INDEX

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Abel, Lionel, 68, 84, 121

Adams, J. Donald, 11, 30

Adams, Léonie, 76, 103, 123

Adler, Stella, 5

Agence Havas, 3, 36

Agrarians, 24

Alden, Hortense, 22, 48

Aldrich, Maddie. See Rand, Maddie Aldrich

Aldrich, Mrs. (Maddie’s mother), 14

Algonquin Hotel, 17, 119

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 53, 57, 96–97

American Mercury, The, 29

Amlie, Tom, 27

Anderson, Maxwell, 1

Angoff, Charles, 29

“Anti-Climax” (Johnsrud), 4–5

Anti-Stalinism, 24, 67, 90, 122

Aquavella, Nick, 11

Arendt, Hannah, 96

Ashforth, Albert B., 11–12, 44

“Ash Wednesday” (Eliot), 77

Astoria (Irving), 7

Auden, W. H., 74

Awake and Sing (Odets), 4

Axel’s Castle (Wilson), 90

Balabanov, Angelica, 65

Barber, Samuel, 80

Bard College, 54–55, 119, 120

Barth, Alan, 15, 44, 61

Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 56

Beekman Place apartments

Johnsruds’, 8, 11—12, 20, 25, 44, 48

McCarthy and Rahv’s, 67, 70, 72

Belloc, Hilaire, 28

Bellow, Saul, 14

Best, Marshall, 20, 42–43

Biberman, Abner, 3

Bible, 77–78

Bingham, Alfred, 16–17

Bishop, Elizabeth, 13, 48, 118–19

Black, George, 43, 49–51, 94

See also “Man in the Brooks

Brothers Shirt, The”

Black, Hugo, 84

Blair, Mary, 111

Blough, Frani, 5, 7, 13, 20, 38, 48, 53, 72, 116

Blue Juniata (Cowley), 7

Blum, Léon, 2

Bogan, Louise, 123

Bolshevism, 85–86, 123–24

Book and Magazine Guild, 65

Bookman, 24

Boston, Lyon and Barbara Hudnut, 20

Breed, Alan and Rosilla, 20

Bregman, Abbie and Kit, 67, 70, 72

Brevoort Hotel, 84, 120

Britannica, 13, 110

Broadwater, Bowden, 100, 110, 120

Broene, Miss (McCarthy’s co­worker at Covici-Friede), 64, 65, 99

Broom, 16

Broun, Heywood, 16–17, 119

Browder, Earl, 57

Brown, Lois, 44

Bukharin, N. I., 85

Canby, Henry Seidel, 29

Canby, Margaret, 100, 111

Cantwell, Robert, 7–8, 118

Carleton Gallery, 51, 118

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 26

Chamberlain, John, 29

Chambers, Whittaker, 7

Chaplin, Charlie, 87

Chapman, Chanler, 14

Charmed Life, A (McCarthy), 98–99, 101

Civic Repertory Theatre, 3, 116

Clara (Johnsruds’ maid), 5, 44, 117

Clark, Ambrose, 51

Clark, Eleanor, 74, 122

Clark, Eunice, 15, 16–17, 19, 20, 63, 74, 82, 114, 119

Claudius the God (Graves), 28

Clurman, Harold, 5, 117

Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, 4, 65

McCarthy as member of, 41–42, 57–59

Common Sense, 16, 22, 119

Communism, 1–3, 6, 17, 18, 21, 26, 27, 28, 40

Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels), 26, 28

Communist Party, 2–3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 18, 22–23, 24, 39–40, 65, 66, 77, 82, 92, 116, 121, 122

