Thornton Wilder (125 page)

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