Absalom, Absalom!, xi, 1, 2, 3–4, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 30, 37, 44, 46, 47, 50, 54, 58–100, 104–9, 110, 111, 112, 150, 156–57, 172, 186, 187, 188–89, 209, 260, 262, 282, 297, 305, 310, 322, 324, 325, 337, 356, 372, 404, 414, 448, 469, 474, 545n86, 546n91, 546n100, 546n113, 546n117, 548n122, 549n144, 550n151, 551n5; reviews of, 96–99. See also Compson, Quentin; Sutpen family
Across the Pacific (film), 230
Addis, Jud, 41
Africa, 215, 231, 232, 233, 235, 236, 237, 443, 452
African Americans, v, 17, 23, 34, 47–48, 49, 53, 60–61, 63, 64–65, 67, 70, 74–75, 78, 80, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90–91, 93–94, 105–9, 111–16, 118–19, 121, 125, 142, 163, 172–73, 174, 176–79, 181, 183–87, 188, 189–90, 191, 193, 196, 205, 218, 224, 225–26, 227, 228, 231, 233, 235, 237, 247, 257, 259, 261, 263, 267, 278, 282, 283, 285, 293, 295, 298–99, 304, 306–7, 309, 312, 314, 316, 318, 333, 335, 338, 352, 355–57, 366, 367, 372–73, 402, 404, 418, 422–24, 432, 438, 441, 443–53, 466, 485–87, 495, 500, 503, 507, 510, 523–25, 535, 536, 538, 547n107, 548n119, 549n127, 549n143, 551n7, 552n36, 555n2, 565n69, 574n7, 576n28
Africans, 63, 77, 108, 159, 190, 311
Alabama, 445, 450, 486, 535, 582n48
Albee, Edward, 348
Alcorn A&M College, 423–24, 574n7
Aldington, Richard, 205
Aldridge, John, 488, 578–79n42
Algonquin Hotel, 123, 302, 345, 356, 357, 358, 493–94
Algonquin Round Table, 18
Allen, Gay Wilson, 433
Alice in Wonderland, 42
All Quiet on the Western Front (film), 408
Als, Hilton, 434
Alspach, Colonel, 528
America, 99, 143, 152, 175, 185, 186, 190, 213, 221, 230, 232, 234, 235, 236, 237, 279, 284, 310, 336, 416, 421, 425, 433, 434, 437, 441, 443, 452, 460, 462, 484, 500, 509, 531
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 378
American army, 113, 116, 130, 131, 197, 199, 225, 276, 329
American blackface, 407, 549n127
American cinema, 51, 117, 149, 142, 148, 261, 313, 316
American culture, 169, 361, 408
American dream, 76, 425, 426, 452
American fascism, 507
American fiction, 128, 304, 338
American foreign policy, 27, 419, 434, 439, 443, 473
American history, 77, 99, 552n36
American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy (J. Stein), 396
American legionnaire, 237
American literature, 124, 281, 285, 338, 431, 516, 529, 533
Americans, 63, 72, 101, 112, 115, 130, 189, 215, 220, 227, 231, 232, 234, 235, 291, 329, 337, 362, 380–81, 396, 407, 411, 420, 421, 425–26, 431, 433, 440, 452, 458, 462, 472, 473, 550n151, 552n36
American soldiers, 106, 112, 113, 116, 197, 217, 220, 230, 231, 233, 235, 238, 257, 276, 286, 294, 363, 369, 406, 503, 504
American writers, 96, 189, 204, 458, 459
Anderson, Sherwood, 27, 145, 302, 334, 389, 436, 457, 546n100, 553n25, 554n27; Dark Laughter, 109
Armstrong, Louis, 462
Arnold, Edward, 134
Arthur, Jean, 48
As I Lay Dying, 18, 207, 285, 356, 414, 470. See also Bundren family
Bacall, Lauren, 245, 246, 247, 373
Bacher, William, 232, 236, 239, 240, 269, 408
Bailey, Ellen, 295
Bailey’s Woods, 13, 52, 110, 217, 294, 451
Baird, Helen, 46
Balzac, Honoré, 151, 283, 317, 332, 385, 436
Barber, Ace, 488
Barnett, Ned, 192, 296, 298, 299, 306, 307, 422, 523, 524
barnstormers, 1, 3, 17, 20, 37
Barr, Caroline (Callie), 23, 112, 170–72, 185, 187, 225, 299, 303, 422, 521, 536, 538
Barrett, William E., 358
Barth, J. Robert, 502
Bassett, John, 15
Bassett, John Spencer, 555n18
Beale, Betty, 483
Beauchamp family (Go Down, Moses; Intruder in the Dust): Bobo, 524; Butch, 186, 188, 309; Hubert, 176, 182; Lucas, 85, 176, 178, 224, 296, 298, 304, 305, 306, 307, 309, 311, 313, 314, 318, 423, 479, 480, 486, 523; Mollie, 185; Sophonsiba, 176, 180; Tennie, 181
Beery, Wallace, 141
Bell, Mary, 171
Berkeley, Annie Churchill, 465
Bergson, Henri, 384
Berry, Joe, 22
Best Years of Our Lives, The (film), 227
Bezzerides, Al (“Buzz”), 205–6, 207, 208, 209, 216, 222, 228, 244, 250–51, 253, 254–55, 256, 270, 293
Bezzerides, Zoe, 252
Big Woods, 418–19; reviews of, 419–20
Birth of a Nation (film), 211, 213, 450, 552n36
Black, Victoria Fielden, 56, 122
Black Boy (Wright), 267
Bleikasten, André, 545n87, 573n35, 582n48
Blockade (film), 230
Bloom, Jack Harold, 397, 576n28
Blotner, Joseph, 302, 339, 346, 393, 433, 467–68, 473, 475, 485, 490, 515, 518, 531, 532, 543n42, 551n17, 557n25, 559n33, 562n2
Bogart, Humphrey, 243, 245–47, 248, 256, 258, 359, 361, 456, 570n17
Borsten, Orin, 36, 54, 55, 204, 337
Bouvard, Loïc, 384–85
Brackett, Leigh, 255, 257, 258, 560n20
Bradford, Melvin, 165
Bradford, Lydia, 5
Bradford, Mary Rose, 544–45n72
Bradford, Roark, 5, 29, 540n17, 544–45n72
Breen, Joseph, 11, 26, 235, 272
Brennan, Dan, 192–93
brothels, 144, 260, 371, 456, 500, 522, 525. See also whores
brotherhood, 17, 31, 60, 231, 306, 405, 408, 520
brothers, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 81–82, 85, 92, 93, 94, 97, 105, 112, 115, 119, 121, 149, 150, 167, 175, 176, 182, 184, 197, 199, 200, 209–10, 211, 214, 216, 229, 235, 252, 283, 287, 302, 305, 306, 324, 325, 330, 355, 361, 408, 413, 445, 446, 451, 482, 508, 514, 515–16, 519, 535–36, 537
