Brown, Tom, 218–21
Browning, Robert, 14, 114, 162, 181
Browning, Taylor, 3, 4
Bryan, Christopher, 124
Bryant, Alton, 290
Burkhead, Bill, 3, 92–93, 115, 151–52, 153, 155–56
Buzzard Roost, 153–54, 157
Byron, George Gordon Lord, 114, 164
Caesar, Gaius Julius, 14, 122
Caetani, Marguerite, 264
Canada, 66, 308, 322–23, 330–31
C. & G. railroad, 48, 127
Carroll, Charles, 6
Carroll, Lewis, 121, 282
Carroll Academy, 129
Carroll County, Miss., 10, 56, 132
Carrollton, Miss., 3, 6–7, 11–14, 22, 27, 34, 44–50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 61–66, 69, 70, 74–79, 83, 87, 111, 112, 122, 127–39, 141, 149–51, 153, 156–57, 160, 182–83, 206–7, 226, 231, 235, 236, 252, 254, 265, 286, 289, 291, 303, 313, 325, 328–29
Carrollton massacre, 156–57, 183, 236
Carter, Hodding, 259, 288–89
Carter-Foy, Alice, 266
Cater, Dorothy, 304–5
Cather, Willa, 177–78, 323
Catherine of Aragon (Mattingly), 265
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams), 301
Cellini, Benvenuto, 120, 279, 318
Centennial Park, 173, 194
Chapel Hill, N.C., 332
Charbonneau, 213, 215–16
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 162
Cheever, John, 251, 302–3, 310–11, 324
Cheever, Mary, 302–3, 310–11
Cheever, Susan, 310–11
Chekhov, Anton, 33, 209, 264, 266
Chickasaw Indians, 45
Choctaw Indians, 11, 39–47
Christian Science, 199, 321
Ciardi, John, 247
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 34
Ciocciara, La (Moravia), 269
Civil War, 10, 12, 43, 49, 71, 79, 91–92, 123–24, 132, 155, 163, 164, 176, 233
Clark, Eleanor, 251, 302–3, 304, 311–12
Clay, David, 196–99, 200–201, 205–6, 249, 255, 299–300, 304, 312–13, 318–19, 321, 323
Clay, Justine (“Dusty”), 198–99, 255, 299, 304, 321, 323
“Clementina” (Cheever), 311
Colman, Ronald, 130
Columbus, Miss., 204, 234
Conrad, Joseph, 178, 208
Cornish Childhood, A (Rowse), 309
Cornwall, 307–10
Cory, Daniel, 265, 280
Cory, Margot, 265, 280
“Country Husband, The” (Cheever), 302
Coward, Noël, 162
Craig, Harry, 266–73
Cranes on Dying River, The (Olson), 142
Crawford, Joan, 130
Crosby, Bing, 130
Cully, Nina, 87
Curry, Walter Clyde, 123, 166
Curtain of Green, A (Welty), 167–68
Damnation of Faust, The (Berlioz), 228
Dante Alighieri, 210, 272–73
D’Arcy, Father, 275
Davidson, Donald, 167, 173–85, 187, 188, 191, 193, 194, 196, 246–50
“Death of Little Boys, The” (Tate), 180
de Gaulle, Charles, 331
De Havilland, Olivia, 319
Delia Robbia, Luca, 279
Della Wedding (Welty), 203
Depression, Great, 111, 124, 133, 137, 149, 189, 194
De Sica, Vittorio, 262
Dickens, Charles, 34, 35, 54, 123
Dinesen (pension), 261–63, 265, 277, 280, 281
Dinosaur Fund, The (Vartan), 257
Dodd, Edward, 198, 249
Dodd, Mead, 196–99, 205–6, 249, 255, 286
Donatello, 279
Donley, John, 40
Donley, Priscilla, see Leflore, Priscilla Donley
Donley, Rose, see Leflore, Rose Donley
Donne, John, 181
Dreiser, Theodore, 33, 177
Duse, Eleanora, 209
Eggleston, Frances, 135–37, 157
Eggleston, Hallie, 135–37, 157–58
Eggleston, Sara, 135–36
Eggleston, Sid, 136
Eliot, George, 122, 123
Eliot, T. S., 166, 174, 180, 220, 258, 277
Ellison, Fanny, 312
Ellison, Ralph, 183, 251, 312
“Equilibrists, The” (Ransom), 181
Erskine, Albert, 183, 250, 263
Erskine, Edith, 73–75, 135
Erskine, Peggy, 250–51, 263, 266–73
Evers, Medgar, 292, 296
Fairchild, Diane, 316
Family, The (Ivey), 249
Fathers, The (Tate), 257
