Keller, Ruth, 102
Kennedy, John F., 653, 654, 660, 663
Kent, Rockwell, 301
Keppel, Frederick Paul, 429
Kesselring, Joseph, 560
Kierkegaard, Søren, 568, 571, 581, 597, 599, 601, 605, 606, 607, 608, 626–27, 640, 669
Kilty, Jerome, 649
King, Henry C., 128
Kingsley, Sidney, 548
Klaw, Marcus, 171
Knowles, John, 675
Kommer, Rudolf, 113, 114, 221–22, 284
Kreisler, Fritz, 403
Kuehl, Lester Martin, 560
Kummer, Clare, 232
Labriolle, Pierre de, 209–10
La Bruyère, Jean de, 263
La Farge, Oliver, 332
La Follette, Robert M., 12, 15, 16–17
Lake Sunapee Summer School and Camp, 273, 298–99
Landor, Walter Savage, 580
Langner, Lawrence, 649
Lauder, Polly (Tunney), 318, 326, 332, 348
Laughton, Charles, 385
Lawrence, D. H., 389
Lawrence School, New Jersey, 202–5, 208–11, 214–15, 216, 222, 231, 238, 245, 297–98, 300–301
Lawson, John Howard, 342
Layton, William “Bill,” 558, 568
Lederer, Charles, 385
Le Grand, Roland and Eileen, 561, 570, 682, 699
Lehmann, Lotte, 657
Leigh, Vivien, 557, 562, 577, 627, 631, 660
Leighton, Clare, 301
Lenormand, Henri, 233
Lesser, Sol, 479–80, 482–84, 488, 535, 538, 566, 694, 697
Lewis, Sinclair, 278, 284, 313, 319, 443, 444
Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon “Lefty,” 70, 148, 679, 702
Libin, Paul, 651
Library of Congress, 507–8
Lillie, Beatrice, 557
Literary Guild, 300, 688
Little Leather Library, 242, 300
Little Women (film), 362, 363, 669
Liveright, Horace, 242
Livingston, Robert, 523
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 193–94
Longmans, Green & Company, Ltd., 270, 278, 293, 296, 327, 479
Lord, Pauline, 418
Lowell, Amy, 238
Lowrie, Walter, 581
Lowry, Howard, 613
Luce, Clare Boothe, 477, 481
Luce, Henry, 43, 53, 176–77, 178, 189, 228, 278, 415–16, 454, 477, 666
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 293–94, 362, 385, 388–90, 395, 396, 399, 400, 403, 407–8, 412, 414, 427, 428, 429, 482, 531, 658
Luhan, Tony, 389, 658
Lunt, Alfred, 171, 353, 446, 530
MacArthur, Charles, 418, 447
MacDowell, Edward, 246, 678
MacDowell, Marian, 233, 236
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, 233–34, 236–38, 272, 298, 327, 331, 425, 451, 490, 491, 630, 665, 678
MacKaye, Percy, 86, 120
MacLaine, Shirley, 646
MacLeish, Archibald, 507–8, 525, 530, 539, 562, 565
Mainzer, Ferdinand, 581
Maney, Richard, 543
Mann, Delbert, 652
Mann, Ted, 651–52
Mann, Thomas, 238, 403, 404
March, Fredric, 532, 545, 554
Marin, John, 389
Marks, Nehemiah, 2
Marquand, John P., 589
Marsh, Sir Edward Howard, 437
Marsh, Reginald, 174
Martin, Mary, 636, 648
Mason, Lawrence, 148
Massey, Raymond, 418, 508
Maugham, Somerset, 413
Mayan ruins, TNW’s interest in, 579
Maynard family, 66, 71–72
McCarthy, Frank, 42, 53
McClellan, Edwin, 234
McClintic, Guthrie, 359, 360, 395, 418
McCormick, Edith Rockefeller, 354
McCullough, Duff, 323
McDonell, Gordon, 534, 537
McKay, Claude, 429
Mediterranean Allied Armed Forces (MAAF), 559
Meeker, Arthur, Jr., 355
Melville, Herman, 438–39, 595, 607, 608, 609, 610, 615, 616, 632, 663
Menander, 334
Mencken, H. L., 430, 548
Mendell, Clarence W., 180, 201
Mérimée, Prosper, Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement, 303, 305
Merlini, Elsa, 573
Merrick, David, 626
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 198, 354
Miller, Gilbert, 359
Millis, Walter, 159, 176, 666
Milton, John, 207
Miracle in the Rain (film), 620
Misses Masters Boarding and Day School, 4, 117, 186
Molière, 238, 404, 461, 468, 549
Monhegan Island, Maine, 112–13
Moody, Dwight L., 106
Moore, George, 112, 126, 135