Brown, Clarence, 312–13, 314, 316, 318, 323
Brown, Joe C., 267
Brown, Margaret (Maggie), 300
Brown, Ross, 300
Brown v. Board of Education, 421, 444, 448
Bryant, Carolyn, 440
Bryant, Sallie Bailey, 13, 18, 155–56
Bryant, William, 13, 18, 50, 103, 110, 155–56, 179, 292, 420, 555n18
Buchenwald, 482
Buck, Pearl, 334
Buckner, Mrs., 205
Buckner, Robert, 103, 202, 204, 208–9, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 221, 551n17, 557n25
Bundren family (As I Lay Dying), 436, 437, 457, 517; Addie, 370, 480, 517; Anse, 470; Jewel, 527
Bunyan, Paul, 382
Burcham, Milo, 3
Burgess, Guy, 443
Busby, Dr., 403
Butler, Henry, 567n44
Butterworth, Charlie, 28
Byhalia, Wright’s Sanatorium in, 414, 515, 534–35
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 478
Byronic hero, 98
Byron Society, 478
Cabell, James Branch, 27
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (film), 12
Cain, James M., 259
Cairo, Egypt, 395
Caldwell, Erskine, 293, 334, 459
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 70, 377
Cambridge spies, 443
Camus, Albert, 384, 385, 438, 473
Cantwell, Robert, 124–27, 299, 524
Carey, Glenn O., 323, 324, 326, 327
Carmichael, Hoagy, 246
Carpenter, Meta, 23–27, 30–51, 52, 53, 54–56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62–63, 64, 65, 72–73, 78, 86, 91, 102–3, 110, 119, 120, 123, 133, 134–35, 136–37, 143, 146, 147–48, 149–50, 161, 203–4, 205, 206, 207, 222, 223, 228, 229, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 250, 251, 252, 254, 274, 314, 323, 334, 337, 344–45, 348, 351, 353, 359, 360, 375, 378, 390, 396, 434, 476, 492, 494, 495, 534, 541n2, 542n25, 542–43nn33–34, 543n42, 543n49, 554n32
Carroll, Joe, 470
Carruthers, Chester, 529
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 528
Carver, George Washington, 433, 507
Casablanca (film), 216, 248, 256
Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), 379
Catullus, 326
Ceiling Zero (film), 11
Celetano, Harry, 493–94
Cerf, Bennett, 13, 18, 98, 99, 110–11, 123, 150, 174, 197, 201, 206, 207, 301, 336, 401, 411, 520, 528, 537
Cerf, Phyllis, 110–11
Champion, E. O., 20
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 432
Chaplin, Charlie, 223; The Great Dictator, 229–30
Charlottesville, Virginia, 457–58, 461, 463, 464, 465, 466, 468, 470, 471, 472, 473, 483, 485, 489–90, 493, 494, 495, 497, 511, 514, 516, 517, 518, 528, 531, 577n1
Chickasaws, 180, 218, 371, 420, 474, 479
Chickasaw trading post, 371
Chloe, 45
Cho-Cho. See Franklin, Victoria
Citizen Kane (film), 7, 9, 12–13
City College, 447
Civil War, 31, 124, 131, 171, 172, 198, 212, 214, 229, 230–31, 238, 324, 405, 448, 552n36; in Absalom, Absalom!, 70, 85, 98, 99, 106; in Faulkner stories, 198; in The Hamlet, 159, 168; in The Mansion, 506; in The Unvanquished, 99, 158
Clansman, The (Dixon), 521
Clark, Dane, 223
Claxton, Simon, 528
Clytemnestra, 108
Cochran, Louis, 324
Cochran, Mrs., 494
Coindreau, Maurice, 103
Colbert, Claudette, 130, 133, 144
Cold War, 364, 416, 438, 439, 508, 509
Cole, Nat King, 75
Collected Stories, 304, 321, 332, 357, 400; reviews of, 333–34
Coleman, John Professor, 471
Coles, Robert, 356
Collins, Carvel, 26, 37, 42, 43, 49, 136–37, 294, 299, 300, 323–24, 335, 367, 374, 376, 378, 384, 391, 397, 405, 413, 414, 471, 490, 493, 533, 543n42, 543n45, 543n49
Collins, Sam, 219
Columbia University, 124
Commins, Dorothy, 193, 394, 415, 416, 463, 482, 489, 491, 492
Commins, Saxe, 110, 150, 320, 321, 332, 346, 347, 348, 350, 360, 377, 379, 382–83, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388–89, 390–91, 393–94, 397, 398, 399, 410, 411, 412, 415, 416, 419, 426, 455, 460, 461–64, 488, 489, 491, 495, 518
Communists, 222, 223, 229, 296, 349, 362, 363, 364
Compson, Quentin, 40, 97, 325, 327, 378, 478, 479, 496, 523; in Absalom, Absalom!, 24, 59–61, 63, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75–76, 77, 78, 80–84, 86–87, 88–94, 99, 118, 184, 195, 262, 281, 282, 479, 544n67, 548n119, 549–50n144, 547n111, 550n151; in The Sound and the Fury, 94, 97, 286, 287, 325
Compson family (The Sound and the Fury; “Compson Appendix”): Benjamin (Benjy), 34, 52, 59, 161, 187, 549n144; Caddy, 34, 52, 70, 94, 134, 236, 286, 287, 325, 469, 523, 553n20; father, 24, 52, 61, 62, 75–84, 83, 87, 90, 92, 286, 287, 372, 547n110, 547n112, 548n124, 548–49n126; General Compson, 73, 75, 77, 78, 87, 89, 90, 99, 112, 525, 548n120; Jason, 157, 282, 284, 286, 287; Jason Lycurgus, 286, 287, 368; Jason Lycurgus II, 286; mother, 286; Quentin (Caddy’s daughter), 134; Quentin MacLachan, 285. See also Compson, Quentin
Condon, Bess, 315
Confederate army, 449
Confederate army jacket, 419
Confederate cap, 48
Confederate flag, 466
Confederate generals, 112
Confederate monuments, 312, 536
Confederate soldiers, 112, 113
Confederate States of America, 300
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (film), 229
Cooper, Gary, 230, 234, 256, 344, 361, 365, 396
Coriolanus, 25
Coughlan, Robert, 301, 376, 387, 392, 393, 399, 413, 415, 425
Count No ’Count: Flashbacks to Faulkner (Wasson), 55
“Country Lawyer,” xii, 16, 224–27, 274, 569n16
