Thornton Wilder (124 page)

Dos Passos, John, 342, 525

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 663, 666

Double Dealer,
207, 243

Draper, Ruth, 447, 585

Drevenstedt, Amy, 299, 301

Drummond, Jack, 70

Dryden, John, 631

Duchamp, Marcel, 87–88

Duse, Eleonora, 232

 

Eddy, Nelson, 508

Edinburgh Festival, 624–25, 626, 629, 635

Edington, Harry, 383

Einstein, Albert, 468

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 556

Eldridge, Florence, 532, 544, 554

Eliot, T. S., 6–8, 321, 515, 590, 627, 644

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 343, 615–16

English Book Society, 394

Ercolano, Dario, 184

Erickson, Leif, 649

Erlanger, Abraham Lincoln, 171

Estabrook, Howard, 558

Euripides, 334, 605, 627

Ewell, Tom, 471

 

Fadiman, Clifton, 312, 675

Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 508

Farquhar, George,
The Beaux' Stratagem,
479

Farrar, John, 269

Faulkner, William, 207, 313

Fay, Larry, 352

FBI investigation of TNW, 495–97

Fee, John G., 143

Fenton, Charles, 177

Ferber, Edna, 389, 497

Fielding, Henry, 631

Findley, Timothy, 631, 650, 674

Fisher, Lola, 233

Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 226

Fitts, Norman, 177, 178, 220–21, 238, 245

FitzGerald, Edward, 317

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 199, 284, 318–20, 323, 326

Fitzgerald, Zelda, 199, 284, 319–21

Flaubert, Gustave, 212, 494

Florida:

Army basic training in, 538–40

TNW in, 302, 303, 487–88, 538, 616, 693

Fonda, Henry, 447

Fontaine, Joan, 535

Fontanne, Lynn, 171, 353, 446, 530

Forbes, Mrs. J. Malcolm, 250–51

Foresman, Edwin Clyde “Tubby,” 204–5, 240, 297

Foresman, Grace, 298, 378, 379, 385

Forster, E. M., 238, 526

Fowler, John, 431

Franck, César, 238

Frankfurter, Felix, 508

Franklin, Benjamin, 609

Freedman, Harold, 359, 447, 533, 545, 562, 566, 660

French, Samuel, 288, 359, 460, 624

French, Warren, 675

Frenz, Horst, 645

Freud, Anna, 408, 477, 632

Freud, Sigmund, 404, 408–9, 427, 438, 467, 475, 477, 491, 500, 637, 671, 694–95

Friedmann, Ernestine, 411, 515

Frost, Robert, 141, 634

 

Gable, Clark, 539

Gale, Zona, 232

Galloway, David, 675

Gallup, Donald, 679, 696

Gammon, Agnes, 156

Garbo, Greta, 383, 385

Garrison, William Lloyd, 6

Gaston, William “Big Bill,” 444

George, Grace, 103, 104, 109

Germany, TNW's speech in, 643–45

Gershwin, George, 298, 354, 413

Gielgud, John, 417, 650

Gilbert and Sullivan, 560

Gish, Lillian, 354, 590, 643

Glasheen, Adaline, 647, 648

Glenn, Leslie, 297, 353, 366, 392, 395, 396, 397, 508

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 404, 426, 581, 587, 601–3, 605, 607, 608, 645, 694

Goethe Festival, 599–603

Goethe University, 645

Gold, Michael, 342–44, 350, 435

Goldoni, Carlo, 404

Goldsmith, Oliver, 603, 631, 685

Goldstein, Malcolm, 310

Goldstone, Richard H., 679–80

Goldwyn, Samuel, 384, 386, 389

González Ochoa, Fernando, 519

Goodliffe, Michael, 630

Goodspeed, Bobsy (Mrs. Charles), 354, 393, 395, 403, 417, 469

Gordon, David J., 675

Gordon, Ruth:

and acting, 241, 385, 406, 417, 419, 532, 537, 545

in
A Doll's House,
443, 445, 462

and friendship, 353, 395, 418, 553, 631

and Jed Harris, 349, 443–45, 446, 447, 462

and
Merchant/Matchmaker,
469–70, 532, 621, 624–26

TNW's letters to, 354, 356, 360, 395, 519, 520, 572, 581, 658, 663, 665, 666, 678, 689, 693

and TNW's memorial service, 702

Goucher College, Baltimore, 243

Goyette, A. Erland, 451

Grant, Cary, 535, 603, 604

Great Depression, 352, 358, 383, 386, 391, 419, 427, 463

Green, Paul, 385, 386

Greenbaum, Anita, 449

Grillparzer, Franz, 404

Guinan, Texas, 352, 356–57

Guthrie, Ramon, 177

Guthrie, Tyrone, 419, 621, 624–25, 629–30

Guynemer, Georges, 150, 154, 167

 