Faulkner, William, 45–46, 136, 141, 164–65, 167, 175, 176–77, 178, 183, 204, 208–9, 210–11, 256, 270, 273–75, 293–95, 322, 326, 329
Fédération Libération de Québec
(FLQ), 331
Felice, Iole, 310–11
50 Wall Street (Vartan), 257
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 179
Fire in the Morning (Spencer), 199–200, 205–6, 210, 235, 246
Fischer, John, 252
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 133, 258
Fletcher, John Gould, 184
Florence, 120, 225–27, 275–77, 278, 279, 281, 300, 319
Foote, Shelby, 325
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 124
Forster, E. M., 253
France, 175–76, 226, 229
Franklin, Benjamin, 77
Freed, Arthur, 319
Freedom Riders, 292
Frost, Robert, 247–48
Fulco, 213–14, 215–16
Gable, Clark, 130
Gee, Charlie, 133, 135, 148, 155
Gee, Recie Gillespie, 73, 132
Gee family, 132–35
George, J. Z., 76, 129, 132
Germany, 192, 212, 217, 218–22, 225, 226, 228
Gettysburg, Battle of, 49, 56, 124
Gill, Brendan, 312
Gillespie, Guy, 160–61, 164
Glenn, Elizabeth, 73
Goldman, Raymond, 190–91, 197
Gollancz, Victor, 277–78
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 123, 292
Goodbye to Berlin (Isherwood), 255
Gordon, Caroline, 176, 182, 183, 263–65, 274–75, 302
Goyen, William, 323–24
Grace Episcopal Church, 66, 136
Grant, Ulysses S., 155
Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), 176
Green, A. Wigfall, 290
Greene, Graham, 178, 263, 275
Greenville, Miss., 75, 259, 287, 289, 325
Greenville Delta Democrat Times, 259, 289
Greenwood, Miss., 28, 36, 44, 45, 63, 73, 76–78, 128, 130, 137, 138, 141, 148, 149, 320–30
Grey, Duncan, 293
Grimm brothers, 220
Guggenheim Fellowships, 216, 259, 260, 265
Guggenheim Foundation, 260, 284
Gulf Coast, 230–45, 246, 252, 325
Gulfport, Miss., 231, 233, 237, 242–43
Hamilton, George, 319
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 166
Hardy, Thomas, 162, 175, 178
Harlow, Jean, 130
Harmonium (Stevens), 255
Harper’s, 252
Harris, Frank, 178
Harris, James, 43
Harris, Joel Chandler, 184
Harris, Mr., 62–63
Harris, Rebecca Cravat Leflore, 43
Havana, 213–15
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 34, 123
Hemingway, Ernest, 178, 258, 322
Henderson, Lizzie George, 76–78
Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), 216
Henley, J. C., 145–46, 154
Henley, Laura, 145–48, 154–55, 313
Henley, Mary Elizabeth (“Snookums”), 148–49, 153
Hepburn, Katharine, 161
Hershey Foods Corporation, 204–5
Herzog (Bellow), 216
Hesse, Hermann, 277
Hiroshima, 192
Hollingsworth, W
illiam, 162
Hollywood, 208, 262
Home Before Dark (S. Cheever), 311
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 180
Horn Island, 230, 244
Hoskins, Harvey, 29
House of Breath (Goyen), 323
House Un-American Activities Committee, 247–48
Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 263
Hughes, Howard, 57
Hugo, Victor, 35, 139
Hurricane Betsy, 241, 244
Hurricane Camille, 230, 241–45, 326
I’ll Take My Stand, 184
Inferno (Dante), 273
Intruder in the Dust (Faulkner), 204
Invisible Man (Ellison), 183, 312
Isherwood, Christopher, 255
Italy, 209, 212, 216, 222, 224–29, 259, 260, 261–85, 287, 290, 294, 302, 310, 314, 319–21
Ivey, Caroline, 246, 249
Jackson, Andrew, 42, 46
Jackson, Miss., 6, 40, 69, 96, 160–61, 163, 167, 168, 202–3, 205, 226, 230–31, 234, 252, 262, 295, 330
Jackson, Stonewall, 56, 124, 176
Jackson Little Theatre, 161–62
James, Henry, 14, 200, 208, 211–12, 263–64, 274, 275
Japan, 142–43, 192, 248, 308
