Durham, Lorraine, 265–66, 274
Dutton, Paul, 43
Dystel, Oscar, 179–80
Eaton, John, 252
Eaton, Signy, 169
ECW Essays on Canadian Writing, 83
Edmonds, Alan, 213, 269
Edugyan, Esi, 427
Eichmann, Adolf, 410
Ekstein, Modris, 350–51, 391
Rites of Spring, 349, 350
Walking Since Daybreak, 350, 351
Eliot, T. S., 8, 54, 59
The Waste Land, 124
endangered species, 70, 72, 107, 233, 334, 337–39
Engel, Howard, 165–66
Engel, Marian, 81, 137, 165–67, 182, 183–84, 193, 232, 270
Bear, 166–67
environmental issues, 133, 333–39, 373–75, 376, 405, 411
Environment Canada, 337
European Union, 365, 407
Faludy, George, 59
My Happy Days in Hell, 59n
Farewell to the 70s: A Canadian Salute to a Confusing Decade, 211, 252–53
Felker, Clay, 241
Fenn, Harold B., 405–6, 412, 427
Fenn, Jordan, 405–6
Fennario, David, 254
Fetherling, Doug (later George), 49–50
Feyer, George, 93
Fielding, Joy, 320
Findley, Timothy, 183
Firefly Books, 338n, 371
First Nations people, 354–56
see also Indigenous peoples
First World War, 4–5, 351
Fischman, Sheila, 82
Flaubert, Gustave, 6
Fleet Books, 280
Fleming, Allan, 246
Fleming, Louise, 403n
FLQ (Front de libération du Québec), 13, 167
Foster, Peter, The Master Builders, 363
Fotheringham, Allan, 95, 210, 245n, 257–61, 283, 295, 297, 300, 393
Last Page First, 371, 394
Malice in Blunderland: or How the Grits Stole Christmas, 257, 259, 261
Francis, Diane:
Bre-X: The Inside Story, 363
Immigration: The Economic Case, 363
Frankfurt Book Fair, 4n, 78, 254, 265–68, 292, 297, 320, 323, 326–27, 338, 403
Franklin, Elsa, 93–95, 96, 182, 378–79
Fraser, Fil, 252
Fraser, John, 398
Fraser, Russell, 106, 227
Fraser, Ruth, 45–47, 210
Fraser, Sylvia, 22, 47, 81, 96, 109, 116, 186, 192, 194, 210, 227–30, 344, 350
The Ancestral Suitcase, 348
Berlin Solstice, 228
The Candy Factory, 228
The Emperor’s Virgin, 227–28
“Hurricane June,” 350n
My Father’s House: A Memoir of Incest and Healing, 229, 320
Pandora, 105–7
The Rope in the Water: A Pilgrimage to India, 229
Frayne, Trent (Bill), 95, 159, 161
Free Trade Agreement, 200n
Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique, 192
Fritz (Alfons’s brother), 102
Front Page Challenge (TV), 94, 96n, 260
Frost, Leslie, 100, 154, 293
Frum, Barbara, 96, 118, 159–63, 192–93, 214, 248, 262–63, 378–79
As It Happened, 161
Frum, David, 161
Frum, Linda, 161
Linda Frum’s Guide to Canadian Universities, 263
Frum, Murray, 96, 159, 162, 244, 263, 305
Fry, Pamela, 21–22, 62
Frye, Northrop, 63
The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination, 108n
Fulford, Robert, 37, 38, 49, 66, 95, 161, 162, 183, 193, 210, 232, 250, 267, 295, 378
as Delaney, 39–40, 252
Marshall Delaney at the Movies, 40
Gage Publishing, 212
Gal, Laszlo, 347
Gallagher, Smiling Jack, 129
Garner, Marion, 278
Garr, Allen, Tough Guy, 284
Gartner, Szuszi, All the Anxious Girls, 394, 427
Gatenby, Greg, 41, 150, 253
General Distribution Services (GDS), 402, 404–5
General Publishing, 403–4
Georgian Bay, 155–56, 163, 185, 210–12, 270, 333
Gerstgrasser, Walter, 329
Gibb, Camilla, 398
Gibson, George, 412
Gibson, Graeme, 65–66, 77, 85, 151n, 211, 231–33
Five Legs, 66, 231
Gentleman Death, 232–33
Perpetual Motion, 231, 232
Gibson, Shirley, 66
Gilbert, Martin, The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust, 409
Gill, Brendan, 269–70
Summer Places, 269
Giller, Doris, 424, 425
