Rhône River
Rich, Mokoto
Richler, Mordecai
Riegelmann, Edward
Riegelmann Boardwalk, Coney Island
the Right
Ritter, Edward
Ritterman, Phyllis
Riverside Drive
Robards, Jason
Robbins, Harold
The Carpetbaggers
Robin (waitress)
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockwell, George Lincoln
Rockwell, Norman
Rodia, Simon
Roethke, Theodore
roller coasters
Rolling Stone
Romano, Carlin
Rome, Italy
R&R in
Rome, John B.
Romeo Salta restaurant
Ronco Scrivia, Italy
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Teddy
Rose, Si
Rosenberg, Harold
Rosetta’s Lighting and Supplies
Rosoff, Danny “the Count”
Ross, Steve
Rosset, Barney
Rossner, Judith, Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Roth, Henry
Roth, Philip
The Ghost Writer
Portnoy’s Complaint
“Writing American Fiction”
Rothbard, Murray N.
Rover Boy series
R&R (rest and recreation) in the military
in Rome
Ruas, Charles
Rubin, Joseph
Ruderman, Judith
Ruhe, Herbert
Runyon, Damon
Rusk Institute
Russell, Bertrand
Russia
Russian language
Russian Tea Room
Sabbath observance
Sahl, Mort
St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University
St. Croix
Saint-Tropez, France
Sale, Faith
Sale, Richard B.
Sales, Grover
Saliba, Keith
Salinger, J. D.
Catcher in the Rye
Franny and Zooey
Salkin, Zygmunt
Salter, James
Sammy the Pig’s pool room, Coney Island
Samuel 1 and 2 (Bible)
Samuel French
San Angelo, Texas
Sanford, Jay
San Remo bar, MacDougal Street, New York
Santa Ana Army Air Base, Santa Ana, California
Santa Anita racetrack, Los Angeles
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe Railroad
Saroyan, William
Hello Out There
The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Review
Save Washington Square Committee
Sawyer, Tom
Scapegoat company
Schaare, Harry
Schall, Deborah
Schama, Simon, The Embarrassment of Riches
Schiff, Ellen
Schisgal, Murray
schizophrenia
Schlesinger, Arthur
Schulberg, Budd
Schultz, Charles
Schuster, Max
Schwartz, David R.
Schwartz, Gary, Rembrandt: His Life, His Paintings
Schwed, Peter
Turning the Pages
Sea Gate
Sebald, W. G.
Secker & Warburg
Secretariat
Seed, David
The Fiction of Joseph Heller: Against the Grain
Segal, Clancy
Selective Service Act
Sellers, Peter
Sencer, Walter
September 11, 2001, terrorist event
Setzer, Daniel
“Seven against the Sea” (TV drama)
Seventies
Sex and the Single Girl (film)
“Sex in Literature” (panel discussion)
sexual morality
shadchans (marriage brokers)
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, Don
Shaw, Irwin
Sheehy, Gail
Shepherd, Jean
Sheresky, Norman M.
Shipman, Robert Oliver
Shirer, William, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Shorter, Mr. (worked for Western Union)
Show
Shuttleworth, Jack
Siegel, Nat
Siena, Italy
Silvers, Robert
Simon, Dan
Simon, Dick
Simon, Gladys
Simon, Henry
Simon, Neil
The Odd Couple
Simon, Paul
Simon & Schuster
Sinatra, Frank
Sinclair, Upton
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Singer, Israel
sitting shivah
Sixties
S. Klein’s
Sloan, Tom
Sloan-Kettering
Slocum, Bob (character)
Slum Clearance Committee
Smith, Cork
Smith, Gordon
Smith, Liz
Snoqualmie Valley (Washington) School District
Snowden (character)
Snyder, Richard E.
Sobel, Dava
socialism
Socrates
“Sodom by the Sea”
Solotaroff, Ted
Something Happened (novel)
conception and writing of
critical assessment of
early published extracts
editing and revisions
JH’s assessment of
publication and sales
publicity for
reviews of
“something happened” (shout)
Sontag, Susan
Southern, Terry
South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles
Special Committee on Un-American Activities
Spillane, Mickey
Spinoza
Spitz, Bob
Spock, Benjamin
The Pocket Book of Baby and Child Care
Sports Illustrated
Spy
Stafford, Jean
Stan Kenton’s Orchestra
Staten Island
Steeplechase Park, Coney Island
Stein, Gertrude
Stein, Harry
Stein, Joe
Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
In Dubious Battle
The Winter of Our Discontent
Steinfels, Peter
Stern, Richard
Stevens, John Paul
Stevenson, Adlai
Stimson, Henry L.