Cowley, Malcolm, 12, 15, 16, 97, 127–28, 189, 267, 272, 279, 280–85, 287, 290, 291, 299, 301, 302, 303–4, 317, 323, 335, 343, 369, 374, 403, 405, 449, 457, 459, 481, 482, 532
Cowley, Muriel, 564n13
Crane, Stephen, 16
Crash Dive (film), 234
Crawford, Joan, 4, 45, 143–44, 259, 260
Crosby, Bing, 239
Crown, John, 42–43, 49, 56, 135, 222
Cullen, John, 155, 291, 311, 335
Cunning of History, The (Rubenstein), 24
Daniel, Robert, 196
Darden, Colgate, 466, 485, 487
Dardis, Tom, 11
Dark Laughter (Anderson), 109
Death Valley, 273
de Gaulle, Charles, 202, 208, 235
“De Gaulle Story, The,” 209–17, 224
Depression, the, 230, 159, 230
detective story, 80, 258, 110, 322, 362
Détroyat, Michel, 3
Devine, Eric (Jim), 298, 301, 302, 314, 390
Doherty, Thomas, 34
doom, 15, 63, 72, 78, 83, 92, 97, 105, 113, 115, 118, 136, 140, 141, 167, 180, 237, 266, 286, 287, 305, 337, 338, 342, 387, 389, 502
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 294
Double Dealer, 323
Dressler, Marie, 141
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 199
Drums along the Mohawk (film), 3, 111, 120, 130–32, 133, 134, 137, 138, 144, 230, 361, 366, 551n13, 569–70n16
“Dry September,” 307, 333, 440
Dumas, Alexander, 117
Durward, Quentin, 94
Eager, Bess Lyon, 471
Eastland, James, 451
Edie: American Girl (J. Stein), 396
Ehrenberg, Ilya, 290
Eliot, T. S., 12, 94; “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” 6, 9, 16; “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” 456; The Waste Land, 2, 6
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, 279, 318
Elliott, Jack, 582n10
Ellison, Ralph, 316, 488; Invisible Man, 486
Ellmann, Richard, 481
Emerson, O. B., 450
Emperor Jones, The (O’Neill), 15, 105–6
End of the Affair, The (Greene), 353–54
Erskine, Albert, 495
Escape (film), 229
Europe, 24, 103, 105, 108, 149–50, 173, 174, 212, 213, 215, 217, 234, 268, 279, 303, 323, 325, 326, 327, 328–29, 339, 340, 346, 347, 360, 363, 376, 390, 394, 395, 396, 400, 411, 426, 435, 439, 443, 447, 452, 473, 496, 506, 530
Fable, A, xi, xii, 215, 240, 242, 243, 266, 290, 334, 340, 347, 359, 378, 379, 384, 385–86, 388, 391, 393, 396, 399, 401–9, 411, 412, 414, 416, 432, 457, 475, 523, 529, 573n3
Falkner, Alabama Leroy (Bama, Mrs. Walter McLean), 171–72, 196, 242, 314, 315, 336, 337, 358, 376, 411, 432, 567n37
Falkner, J. W. T. (John Wesley Thompson, grandfather; the young Colonel), 521
Falkner, Maud Butler (mother), 10, 16, 17–18, 19, 75, 197, 198–99, 200, 218, 241, 300, 301, 314, 316, 392, 512, 536; racism of, 74; relationship with Faulkner, 10, 20, 46, 51, 63, 172, 173, 194, 199, 202, 227, 271, 283, 314, 315, 343, 359, 362, 378, 379, 394, 398, 413, 446, 454, 458, 465, 484, 515, 521, 534
Falkner, Murry (father), 17, 51; death of, 172; in Faulkner’s writing, 118, 199, 519–20
Falkner, Murry (brother; Jack), 3, 537
Falkner, William C. (the old Colonel), 105, 109, 117, 124, 296, 298–99, 300, 307, 411, 422, 516, 519, 523, 530, 536; Rapid Ramblings in Europe, 125; The White Rose of Memphis, 109, 124
Fante, John, 205
Farmington Hunt Club, 494, 495, 516, 531
Farley, Robert, 420
Farrell, Glenda, 358
Faulkner, Alabama, 26, 39, 121, 172
Faulkner, Dean Swift (brother), 3, 10, 16, 17–18, 19–21, 29, 35, 46, 53, 64, 74, 75, 172, 346, 357, 497
Faulkner, Estelle (wife), 17, 18, 19, 26, 27, 33, 34, 36, 38, 39, 45–46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53–58, 63, 64, 82, 102, 103, 104, 119, 122, 124, 125–26, 132, 136, 150, 160, 162, 164, 165, 168, 170, 171, 178, 192, 193, 194, 197, 200, 205, 218, 219, 228, 239, 241, 242, 243, 245, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 268, 269, 271, 274, 277, 293, 294, 295–96, 299, 314, 315, 323, 326, 335, 339, 341, 342, 345, 346–48, 350–51, 352, 354, 360, 382, 383, 384, 386, 390–91, 392, 393, 394, 397, 398, 399, 410, 412, 413, 414–15, 416, 429, 436, 442, 458, 460, 461–62, 463–64, 465, 467, 482, 483, 484, 489, 491, 494, 496, 497, 498, 503, 508, 512, 514, 515, 530, 531, 534–35, 536, 537, 538, 543n42, 544n61, 544–45n72, 562n2, 582n10; alcoholism of, 20, 39–40, 50, 54, 121, 192, 250, 342, 346, 347, 351, 385, 413–14, 460–61, 518; childhood of, 521, 538; desire for a divorce, 48, 347–48, 351, 463; divorce from Malcolm Franklin, 51, 57–58; “Dr. Wohlenski,” 119; education of, 22, 38, 46; in Faulkner’s writings, 162, 367, 508
Faulkner, Jill (daughter), 26, 37, 38, 39, 49, 51–52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 75, 103, 121, 122, 125, 149, 170, 171, 192, 193, 194, 197, 204, 228, 239, 241, 247, 250, 251, 252–53, 254, 268, 269, 274, 277–78, 279, 289, 294, 296, 300, 314, 315, 331, 335, 336, 339, 340, 341, 342, 346, 347, 348, 349–51, 360, 376–77, 385, 389, 390, 391, 393, 394, 399, 412, 413, 414, 421, 429, 439, 442, 457, 458, 461, 465, 483, 489–90, 495, 504, 515, 517, 528, 536, 568n29
Faulkner, Jimmy (nephew), 101, 124, 227, 234, 238, 243, 276, 324, 329, 341, 516
Faulkner, John (brother), 3, 21, 121, 150, 167, 302–3, 355, 413, 445, 446, 514–15, 535, 537
Faulkner, Louise Meadow (wife of Dean), 10, 16, 346, 515
