Norfleet, 218, 219, 242, 278, 382
North (U.S.), 61, 73, 99, 115, 152, 174, 186, 187, 190, 192, 198, 212, 298, 299, 307, 308, 369, 447, 449, 485, 486, 490, 550n151, 552n36
northerners, 99, 106, 238, 291, 301–2, 306, 307, 369, 408, 447, 485, 486, 487, 550n151, 552n36
northern liberals, 306, 307, 312, 447, 452
northern newspapers, 100, 126, 446
Nuremberg trials, 232
Nuechterlein, Donald, 439
Obed, 191
Ober, Harold, 174, 200, 203, 242, 243, 267, 273, 291, 292, 293, 298, 310, 343, 376, 377, 451, 492
O’Brien, Pat, 6
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (Keats), 43, 46, 284, 456
Odiorne, William, 53
O’Donnell, George Marion, 128–29, 153, 283
Oldham, Dorothy, 276, 278, 536
Oldham, Lemuel E., 241–42
Oldham family, 51, 172, 241, 269, 277, 322, 482, 538
O’Neill, Eugene, 27, 102, 109, 357; The Emperor Jones, 15, 105–6; Lazarus Laughed, 551n23
“Opera in Greenville” (West), 311
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 529
Oxford, Mississippi, xi, xii, 17, 18–19, 23, 24, 36, 37, 42, 49, 50, 51–52, 53, 58, 72, 73, 75, 103, 111, 125, 127, 133, 136, 147, 152, 171, 174, 178, 191, 192, 196, 197, 200, 211, 212, 218, 250, 273, 282, 290, 293–95, 299, 300, 302, 303, 310, 311, 312–15, 336, 345, 355, 360, 369, 376, 378, 387, 395, 412, 414, 422–23, 424, 429, 435, 442, 446, 476, 479, 484, 485, 498, 501, 511, 516, 519, 526, 537; and attitude toward Faulkner, 62, 392, 437, 438, 527
Paddock, Lisa, 543n34
Pagano, Jean, 254
Parchman prison, 127, 145, 499
Parini, Jay, 545n87
Paris, 37, 53, 235, 236, 339–40, 360, 372, 377, 379, 386, 387, 394, 395, 429, 435–36, 438, 473, 496, 497, 502, 505, 508
Park, Peggy, 299–300
Parker, Dorothy, 27
Pascagoula, Mississippi, 132, 149, 501
Patterson, Elizabeth, 313, 314
Pearl Harbor, 190, 197, 209, 328, 429, 441
Percy, W. A., 335
Percy, Walker, 194
Pine Manor Junior College, 337, 349, 350, 376, 389
Poe, Edgar Allan, 33, 301, 323
Polk, Noel, 66
Pontotoc, Mississippi, 19
poor whites, 109, 152, 260, 283, 284
Porgy and Bess (Heyward), 494
Portable Hemingway, The, 280
Princeton, New Jersey, 384, 386, 388, 393, 416, 487–89, 491, 493
Princeton University, 377, 488–89, 490, 492, 529, 571n11
Private World of William Faulkner, The (Coughlan), 387, 392
production code, 11–12, 26, 34, 41, 102, 105, 131, 134, 144, 365
Pulitzer Prize, 409
Purser, Stuart, 355–56
Pylon, xi, 1–13, 14–17, 18, 37, 66, 69–70, 97, 195, 317, 490, 501, 523, 546n91
Rampton, David, 574n34
Random House, 110, 121, 122, 150, 151, 174, 176, 206, 237, 267, 280, 290, 292, 296, 299, 301, 302, 308, 319, 332, 336, 337, 353, 357, 376, 384, 388, 390, 393, 399, 401, 410, 411, 414, 460, 462, 488, 519, 531, 537
Rapid Ramblings in Europe (Falkner), 125
Rawlings, Marjorie Kennan, 313
Rebner, Wolfgang, 49, 50, 102, 103, 136, 149–50, 203
Reconstruction, 35, 93, 116, 158, 213, 307, 420, 431, 450, 469, 550n146, 552n36
Red Acres, 531
Reed, Mac, 192, 335, 340, 392, 437, 512, 521, 537
Reivers, The, xi, 157, 173, 199, 340, 518–26, 528, 530, 533, 534, 536; reviews of, 533
Requiem for a Nun, xi, 157, 224, 225, 260, 262, 271, 288, 309, 330, 343, 356–57, 359, 362, 366–74, 384, 389, 402, 404, 418, 435, 437, 438, 473, 496–97, 512, 518, 570n21, 570n34. See also Stevens, Gavin
Reynolds, Quentin, 110
Richard III (Shakespeare), 126
Richardson, Dudleigh, 223
Ring Dove, 331
Ringle, Ken, 470–71
Ripley, Mississippi, 105, 296, 299, 376
Rise of Silas Latham, The (Howells), 153
