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Authors: Saul Bellow

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mentioned
 
Ravelstein
and
 
teaching with
 
Bloom, Claire
 
Bloom, Harold
 
Blücher, Heinrich
 
Böll, Heinrich
 
Bollingen Prize for poetry
 
bolshevism
 
Borok, Dean
 
Boston University
 
Bostonia
(journal)
 
Botsford, Keith
 
Bellow’s divorce from Sondra
 
Bellow’s opinion of
 
hip surgery of
 
news of family visits
 
sadness over Covici’s death
 
staying with in Puerto Rico
 
The Republic of Letters
and
 
work on
Anon
with
 
work on
The Noble Savage
with
 
Botstein, Leon
 
Boyers, Robert
 
Bradley, Mrs. Wm. A.
 
Brandeis, Irma
 
Brandeis University
 
Breit, Harvey
 
Briggs-Copeland Fellowship
 
Brodie, Steve
 
Brodkey, Harold
 
Brogan, Denis
 
Browder, Earl
 
Brown, Huntington
 
Buckman, Gertrude
 
Burlingame, Edward
 
Burnett, Whit
 
Burnshaw, Stanley
 
Bush, George H. W.
 
“By the Rock Wall” (story)
 
“By the Saint Lawrence” (story)
 
 
Camus, Albert
 
Carter, Jimmy
 
Carver, Catharine (“Katie”) DeFrance
 
Case, James H., Jr.
 
A Case of Love
(unfinished novel)
 
Catton, Bruce
 
Céline, L.-F.
 
censorship
 
The Century Association
 
Cermak, Anton
 
Chambers, Whittaker
 
Chapman, Chanler
 
Chapman, Sara S.
 
characters
 
in
The Actual
 
Allbee in
The Victim
 
basis in real people
 
Bummidge in
The Last Analysis
 
Charlie Citrine in
Humboldt’s Gift
 
development of
 
discussions about
Augie March
 
discussions with Keith Opdahl about
 
Leventhal in
The Victim
 
Chase, Richard V.
 
Cheever, John
 
Chiaromonte, Nicola (“Nick”)
 
Chicago
 
description of people in
 
memories of childhood in
 
opinions of
 
Susan moves to
 
winter weather
 
writers’ images of
 
Chilton, Nola
 
Choate, Catherine Lindsay
 
Circle in the Square production of
The Last Analysis
 
citizenship
 
civilization
 
Clark, Eleanor
 
Cogan, Zita
 
cognitive writing
 
Cole, Toby
 
Collected Stories
(Bellow)
 
Colt Press
 
comedy
 
advantages of comedic writing
 
as element of
Henderson the Rain King
 
as element of
More Die of Heartbreak
 
intent of
Augie March
and
 
Italian
 
The Upper Depths
 
wretchedness and comedic writing
 
writing comedic pieces
 
Commentary
(journal)
 
Committee for the Free World
 
Committee on Social Thought
 
Communist Party, American
 
conferences, dislike of
 
Connolly, Cyril
 
Conrad, Joseph
 
conservatism
 
Corbin, Esther
 
Covici, Dorothy
 
Covici, Pascal (“Pat”)
 
becomes Bellow’s editor
 
Bellow’s divorce from Sondra
 
Bellow’s Israel trip
 
Bellow’s San Francisco trip
 
death of
 
Covici, Pascal (“Pat”) (
cont.
)
 
discussion of writing and Ford Foundation grant
 
discussions of speaking engagements and book sales
 
discussions of writing
 
mentioned
 
Cowley, Malcolm
 
The Crab and the Butterfly
(Bellow)
 
craft of writing
 
Craft, Robert
 
Crime and Punishment
(Dostoyevsky)
 
criticism
 
Bellow’s criticisms of Jack Ludwig
 
Bellow’s critique of Elkin’s writing
 
dealing with
 
of
Jerusalem
book
 
Louis Simpson’s attack on Bellow
 
reading about himself and
 
of Whit Burnett
 
critics
 
Bellow’s note to Phillips
 
Bellow’s thoughts on
 
reviews of
Augie March
and
 
Crouch, Stanley
 
cultural understanding
 
cultural void
 
“Culture Now” essay
 
Cummings, E. E.
 
cynicism
 
 
Dajani, Virginia
 
Daley, Richard J.
 
Dangling Man
(Bellow)
 
Dannhauser, Werner
 
darkness as literary theme
 
The Dean’s December
(Bellow)
 
death
 
Debray, Régis
 
Decter, Midge
 
“Deep Readers of the World, Beware!” article
 
Demjanjuk, John
 
democracy
 
depression
 
destiny
 
distribution of books
 
diversity in storytelling
 
divorce
 
dogs
 
doing things out of sight
 
Don Quixote
(Cervantes)
 
Donadio, Candida
 
Donat, Alexander
 
“Dora” (story)
 
Dostoyevsky
 
draft deferments
 
dreams
 
“Dr.Pep” (story)
 
Dubin’s Lives
(Malamud)
 
Dunsky-Shnay, Zipporah
 
 
earnestness
 
The Economist
(journal)
 
egomania
 
Eisenhower, Dwight
 
Eliade, Mircea
 
Eliot, T. S.
 
Elkin, Stanley
 
Ellison, Fanny
 
Ellison, Ralph
 
Bellow solicits magazine submission from
 
Bellow’s divorce from Sondra
 
Bellow’s eulogy of
 
Bellow’s memories of
 
description of Puerto Rico
 
discussions of family and writing
 
discussions of health
 
Tivoli house and
 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
 
Encounter
(journal)
 
Encyclopedia Britannica
 
enemies
 
Engel, Monroe
 
Bellow’s Guggenheim application and
 
Bellow’s letter from Paris
 
discussion of Isaac Rosenfeld
 
end of editorial relationship with Bellow
 
mentioned
 
reports on writing progress to
 
entropy
 
Epstein, Joseph
 
Epstein, Seymour
 
Erskine, Albert
 
Esquire
 
esthetics
 
Europe
(Stern)
 
exile
 
“Expect the Vandals” (Roth)
 
Experience
(Amis)
 
exposing the seeming, American literature and
 
 
Falconer
(Cheever)
 
fame
 
Farago, Ladislas
 
Farrell, James T.
 
father,
see
Belo, Abram
 
fatigue
 
Faulkner, William
 
Fellini, Federico
 
Feltrinelli, Giangiacomo
 
Feltrinelli, Inge
 
festination
 
Fiedler, Leslie
 
First Loyalty
(Lourie)
 
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, fantasy story about

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