Giller Prize, 117n, 425–27
Gilmour, David, 410
Ginsberg, Allen, 37
Glassco, Bill, 254
Glazer, Milton, 241
Globe and Mail, The, 27, 161, 259n, 304, 305, 333, 371, 378
Glossop, Jennifer, 42, 62, 137, 166, 218n
Godard, Mira, 252
Godbout, Jacques, 83
Goddard, John, 373–74
Godfrey, Dave, 83, 154
Godfrey, Gina, 154
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 416
Goldsmith, Jimmy, 364
Goodman, Eddie, 84, 85, 289
Life of the Party, 261, 296
Goodman, Gloria, 274, 319
Gordon, Alison, 125
Gordon, Sydney, 31
Gordon, Walter, 84, 85
Gorky, Maxim, 117
Gottlieb, Allan, 161
Gould, Allan, 225
Gouzenko, Igor, 288
Governor General’s Award, 107, 122, 144, 166, 233
Gowdy, Barbara, 398
Graham, Bill and Cathy, 239
Graham, Billy, 186, 211
Graham, Ron, 299
One-Eyed Kings, 298
Grant, George, 27, 89, 142
Lament for a Nation, 85–86
Graves, Robert, 4, 9
Gray, John MacLachlan, 254
Greenberg, Clement, 39
Greene, Elaine, 345
Greene, Graham, 148, 185, 342, 343, 344, 360
Greenpeace, 336
Greer, Germaine, The Female Eunuch, 192
Greey, Phil, 241, 273
Greey de Pencier Books, 241, 247
Grescoe, Paul, 221
Gretzky, Wayne, 249
Greystone Books, 339
Griffin, Krystine, 124n
Griffin, Scott, My Heart Is Africa: A Flying Adventure, 124
Griffin Prize, 123–24
Griffin Trust, 124
Griffith, Linda, 254
Groundwood, 139, 142
Group of Seven, 44–45, 189
Grove, Frederick Philip, 21
Gruntorad, Jiri, 414
Guggenheim, Peggy, 169, 174
Guinness, Alec, 225
Gustafson, Ralph, 122
Guthrie, Tyrone, 225
Gwyn, Richard:
The Northern Magus, 81
Smallwood: The Unlikely Revolutionary, 81
Gwyn, Sandra, 252
Gzowski, Peter, 137, 193, 213–14, 240–41, 248–50, 267, 280
The Game of Our Lives, 249
The Sacrament, 248
Gzowski, Sir Casimir, 249
Hage, Rawi, 398
Haliburton, Thomas, 21
Halpenny, Francess, 198n
Hapsburg Empire, 57, 232, 431
Hardy, Thomas, 54
HarperCollins, 79n, 274, 281, 313, 427
Harris, Marjorie, 192, 210–11, 242, 252–53, 258–59, 292
Harris, Mike, 370
Harron, Don, 252
Hašek, Jaroslav, The Good Soldier Schweik, 360
Havel, Vaclav, 414
Hay, Elizabeth, 138
Heaps, Leo, The Quebec Plot, 219
Hebb, Marian, 217
Hébert, Anne, 82
Heine, Heinrich, 58,
117, 416
Henderson, Paul, 108–9, 253
Henry, Martha, 224
Herriot, James, 180
Herrndorf, Eva, 161
Herrndorf, Peter, 161, 214
Highway, Tomson, 398
Hill, Lawrence, 379
Hirsch, John, 224
Hirtle, Sheila, 244
Hitler, Adolf, 117, 350, 407
Hodgeman, Marge, 21, 70, 146–47, 307
Hollinger Inc., 364, 366–67
Hollywood blacklist, 32
Holocaust, 143, 349–50, 395, 404, 407, 409–11, 413
Honderich, Beland, 130
Hope, Bob, 154, 221
Hopkins, Garth, 410
Horthy, Miklós, 415
House of Anansi, 58, 65–66, 83, 88–89, 107–8, 124, 231, 254, 395, 430
Houston, James, 81, 135–36, 309
Aurora Borealis, 136
Spirit Wrestler, 136
Whiteout, 136
How, Douglas, 382
Howard, Gillian, 249
Howard, Kirk, 84
Hoy, Claire, 261
Friends in High Places: Politics and Patronage in the Mulroney Government, 283–84, 294
Hrabal, Bohumil, 414
Hudson’s Bay Company, 64
Hummel, Monte, 233, 333–34
Arctic Wildlife, 334
Endangered Spaces: The Future of Canada’s Wilderness, 334
Wintergreen, 339
Hungary:
Anna’s early years in, 5–8, 31, 34, 156, 325, 326, 390–91, 401, 431
Anna’s return trips to, 390–91, 413
Arrow Cross in, 350
art of, 44
Communist government in, 5, 91, 156, 191, 351, 401
Hapsburgs in, 57, 431
Holocaust in, 143, 349–50, 404, 409–11, 413