Company She Keeps, The (McCarthy), 36, 60. See also specific stories in

Conroy, Jack, 24, 120

Con Spirito, 118

Covici, Pat, 63–65

Covici-Friede, 63–66, 75–76, 88, 99, 106

Cowley, Malcolm, 6–10, 117

Craig, Sam, 39–40

Crawford, Cheryl, 117

“Cruel and Barbarous Treatment” (McCarthy), 35–36

“Culture and the Crisis” (Wilson), 121

Da Silva, Howard, 3

Depression, 13, 22–23, 82

De Silver, Margaret, 96, 125

Dewey, John, 4

Dimitrov, Georgi M., 2

Dodd, Martha, 73

Dodge, Mrs. Hartley, 51

Dos Passos, John and Katy, 111

Dupee, Fred (F. W.), 18, 71, 81, 86, 119, 122

As Partisan Review editor, 24, 67, 76, 83, 89, 91–93, 95

East End Avenue apartment, 74–75, 86–87

Eastman, Max, 87, 95, 124

Ebro River, 72, 121

Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, The (Marx), 72

Eisler, Hans, 2, 115

Eitingon, Bess, 4, 6, 116

Eitingon, Motty, 4–5, 6, 97, 116

Eliot, T. S., 77

Enjoyment of Poetry (Eastman), 87

Exile’s Return (Cowley), 7, 117

Farrell, James T., 22–24, 26, 48, 49, 57, 59, 64, 65

Faulkner, William, 25

Fearing, Kenneth, 7, 118

February Hill (Lincoln), 28

Ferguson, Otis (“Oat”), 8, 9–10

Flaubert, Gustave, 90, 125

“Flaubert’s Politics” (Wilson), 125

Formalism, 84–85, 123–24

Fortune, 15, 18, 19, 66, 119

Freud, Sigmund, 26

From the Tsar to Lenin, 87

Fugitives, 24

Gallup, George, 21

Gay Street apartment, 41, 47–49, 55, 59, 62, 67

McCarthy’s sexual affairs at, 61–63

Gellhorn, Martha, 73, 121

“Genial Host, The” (McCarthy), 60

George, Mrs. Robert Latham, 4

Gide, André, 75, 90

Gilfillan, Lauren, 8–10

Gourmont, Rémy de, 36

GPU (Stalin’s agents), 113–14, 121, 126

Graves, Robert, 28

Greene, Robert, 56, 120

Greenwich Village, 8, 41, 44, 65, 92

Group, The (McCarthy), 16–17, 66, 116, 117, 118, 119

Group Theatre, 5, 116

Groves of Academe, The (McCarthy), 99

Guterman, Norbert, 77

Hardwick, Elizabeth, 26

Harlem, 5, 15, 36

Harvard University, 34–35

Harvey, Gabriel, 56

Hattie (Wilson’s maid), 97, 98, 100

Hellman, Geoffrey, 19

Hellman, Lillian, 7, 61, 117–18, 121

Hemingway, Ernest, 16, 73, 121

Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), 14

Henle, Jim and Marjorie, 49

Heyday of American Communism, The (Klehr), 17

Hicks, Granville, 30, 55

Hidden Northwest, The (Cantwell), 7

Hiss, Alger, 40

Hitler, Adolf, 2, 37, 85, 86

Hollering, Franz, 97

Hook, Sidney, 41, 82, 103