Faulkner, William: and African Americans (see African Americans); alcoholism of, 10, 17–18, 20, 25, 27, 29, 46, 47, 103, 110, 122, 178, 206–8, 218, 228, 247, 248, 277, 291, 295, 302–3, 336, 340, 345, 353, 378, 383, 385, 387, 388, 389, 414, 427, 431, 433, 447, 449, 451, 457, 460–61, 462–63, 466, 468, 473, 482, 493–94, 515, 527, 534–35, 537, 544–45n72, 557n25, 576n16; ambition of, 2, 172, 479; awards and honors, 333, 378, 405, 409, 416; childhood of, 13, 31, 37, 152, 164–66, 171, 191, 326, 350, 351; and children, 74, 121, 242, 276–77, 294, 326, 351, 394, 429, 431, 437, 438, 497; critical reputation of, 128; and death, 1, 3, 4, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20–21, 26, 29, 31, 39, 46, 47, 64, 66, 71, 75, 84, 92, 93, 105, 116, 117, 118, 121, 135, 137, 172, 181, 183, 184, 197, 198, 209, 219, 221, 226, 232, 236, 238, 244, 262, 265, 270, 273, 305, 327, 333, 366, 367, 370, 371, 401, 446, 451, 477, 478, 481, 502, 509, 511, 518, 521, 535, 536, 547n107, 582n10; and Death Valley, 273; and depression, 391, 396, 483; drawings by, 41, 51, 104, 136, 146, 147–48, 230, 234, 330, 342, 376, 492; education of, 326, 400, 421, 443, 521; European travels of, 24, 303, 323, 340, 347, 360, 390, 394, 396, 411, 426, 434–39; and fascism, 49–50, 90, 128, 150, 154, 185, 213, 229, 231, 232, 236, 405, 406, 445, 451, 502, 507, 508, 509, 510, 80n17; and golf, 59, 196; and fatherhood, 1, 21, 37, 51, 61, 63, 70, 74, 80, 87, 88, 89, 91, 97, 99, 112, 116–17, 118, 125, 135, 140, 164–65, 170, 175, 176, 179, 182, 199, 200, 225, 237, 238, 251, 264, 277, 279, 285, 339, 344, 349, 350, 351, 363, 364, 365, 371, 381–82, 402, 404, 405, 412, 413, 414, 418, 451, 465, 466, 469, 489, 493, 519–20, 523, 525, 526, 528, 547n107; and fox hunting, 176, 234, 494, 508, 516, 518, 526, 528; and gentleman’s code, 1, 4, 24, 28, 33, 34, 50, 53, 62, 67, 72, 94, 101, 105, 109, 112, 117, 143, 146, 185, 192, 199, 204, 225, 242, 255, 257, 265, 266, 298, 301, 314, 318, 320, 322, 325, 327, 337, 338, 339, 357, 380, 411, 426, 465, 470, 471, 476, 478, 493, 520, 521, 522, 525, 526, 527; and golfing, 59, 196; and grandfathers, xi, 183, 184, 198, 230–31, 378, 400, 523, 524, 525, 526; and horses, 164–66, 251, 253, 272, 274, 278, 302, 340, 349, 376, 378, 379, 389, 416, 431, 469, 471, 472, 491, 493, 494, 498, 517, 518, 521, 527–28, 534, 537–38; and hunting, 14, 43, 46, 49, 73, 117, 121, 145, 174, 176, 177, 180–82, 185, 186, 189, 207, 218, 219, 226, 229, 234, 241, 278–79, 291, 301, 303, 316, 331, 335, 336, 355, 378, 400, 415, 418, 419, 494, 516, 518, 528; and integration, 93, 142, 421, 423, 426, 443, 444–47, 454, 466, 467, 484, 485, 486, 535, 582n48; interviews of, 19, 52, 110, 126, 290, 300, 301, 302, 335, 353, 369, 378, 384–85, 389, 396, 401, 410, 416, 431, 435–38, 441, 445, 447, 449–50, 455–57, 458, 473, 483, 490, 509, 510, 511–13, 517, 528, 531–32; and Jews, 237, 282, 426; and lynching, 298, 299, 304, 305, 306–7, 308, 311, 423, 440, 486; and marriage, 4, 6, 11, 17, 25–26, 38, 39–40, 42, 44, 49, 50, 53, 55–56, 58, 63, 64, 67, 68, 69, 72, 81, 85–86, 91, 92, 102, 103, 106, 107, 109, 121, 131, 132, 133, 150, 160, 162, 167, 176, 178, 179, 183, 203, 204, 220, 224, 225, 227, 241, 253, 264, 270, 295, 325, 326, 328, 329, 330, 339, 342, 345, 346–47, 348, 350, 351, 354, 366, 367–68, 373, 390, 398, 399, 414, 447–48, 452, 461, 462, 470, 476, 484, 504, 507, 508, 518, 537, 544n61, 562n2; and miscegenation, 70, 99, 105, 317, 374, 443, 486, 487, 547n107, 549–50n144; and misogyny, 246, 248; and Nobel Prize, 95, 290, 334–38, 340, 358, 360, 400, 401, 426, 432, 433, 466; and Nobel Prize address, 211, 256, 336, 337, 363, 364, 384, 385, 404, 410, 414, 519, 557n33; and People-to-People Program, 460, 462; as pilot, 114, 224, 227, 437; and pilots, 20, 199, 234, 360; pilot training of, 51; as pipe smoker, 35, 40, 132, 193, 218, 223, 255, 294, 314, 330, 342, 379, 392, 429, 430, 437, 442, 470, 471, 492, 498, 512; politics of, 28, 322, 381, 405, 531; and race, xi, 60, 63, 70, 73, 77, 86, 87, 90, 93, 95, 98, 112, 113, 115, 118, 172, 174, 175, 176, 188, 189, 190, 226, 231, 261, 303, 304, 305, 306, 309, 313, 316, 318, 405, 410, 420, 431, 442, 443, 444, 447–48, 451, 452–53, 458, 466, 472, 474, 484, 485–87, 503, 507, 523, 524, 530, 549–50n144; and royalties, 319, 359, 378, 497; and Rugby Road home, 497, 498; as scoutmaster, 283, 489, 567n30; as screenwriter, 8, 27, 33, 41, 52, 71, 72, 205, 255, 258, 266, 359, 398, 456; and segregation, 93, 301, 308, 311, 420, 421, 426, 444–48, 450, 451, 466, 472, 485, 487, 512, 524, 536; servants of (see Boojack; Broadus; McEwen, Narcissus; Norfleet; Oliver, Jack); and sex, 8, 11, 39, 40, 41, 55, 82, 121, 128, 131, 135, 137, 140, 153, 160, 262, 295, 318, 344, 346, 363, 367, 429, 455, 474, 475, 478, 487, 492, 509, 522, 554n32; and sexism, 503; and slavery, 34, 59, 67, 71, 72, 77–78, 80, 81, 82, 86, 88, 90, 94, 99, 100, 105, 109, 111–13, 114–16, 118, 119, 154–55, 171, 172, 173, 176, 180, 182, 183–84, 188, 191, 213, 230–32, 238, 301–2, 317, 393, 397, 398, 418, 443–44, 449, 450, 523–24, 525, 548n122, 549–50n144, 550n151; and silent film, 72, 86; as southern novelist, 158, 281, 283, 284, 288; as stepfather, 121–22, 296, 376, 482, 544n66, 553n7; and time, 26, 43, 60, 76, 80, 83, 85, 138, 141, 180, 187, 188–89, 197, 229, 368–69, 371, 384, 398, 498; and uniforms, 173, 197, 199, 227, 228, 276, 282, 326, 327, 342, 403, 406–7, 529, 573n36; and World War I, 1, 21, 27, 36, 37, 65, 100, 115, 173, 210, 226, 243, 323, 330, 378, 402, 467; and World War II, 101, 185, 212, 226, 231, 284, 334, 405, 482, 500, 506, 507, 512, 558n33, 559n23