Haberman, Donald, 177

Hadden, Briton, 176–77, 228

Hadley, Arthur Twining, 149

Hamilton, David, 355

Hammerstein, Oscar I, 463

Handel, George Frideric,
Xerxes,
393–94, 398

Harding, Ann, 419

Hardy, Robert, 630

Harkness, Edward S., 239

Harper & Brothers/Harper & Row, 315, 388, 472, 580, 584, 669, 684

Harper's Magazine,
324

Harriman, Averell, 504

Harris, Jed, 317, 348–49, 353, 390, 395, 418, 419, 455, 462, 537, 567

and
Our Town,
443–54, 460, 465, 472–73, 474, 475, 476, 479, 523, 559, 560, 572

and
Skin,
523, 530, 531

Harris, Jones, 349, 418–19, 462

Harris, Rosemary, 630

Harris, Tom, 347

Hart, Moss, 481, 555

Harvard University:

honorary degree from, 613–14, 645

Norton lectures in, 607, 608, 609–13

“Thoughts for Our Times” address at, 613–14

TNW at, 605, 615, 622

Havoc, June, 649

Hawks, Howard, 603, 604

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 615, 663

Hayes, Helen, 171, 385, 406, 418, 447, 636, 649

Hazlitt, William, 322

Heap, Jane, 198

Hearst, William Randolph, 385, 386

Hecht, Ben, 620

Heckart, Eileen, 643

Heeney, Tom, 318, 325

Heflin, Van, 359

Heifetz, Jascha, 447

Hellman, Lillian, 483

Hemingway, Ernest, 160, 199, 278, 281–82, 283, 292, 298, 302, 313, 319, 323, 326, 332, 343, 455

Hemingway, Hadley, 281, 282

Hemingway, John “Bumby,” 281, 282

Hendrickson, George Lincoln, 180, 181

Henri, Robert, 112

Hepburn, Katharine, 362, 383, 497

Herlihy, James Leo, 675

Herlitschka, H. E., 639

Herrick, Mollie, 385

Hesse, Hermann, 640

Heyward, DuBose and Dorothy, 298

Hicks, Granville, 675

Hindemith, Gertrude, 650

Hindemith, Paul, 649–50

Hirsch, Sidney, 450

Hitchcock, Alfred, 489, 534–36, 537

Hitler, Adolf, 427, 461, 481

Hobart, John, 468, 560

Hobson, George and Helen, 111

Hollywood, TNW in, 383–87, 462–64, 535–36

Homer, 246

Honegger, Arthur, 620

Hong Kong:

APW as U.S. consul general in, 15, 16, 21–23, 25, 29–30, 31

Wilder family in, 18–25

Hopkins, Arthur, 154, 163, 360, 566, 597, 605

Horgan, Paul, 538, 694

Horowitz, Vladimir, 354

Huebsch, Benjamin W., 546

Hughes, Gareth, 131, 154–56, 163

Hughes, Rupert, 385

Hull, Cordell, 507, 531

Hunter, Glenn, 171–72

Hunter, Ian, 626

Hunter, Mary (Wolfe), 590

Hu Shih, 526

Husted, L. B., 65

Hutchins, Maude, 354–55, 523–24, 526

Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 274, 331, 345–46, 354, 355, 415–16, 471, 505, 523–24, 526, 536, 592, 593, 597, 599, 600, 601, 679, 688, 702

Hutton, Barbara (Reventlow), 535

 

Ibsen, Henrik, 214, 243, 254

A Doll's House,
443, 445, 451, 462, 467, 468

Indig, Otto,
Die Braut von Torozko,
359

Indy, Vincent d', 238

Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle, Paris, 429–30

Isaacs, Edith, 221, 222, 232, 233, 236, 240–41, 242, 253

Italy, TNW in, 182–92

 

Jackson, Stonewall, 5

Jaffe, Sam, 359

James, Henry, 607, 609, 615, 638

The Ambassadors,
224

The Aspern Papers,
157, 158

The Awkward Age,
213

The Wings of the Dove,
191, 213

James, William, 108, 139

Jameson, Storm, 526

Jeffers, Robinson, 343, 389

John XXIII, Pope, 663

Johnson, Lady Bird, 666

Johnson, Lyndon B., 654, 660, 663

Johnson, Samuel, 207, 335, 631

Jonson, Ben,
The Alchemist,
286

Jordan, Edward S., 10

Jouve, Pierre Jean,
Paulina,
293, 295, 296

Jouvet, Louis, 477

Joyce, James, 216, 262, 407, 493, 556, 595, 601

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
546

death of, 546

Finnegans Wake,
478, 481, 482, 486, 490–91, 545–49, 556, 594, 596, 641, 642, 647–48, 672–73

Ulysses,
198, 246–47, 263

Jung, Carl Gustav, 438, 637, 669

 

Kafka, Franz, 568, 571, 605, 635, 645

Kanin, Garson, 572, 621, 624, 631, 658, 663, 666, 678, 689, 693

Kauffmann, Stanley, 675

Kaufman, George S., 447, 481, 555

Kazan, Elia, 481, 531–32, 540, 566

Keats, John, 186, 238

Keedick, Lee, 314, 316, 330, 339, 344, 386, 387, 412

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