A Chance Meeting, page 38
“The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy” (Baldwin), 244, 245, 247
Black Mountain College, 263
Blackwood, Caroline, 258
The Blind Man (Duchamp), 142
Blues Anthology (Handy), 186
“The Blues I’m Playing” (Hughes), 184–85
Boas, Franz, 172
Boîte (Duchamp), 220
Bollingen Prize, 296
Bontemps, Arna, 184, 209, 228, 277
“A Book Concluding With As A Wife Has A Cow A Love Story” (Stein), 132
Bookstore (New York City), 8
Booth, Edwin, 9, 26
Booth, John Wilkes, 26
Borden, Fannie, 200
The Bostonians (Henry James), 43, 58, 90
Bourget, Paul, 108
Bowles, Paul, 243
Box-in-a-Valise (Duchamp), 220
Brady, Juliette Handy, 32
Brady, Mathew: and Avedon, 260, 265; Civil War photographs of, 31–32, 102, 312; and Evans, 161; and Grant, 28–29, 32, 34–36; and James (Henry), 7–14, 94; and James (Henry, Sr.), 7–14, 94; and Lincoln, 9, 22, 35–36; and Steichen, 103; and Whitman, 46–51
Brancusi, Constantin, 100, 122, 142, 218–19
Brandeis, Mrs. Louis, 113–14
Brando, Marlon, 230, 242, 271
Braque, Georges, 122
Breslin, Jimmy, 244
Breton, André, 218
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Duchamp), 142–43
The Bridge (Hart Crane), 156, 159, 160–61
Bridges, Harry, 270
“The Broken Tower” (Hart Crane), 197
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 20
Brooklyn Dodgers, 296
Brooklyn Museum, 143
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 281
Brooks, Louise, 167
Brooks, Van Wyck, 162
Brown, John, 21, 22, 178, 191
Browning, Elizabeth, 17, 116–17
Browning, Robert, 17, 58, 116–17
Brummer Gallery, 218–19
Bunyan, John, 58
by or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Duchamp), 220
Caesar, 68
Café de Tournon (Paris, France), 228
Cage, John: autobiography of, 266; and Avedon, 260–67, 312; and Duchamp, 220, 301–7; and Guggenheim, 219; and Stein, 262, 267; and Twain, 262; works of, 266, 302–3; See also Cunningham, Merce
Cage, Xenia, 219–20
Calder, Alexander, 219
Calkins, Mary, 80
Camera Club (New York City), 96, 97, 98
Camera Notes (journal), 97
Camera Work (journal), 100, 123, 131, 142, 154, 158
Cane (Toomer), 159
Can Fire in the Park (Delaney), 187
Capote, Truman, 243, 272–73
Capouya, Emil, 225
Carnegie, Andrew, 66, 108
“A Carriage from Sweden” (Moore), 236
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 213
Casby, William, 289
Cather, Willa: and Fields, 113–14, 116–18, 119; and Hurston, 209, 215; and James (Henry), 110, 112, 117, 118, 119, 120; and Jewett, 110, 112, 113–14, 116, 119, 120, 145, 206; and McClure’s Magazine, 106, 107, 113, 114–15; and Porter, 145–51; Pulitzer Prize for, 109, 149; and Steichen, 146, 147, 150; and Twain, 106–12; and Van Vechten, 145, 209; and Whitman, 119; works of, 106, 109, 112, 114, 116, 119, 145–46, 148, 149, 209, 215; and World War I, 109–10. See also Lewis, Edith
Century (magazine), 43, 58, 67, 153
Cerf, Bennett, 134
Cézanne, Paul, 76, 121, 125, 190
A Chance Acquaintance (Howells), 41–42
“A Chance Meeting” (Cather), 149
Chaplin, Charles, Sr., 165
Chaplin, Charlie: autobiography of, 272–73; and Avedon, 260, 271, 272; and Crane (Hart), 163–71, 271, 272; and Du Bois, 268–75; films of, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 197, 199, 270, 271, 272, 274; and Steichen, 167, 168, 260; and Stein, 136–37; and U.S. government, 270–71
Chaplin, Oona O’Neill, 170, 273, 275
Chaplin, Sydney, 165
“Chaplinesque” (Hart Crane), 162, 164–65, 166, 171
Charles L. Webster and Company, 67
The Charm (periodical), 8
Chavannes, Puvis de, 148
Chuvalo, George, 294
The Circus (Chaplin film), 166
“Cities Higher Than Mountains” (Mailer), 299–300
City Lights (Chaplin film), 271
Clark, Kenneth, 285
Clarke, Joe, 173, 176, 182
Clay, Cassius. See Ali, Muhammad
Clay, Henry, 9
Clemens, Olivia Langdon, 52, 54, 55, 59, 68, 106
Clemens, Orion (brother), 58
Clemens, Samuel. See Twain, Mark