Moore, Henry, 620
Morand, Paul, 208, 212
Moulton, George, 357
Mount Hermon School, 105, 106–11
Muir, Edwin, 312
Munnecke, Wilbur C., 599
Munsey, Frank A., 3
Murphy, George, 61, 76
Murphy, Gerald, 417
Murray, Ebenezer, 53
Mussolini, Benito, 282, 427, 467, 584, 585
Myerberg, Michael, 531, 532, 540, 543, 544, 554
Nathan, George Jean, 548, 549
National Book Award, 669, 675
National Conference of Christians and Jews, 591
National Medal for Literature, 666
Nestroy, Johann, 404, 420, 456, 468
Neville, John, 630
New Haven:
house on Deepwood Drive, 329–30, 365, 469, 667
opening of Skin of Our Teeth in, 541–43
New Haven Journal-Courier, 188, 208, 217, 323, 329
Newman, Paul, 652
Newport:
and Theophilus North, 686
TNW in, 205–6, 213, 226
New Republic, 180, 199, 342–44
Newton, Charles, 353
New York Times, 286–87, 325
Nichols, Bill, 276, 280, 281, 284, 287, 290, 292–93, 294–95, 325, 351, 353
Nicolson, Harold, 413
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 359, 390, 426, 433, 601, 645, 670
Niven, Archibald Campbell, 5
Niven, Charlotte (aunt), 230, 331, 417, 563, 577
early years of, 5
in Europe, 47, 49, 55, 174, 327, 403, 526–27
in Florida, 487, 664
health problems of, 664–65
and YWCA, 5, 47, 174, 200, 311, 327, 526, 561
Niven, Elizabeth Lewis, 4, 5, 47, 49, 55, 122, 216, 222–23
Niven, Thornton, 222, 223
Niven, Thornton MacNess, Jr., 4, 5
Niven, Thornton MacNess, Sr., 4
Niven family, 4-5
Noy, Henry, 323
Oberlin, John Frederic, 94–95
Oberlin College:
ANW as student in, 73, 75, 77, 78, 83, 94, 96, 123, 147
founding of, 6, 94
honorary degrees from, 617
mission of, 94–95, 345
TNW as student in, 89, 91–92, 94–98, 99–104, 114, 116, 117–22, 123, 124–26, 131–33, 134–36
and World War I, 128–29, 130, 133
Oberlin Literary Magazine, 101, 103, 126, 142, 243
Obey, André, Le viol de Lucrèce, 359–60, 468
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 389
Olivier, Laurence, 413, 461, 562, 577, 590, 607, 627, 631
Oñativia, Elizabeth, 234
O’Neil, Jim, 699
O’Neill, Eugene, 213, 239, 643
Ortega y Gasset, José, 600
Our Town (TNW), 341–42, 478–80, 500, 552
awards for, 451–52, 459, 460, 465–66
evolution of, 382, 399–400, 402, 406, 418, 421–23, 425, 426–27, 428, 436–37, 442, 460–61, 475, 479–80, 549, 554, 559, 573, 648, 652, 667
and Harris, 443–54, 460, 465, 472–73, 474, 475, 476, 479, 523, 559, 560, 572
movies of, 479–80, 482–83, 488–89, 519, 694, 697
production of, 443–49, 450–52, 454, 468, 489, 534, 573, 645, 646, 667
sources of, 426–27, 440, 458–59
structure of, 350, 422, 442, 447, 470, 475, 503, 635, 702
success of, 342, 363, 449, 452, 453, 456, 460, 467, 554
themes in, 185, 266, 337, 362, 384, 415, 422, 423–24, 425, 440–41, 442, 448, 535, 555, 628–29, 673, 674, 687
TNW’s acting in, 465, 466, 469, 477, 495, 607–8, 647
Ouspenskya, Maria, 175
Oxenford, John, 468
Paepcke, Walter, 599
Palestrina, 608
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), 86–87
Panofsky, Erwin, 634
Paris:
American expatriates in, 198–99
TNW in, 196–200, 216, 262, 283–84
Paris Service, 115–16
Parsons, Louella, 463
Pascal, Blaise, 688
Pauling, Linus, 321
Pavlova, Anna, 99
PEN International, 526–27
Pepys, Samuel, 631
Perichole, 305, 307, 308, 310, 311, 333, 499
Perkins, Anthony, 646
Phelps, William Lyon, 27, 151, 174, 216, 233, 236, 269, 294, 321
Picasso, Pablo, 406, 409–10, 695
Pickford, Mary, 354, 385
Pinchot, Rosamond, 444, 449–50, 462
Pirandello, Luigi, 192, 214, 232, 238, 254
Plato, 407, 580, 694
Platt, Louise, 449
Pocket Books, 456
Poe, Edgar Allan, 225, 607, 608, 609, 610, 615, 616, 690