Jefferson, Thomas, 77
Johnson, Lavada, 90–91
Johnson, Vivian, 90
Johnson, Walter, 89–91
“Jolly Corner, The” (James), 200
“Judith of Bethulia” (Ransom), 181
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 123, 195
Keats, John, 163, 164
Keenan, Frances, 111, 116
Keenan, Kay (“Miss Willie”), 111–17
Keenan, Meade Marian, 111, 116
Kennedy, John F., 292, 321–22
Kenyon Review, 193
Kenyon Review Fiction Fellowship, 184
Kilmer, Joyce, 182
Kimball, Hunter, 248–49
King, Morton, 290, 292–93
Kipling, Rudyard, 14, 114–15, 174
Klappert, Charles, 265, 277, 280
Klappert, Darr, 265, 277, 280
Knights & Dragons (Spencer), 320–21
Korean War, 248, 329
Ku Klux Klan, 157
Lachine, 315–17, 322, 328
Last Gentleman, The (Percy), 326
Last Supper (Leonardo), 223–24
Lattimore, Owen, 248
Laurence, Margaret, 323
Lawrence, Gertrude, 161, 301
Layton, Irving, 322
Lee, Eloise, 126, 139
Lee, Mary Ida, 130
Lee, Robert E., 124, 176
LeFleur, Louis, 40–41
Leflore, Greenwood, 39–47
Leflore, Priscilla Donley, 39, 40
Leflore, Rebecca Cravat, see Harris, Rebecca Cravat Leflore
Leflore, Rose Donley, 40
Leflore County Court House, 76
Leibling, A. J., 243
Leonardo da Vinci, 223
Lewis, Sinclair, 33, 178
Liddell, Dr., 138
Liddell, Frieda, 138
Liddell family, 143, 152
Light in the Piazza, The (movie), 319
Light in the Piazza, The (Spencer), 276, 318–19, 320
Lincoln, Abraham, 91–92
Lindsay, Vachel, 166
Lippi, Filippino, 279
Littleton family, 70–72
London, 211, 230, 277–78, 283, 304–6, 310
Long, Rosewell, 30
Long, Sam, 5, 30
Longstreet, James, 45
Lord Jim (Conrad), 250
Loren, Sophia, 262, 269
Losing Battles (Welty), 326
Louisiana State University, 183, 206, 235, 332
Lowell, Robert, 183
Luce, Clare Boothe, 274–75
Lyell, Frank, 262
Lyell, Louis, 262
Lytle, Andrew, 173, 176
McBride, Annie, 162
McBride, Jennie, 62, 109–11, 115, 117, 124, 151
McCain, Elizabeth Young, 11, 13, 14, 16, 35, 50, 80, 313
McCain, Esther May (“Aunt Esther”), 25–29, 30–31, 33, 35, 43, 66, 159, 259
McCain, Harry, 11, 15–16, 206, 212
McCain, Henry Pinkney (“Uncle Pink”), 13, 189
McCain, John (“Gan”), 8–10, 11, 13, 15–17, 18–23, 48–49, 66, 91–92, 99–104, 118, 121, 125–26, 128, 136, 313, 314
McCain, John Sidney (“Sidney”), 11, 14–16, 36, 61, 192, 206, 212
McCain, Joseph, 10
McCain, Joseph Pinkney (“Uncle Joe”), 4, 5, 10, 11, 15–16, 24–37, 43, 44, 47, 55, 66, 122, 130, 157, 159, 200, 206, 212, 259, 279, 288, 329
McCain, Kate, 14
McCain, Katherine Louise (“Katie Lou”), 11, 34, 66, 122, 140, 265
McCain, Mary James (“Mimi”), see Spencer, Mary James McCain
McCain, Rebecca, 36, 159
McCain, William Alexander (“Bill”), 11, 14, 15–16, 206, 212
McCain family, 8–17, 27, 33–34, 41, 43, 48, 50, 55, 65–66, 70
McCarley, Miss., 48–50, 52, 54, 57, 61, 131
McCarthy, Joseph, 248
McCarthyism, 269
McCullers, Carson, 270
McDill, Joseph Moody, 165–67, 168, 169, 174, 293
McDill, Margaret, 167
MacDonald, George, 15
McEachern, Mr., 69
McGehee, Edward, 194, 195, 212, 216–18, 222
McGraw-Hill, 304, 319, 323
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 209
MacLennan, Hugh, 323
McMillan, Lee, 91–92
McQueen, Steve, 136
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 250
Magnani, Anna, 269
Mailer, Norman, 222
Malmaison, 39–47
Manassas, Battle of, 79, 88
Mandragola, La (Machiavelli), 209
Mann, Thomas, 276–77
Mattingly, Garrett (“Matt”), 265–66, 277, 280, 300
Mattingly, Gertrude (“Gert”), 265–66, 277, 280, 300