—, characters of: Aleck Sander, 226, 306, 307, 310, 311, 316, 476; America, 231, 234, 235; Mrs. Armstid, 166, 168; Horace Benbow, 157, 195, 330; Narcissa Benbow, 330; Mr. Binford, 526; Major Blynt, 545n86; Bogard, 429; Charles Bon, 21, 24, 52, 59, 60–63, 65, 66, 68–69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 79–80, 84, 85, 92, 94, 105, 109, 112, 172, 186, 305, 325, 449, 511, 544n67, 546n96; Jim Bond, 22, 87, 93; Bookright, 167, 549n144; Buck (in The Wild Palms), 141, 142, 143; Byron Bunch, 305; Lucas Burch, 457; Burdens, 116, 552n36; Joe Christmas, 63, 285, 305, 318, 337, 408, 523; Rosa Coldfield, 24, 39, 44, 59, 68, 72, 74, 75, 76–77, 78, 80, 84–86, 87, 89, 90, 92, 99, 195, 262, 372, 544n67, 547n110, 547nn112–13, 547nn116–17, 561n8; Miss Corrie, 522, 525, 526; Das, 545n86; Major (Mayor) de Spain, 156, 182, 198, 429, 474–75, 476, 477, 478, 509; Dilsey, 285, 305; Doom (Ikkemotubbe), 285, 286, 287, 300, 419, 479; Temple Drake, 33–34, 260, 314, 357, 366–68, 370, 371–73, 374, 497; Jenny Du Pre, 103, 313, 318, 432, 478; Eddie, 247–48, 249, 510; Roth Edmonds, 34, 177, 187, 527; Zack Edmonds, 177, 178; Elnora, 553n43; Eunice, 183–85, 186; Cecilia Farmer, 370; Sam Fathers, 179, 180, 181, 381, 418, 419, 489; Colonel H. I. Feinman, 2–3, 6, 9; Fibby, 183; French architect, 25, 76, 88, 305, 337, 372, 436; Jackie Gordon, 345; Crawford Gowrie, 311; Vincent Gowrie, 306; Louis Grenier, 322, 369; Mrs. Grier, 198; Pete Grier, 197; Percy Grimm, 50, 337; Lonnie Grinnup, 321, 322; Lena Grove, 305, 404, 457; Captain Gualdres, 325, 327, 328, 329; Doctor Habersham, 368; Miss Habersham, 305, 306, 310, 311, 313, 314, 316, 404, 479; Max Harriss, 325, 327, 328; Miss Harriss, 325, 328; Mr. Harriss, 325, 326, 327; Mrs. Melisandre Backus Harris, 326, 328, 329; Drusilla Hawk, 116, 117, 372, 504; Gail Hightower, 31, 195; Doc Hines, 367; Alec Holston, 369; Jack Houston, 161, 162–63, 487, 499, 502, 527; Jack (in Pylon), 4, 6, 8, 12; Al Jackson, 145; Jiggs, 4, 6, 9, 12, 247; Milly Jones, 84, 85; Wash Jones, 66, 80, 84, 85, 86, 92, 549n128; Barton Kohl, 500, 507; Labove, 160; Loosh, 111–13, 114, 119, 449; Butch Lovemaiden, 526; Captain Lovett, 100; Julian Lowe, 101; Charles (Chick) Mallison, xii, 226, 299, 305, 306–10, 311, 313–14, 316, 320, 324–25, 327–29, 346, 404, 437, 476, 478, 486, 502, 503, 504, 506, 507, 508–9; Mannie, 178, 179; Nancy Mannigoe, 344, 366, 367, 370, 371–72, 373, 374, 402; Anse McCallum, 176; Lucius McCallum, 176; Rafe McCallum, 327; Shreve McCannon (Mackenzie), 24, 59, 60–61, 63, 68, 69, 72, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83–84, 85–87, 88–89, 90–91, 92–93, 94, 98, 157, 448, 479, 546n101, 547n111, 548n119, 549n142, 550n151; Hoke McCarron, 477; Granny Millard, 112, 113, 116, 204, 232, 236; Belle Mitchell, 330; Nancy (in Drums along the Mohawk), 131; Nancy (in Slave Ship), 100; Otis, 525; Pete, 366; Popeye, 157, 305, 366, 371; Boss Priest, 520; Lucius Priest, 521–26; Maury Priest, 119, 519–20, 523; V. K. Ratliff, xii, 153, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160–62, 163, 166, 167–68, 169, 177, 195, 196, 305, 437, 469, 474, 478, 479, 499, 500, 502, 503, 504, 505–6, 509, 514, 515, 516, 554n18; Miss Reba, 284, 525, 553n20; Red, 366; the reporter, 4–10, 11–12, 15, 16, 70, 97, 195; Ringo, 111, 112, 11–14, 115–16, 117, 118–19, 306; Rider, 178–79, 184, 185, 186–87, 372–73; Charlotte Rittenmeyer, 42, 120–21, 123, 127, 128, 132, 133–46, 147, 149, 150, 160, 354, 553n20; Maria Rojas, 510; Roskus, 183; Reverend Shegog, 424; Laverne Shumann, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14, 490; Roger Shumann, 4, 10, 11, 12, 15; Gowan Stevens, 33, 260, 465; Tennie’s Jim, 181, 185; Thucydus, 183, 184; Tomey’s Turl, 176, 180, 181, 183, 184; Tull, 167; Mrs. Tull, 167; Eula Varner (Snopes) (see Snopses); Jody Varner, 156, 157–58, 159; Will Varner, 153, 155, 156, 159, 160, 166, 167, 500; Harry Wilbourne, 123, 139–47, 149, 160, 354, 554n29; George Wilkins, 177; Zelda, 260. See also Beauchamp family; Bundren family; Compson, Quentin; Compson family; McCaslin family; Sartoris family; Snopeses; Stevens, Gavin; Sutpen family