Stohl, Phyllis
Stone, Irving, The Agony and the Ecstasy
Stone, Robert
Story
Straitfeld, David
Stretton, Trudi
Strongsville, Ohio, Board of Education
Stuart, Lyle
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Students for a Democratic Society
Styron, William
Sophie’s Choice
suburbanization
success, gospel of
Sullivan, Miss
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays
Superman
Surprise Lake camp
Susann, Jacqueline
Swaim, Don
Sweeney (pet dog)
Swift, Jonathan
Swindell, Larry
Sylbert, Richard
Tallman, Frank
Tapman, Charles Allan
Tappman/Shipman (character)
Tattler (Grossinger daily bulletin)
Taub, Jerome
Taub family
Tchaikovsky, Peter
Tebbel, John, and Mary Ellen Zuckerman, The Magazine in America
Tehran restaurant, New York
television
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Tet Offensive
Texas
Texas Jewboys
Texas Theater, San Angelo, Texas
Theatre Development Fund
Theatre of the Absurd
Thelma and Louise (film)
“The Pulitzer Prize Plays” (M.A. thesis)
Thiesselin, Marie-Thérèse
“This Is Called ‘National Defense,’” 509n336
Thomas, Dylan
Thomas, Everett B.
Thomas, Norman
Thucydides
Tilyou, George C.
Tilyou, Kathryn
Time
Time-Life Building
Time-Life Corporation
Timely Comics
Tivoli
Togetherness
Tolkin, Mel
Tolstoy, Leo
Toman, Marshall, Studies in Contemporary Satire
Tom Swift tales
Toobin, Jeffrey
Torah
Towbin, Bob
Toynbee, Philip
Tribble, Hy
Trieste
The Trieste Manuscripts (film script)
Trillin, Calvin
Trilling, Diana
Trilling, Lionel
The Liberal Imagination
The Middle of the Journey
True Detective
Truffaut, François
Truman, Harry
Tucci, Maria
tummler (social director)
Turret, Jack
Twain, Mark
21 restaurant, New York
Tydings Committee
Tynan, Kenneth
underground/alternative press
Underwood, George
United States
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national exhaustion of
twenty-first-century absurd and terrible events
universities, writers and
University of Pennsylvania
University of South Carolina
literary symposium (1995)
University of Southern California
Updike, John
Bech books
Urban, Amanda “Binky”
Uris, Leon
Exodus
Mila 18
U.S. News & World Report
vacations, taking, the American way
Valenti, Jack
van den Boogaard, Ronald
Vandermuelen, Sergeant
Vanity Fair
vaudeville
Vaughan, Sam
V-E Day
veterans
in college
Viagra
Victorville, California
Vidal, Gore
Vietnam War
Viking
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Viola (family housekeeper)
Virginia (coworker)
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Vogue
Voltaire
Vonnegut, Kurt
Cat’s Cradle
Vortrees, Bob
Wadler, Joyce
Wagner, Richard
Wagner, Robert F.
Wakefield, Dan
New York in the Fifties
Waldman, Tom and Frank
Walker, Lou Ann
Walther, LuAnn
Warburg, Fredric
War Diaries (of military units)
Warhol, Andy
Warner, Time
Warner Bros.
war novels
Warshow, Robert
Washington Post
Washington Square Park
Wasserman, Harriet
Waterbury, Jean Parker
Watergate affair
Watts district, Los Angeles
Waugh, Evelyn
Wayne, John
Weatherby, W. J.
Weathermen
We Bombed in New Haven (play)
Broadway production
rehearsals
reviews
Weidman, Jerome, I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Weintraub, Stanley
Welles, Orson
Wells, Mary
Wertham, Fredric, Seduction of the Innocents
West, Jessamyn
West, Nathanael
The Day of the Locust
West 11th Street, New York, bombing
West 76th Street apartment
West End Bar, New York
“Western Craze”
Western Union
West Side, New York City
Weybright, Victor
Whitman, Walt
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Whyte, William, The Organization Man
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Wiesel, Elie
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Wietrak, Bob
Wilder, Billy
Wiles, William
William Morrow
Williams, Tennessee
Willkie, Wendell
Wilson, Sloan
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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Winkler family
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WNYC
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Wolfe, Thomas (1920s writer)
Wolfe, Tom
Woman’s Home Companion
women, seducing
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs)
women’s magazine fiction
Women’s Studies
Wonder Wheel, Coney Island
Wood, David
Wood, Joanne
Wood, Natalie
Wood, Paul S.
Woodstock Nation
Woodward, Bob
and Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men
Woolf, Virginia
The World Is Not Enough (film)
World War II
end of
end stage of
generation
rationing
U.S. enters
veterans
WQXR
Wright, Richard, Black Boy
writers, common in Long Island
Writers Guild of America
Yale Draft Refusal Committee
Yale Drama School
Yale Repertory Theatre
Yardley, Jonathan
Yates, Richard, Revolutionary Road
Yeats, W. B.
Yellin, Pauline
Yellow Submarine
Yiddish humor
Yiddish language
Yiddish theater
YMCA, Westside, New York
Yohannan, Francis “Yo-Yo”
Yom Kippur War
Yossarian (character)
“Your Hit Parade”
Your Show of Shows
Zabar’s
Ziegler, Ronald
Zionism
ALSO BY TRACY DAUGHERTY
Fiction
One Day the Wind Changed
Late in the Standoff
Axeman’s Jazz
It Takes a Worried Man
The Boy Orator
The Woman in the Oil Field
What Falls Away
Desire Provoked
Nonfiction
Hiding Man
Five Shades of Shadow
JUST ONE CATCH. Copyright © 2011 by Tracy Daugherty. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Just one catch : a biography of Joseph Heller / Tracy Daugherty.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-312-59685-9
1. Heller, Joseph. 2. Novelists, American—20th century—Biography. I. Title.
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