
Marx, Karl, 85
Das Kapital, 103
Marxists, 145, 249
Masters, Edgar Lee, 239
Matamoros, Mexico, Algren in, 327–28
Mather, Cotton, 303
Matthiessen, Peter, 479, 483
Maxwell, Bess, 53
May Day parade, New York City (1935), 115, 120
McCarran [Internal Security] Act (1950), 255–56, 305
McCarthy, Cormac, xiii–xiv, 476
McCarthy, Joseph, 287–88, 290, 304, 306, 315, 324, 382, 406, 419
McCarthy, Mary, 142n
McCormick, Kenneth:
and Algren’s finances, 215, 312
and Algren’s paranoia, 387
and Algren’s speech, 311–12
and Algren’s writing ideas, 214–15
and Chicago: City on the Make, 300
and Chicago photo book, 287
and Doubleday, see Doubleday and Company
and Man with the Golden Arm, 230, 236, 246, 250, 254, 260, 267, 278–79, 284
and National Book Award, 284
and Neon Wilderness, 217
and Never Come Morning, 214
and Somebody in Boots, 324n
and Walk on the Wild Side, 320–21, 340, 342, 343, 349
McHugh, Clementine, 61
Mendel, William, 324
Menominee tribe, 383
Merkin, Richard, 469
Meyer, Frank, 153, 432
Midwest Writers’ Congress, 107–8
Millar, Kenneth, 278, 313
Minneapolis, Algren in, 63–66
Missoula, Montana, writers’ workshop in, 340, 341
Mola, Emilio, 132
Moody, Dwight L., 298
Moretti, Francis, 395–98
Moscow show trials, 142, 143, 153, 258, 315
Motion Picture Association of America, production code of, 280, 331, 349
Motley, William, Knock on Any Door, 239
Mouloudji, Marcel, 391
Mussolini, Benito, 132, 139
Myrdal, Gunnar, An American Dilemma, 237
Nabokov, Vladimir, 447
Nation, The, 301, 311, 313, 322n, 355, 410
National Book Awards, xiii, 266, 284–85, 313
National Endowment for the Arts, 468
Nation of Islam, 407
Native Son (Algren; working title), 106–7, 164n
Native Son (Wright), 164–67, 170, 171
Algren’s response to, 165, 166–67
and Chicago school, 183
dedication to Algren, 165
sales of, 168, 176
story of, 165–66
NATO, 262
Nazi Youth, 132
Nelson Algren
(Cox and Chatterton), 75n
Nelson Algren’s Own Book of Lonesome Monsters (Algren, ed.), 380, 410
Nelson, Herbert U., 312
Neon Wilderness, The (Algren), 4
critical reviews of, 220–21, 222
growing popularity of, 222, 301
original title So Help Me, 217
paperback edition of, 358, 381n
promotion of, 390
readers’ response to, 229, 230
reissue of, 380–81, 390, 486
stories selected for, 215–17, 221
theme of, 338
writing of, 212, 214
Nettleton (landlady), 88, 89, 90, 92
Never a Lovely So Real, source of title, 299n
Never Come Morning (Algren), 4, 172–85, 307
“Biceps” (section), 187–88
cast of characters in, 173–74, 180, 257, 329
and censorship, 356
and Doubleday, 214–17
and FBI investigation, 198
French edition of, 261
lyricism of, 180
narrative of, 175, 176–80, 181–82
novelty of, 180–81
paperback edition, 250, 264, 319n, 381n
public and critical responses to, 182–85, 187–88, 196, 198, 214, 233, 351
reissue of, 380–81, 486
research for, 180, 219, 247
theme of, 337–38
and World War II, 176, 184
writing of, 172–74, 175, 176, 216, 218, 336, 374
New Anvil, 147, 150, 151, 161, 170, 318n
Newberry Library, Chicago, 250
New Criticism, 357n
New Journalism, 374
New Masses, 84, 100, 109, 113, 146n
New Orleans, Algren in, 67–71, 75, 78, 87
New Republic, The, 84n, 125, 146, 187, 301, 355
New York:
Algren in, 343, 344
Cherry Lane Theater in, 357
New York Daily News, 471
New Yorker, The, 230, 356, 432, 452