poets in, 57
Revolution (1956), 7–8, 31, 34, 57, 58, 59, 72, 126, 325, 326, 347, 390, 401, 413
siege of Budapest (1945), 156, 350–51
Szigethy family’s origins in, 6, 351, 391
Hunt, Don, 289
Hurst, Christopher, 78
Hurtig, Mel, 84, 85
Hurtig Publishers, 83, 85
Hussein, king of Jordan, 288
Hutchinson, Helen, 245n
Hutt, William, 224
Ibarra, Allan, 404, 412
Illustrated History of Canada, The, 342, 349
Independent Publishers Association, 84
Indian Act (1876), 355
Indigenous peoples, 45–46, 93, 133–36, 146, 277, 278, 333, 354–56, 374, 378
Ines (Alfons’s daughter), 8, 9, 334
International Festival of Authors, 41, 55, 118, 253
International Organization of Books for Young People, 139
In the Wake of the Flood (documentary), 66–67
Irving, John, 73n, 304n, 345n
Irving, K. C., 382
Irwin, John, 292
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 342, 344
Jackson, A. Y., 45, 82
Jacobs, Jane, 39
Jaffe, Marc, 179–80, 182, 186, 255, 292
Jam, Teddy (pseud.), 142
James, Henry, 8
James, P. D., 320, 342, 345
Janson-Smith, Patrick, 327
Jarislowsky, Stephen, 128
Jewison, Norman, 321
This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me, 407–8
Jews:
anti-Semitism, 79, 117–18, 350
and the Holocaust, 143, 349–50, 395, 404, 407, 410–11, 413
Johnson, Lyndon B., 365
Johnston, Basil, 93, 353–56, 431
Crazy Dave, 355–56
Indian School Days, 354
The Manitous: The Spiritual World of the Ojibway, 355–56
Moose Meat and Wild Rice, 355
Ojibway Heritage, 355
Johnston, Moira, 270
Jonas, George, 58–59, 415–17
The Absolute Smile, 58
Beethoven’s Mask: Notes on My Life and Times, 407
By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death of Christine Demeter (with Barbara Amiel), 219, 289
Final Decree, 219
The Happy Hungry Man, 58
“Landmarks,” 417
“Memories,” 58–59
Politically Incorrect, 349
Selected Poems, 59, 124, 416
Jones, Doug, 122
Jones, Judith, 146
Joyce, James, 8
Kaan, Michael, 431
Kahlo, Frida, 113
Karsh, Malak, Canada: The Land That Shapes Us, 271
Karsh, Yousuf, 94, 271
Kassem, Abdel Karim, 288
Kasztner, Rezso, 410–11
Keats, John, 117
Keep the Promise, 419–20
Kemper, Fried, 237
Kennedy, Betty, 96
Kenton, Stan, 130, 131
Kertész, André, 243
Kevin Sullivan Productions, 217
Key Porter Books, 242, 243–50, 257–63, 301, 429
Anna as president of, 194, 393, 431
Anna’s resignation from, 412
authors published by, 36n, 54n, 72, 135, 136, 200n, 261, 269–71, 275, 276–78
and Bertelsmann, 317–19, 321–23
books about the environment, 233, 338
business books, 363–66
and Doubleday, 271, 317–22, 330–31
expansion of, 341–45
financial issues of, 278, 348, 370, 402–6
and Fleet Books, 280
health guides, 358
international market, 265–68, 348
and L&OD, 341, 342–44, 348, 359
launch of, 33, 257–60, 274
and M&S, 250, 257, 303–5, 313
magazines of, 297
and Mowat, 72, 278, 335–36, 365, 393, 394
offices of, 273–74, 280, 406
photographic books, 269–71
sale to Fenn, 405–6
and Seal, see Seal Books
staff of, 246–48, 265, 273–75, 277, 278, 280, 281, 327, 330, 393, 427
twentieth anniversary of, 393–95
and Where, 251
Key Publishers Company Ltd., 321, 415
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 174, 430
Khrushchev, Nikita, 33, 34
Kiakshuk (artist), 135
Kidd, Bruce, 241n
King, Thomas, 347, 348n
Kinsella, W. P., 244
Shoeless Joe, 182
Kissinger, Henry, 364, 365
Klein, A. M., 21, 117