Clemens, Susy (daughter), 55, 59, 109
CLOSE-UP (magazine), 233
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 93–94, 98
Cocteau, Jean, 160, 168
Coffee House (New York City), 294
Coffin, William Sloane, 312
Cohn, Roy, 278
A Cold Spring (Bishop), 206
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 20, 207
Collected Poems (Moore), 296
Colony, Horatio, 235
Commentaries (Caesar), 68
“Compagnons de Voyage” (Henry James), 117
Condé Nast publications, 102
Conference of Negro-African Writers and Artists (Paris, 1956), 268
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Twain), 58
Connie’s Calypso (New York City), 227
Conrad, Joseph, 89, 107 Copland, Aaron, 162
“Cordelia the Crude” (Thurman), 178
Cornell, Joseph: and Bishop, 220; death of, 239; and Duchamp, 217–23, 236; family of, 234, 235, 238; and Moore, 233–39; works of, 207, 223, 233–39
Cornell, Robert (brother), 220, 222, 234
The Country of the Pointed Firs (Jewett), 85, 86–87, 120, 206
Covarrubias, Miguel, 193, 209
Cowley, Malcolm, 193
Cowley, Peggy, 196–98
Crane, Clarence, 154–55, 156, 158–59, 166, 196, 197
Crane, Grace, 162, 163, 166, 167, 169, 170, 196, 197
Crane, Hart: and Bishop, 206, 254; and Chaplin, 163–71, 271, 272; and Cowley (Peggy), 196–97; decline and death of, 193–99, 254; and Dickinson, 156, 157, 160; Evans’s photograph of, 160–61; and Lowell, 254–55, 258; and Mailer, 312; in Mexico, 193–99; and Moore, 162, 199; personal and early professional background of, 154–55, 156, 157; and Porter, 193–99; and Stieglitz, 154–62, 199; and Whitman, 156, 157, 160; works of, 155, 156, 157, 159, 160, 162, 164–65, 167, 170, 197
Crane, Louise, 205
Crane, Stephen, 23–24, 89, 107
The Crisis (journal), 72, 169, 172, 177, 178, 187, 189, 190, 191
Croll, M. W., 202
Crosby, Harry and Caresse, 160
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (Whitman), 48
Cullen, Countee, 176, 188–89, 224, 277
Cunningham, Merce, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 266, 267, 305–6
Cushman, Charlotte, 9, 50
Daguerre, Louis, 8
Daisy Miller (Henry James), 42, 274
D’Alvarez, Marguerite, 175
Dark Rapture (Delaney), 226
Darkwater (Du Bois), 188, 192
Darwin, Charles, 204
Daughters of the American Revolution, 289
Dawson, Carley, 251
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather), 119, 120, 145, 148, 149
The Deer Park (Mailer), 242
Delaney, Beauford: and Baldwin, 224–32; and Bishop, 254; death of, 232; and Du Bois, 187–92; and Handy, 186–87; and James (William), 187; as mystic, 224–27; in Paris, 230, 232; schizophrenia of, 229–30, 231–32; and Stieglitz, 158, 190, 225; and Toklas, 230, 232; and Van Vechten, 209; works of, 225
Delmonico’s Restaurant (New York City), 108
Demon in Love (Colony), 235
Denby, Edward, 127
De Witt Clinton High School (Bronx, New York), 224, 225, 286
Diaghilev, Sergei, 127
Dickens, Charles, 17, 114, 116
Dickinson, Emily, 156, 157, 160
Dill, Augustus Granville, 189
“The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American” (Baldwin), 229
Dodge, Mabel, 131
The Dolphin (Robert Lowell), 257
Donne, John, 117, 203, 204, 207
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 58
Dos Passos, John, 197
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 42
Douglas, Aaron, 176
Douglass, Frederick, 65, 274
Dove, Arthur, 100
Doyle, Peter, 45–46
Dreiser, Theodore, 23, 176
Dreyfus Affair, 88
Drum-Taps (Whitman), 49
Dryden, John, 117
Du Bois, Nina, 73, 274
Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 268, 271, 274–75