Maugham, Somerset, 174
Maybry, Dr., 5, 30
Meeks, Arnie, 30
Memphis, Tenn., 6, 33, 58, 82, 85–86, 88, 90, 163, 187, 190, 255–56
Meredith, James, 292–93
Meridian, Miss., 207–8, 234
Meuks, Armistead, 12–13, 158
MGM, 313
Michelangelo, 226, 279, 300
Mikado, The (Gilbert and Sullivan), 226
Milan, 222–25
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 166
Miller, Gilbert, 304
Miller, Henry, 218
Miller, Henry (theatrical producer), 304
Milton, John, 164, 174
Mimieux, Yvette, 319
Miserables, Les (Hugo), 34, 139
Mississipi, University of, at Oxford, see Ole Miss
Mississippi: The Closed Society (Silver), 294–95
Moby Dick (Melville), 34, 263
Money, Senator, 132
Montgomery, Andrew, 43–45, 46
Montgomery, Frances (“Miss Fannie Eva”), 43, 45
Montreal, 241, 314–15, 328, 329
“Moon Lake” (Welty), 203
“Moonlight Sonata,” 139–40
Moore, Merrill, 182
Moore, Willie, 95
Morante, Elsa, 273
Moravia, Alberto, 266–73, 275
“Mountain Victory” (Faulkner), 45
Moviegoer, The (Percy), 234
Movie Mirror, 130
“Music from Spain” (Welty), 203
Mussolini, Benito, 269
NAACP, 293
Naipaul, V. S., 178
Naples, 272–73
Nashville, Tenn., 40, 44, 123, 173–85, 189–90, 196, 199, 205, 213, 229, 235
Nashville Tennessean, 191
Natchez, Miss., 7, 39, 40, 69, 135, 231
Negro in Mississippi, The: 1865–1890 (Wharton), 156
Neill, Mary Dora, 329
Neill, W
ill, 329
Nelson, Flora, 73
New Criticism, 165, 174–75, 177, 183
New Deal, 176, 191
Newman, Miss, 166
New Orleans, La., 36, 138, 163, 213–15, 231, 237, 242, 325
New York, N.Y., 161, 196–99, 205, 209, 211, 215, 222, 246, 249, 252–57, 286, 290–91, 299–306, 325
New Yorker, The, 204, 262, 296, 302, 312, 314, 317–19
New York Times, The, 255, 299, 300, 304
New York Times Book Review, The, 324
Night Travellers, The (Spencer), 323
Nims, John Frederick, 275
“1941” (Olson), 142
Nixon, Mrs., 213–14, 229
No Place for an Angel (Spencer), 321
North Carolina, University of, at Chapel Hill, 330, 332
North Carrollton, Miss., 51, 76, 127–28, 129, 131, 134, 148, 254
Nuremberg trials, 212, 218–19
Ocean Springs, Miss., 240, 243, 244
O’Connor, Flannery, 264
“Ode to the Confederate Dead” (Tate), 180
O’Donnell, George Marion, 183
O. Henry Award, 302
“Oil from Strange Lamps” (Young), 209–10
“Old Mansion” (Ransom), 181
Ole Miss, 129, 134, 137, 141, 157, 165, 206, 209, 258, 284, 289–90, 292–95, 297
Olson, Jeane, 142
Olson, Lawrence, ix, 138–44, 226
Olson, Lawrence, Sr., 138–39, 140–41
Olson, Wanda, 138–39, 141, 328
Olson family, 143, 151, 152
Ondaatje, Michael, 322
O’Neill, Eugene, 209
Order of the Sacred Treasure, 143
Othello (Shakespeare), 166
Owsley, Frank, 182–83, 185
Oxford, Miss., 45, 83, 87, 92, 114, 136, 141, 165, 206–7, 208, 211, 212, 250, 274, 290, 292–95
Painter’s Psalm, A, 244
Paris, 40, 141, 187, 212, 216–18, 222, 228, 310
Partisan Review, 254
Pass Christian, Miss., 231, 235–39, 243
Pavillion, The (Young), 211
Peacock, Virginia, 123, 128, 166
PEN, 324
Percy, “Bunt,” 325, 332
Percy, Walker, 234, 325–26, 332
Perkins, Maxwell, 304
Perseus (Cellini), 120, 279, 318
Pershing, John Joseph, 13
Philadelphia Story, The (Barry), 161
Phillips, Robert, 324–25
Piaf, Edith, 229
Pio, Padre, 267, 270–72
Poe, Edgar Allan, 114–15, 123, 166, 296
Poetry Magazine, 261
Ponder Heart, The (Welty), 203, 262, 303–4
Porter, Katherine Anne, 168, 183, 214, 237, 251
Portrait of a Lady (James), 275
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), 178–79