Hooker, Richard, 56

Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Union, 17

How I Grew (McCarthy), 117

Howland, Harold, 13, 44

Howland, Lois Sandison, 12, 13, 44, 53, 55, 74

Huberman, Leo, 61

Hugo, Jean, 13

Humanists (American), 23–24

I, Claudius (Graves), 28

“I Got the Blues” (Odets), 4

In Dubious Battle (Steinbeck), 28

Irving, Washington, 7

I Thought of Daisy (Wilson), 93

I Went to Pit College (Gilfillan), 8–10

James, Henry, 36, 71

Jews, 2, 5, 14, 59–61, 68, 79–80, 123

John Reed Club, 23, 24, 82

Johnsrud, Harold Cooper (“John”), 97, 118

death of, 44, 120

McCarthy’s abandonment of, 35–39, 42, 48, 51–52, 62, 72, 110, 116

as McCarthy’s first husband, 1, 3–6, 8, 11–17, 19–27, 32–33, 74, 115

plays of, 4–5, 25, 55, 120

Jonson, Ben, 55–56

Joyce, James, 25, 76, 77

Kaltenborn, H. V., 70–71

Kaltenborn Edits the News, 70–71

Kamenev, L. B., 26, 35, 85

Kant, Immanuel, 101, 125

Katz, Florine, 59, 105

Katz, Gene, 59

Kimball, Win, 111

Kirchwey, Freda, 29–30, 32, 58

Kitchel, Ann (“Miss Kitchel”), 52–55, 71, 87, 103, 120, 124

Klehr, Harvey, 17

Knox, Sam, 16

Knox, Sylvia, 16

Kormendi, Lazslo, 49

Kronenberger, Louis, 26, 61

Krutch, Joseph Wood, 10, 28, 29

La Follette, Robert, 16, 119

Land of Plenty, The (Cantwell), 7

Larsen, Nella, 27

Lauchheimer, Alan. See Barth, Alan

Laugh and Lie Down (Cantwell), 7

Laughlin, James (“Jay”), 50

League of American Writers, 72–73, 85, 122

LeBoutiller, Peggy, 16

Le Gallienne, Eva, 3, 116

Lenin, Vladimir, 65

Letters on Literature and Politics (Wilson), 10

Lewis, John L., 34

Liberator, 87

Lincoln, Victoria, 28

Locke, John, 56

Lockwood, Helen, 7, 74, 117, 122

Loeb, Harold, 16

Lost Generation, 117

Lovestone, Jay, 4, 116

Luce, Henry, 15, 21, 34

Lydgate, Bill and Kay Dana, 20–21

Lyons, Leonard, 5

McCarthy, Joseph, 87

McCarthy, Kevin (brother), 112–14

McCarthy, Louis (uncle), 112

McCarthy, Preston (brother), 112–14

Macdonald, Dwight, 16, 18–19, 71–72, 73, 119, 122

as Partisan Review editor, 24, 66–67, 76, 83, 89, 119

Macdonald, Nancy, 16, 19, 71, 83

McGahan, Martha, 20, 48, 72, 114, 119

McLean, Kay, 16

MacLeish, Archibald, 34

MacMurray, Fred, 1, 43

Malraux, André, 26, 73

Mangold, Bill, 15, 61–62, 63, 65–66

“Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, The” (McCarthy), 50, 120. See also Black, George