Poetry, 546
Porter, Cole, 413, 535
Porter family, 2
Pound, Ezra, 192, 198, 207
Praskins, Leonard, 386
Pratt, John, 400
Preminger, Otto, 465, 546
Prescott, William H., 226
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 660, 663
Princeton:
Our Town tryout in, 445, 448–49
TNW as student in, 240, 251–52, 254, 260
TNW’s life in, 259–60, 271, 273
Producers’ Showcase (TV), 652
Proust, Marcel, 199, 208, 212, 224, 238, 244, 263, 320
Pulitzer Prize, 313, 322, 352, 459, 460, 465, 549
Purdy, Theodore, Jr., 269
Quebec, TNW in, 494–95, 499, 505–7
Quintero, José, 651–52, 698
Ray, Satyajit, 699
Redgrave, Sir Michael, 590
Redgrave, Vanessa, 693
Reed, Florence, 533, 544, 552
Reed, John, 389
Reinhardt, Max, 113, 221, 222, 284, 290, 403, 409, 444, 465, 475, 476, 493, 497
and Merchant, 455–56, 458, 460, 461–64, 467, 469–73
Remarque, Erich Maria, 433
Remisoff, Nicolai, 470
Renan, Ernest, 263
Rennie, Thomas, 558, 575
Repplier, Agnes, 269
Reville, Alma, 537
Rexroth, Kenneth, 429
Ribera, Andrés de, 305
Rice, Elmer, 497
RKO Studios, 383, 386
Robeson, Paul, 406
Robinson, Edward G., 463
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 233, 237, 240, 298, 313
Robinson, Henry Morton, 545–48, 555–56
Rodgers, Richard, 648
Rogers, Ginger, 427
Rogers, Will, 385
Romains, Jules, 199–200
Rome:
American Academy in, 180, 186, 236–37, 437, 580
TNW in, 180, 184–92, 193–94, 196, 216, 262, 278, 423–24, 441, 579
in TNW’s writings, 197, 262, 263, 362, 363, 426, 580, 601
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 453–54, 497–98, 508
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 427, 467, 496, 497, 498–99, 503, 505, 507, 564
Roosevelt, Theodore, 15, 17, 115
Rorem, Ned, 648
Rouault, Georges, 620
Rubinstein, Arthur, 354
S4N, 177–78, 220, 243, 245
Sackville-West, Vita, 312, 413
Saint, Eva Marie, 652
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de, 263
Salzburg Music Festival, 403, 433
Sandburg, Carl, 224, 343
San Francisco Chronicle, 468
Sankey, Ira D., 143
Saroyan, William, 643
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 571–72, 667
Morts sans sépulture, 572, 581, 590
Saturday Review of Literature, 161, 176, 545–49, 555–56
Saurat, Denis, 526
Scherman, Harry, 300
Schweitzer, Albert, 205, 600, 612, 640, 644
Scott, Evelyn, 411, 515, 517, 557–58, 576
Scott, Geoffrey, 515
Scott, Martha, 452, 697, 698
Selznick, David O., 444, 463
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 298, 621
Service, Robert, “The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” 301
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Mme de, 213, 224, 230, 263, 272, 308, 311, 317
Shackleton, Sir Ernest, 316
Shadow of a Doubt (film), 534–36, 537–38
Shakespeare, William, 101, 321, 322, 408, 597, 607, 631, 638
Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 198, 262, 278
Shanghai, see China
Sharpe, John C., 201
Shaw, George Bernard, 419, 612, 649
Shaw, Robert, 693
Sheldon, Edward “Ned,” 239, 353, 421, 427, 443, 447–48, 532, 544, 553, 578, 584, 585
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 584
Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock, 294
Sherrill, Gibbs, 294
Sherwood, Robert, 497, 504
Shikibu, Murasaki, The Tale of Genji, 666
Shore, Dinah, 652
Shumlin, Herman, 469
Simonds, Bruce, 246, 329
Sinatra, Frank, 652
Sinclair, Upton, 313
Skin of Our Teeth, The (TNW), 551
characters and plot of, 185, 439, 500–503, 513–14, 535, 542–43
evolution of, 428, 491, 492–94, 507, 509, 522, 523, 528, 529, 530–31, 543, 648
and Finnegans Wake, 545–49, 555, 641, 642
