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Authors: Saul Bellow

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Flaubert, Gustave
 
fools
 
Ford Foundation grant
 
forgetfulness
 
Fowler, H. W.
 
France
 
Frankel, Max
 
Freedman, Janis,
see
Bellow, Janis Freedman
 
Freifeld, Rochelle
 
Freifeld, Samuel
 
discussion of exile
 
family troubles of
 
friendship with
 
hard work of
 
mentioned
 
postcards from Bellow
 
reaction to
Augie March
 
Freud, Sigmund
 
friendships
 
appreciation for
 
with Barley Alison
 
with Catherine Lindsay Choate
 
discussions of with Fiedler
 
forced
 
with Harriet Wasserman
 
with Henry Volkening
 
loss of
 
maintaining
 
with Oscar Tarcov
 
rift with David Bazelon over Margaret
 
Fuchs, Daniel
 
Furet, François
 
 
Gallimard (French publisher)
 
Gallo, Louis
 
Gendlin, Frances
 
Gill, Brendan
 
Gillman, Mr.
 
Ginsberg, Allen
 
Ginsberg, Harvey
 
Glassman, Susan,
see
Bellow, Susan Glassman
 
Gloria Mundi
(Clark)
 
Glotzer, Albert
 
Glück, Louise
 
God’s Grace
(Malamud)
 
Godwin, Anthony
 
Gold, Herbert
 
Gold Medal for Fiction Award
 
Goldberg, Samuel S.
 
Bellow on divorce from Susan
 
Bellow on
Seize the Day
 
bibliophilia of
 
friendship with
 
mentioned
 
owing money to
 
Goldenweiser, Alexander Alexandrovich
 
Goldknopf, David
 
Goldstein, Nathan
 
good intentions
 
Goodman, Paul
 
Gordimer, Nadine
 
Gordin, Karina
 
Goshkin, Anita (wife)
 
alimony and
 
Bellow’s divorce from
 
Bellow’s quarrels with
 
career of
 
desire to move to Europe
 
family troubles of
 
Northwestern University radicals and
 
opinion of Bellow’s writing
 
opinion of Melvin Tumin
 
Goshkin, Catherine
 
Gould, Nathan
 
Grass, Günter
 
Great Books Project
 
Great Jewish Short Stories
 
Greenberg, Clement
 
Greenberg, Willie
 
Greene, Graham
 
Greenwich Village
 
Grene, David
 
grief
 
Grimson, Todd
 
the grotesque
 
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
 
Bellow’s fellowship applications
 
budget request letters
 
move to Europe and
 
recommendation of Grace Paley
 
recommendation of James Baldwin
 
recommendation of Louise Glück
 
recommendation of others
 
recommendations of Bernard Malamud
 
renewal application
 
renewal rejection
 
Guinzburg, Harold
 
Guinzburg, Tom
 
 
Haffenden, John
 
Hall, Donald
 
Hammersmark, Sam
 
Hammett, Dashiell
 
happiness
 
Hardwick, Elizabeth
 
Harper & Row
 
Harper’s Bazaar
 
Harris, Mark
 
Harris, Sydney J.
 
Harvard University
 
Hasenclever, Walter
 
Havel, Václav
 
Hayek, Friedrich von
 
health issues
 
aging and
 
ciguatera poisoning
 
depression
 
during divorce from Sondra
 
eye hemorrhage
 
of friends
 
gall-bladder surgery
 
heart problems
 
hospital stays
 
ignoring
 
remarks to friends about
 
sexually transmitted diseases
 
sleeping pills
 
weight
 
wintertime
 
Hearst Press
 
heart of mankind
 
Hebrew
 
Hecht, Anthony
 
Held, Abe
 
Hellman, Lillian
 
Henderson the Rain King
(Bellow)
 
Bellow’s reaction to reviews of
 
Bellow’s own assessment of
 
discussion of with Anne Sexton
 
discussion of with Edward Hoagland
 
discussion of with Leslie Fiedler
 
excerpt
 
expected sales of
 
film of
 
opera based upon
 
reviewing proofs of
 
reviews of
 
rewriting of
 
writing of
 
Henle, Jim
 
book advances
 
complaints about
 
correspondence with
 
parting ways with
 
remarks on pace of Bellow’s career
 
The Victim
and
 
Herbst, Josephine
 
hero figures
 
Herskovits, Melville J.
 
Herzog
(Bellow)
 
completion of
 
letters in
 
reactions to
 
reviews of
 
Bellow’s own assessment of
 
success of
 
writing of
 
Heschel, Abraham Joshua
 
Hicks, Granville
 
“Him With His Foot in His Mouth” (story)
 
Hitchens, Christopher
 
Hitler, Adolph
 
Hivnor, Robert
 
Hoagland, Edward
 
Hoffman, Theodore (“Ted”)
 
Holbrook, David
 
Holiday
(journal)
 
Holocaust
 
Hook, Sidney
 
House Un-American Activities Committee
 
Howe, Irving
 
Howland, Bette
 
Hudson Review
monologue
 
Human Hope and the Death Instinct
(Holbrook)
 
human nature
 
human relations
 
humanity
 
heart as origin and seat of importance in mankind
 
loss of
 
misery and
 
remarks to Richard Stern about
 
thoughts on growing older and
 
truth of artistic works and
 
Humboldt’s Gift
(Bellow)
 
completion of
 
death and comedy in
 
detachment from
 
excerpt
 
film rights for
 
inscribed editions
 
Owen Barfield and
 
reviews of
 
Hunt, John
 
Hunt, William
 
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
 
Huxley, Aldous
 
Hyde Park
 
hypocrisy
 
 
I Married a Communist
(Roth)
 
ideas and writing
 
“identity,”
 
ideology
 
idleness
 
Illinois governor
 
“Illinois Journey,”
 
illness,
see
health issues
 
imagination
 
immigration
 
immodesty
 
“In the Days of Mr. Roosevelt” (essay)
 
inconclusiveness
 
individuality and technology
 
The Information
(Amis)
 
The Inmost Leaf
(Kazin)
 
Instead
(journal)
 
integration
 
intellectualism
 
intelligence
 
internal work as writing theme
 
Ironweed
(Kennedy)
 
irony
 

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