New York Post, 147–48
New York Public Library, 346, 406n
New York Sun, 113
New York Times, 113–14, 137, 182–83, 221, 267, 277, 287, 290, 355, 356, 358, 393, 419, 446, 452, 460
Nieh, Hualing, 426
Nin, Anaïs, 427
Nixon, Richard M., 432
Nonconformity: Writing on Writing (Algren), xiii, 317–22, 338, 486
North Shore Health Resort, Winnetka, Illinois, 362–65
Notes on a Sea Diary: Hemingway All the Way (Algren), 417–19
Oakland Tribune, 182
O’Banion, Dean, 41
O’Brien, Msgr. Dennis P., 20
O’Day, Anita, 295
Ogburn, William, Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature, 54–55
O’Hara, John, 447
O. Henry Award, xiii
O’Rourke’s Bar, Chicago, 50
Orwell, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 276
Other Carter, The (Algren; unpublished), 468
Pablo (writer), 427
Pacific Sun, 446
Packard Motor Car Company, 16, 17, 19, 98
Page, Geraldine, 469
Panic of 1893, 12
Paris Review, 75n, 297n, 343, 357n, 415
Parker, Charlie, 385
Park Manor, Illinois, 19–20, 22, 23–25, 27–28, 32, 34
Partisan Review, 109, 142n, 148, 224, 385
Paterson, New Jersey:
Algren in, 452–55, 459–64
Carter and Artis’s trial in, 465–66
history of, 460–61
racial issues in, 461–62, 465–66, 473, 474
Paul the Apostle, 249
Paychek, Johnny, 173n
Peltz, Dave, 295, 352, 361, 362–63, 368–69, 371, 395–98, 485, 486
Philippe, Charles-Louis, 294n
Phillips, William, 142n
Pikowsky, Theodora, 151, 152, 153, 163
Pintauro, Joe, 477, 483–84
Podhoretz, Norman, 55n, 356
Poetry, 126, 146, 161, 193, 325n
Pottawatomi nation, 9, 298
Potter, Jack, 325
Preminger, Otto, 331–35
Algren’s distrust and dislike of, 331, 332–34, 335, 350, 387, 414, 445
Algren’s film treatment rejected by, 334, 355
Algren’s lawsuit against, 335, 345, 354, 359, 370
and film rights to Man with the Golden Arm, 331, 332–34, 335, 370
film version of Golden Arm produced by, 341, 349–50, 354, 355, 357
Prescott, Orville, 356
Priest, Roy R., 95
Prix Formentor, 388
Program for Community Anti-Communist Action, A (US Chamber of Commerce), 249
proletarian literature movement, 83–85, 91, 100–101, 107, 118, 133, 142, 289, 356
Providence Journal, 182
Publishers Weekly, 446
Pushcart Prize, xiii
Pynchon, Thomas, xiii, 409
Rahv, Philip, 142n, 219
Rahway State Prison, New Jersey, 448, 450–51
Ramparts, 423
Random House, 279, 465
Red Channels, 289
Red Scare, see Communist Party
Reed, Lou, xiii
Reinhardt, Ruth, 382
Reporter, The, 356, 393
Riccardo’s, Chicago, 50
Risberg, Charles August “Swede,” 27, 34
Robbe, Angelo, 315
Roberts, Bob, 280, 282–84, 289, 297, 317–18, 331, 332, 333n, 341, 359, 387, 414
Robinson, Edward G., 258
Rocke, Gilbert, 145
Rolfe, Edwin, 289, 290
Ronstadt, Linda, 483
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 266, 284–85
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, xv, 303, 313, 314, 320, 345
Ross, Sam, 119
Roth, Philip, 410
Rothstein, Arnold, 34
Rowland, Christine, 145, 231, 295, 309–10
Rowland, Neal, 145, 231, 295, 309–10, 362–63
Royko, Mike, 438
Rubenstein, Serge, 332
Rushmore, Howard, xiv, 143, 258, 304, 315, 364, 382
Rusk, Ralph L., 284, 285
Ryan, Jim, 452
Sabusawa, Mari, 287
Sag Harbor, Long Island, Algren in, 478–79, 482, 483
Salinger, J. D., 171n
Sanctuary, 109
Sandburg, Carl, xvi, 55, 134, 135, 183, 230, 239, 262, 292, 295, 300–301