—, works of: Adventures of Don Juan, 453; Air Force, 209, 230, 274; “Ambuscade,” 111; Background to Danger, 253; Banjo on My Knee, 47, 48, 49, 147, 361, 393, 569n16; “Battle Cry,” 224, 228, 229–40, 245, 248, 257, 274, 337, 359, 408, 409, 429, 503, 507; “The Bear,” 180–85, 188, 190, 419, 469; “The Big Shot,” 67, 68; The Big Sleep, 216, 223, 255–58, 261, 262, 263, 274, 359, 361; “Carcassonne,” 332, 333, 528; “Country Lawyer,” xii, 224–27, 274; The Damned Don’t Cry, 259–60, 366, 560n2; “Death Drag,” 1, 291; Deep Valley, 223, 224; “The De Gaulle Story,” 209–17, 221, 224, 239, 245, 257, 274, 359, 409, 558n33; “Delta Autumn,” 185–86, 188, 189–90, 419; Dreadful Hollow, 260–66, 274; Drums along the Mohawk, 103, 111, 120, 130–32, 133, 134, 137, 138, 144, 230, 361, 366, 551n13, 569–70n16; “Dry September,” 307, 333, 440; “An Error in Chemistry,” 279, 321; “Escape into the Desert,” 253; “Evangeline,” 68, 69–70, 546n96; Father Abraham, 151, 156, 159; “The Fire and the Hearth,” 176–78, 185, 271; “Flying the Mail,” 20; “Fog over London,” 253; “Go Down, Moses,” 186–87; “God is My Co-Pilot,” 253, 429, 559n24; “Golden Land,” 144, 429; A Green Bough, 36, 42, 43, 44, 148; Gunga Din, 64–65, 545n87; “Hand upon the Waters,” 321, 322; “The Hill,” 431, 479; “Honor,” 1, 291; If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, 147, 194; “A Justice,” 419; “Knight’s Gambit,” 324, 325–29; Land of the Pharaohs, 393–94, 438; Lazy River, 393; The Left Hand of God, 348, 358, 359, 361–66, 367, 370, 375, 384, 569–70n16, 570n23; “Letter to a Northern Editor,” 446; “The Life and Death of a Bomber,” 219–21; Light in August, xi, 18, 116, 156, 305, 309, 367, 404, 412; “The Lilacs,” 540n10; “Manservant,” 545n86; The Marble Faun, 194, 196, 397; The Marionettes, 413, 429; Mildred Pierce, 259–60, 366, 509; “Mississippi,” 123, 311, 400, 419, 432, 437, 479; Mosquitoes, 135, 311, 317, 436, 501; “Mr. Acarius,” 353, 387–88; “Monk,” 321; “My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek,” 203; “Mythical Latin American Kingdom Story,” 510; Northern Pursuit, 223–24; “Notes on a Horsethief,” 404, “An Odor of Verbena,” 100, 114, 116–17, 321, 416, 449; “Old Man,” 122, 137, 147, 389; “On Fear: Deep South in Labor: Mississippi,” 445, 451–52; “On Privacy,” 425–26; “Pantaloon in Black,” 178, 373; The Portable Faulkner, 267, 283–85, 290, 299, 334; “Race at Morning,” 416, 419, 420; “Raid,” 115, 282; “Red Leaves,” 285, 418, 469; “Retreat,” 113–15; “Revolt in the Earth,” xii, 104–9, 264, 370, 550n150, 551n17, 551n21; “Riposte in Tertio,” 116; The Road to Glory (Wooden Crosses), 26, 28, 30–32, 36, 44, 45, 100, 208, 406, 407, 408; “A Rose for Emily,” 122, 262, 317, 325, 379; “Shall Not Perish,” 197–98, 199, 230, 332, 429; “Skirmish at Sartoris,” 116; Slave Ship (The Last Slaver), 100, 104, 111, 114, 140; “Smoke,” 321; Soldiers’ Pay, 101, 244; The Southerner, 271–72, 274, 496; “Splinter Fleet” (Submarine Patrol), 100–102; “Spotted Horses,” 153, 156, 164, 165, 168, 284, 469, 519; Stallion Road, 272–73, 274; Sutter’s Gold, 13, 18, 88, 142, 366, 432, 569–70n16; “The Tall Men,” 175; “There Was a Queen,” 119; Today We Live, 4, 27, 30, 31, 234, 405, 429, 553n20; To Have and Have Not, 216, 243, 244–49, 256, 258, 274, 359, 361, 510; “Tomorrow,” 321; “Turnabout,” 201, 529; “Two Soldiers,” 197–98, 429; “War Birds,” xii, 108; “The Wild Palms,” 132, 137, 147; The Wishing Tree, 121. See also Absalom, Absalom!; As I Lay Dying; Big Woods; Collected Stories; Fable, A; Flags in the Dust; Go Down, Moses; Intruder in the Dust (novel); Knight’s Gambit; Pylon; Reivers, The; Requiem for a Nun; Sanctuary; Sartoris; Sound and the Fury, The; Unvanquished, The; Wild Palms, The
Flags in the Dust, 9, 20, 31, 111, 112, 117, 119, 156, 175, 178, 261, 478, 488, 510, 511, 536. See also Sartoris; Sartoris family
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 507, 508
federal government, 130, 307, 321, 380, 421, 422, 446, 451, 452, 507, 550n151
Feldman, Charles, 358, 360, 394
Ferber, Edna, 459
Ferrer, Jose, 345
Fielden, Bill, 209, 217, 227, 251, 252–53, 278, 294, 296, 302, 414, 415, 433, 442, 517
Fielden, Vicki (Cho-Cho’s daughter), 122, 242, 251, 269, 277, 295, 296, 314, 315, 316, 394, 412, 413, 414, 441, 460–61, 482, 504, 514, 515, 517, 518
Fielden, Victoria (Cho-Cho), 19, 21, 103, 121–22, 217, 227, 241, 242, 251, 294, 296, 433, 442, 482
Fieldstone Sanitarium, 303
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 22
Flaubert, Gustav, 385
Fleming, Rose C., 567n44
Flynn, Errol, 253
Fonda, Henry, 130, 230–31, 234, 235, 238, 559n24
Foote, Shelby, 193–94, 365, 412, 459, 536, 537
Ford, Corey, 71
Ford, John, 230
Ford, Ruth, 231, 351, 357, 375, 377, 488, 496–97, 501
Ford Foundation, 379, 384, 429
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 203
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 248
Franco, Francisco, 150
Frank, Waldo, 459
Frankfurter, Felix, 397
Franklin, Cornell, 39, 50, 54, 122, 242, 326, 342
Franklin, Gloria, 376, 392, 415
Franklin, Malcolm, 241–42, 376, 415, 519, 544n66, 578n28
Freud, Sigmund, 90, 318, 418, 457, 554n18
Front Page, The (film), 6, 8, 11
Frost, Robert, 412
Furthman, Jules, 244–45, 246, 248, 257, 267, 560n20
Fury (film), 313
Gable, Clark, 43, 117, 223, 256, 279
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 381
Galban, Mrs. Julio S., 494
Gallimard, 438
Gandhi, Mahatma, 453
Garfield, John, 234
Garrett, George, 29
Gartly-Ramsey Hospital, 382, 383, 391
Gates Flying Circus, 2
Gathright-Reed drugstore, 318, 534