Du Bois, W. E. B.: and Baldwin, 245, 269; and Chaplin, 268–75; and Delaney, 187–92; “double consciousness” phrase of, 74, 292; editorials about The Birth of a Nation by, 169; and Fire!! (magazine), 178–79; and Howells, 118; and HUAC, 268; and Hughes, 176, 178–79, 184–85, 189, 268, 277, 278; and Hurston, 173, 178–79; and James (Henry), 118, 274; and James (William), 70–75, 79, 269, 274, 279; and Keller, 70–75, 269; and Opportunity (magazine), 173; at Pan-African Congress, 97; personal life of, 188–90; and theater, 173, 178; and Van Vechten, 179, 209, 269, 279; and Van Vechten’s Nigger Heaven, 177; works of, 71, 118, 188, 192, 269–70, 274. See also The Crisis; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Du Bois, Yolande, 188
Duchamp, Alexina (Teeny), 301, 303–4, 305, 307
Duchamp, Marcel: and Avedon, 260, 302; and Cage, 220, 301–7; and Cornell, 217–23, 236; death of, 305; and Grand Central Palace show, 139–41; and Steichen, 260; and Stein, 123, 306; and Stieglitz, 141–44, 155; and urinal/Fountain, 140–42, 143–44; works of, 139, 142–44, 220–22, 303, 304–5
Duchamp, Suzanne, 143
Duchamp Dossier (Cornell), 220, 223
Duncan, Isadora, 157
Duneka, Frederick, 107
Dust Tracks on the Road (Hurston), 184
Early, Jubal, 33, 35
East Louisiana State Mental Hospital, 289
Eastman, Max, 270
Eddy, Mary Baker, 113, 114, 122, 166
“The Editor’s Study” (Howells’s column), 42
The Education of Henry Adams (Adams), 40
“Efforts of Affection” (Bishop), 201
Einstein, Albert, 167, 270
Einstein, Mrs. Albert, 270
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 274, 289
“Elephants” (Moore), 237
Eliot, George, 37, 58
Eliot, T. S., 150, 165, 201–2
Ellington, Duke, 186
Ellsworth, Elmer, 31
Embree, Edwin, 213
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 18, 20, 39, 57, 61, 257
Ernst, Max, 217, 218, 219, 301
Esquire (magazine), 245, 247, 248, 295
Etant donnés (Given) (Duchamp), 220–21, 305
Eternal Spirit (Delaney), 190
The Europeans (Henry James), 41
“Evaluations: Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room” (Mailer), 243, 244
Evans, Walker, 160–61
Even (Duchamp), 142–43
“The Event,” 263
Evers, Medgar, 285, 286, 289
“Everybody’s Protest Novel” (Baldwin), 228
Fairbanks, Douglas, 168
“The Family of Man” (photography exhibit), 102
Famous American Negroes (Hughes), 278
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev), 37
Fauset, Jessie, 172, 174, 177, 178
Federal Theatre Project, 213
Felix Holt (George Eliot), 37
Fields, Annie Adams: and Cather, 113–14, 116–18, 119; charity work of, 24; death of, 94, 149; and Evans, 161; and Fields’s death, 23, 89; and Howells, 17–19, 22, 24, 25, 26; and James (Henry), 85–95, 118–19; James’s essay about, 91, 95; and Jewett, 23, 88–89, 90, 91, 94, 95; stories told by, 116–17; and Whitman, 23, 27; works of, 17, 24, 94
Fields, James T.: as Atlantic Monthly editor/publisher, 15, 18, 41, 52, 53, 88; death of, 23, 90; and Howells, 15, 17, 19; and James (Henry, Sr.), 117; James’s (Henry) essay about, 91, 95; and Jewett,88; at Parker House dinner, 15, 17; and Twain, 52, 53
50 cc of Paris Air (Duchamp), 142
The Fight (Mailer), 298
Fire!! (magazine), 176, 178–79
The Fire Next Time (Baldwin), 231, 285
Flaubert, Gustave, 37, 42, 82, 118, 145, 148, 149
“For February 14th” (Moore), 238
“For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen” (Hart Crane), 155, 162
For the Union Dead (Robert Lowell), 255, 256, 309
Ford, Ford Madox, 89
Foreman, George, 298
Forrest, Edwin, 9
Fountain (Duchamp), 142, 143–44
Four in America (Stein), 135
Four Saints in Three Acts (Stein and Thomson), 132, 201
4'33" (Cage), 305, 307
Frank, Waldo, 155, 157, 159, 163, 169
“The Freedom of India” (Du Bois) 272
Freud, Sigmund, 77, 82, 204
Frost, Robert, 148
The Fugs, 312, 313
A Gallery of Illustrious Americans (Brady), 9
Gandhi, Mahatma, 272, 274
Gandhi Marg (magazine), 274
Gardner, Alexander, 31
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 93, 187
Garfield, James, 65
George (Twain’s butler), 60, 112
George Gershwin Memorial Collection of Music & Musicians (Fisk University), 279
Gide, André, 160, 255
Ginsberg, Allen, 255, 260
Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin), 231, 242