Mann, Erika, 74

Man’s Fate (Malraux), 26

Marching, Marching (Weatherwax), 28

Marprelate Controversy, 55–56

Marshall, Margaret (“Peggy”), 48

as McCarthy’s collaborator, 29–33, 91, 96

as Nation editor, 10, 29, 66

and Wilson, 91–97, 104, 106–7, 126

Martin, Edmond, 47–49

Marx, Karl, 26, 34, 35, 69, 81

Marxism, 8, 17, 22, 69, 81, 91

Marxist criticism, 7, 55

Masses, The, 87

Mead, Margaret, 103

Memoirs of Hecate County (Wilson), 100, 125

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (McCarthy), 115

Menotti, Gian-Carlo, 80

Merlin, Frank, 4, 5–6, 97

Meyer, Bis, 14

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 103, 123

Miller, Margaret, 12, 118

Miscellany News, 15

Misch, Bob, 59–61

Mitchell, Mrs. Langdon, 14

Mizener, Arthur, 35

Modernism, 25

More, Paul Elmer, 23

Morris, George L. K., 24, 66, 67, 76, 92

Moscow Trials, 26–27, 35, 57–59, 67, 73, 85–86, 90

Murphy, Esther, 17

Murphy, Gerald, 17

Mussolini, Benito, 65

“My Confession” (McCarthy), 39, 40, 57

Nashe, Thomas, 56, 120

Nation, The, 26, 29, 73, 91, 120

McCarthy’s work for, 3, 10, 23, 27–33, 51, 63, 64, 72

Rahv’s work for, 66, 76, 95

New Masses, 18, 30, 52, 55, 56, 57, 67

New Republic, The, 3, 6–10, 117

New Yorker, The, 13, 19

New York Herald Tribune, 10–11, 29

New York Times, The, 11, 29, 30, 31

New York World, 17

Nin, Andrés, 61, 85, 121

Obermeier, Mike, 17

O’Casey, Sean, 6

Odets, Clifford, 4–5, 22, 97

Olson, Floyd, 27

On the Contrary (McCarthy), 39

Orwell, George, 43, 121

“Our Critics” (McCarthy and Marshall), 29–33, 91

Paris, Rosemary, 35

Paris Herald, 1, 36, 116

Parker, Dorothy, 16–17, 119

Partisan Review, 80–81, 120

contributors to, 121, 122–23, 124–25

courts Wilson, 88–92, 94

editors of, 23–24, 66–67, 71, 74, 76, 80–82, 83, 118, 119

McCarthy as theatre critic for, 75, 103

McCarthy’s introduction to, 23–24, 83

Partisan View, A (Phillips), 73, 82

Personal History (Sheean), 28

Peterson, Dorothy, 27

Phillips, William, 72–73, 81, 82, 84–85, 122

As Partisan Review editor, 23–24, 66–67, 74–76, 91–92, 119

Pins and Needles, 62

Popular Front, 2

Porter, John, 55

death of, 39, 42–43

McCarthy’s abandonment of, 43–45, 48, 51–52

McCarthy’s relationship with, 1–3, 15, 35–45, 116

parents of, 36–37, 42, 43

POUM, 61, 85, 121

PR. See Partisan Review

Preston, Harold, 44, 51, 69, 87–88, 101–2, 114, 126

Prokosch, Frederick, 72

Proust, Marcel, 96

Puritanism, in New Masses, 55–56

Pyatakov, Grigory L., 59, 85

Radek, Karl B., 59, 85

Rahv, Naomi, 66

Rahv, Philip, 96, 122, 123

background and youth of, 65, 78–80, 81–82

McCarthy’s abandonment of, 97–99, 102–10, 114

McCarthy’s affair with, 62, 63, 65–88, 91, 94, 95–97, 118

as Partisan Review editor, 23–24, 66–67, 71, 74–76, 91–92, 93, 118, 119

personality of, 80, 95, 96

Rand, Christopher, 14–15, 20, 48

Rand, Maddie Aldrich, 14–15, 20, 48, 119

Ransom, John Crowe, 24

Realism, 64, 84

Red Army, 85, 86

Retour de l’U.R.S.S. (Gide), 75

Revolution Betrayed, The (Trotsky), 92

Rodman, Eunice. See Clark, Eunice

Rodman, Nancy. See Macdonald, Nancy

Rodman, Selden, 16–17, 19–20, 22, 27, 63

“Rogue’s Gallery” (McCarthy), 11

Rome, Harold (“Hecky”), 62

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 34, 66, 84

Rosenberg, Harold, 84, 104, 123

Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 23

Rosenfeld, Paul, 90