Geller, James J., 202, 205, 208, 221, 258, 268, 273
Gershwin, George, 294
Giacometti, Alberto, 434
Gilbert, Benjamin, 462
Go Down, Moses, xi, 34, 85, 114, 115, 131, 157, 171, 172, 174, 175, 178–90, 193, 201, 211, 218, 226, 230, 233, 255, 271, 284, 285, 296, 298, 305, 306, 309, 381, 418, 474, 523, 560n2; “The Bear,” 173, 180–85, 284, 299, 418, 419, 469; “Delta Autumn,” 185, 186, 188, 189, 190, 419; “The Fire and the Hearth,” 176–77, 185, 271; “Go Down, Moses,” 186–87; “The Old People,” 179, 418, 419; “Pantaloon in Black,” 173, 178–79, 186–87, 373; reviews of, 189; “Was,” 175–76, 180, 181. See also Beauchamp family; McCaslin family
Goering, Hermann, 232
Gogol, Nikolai, 294
Goldman, Morton, 13, 21, 53, 54, 551n4
Gold Medal for Fiction, 482, 532
Goldwyn, Frances, 206
Goldwyn, Samuel, 11, 35, 540n24
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 74, 114, 117, 230, 367, 552n36
Good Neighbor policy, 245
Gordon, Caroline, 283
Gorgeous Hussy, The (film), 45
Graham, Henry, 19
Graham, Lamon, 19
Grand Street, 434
Grapes of Wrath, The (film), 230
Grauman’s Chinese Theater, 34
Grauman’s Egyptian Theater, 34
Green, Paul, 459
Green Bough, A, 36, 42, 43, 44, 148
Greene, Graham, The End of the Affair, 353–54
Greene, R. C., 471–72
Greenfield Farm, 121, 150, 183, 193, 296, 488, 493
Greenville, Mississippi, 194
Greenville, South Carolina, 311
Greenwich Village, 477, 479, 504
Greenwood, Mississippi, 440
Grenier, Cynthia, 435–37
Guinzberg, Alice, 18
Gwynn, Frederick, 457–58, 467, 468, 469, 473, 485
Haas, Betty, 360
Haas, Robert, 100, 110, 121, 122, 123, 151, 170, 172, 173, 197, 223, 224, 237, 238, 243, 279, 291, 292, 299, 301, 302, 337, 376, 384, 393, 407, 518, 554n3
Hale, Nancy, 467–68
Hamlet, 195
Hamlet, The, 152–69, 170, 174, 175, 195, 289, 305, 470, 474, 480, 481, 498, 502, 523; reviews of, 152–54. See also Snopeses; Snopes trilogy
Hammett, Dashiell, 18, 29, 40, 501
Hardy, Thomas, 523
Hart, Basil Liddell, 98
Hathaway, Henry, 240, 269, 407, 408, 475
Harvard University, 24, 59, 73, 75, 81, 86–87, 98, 101, 150, 287, 299, 311, 377, 547n111
Hawks, Howard, 3–4, 8, 11, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31–33, 35, 37, 38, 43, 44, 46, 48–49, 73, 138, 209, 216, 228, 229, 230, 236, 239, 240, 243, 244–46, 248, 254, 255, 260, 261, 264, 266, 270, 279, 318, 358, 359, 360, 361, 365, 375, 393–94, 397–98, 407, 408, 540n24, 542n25, 546n100, 559n24, 560n23
Hayward, DuBose, 494
Hayward, Leland, 194
Heilpern, John, 434
Hellman, Lillian, 29, 40, 227, 501, 532; The North Star, 212; The Searching Wind, 226; Watch on the Rhine, 214
Hemingway, Ernest, 8, 58, 139, 189, 246, 247, 248, 279, 280, 293, 334, 338, 428, 431, 517, 529; Across the River and into the Trees, 344
Hempstead, David, 28, 47, 72, 314
Henry IV (Shakespeare), 126
Hernandez, Juano, 311, 314, 315
Herndon, William, 202, 269, 273, 280
He Who Gets Slapped (film), 104
Hicks, Granville, 117–18, 374, 403–4, 481, 499–500, 533
His Girl Friday (film), 4
Hiss, Alger, 443
History of Henry Esmond, The, 111, 126
Hitchcock, Alfred, 455
Holly Springs, Mississippi, 122, 125, 193, 515, 555–56n18
Hollywood, 3, 8, 12, 18, 22, 24, 35, 44, 48, 53, 65, 110, 133, 168, 173, 194, 208, 266, 273, 315, 342, 398, 404, 545n83, 560n23
Holmes, Edwin R., 397
Holmes, Sherlock, 329
“Hong Kong Blues” (song), 246
Hopkins, Harry, 506
Hopkins, Miriam, 34, 54, 194, 542n28
House, Mrs., 251
Howland, Harold E., 411, 427, 439
Hume, Branham, 196
Hurston, Zora Neale, 61
Iceland, 438–39
I Cover the Waterfront (film), 5–6, 8, 10
Impressions of Japan: William Faulkner (film), 428
Indian subcontinent (Indians), 64, 65, 172, 448
Intruder in the Dust (novel), xi, 157, 173, 224, 226, 299, 301, 302, 303, 310–11, 317, 318, 321, 323, 330, 333, 346, 357, 369, 404, 446; reviews of, 305–10. See also Beauchamp family; Stevens, Gavin
Intruder in the Dust (film), 260, 271, 312–16, 336, 360, 442, 490
Invisible Man (Ellison), 486
Irving, Washington, 160
Italy, 73, 394, 432, 435, 440, 501, 502
I Wanted Wings (film), 230
Jackson, Charles, The Lost Weekend, 303, 387
Jackson, Mississippi, 368
Jackson Park (New Orleans), 144
Jackson, Robert, 232
Jackson, Stonewall, 34
James, Henry, 126, 129, 294, 373
Japan, 427–34, 435, 440–41, 468, 479, 512
Japanese, 197, 199, 200, 232, 233, 236, 253, 269, 428, 429, 430–31, 433, 440–41
Japanese-American relations, 433
Japanese literature, 432
Jefferson, Mississippi, 59, 62, 73, 77, 78, 151, 152, 154–55, 168, 176, 188, 196, 197, 224, 283, 286, 312, 366, 368–69, 371, 372, 374, 435, 437, 473, 474, 476, 477, 478, 479, 481, 500, 502, 503, 505, 510, 521
Jefferson Society, 468
Jefferson, Thomas, 381, 485, 486
Jim Crow, 93, 190, 235, 422, 423
Joan of Arc, 350
Johnny Belinda (film), 509
Johnson, Andrew, 552n36
Johnson, Nunnally, 26, 28–29, 32, 47, 271
Johnson, Susie Paul, 12
Joice, John, 84
Jones, Henry, 218
Jonsson, Else, 338–40, 351, 359, 360, 364, 378, 384, 389, 390, 426, 434, 439, 477, 534
Jonsson, Thorsten, 334
Joyce, James, 43; Ulysses, 296
June Lake, California, 229
Kaledin, Arthur, 377–78, 571n12
Kaltenborn, H. V., 199