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 227, 261, 380, 392
and Beauvoir, 224, 233, 238, 240, 252, 255, 290, 384, 385, 386, 389, 407n
No Exit, 237
Saturday Blade, 28–29, 32
Saturday Review, 221, 300, 355
Schaefer, Otto “Doc Otty Ollie Snake,” 149
Schultz, Rabbi Benjamin, 249
Scipion, Robert, 261
Second City Theater, Chicago, 485–87
Selassie, Haile, 132
Seldes, Timothy, 321–22, 345–47
Seven Stairs bookshop, 266–67
Seven Stories Press, 322n, 370n
Shakespeare, William, 49
Shay, Art, 287, 295, 297, 324
Shulman, Max, 392
Sigal, Clancy, 334
Simon, Daniel, 486
Sinatra, Frank, xiii, 341, 432
Sinclair, Upton, 356
Sinclair station, Texas, 72–75, 80, 327, 445
Siporin, Mitchell, 145
Sky, 413, 414, 417
Smith, Bessie, 302, 385
Smith, Buell, 194, 195n
Smith, Stuff, 295
Society for the Suppression of Vice, 346
Somebody in Boots (Algren), 1, 75n, 121, 128, 133, 138
critical reviews of, 113–14
as The Gods Gather, 86–87, 89
as The Jungle, 358–59n, 381n
paperback edition, 323, 358
promotion of, 109, 127
revision of, 287, 324–25, 336
story of, 109–13, 134, 135, 257
writing of, 106–8, 171
Somerhaus, Jake, 28, 29, 30
Sondergaard, Gale, 290
Southern, Terry, 51, 343–45, 415, 426
Spanish Civil War, 132, 133, 139, 141–42, 145, 153, 168–69, 388, 439
Spector, Herman, 83
Sports Illustrated, 372–74, 390
Stalin, Joseph, 107, 142, 146, 153
Standard Coffee Service Company, 68–69
Stanwyck, Barbara, 403
Steffens, Lincoln, 118
Steinbeck, John, 182, 187, 319, 356, 432
Stevenson, Adlai, 325n
Stevenson, Ellen Borden, 325n
Stevenson, Robert Louis, A Child’s Garden of Verses, 32
Stoicism, 48–49, 51, 52, 57, 63, 134
Story, 81, 85
Strachey, John, 100
Straus, Roger, 349, 354, 358, 364, 367, 387
Styron, William, 51, 55n
Subversive Activities Control Board, 305
Sullivan, Mrs. (housekeeper), 410, 411, 422
Sul Ross State Teachers College, Texas, 89–90, 91–92, 95
Sutton, C. R., 95, 96
Sweden, Jews in, 7
Szthmary, Louis, 454
Tabet, Caesar, 303–4, 316, 353, 364
Tadday, Sergeant, 195
Taft, Donald R., 54–55, 56
Targ, Bill, 442, 446
Terkel, Studs, 50, 355, 395–97, 438, 439, 485
Thede, James, 427
Thompson, Hunter S., xiv
Thoreau, Henry David, 322
Time, xiii, 267, 278
Torn, Rip, 469
Torrio, Johnny, 41
Touhy, Michaela, 438
Tower, Whitney, 373, 374
Trenton State Prison, New Jersey, 459, 462, 466–67
Trivers, Paul, 287, 289
Trotsky, Leon, 107, 142, 143
True American Business and Social Club, 154
Truman, Harry S, 256n
Twain, Mark, 306
University Club of Chicago, 354
University of Chicago, 287
University of Chicago Press, 403
University of Florida, Gainesville, 452
University of Illinois, 45, 47–51, 47, 52–53, 364
University of Missouri, 305–6, 311
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 431n
University of Ohio, 424
University of Washington, 381
Uptown Arrows, 39–40
Valjean, Jean (fict.), 95
Vanguard Press, 101n
and Gods Gather/Somebody in Boots, 85–87, 106–7, 108
Van Sickle, Wigfall, 94–96
Venereal Disease Control Project, 186–87
Vian, Boris, 384
Vian, Michelle, 261
Vietnam War, 425, 426, 427, 429–31, 433, 445
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 427, 447, 479, 480
Walker, Bill, 149
Walker, Margaret, 146, 170n
Walk on the Wild Side (Algren), xiv, 5, 352, 421, 482
completion of, 343, 344
and Doubleday, 342, 343, 345–47, 349
and Farrar, Straus, 349