Rousuck, Emmanuel J. (“Mannie”), 11, 18, 51, 52, 106, 118

Rubin, Jay, 17

Rumsey, David and Julia, 20

Sandison, Helen (“Miss Sandison”), 11, 52–57, 71, 90, 114, 118, 120, 122, 124

Sandison, Lois. See Howland, Lois Sandison

Saturday Review of Literature, The, 29

Savoy Ballroom (Harlem), 15, 27

Schlesinger, Arthur, 71

Schrifte, Evelyn, 49

Schwartz, Delmore, 76, 104, 122

Scottsboro Boys, 18

Second Congress of the League of American Writers, 72, 85, 122

Seven Who Fled (Prokosch), 72

Sheean, Vincent, 28

Sheridan, Margaret, 115

Sherman, Stuart, 23

Shriver, Myers, 2, 93, 115

Socialism, 2, 6, 26, 33, 65, 67, 69, 72

Solow, Herbert, 74, 84, 100

So Red the Rose (Young), 28

Spanish Civil War, 35, 61, 72–73, 85, 121

Spenser, Edmund, 56

Stalin, Joseph, 86, 116. See also GPU; Moscow Trials

Stalinism, 10, 15, 23, 42, 57–58, 60–61, 64, 71, 72–73, 85–86, 114, 123

Stein, Gertrude, 25–26

Steinbeck, John, 28, 64

Sternberg, Harry, 13, 118

Stewart, Donald Ogden, 73, 121–22

Stolberg, Ben, 30–31, 33–35, 94

Strachey, John, 17–18, 82, 122

Strasberg, Lee, 5, 116–17

Strauss, Harold, 64

Summer Will Show (Warner), 28

Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 16

Swan, Mrs. Joseph, 81, 108–9

Swan, Nathalie, 12, 20, 44, 72, 74, 83–84, 118

Tate, Allen, 24

Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald), 17

Theater Union, 3, 4, 5, 18

Time, 7

Travels in Two Democracies (Wilson), 90

Trees (Wilson’s home), 96–97, 98, 99, 100, 106, 109, 113, 125

Tresca, Carlo, 97, 125

Trilling, Diana, 73–74

Triple Thinkers, The (Wilson), 124

Trotsky, Leon, 41, 57–58, 69, 72, 74, 84, 90, 92

Trotskyism, 4, 26, 61, 67, 71, 73–74, 84, 87, 103, 114. See also Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky

Troy, William, 76, 103, 122

Tukhachevsky, M. N., 85–86

Ulysses (Joyce), 25

“University” (Johnsrud), 25

Valéry, Paul, 84

Van Doren, Irita, 10–11

Variety, 6

Vassar College, 15, 99

McCarthy’s attendance at, 1, 8, 28, 35, 52, 71, 87, 90, 103, 117, 118, 120, 124

McCarthy’s friends and enemies from, 5, 74, 116, 118, 119, 122

Villard, Oswald Garrison, 30, 120

Waiting for Lefty (Odets), 4, 5

Waldorf strike, 16–17

Walker, Adelaide, 4, 84

Walker, Charles, 4

Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 28

Waste Land, The (Eliot), 77

Weatherwax, Clara, 28

Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 14

Webster Hall dances, 3, 15, 61

Welty, Eudora, 64

Weston (Porter’s collaborator), 37–38, 40–41

Williams, Tony, 15–16

Willkie, Wendell, 50

Wilson, Edmund (“Bunny”)

influence of, on McCarthy’s writing, 103–4

McCarthy leaves, 54–55

McCarthy’s marriage to, 109–14, 116, 125

McCarthy’s relationship with, 88–114, 124, 125, 126

As New Republic editor, 6, 10, 117

political views of, 59, 121

relations of, with women, 100, 103, 111–12, 123

Wilson, Mrs. (Edmund’s mother), 105–6, 109–12

Wilson, Reuel, 18, 54, 105–6

Wilson, Rosalind, 111

Winchell, Walter, 5

Wine and Food Society, 59–60

Winterset (Anderson), 1, 22, 35

Wolfson, Martin, 3

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 36

Woollcott, Alexander, 16, 119

World Series, 49–50

WPA, 66, 105

Writers’ Congress, 72, 85, 122

Writers’ Project, 66, 76, 105

Yale University, 34–35, 99

Young, Art, 57

Young, Stark, 28

Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, The (Farrell), 22

Zinoviev, G. Y., 26, 35, 85

Zugsmith, Leane, 61