Karl, Fred, 342, 531, 545n87, 570n17, 573n34
Karlova, Irina, 260
Kawin, Bruce, 248
Kawin, Alfred, 481
Keating, Bern, 412
Keats, John, 4, 122, 152, 267, 506, 540n10; “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” 46, 104, 284
Keel, Pinckney, 379
Keller, 381
Kempton, Murry, 480
Kennedy, John, 529, 531, 582n48
Kentucky limestone, 493
Kentucky tobacco, 126
Keswick Hunt Club, 495
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 453
Kipling, Rudyard, 64, 65, 100, 545n87
Kirk, David, 450
Klopfer, Donald, 18, 110, 393, 537–38
Knight, Salley, 494–95
Knight’s Gambit, 225, 271, 309, 318, 320–29, 348; reviews of, 329–31. See also Stevens, Gavin
Korea, 428
Kurtz, 107
Lady Eve, The (film), 375
Lahiere, 492
Lanham, Buck, 293
Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald), 8
Latin America, 410
Latin Americans, 517
Lay of the Last Minstrel, The (Scott), 45–46
Lecky, William, 470
Lee, Robert E., 34, 99, 381, 446, 527
Legion of Honor, 378
Lewis, John L., 506–7
Lewis, Sinclair, 8, 27, 294, 334
Lewis, William, Jr., 527, 557n29
liberty, 175, 217, 229, 237, 307, 380–81, 425, 436, 441, 443–44, 452, 457, 484
Light in August, xi, 18, 116, 156, 305, 309, 367, 404, 412
Lincoln, Abraham, 233–34, 238, 381, 408, 485
Lincoln Brigade, 116, 211, 213, 230, 507, 552n36
Lincoln cantata, 229, 231, 233, 236, 238
Lindbergh, Charles, 425
Lin McLean (Wister), 146
Linscott, Robert, 290, 388, 426, 462
Little, Minnie Ruth, 300
Little Rock, Arkansas, 484
London, 213, 223, 228, 235, 260, 339, 360, 496, 497, 502, 505
Long, Huey, 3
Long Hot Summer, The (film), 470
Loos, Anita, 438
Lost Weekend, The (Jackson), 303, 353, 387
Love, Dean L. L., 423
Lovecraft, H. P., 294
Love in the Afternoon (film), 396
“Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, The” (Eliot), 6, 9, 16
Loving Gentleman, A (Carpenter), 39, 41, 54, 102, 148
Lowell, Robert, 459
Lowney, Perrin H., Jr., 364
Lucy, Autherine, 445–46, 447, 449, 450, 453
lynching, 299, 304, 306, 311, 313, 440, 486
Lyon, Ben, 6
Maclean, Donald, 443
Magwood, Howard T., 429
Manet, Édouard, 429
Mansion, The, xi, 162, 163, 225, 481, 487, 488, 491, 495, 497–98, 501–11, 522, 525; reviews of, 498–500. See also Snopeses; Snopes trilogy; Stevens, Gavin
Marble Faun, The, 194, 196, 397
Manet, Édouard, 429
Marion, Frances, 117
Marlowe, Christopher, 126, 127
Marlowe, Philip, 254, 255–58, 262
Martinique, 245
Marx, Harpo, 240
Marx, Sam, 316
Mary Washington University, 433, 470
Massey, Linton, 490, 495, 516, 531, 537
Matthews, John T., 1, 73, 556n20
Mayfield, M. B., 356
Mays, Benjamin, 441
McCarthy, Joseph, 399, 400, 481, 508, 509
McCaslin family (Go Down, Moses): Buck, 114, 176, 180, 182–84, 187; Buddy, 114, 144, 176, 182–84, 187; Isaac (Ike), 173, 211, 381, 437; Lucius Quintus (old Carothers), 176, 177, 182, 183–84, 186, 523; Ned, 523, 524–25, 526
McClure, John, 324
McCrea, Joel, 47
McEwen, Earnest, Jr., 422–24, 574n7
McLaglen, Victor, 64
McLean, Alabama (Bama). See Falkner, Alabama Leroy
Meet John Doe (film), 8
Memphis, 17, 23, 24, 37, 38, 42, 47, 50, 124, 170, 171, 189, 197, 316, 346, 360, 366, 371, 376, 382, 383, 412–13, 420, 427, 441, 445, 450, 451, 461, 521, 522, 523, 525, 534, 544n72
Meriwether, James B., 500, 534
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), 117, 192, 229, 299, 312, 313, 315, 316, 360, 511, 545n86
Middle East, 452
Milan, 435
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 514
Millgate, Michael, 66
Milton, John, 201
Mississippians, 23, 93, 195, 267, 276, 310, 311, 338, 379, 380, 420, 448, 452, 532, 582n48
Modern Library, 201
Moll, Erik, 254–55
Mondadori, Alberto, 435
Monroe, Marilyn, 396, 428, 434, 475, 476, 477, 478, 481
Moore, Marianne, 459
Moore, Robert H., 437
Morehouse College, 441
Morrison, Toni, 90
Mortal Storm, The (film), 229
Mosquitoes, 135, 311, 317, 436, 501
Mouse That Roared, The (film), 490
Mullen Phil, 349
Mumford, Lewis, 459
Murphy, Dudley, 104–5, 107, 109, 551n17
Musso & Frank’s, 34, 40, 204, 212, 222, 223, 226, 228, 252, 542n33
“Mythical Latin-American Kingdom Story,” 510
NAACP, 7, 316, 423, 444–46, 447–48, 451–53
Nagano, Japan, 429
National Recovery Act, 506
National Velvet (film), 313
Native Americans (Indians), 50, 65, 68, 77, 130–31, 131, 138, 155, 176, 179, 223, 283, 286, 361, 394, 418, 419, 422, 435
NATO, 439
Neilson’s Department Store, 201, 267, 527
Nelson, Charles, Sr., 199, 200, 336, 568n29
Nelson, Charles, Jr., 199, 553n14, 572n27
New Albany, Mississippi, 61
New Deal, 130, 175, 199, 214, 380, 451, 570n18
New Haven, Connecticut, 479
New Orleans, 1–2, 4, 5, 6, 14, 24, 37, 47, 48, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 67, 69, 73, 74, 79, 82, 91, 106, 107, 109, 135, 143, 144, 145, 150, 183, 184, 248, 303, 323, 326, 328, 359, 378, 393, 418, 436, 457, 482
New York City, 17, 18, 37, 55, 110–11, 123, 149, 152, 200, 206, 207, 224, 238, 241, 248, 252, 282, 292, 301–3, 308, 314, 336, 343, 344, 346, 347, 350, 353, 357, 359, 364, 375, 383, 385, 386–89, 390, 391, 393, 411, 412, 413–14, 426, 427, 447, 451, 459, 464, 468, 477, 478, 482, 501, 502, 503, 504–6, 509, 514, 517, 519, 532, 537
Niagara, 475