success of, 543, 545, 573, 574, 645
themes in, 503–5, 641, 642
and war, 492–93, 504–5, 528, 529, 542, 548, 574
Skirball, Jack, 535
Smith, Frederick James, 333
social revolutionary writers, 342–43
Sophocles, 476, 695
Sousa, John Philip, 7
South America, goodwill tour of, 507–8, 509, 510, 511–12, 519–20, 581, 598, 614
Spooner, John Coit, 12, 15, 16
Squirrel Island, Maine, 111–12
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 253
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 316
Steichen, Edward, 663
Stein, Gertrude, 354, 389, 395–97, 410, 414, 418, 472, 484, 519–20, 529, 552, 599
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 393
and creativity, 406, 578, 694
death of, 578, 609, 694
in Europe, 399, 400–401, 402, 403, 409–10, 412, 419, 429, 430, 467, 475, 477, 478, 481, 487, 525
Everybody’s Autobiography, 393, 396, 430–31
Four in America, 405, 578, 591
The Geographical History of America, 405–7, 440
and Harris, 446, 454–55
Ida A Novel, 430
influence of, 407, 427, 430, 440, 441, 442, 468, 581, 601
The Making of Americans, 425, 440, 441
Narration, 405
papers archived at Yale, 454
and patriotism, 410
and repetition, 406, 440–41
on solitude, 506, 612
TNW’s article about, 591
at University of Chicago, 393, 396, 398
&n
bsp; and war, 419, 467, 478, 487
Steinbeck, John, 466
Sten, Anna, 384
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 88
Steward, Samuel, 433–38, 439, 523
Stewart, Rosalie, 383, 398–99, 476, 534
Stifter, Adalbert, 404
Stokowski, Leopold, 531
Stout, Rex, 497, 527, 552
Stowitts, Hubert Jay, 99
Strachey, Lytton, 207, 263
Strand, Paul, 389
Strobel, Mabel, 355
Sturges, Preston, 386
Sun Yat-sen, 52
Taft, William Howard, 16, 38–39, 58, 66, 87
Tal, Lucy, 433
Talma, Louise, 634, 639, 647, 652–53, 657, 668, 674, 679
Taos, TNW in, 388–90, 396, 658
Tappan, Arthur, 6, 94–95
Tappan, Lewis, 6, 94–95
Taylor, Bill, 163
Taylor, Deems, 447
Taylor, Elizabeth, 619
Taylor, H. C., 81
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 669–70, 673
Terence, 327, 334
Thacher, Sherman, 37, 56–57, 58, 65, 69, 73, 125, 216, 338
Thacher School, California, 37, 52, 56, 58, 64, 66–70, 144, 338
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 631
Theatre Arts Monthly, 240–41, 243
Theatre Guild, 472, 626, 649
Thimig, Helene, 463, 467
Thomas, Lewis, 698
Thompson, Dorothy, 508
Thompson, Francis, 515
Thoreau, Henry David, 343, 607, 608, 609, 610, 616, 617
Tiffany, Charles, 409
Time, 177, 228, 623
Tinker, Chauncey, 151, 176, 216, 303–4
Toklas, Alice B., 395–96, 430–31, 578, 589, 604
and Stein, see Stein, Gertrude
Tolstoy, Leo, 253, 663, 666
Toomer, Jean, 177, 207
Torrey, Frederick Cheever, 87–88
Toscanini, Arturo, 403
Townson, Andrew “Andy,” 274, 275–79
Townson, Marie, 279, 287, 298, 300, 301, 302
Traugott, Harry J., 564
Trego, Nina, 130, 135, 156–57, 292
Trolley, June and Leonard, 570, 580
Trudeau, Edward Livingston, 5
Truman, Harry S., 608
Tunney, Gene, 302–3, 313, 314, 317–18, 321–23, 325–26, 332, 333, 339, 343, 348, 353, 390, 691
Tunney, Polly Lauder, 318, 325, 326, 332, 348
Tyler, Marion, 121
Ulrich, Dorothy (Troubetzkoy), 426
UNESCO International Conference on the Artist in Contemporary Society, 620–21, 666
Universal Pictures, 535
University of Basel, 646
University of Chicago, 331, 332, 333–34, 339, 347, 360, 390, 397
ANW’s work at, 617
Janet as Ph.D. candidate in, 415
lecture program in Germany, 592, 593
Stein’s lectures at, 393, 396, 398
TNW’s teaching at, 341, 345–46, 355, 365, 393, 412, 414–15, 420, 522–23, 599