Klima, Ivan, 414
Knopf Canada, 344–45
Kobrak, Fred, 4, 10
Koffler, Lionel, 371
Kogawa, Joy, 342
Kolber, Leo, 128
Kovalski, Maryann, 370
Krantz, Judith, 180
Kundera, Milan, 414
LaMarsh, Judy, 252
Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage, 43n
L’Amour, Louis, 180, 218
Lane, Patrick, 123
Lansdowne, Fenwick, 270
Laporte, Pierre, 13, 159
Laurence, Margaret, 19, 77, 81, 137, 145–51, 165, 166, 173, 183, 192, 193, 228, 253
A Bird in the House, 42, 145, 146
The Diviners, 146–47, 149–50, 310, 431
The Olden Days Coat, 42, 182n
The Stone Angel, 145, 148, 150, 311
This Side Jordan, 309
Lautens, Gary:
How Pierre and I Saved the Civilized World, 276n
Peace, Mrs. Packard and the Meaning of Life, 276
Take My Family . . . Please!, 276n
Lawrence, D. H., 54
Lawrence, R. D., 336–37
In Praise of Wolves, 336
The Natural History of Canada, 336
The Shark, 336
Trail of the Wolf, 336
Layton, Aviva, 103, 117, 118, 120, 186, 187n
Layton, David, 117, 120, 187
Layton, Irving,
53, 81, 115–20, 121, 122, 166, 182, 186–87, 228, 424
“The Bull Calf,” 115–16
The Collected Poems of Irving Layton, 118–19, 120
“The Death of Moishe Lazarovitch,” 116
Engagements: The Prose of Irving Layton, 120
“For Anna,” 103
Love Where the Nights Are Long, 50
Nail Polish, 120
Selected Poems, 124
“Song for Naomi,” 120
The Swinging Flesh, 121
“There Were No Signs,” 119
The Uncollected Irving Layton, 119–20
“A Wild Peculiar Joy,” 116
Leacock, Stephen, 21
League of Canadian Poets, 123
Leah, Aunt “Lilo,” 62–63, 191, 203, 209–10
Leddy, Mary Jo, 420
Lee, Alma, 77
Lee, Bruce, 94
Lee, Dennis, 52, 55, 88, 107n, 123, 137, 144, 231, 303, 394–95
Bubblegum Delicious, 394, 395
“The Cat and the Wizard,” 394
“Civil Elegies,” 394
Heart Residence, 430
Riffs, 395
Un, 395
Lefolii, Ken, 267–68, 292
Claims: Adventures in the Gold Trade, 284, 363–64
Lemelin, Roger, 83, 150
Lenin, V. I., 7, 34
Lennox, John, 310n
Lespérance, Pierre, 299, 300
Lessing, Doris, 275
Lester, Malcolm, 341, 343–44, 348, 370
Lester & Orpen Dennys (L&OD), 320, 341, 342–45, 348, 359, 360
Lester Publishing, 348–50, 370
Lévesque, René, 253, 259, 298
Levine, Michael, 307
Levine, Norman, 344
Lewis, David, 117, 305
Lies My Father Told Me (film), 33
Lighthouse, The (text by Edmonds and Porter), 269
List Verlag, 326–27
Literary Guild book club, 21, 319
Livesay, Dorothy, 113
Livingston, John, 333
One Cosmic Instant: A Natural History of Human Arrogance, 233
Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication, 233
Loewen, Charles, 342
LongPen, 66, 411
Lorenzini, Amleto, Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum, 119
Lorimer, Jim, 84
Lougheed, Jeanne, 295, 296
Lougheed, Peter, 253, 284–86, 294, 295, 296, 298
Low, Wailan, 41, 111, 112, 113
Lowry, Malcolm, 53, 114
Ludwig, Jack:
A Woman of Her Age, 109n
and Canada-Russia hockey, 109
Lumumba, Patrice, 288
Lunn, Janet, and Christopher Moore, The Story of Canada, 344
Lynch, Charlie, 261, 285
MacDonald, Flora, 85
MacDougall, Allan, 45, 371
MacEwen, Gwendolyn, 123
Macfarlane, John, 241, 244
MacInnis, Joe, 277
Saving the Oceans, 338
Mackenzie, John (Jack), 338n
MacLaren, Roy, 245
Maclean Hunter, 241, 289
Maclean’s, 108, 125, 127, 193, 199, 220n, 248, 258, 363, 394, 401
mass walkout (1964), 267
MacLennan, Hugh, 183, 253
MacLeod, Alistair, 220n
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun, 22