Goering, Hermann, 198
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 20
The Golden Bowl (Henry James), 43
The Gold Rush (Chaplin film), 166, 170
Goldwater, Barry, 299
Goncourt, Edmond de, 42
The Good Soldier (Ford), 89
“Go Slow” (Hughes), 281
Gosse, Edmund, 89
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin), 227, 228, 240
“The Gradual Making of The Making of Americans” (Stein lecture), 134
Grand Central Palace show (New York City), 139–41
Grant, Julia Dent, 30–31, 32, 64
Grant, Ulysses S.: and Brady, 28–29, 32, 34–36; as Civil War general, 29–31, 32–33, 304; death of, 64, 67, 68; and elections of 1868, 36; funeral procession of, 69; and Lincoln, 30; memoirs of, 32–34, 67–69; and money, 66–69; and photography, 34–35; post-presidential years of, 64–69; as president, 64; and Stein, 135; and Twain, 62–69, 112
The Great Dictator (Chaplin film), 199, 270, 271
Great Exhibition (London, 1851), 9
“Great Jews and Judges” (Avedon), 265
Greeley, Horace, 9
The Green Box (Duchamp), 143, 220
Greene, Nathanael, 156
Griffith, D. W., 169
Griffith, Emile, 246
Grisi, Carlotta, 237–38
Guggenheim, Peggy, 217–18, 219, 222, 301
Guggenheim Fellowships, 194, 197, 237
Guggenheim Foundation, 214, 215
Gurdjieff, G. I., 159–60
Guy Domville (Henry James play), 90
Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery (Cornell), 233
Halberstadt, Vitaly, 303
Hammett, Dashiell, 136
Handy, W. C., 186–87
Hansberry, Lorraine, 285
Happersberger, Lucien, 285, 286, 288–89
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 255, 257, 308
Hardy, Thomas, 42, 107
Harlem Doorways (Avedon and Baldwin), 286
Harlem Negro Unit, 213
Harlem Renaissance, 133, 173, 183, 186–87, 190
Harper, Emerson, 276
Harper, Toy, 276
Harper and Brothers, 107
Harpers Ferry, 21, 178
Harper’s Weekly, 108
Hartley, Marsden, 100, 101, 141, 144, 157, 193, 197
Hartmann, Sadakichi, 49, 156, 157
Harvard Philosophical Club, 70
Harvey, George, 108
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 17, 19, 38, 58, 112
Hawthorne, Sophia, 17
Haymarket affair, 24–25
A Hazard of New Fortunes (Howells), 23, 43
Hefner, Hugh, 248
Heine, Heinrich, 15
Hellman, Lillian, 282
Hemingway, Ernest, 243
“Henry James as a Characteristic American” (Moore), 13, 201
Herbert, George, 204
Herod the Great (Hurston), 212
“Her Shield” (Jarrell), 298
Herskovits, Melville, 172
History (Robert Lowell), 258, 313
Hoffman, Abbie, 312
Holiday, Billie, 204
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 86
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 15, 16, 22, 27, 61
Holt, Nora, 175
Hoover, Herbert, 191
Hopkins, Gerard, 200, 201, 202, 203
Hopps, Walter, 221
Horne, Lena, 285
Houseman, John, 213
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 199, 268
Howells, Elinor Mead (wife), 37, 38, 44–45, 55
Howells, Henry Israel (brother), 43
Howells, John (son), 55–56, 59
Howells, Joseph (brother), 58
Howells, Victoria (sister), 15, 40, 43, 44
Howells, William Dean: and American Anti-Imperialist League, 88; at Atlantic Monthly, 18, 23, 38, 41, 42, 53, 54, 60; charity work of, 24; death of, 148; and Du Bois, 118; early years of, 15–17; eulogies by, 60–61; family of, 39, 55–56, 59–60, 92; and Fields (Annie Adams), 17–19, 22, 24, 25, 26; and Grant, 65; at Harper’s Monthly, 42; and Haymarket affair, 24–25; and James (Henry), 13, 23, 37–45, 58, 90, 92–93, 110, 229; and Jewett, 88, 110; and Lewis, 115; and Lincoln, 22, 23; and Lowell (James Russell), 37; Mailer compared with, 243; at Parker House dinner, 15, 17; personal life of, 38–39; at Saturday Press, 19–20, 22; and Spanish-American War, 88; and Twain, 23, 52–61, 62, 64, 65, 69, 108, 110, 111, 112; in Venice, 22–23, 37, 38; and Wharton’s works, 97; and Whitman, 20–22, 23, 25–27; works of, 15–16, 22, 23–24, 25, 37, 39, 41–42, 43, 44, 54, 57–58, 60