Rives, Alexander, 518
Robinson, Earl, 229, 231–32, 236–37
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 517
Romberg, Sigmund, 294
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 49, 105, 185, 208, 209, 213–14, 216, 238, 245, 443, 506
Roosevelt Hotel, 36
Rorke, Hayden, 41
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 88, 432, 478
Rubinstein, Richard L., 24
Sanctuary, 2, 18, 34, 127, 201, 204, 260, 284, 317, 318, 358, 366, 371, 401, 431, 471
Sartoris, 20, 457, 502. See also Flags in the Dust; Sartoris family
Sartoris family (Sartoris/Flags in the Dust), 24, 45, 117, 129, 151, 153, 158, 257, 283, 474, 479, 480, 499, 511; Benbow, 329; Carolina Bayard, 203–4, 205; Colonel John, 20, 100, 112–13, 114, 115, 116–17, 118–19, 158, 265, 527, 552n36; John (young Bayard’s brother), 20–21, 32, 108, 210, 213, 506; old Bayard, 100, 111, 195, 449; young Bayard, 1, 32, 108, 175, 210
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 281, 384, 385
Sasaki, Midori, 432
Sayre, Joel, 26–28, 29, 30, 32, 125, 151
Scandinavia, 452
Scandinavian women, 339
Schary, Dore, 312
Schopenhauer, Arnold, 138, 139
Schulberg, Budd, 120
Schwartz, Delmore, 402
Scott, Walter, 94, 111, 154, 402, 523; The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 45
Scott, Zachary, 271, 272–73, 496–97
Scribner’s Magazine, 100
Selby, Claude, 121, 122, 553n7
Sellers, Peter, 490
Sensibar, Judith, 52
Seven Year Itch, The, 318
Shakespeare, William, 26, 277, 529; Hamlet, 89, 117; The Tempest, 529
Sheean, Vincent, 150
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 267; “Ozymandias,” 109
Sherwood, Madeleine, 110
Sherwood, Robert, 110
Shield, Asa, 527
Shirer, William L., 228
Sienkiewicz, Henry, 400
Signet book editions, 317, 318
Silver, James (Jim), 347, 380, 413, 441–43, 444, 451, 454, 464, 465
Silver, Margaret (“Dutch”), 442, 515, 537
Simons, Madeleine, 289–90
Singal, Daniel J., 548n119
Sirk, Douglas, 12
sisters, 21, 42, 46, 60, 62, 63, 70, 72, 82, 94, 97, 106, 136, 159, 176, 219, 235, 252, 255, 256, 257, 262, 268, 287, 291, 294, 324, 325, 329, 330, 348, 498, 535, 538
slavery, 34, 59, 67, 71, 77–78, 80, 81, 82, 86, 88, 90, 94, 99, 100, 105, 109, 113, 114–15, 116, 118, 119, 154–55, 171, 172, 173, 176, 180, 182–84, 188, 191, 213, 230–32, 238, 301–2, 317, 393, 397, 398, 418, 443, 449, 450, 494, 523–24, 525, 548n122, 549–50n144
Slave Ship (The Last Slaver) (film), 100, 104, 111–12, 140, 551n5, 552n36, 582n48
Smith, Harrison (Hal), 1, 13, 14, 18, 19, 21, 93, 99–100, 124, 139, 140, 150, 301, 302, 356, 359, 376, 387, 389, 390, 420
Smith, Lloyd, 469
Snopeses, 27, 129, 156, 159, 163, 166, 169, 283, 284, 286, 419, 437, 455, 480–81, 496, 498, 499, 502, 515; Ab, 156, 158, 159; Clarence, 500, 503, 509, 525; Eck, 165, 166; Eula Varner, 153, 159–61, 162, 163, 167, 168, 474, 477, 475–76, 501; Flem, 155–56, 157, 159, 160, 161, 165, 166, 167–68, 476, 479, 480, 495, 499, 500, 505, 506–7, 509, 510; Ike, 153, 159, 161; Linda, 150, 500, 502, 503, 504, 580n15; Lump, 162–63, 167; Mink, 159, 162, 163, 487, 499, 503; Montgomery Ward, 500, 580n19; Virgil, 525; Wall, 500
Snopes trilogy, xi, 150–52, 156, 162, 164, 169, 382, 472, 497, 502, 514. See also Hamlet, The; Mansion, The; Snopeses; Town, The
“Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Hemingway), 138
Sohm, Clem, 3
Somerville, Ella, 413, 414, 536
Sontag, Susan, 504
So Red the Rose (Young), 68–69
Soul of the Cypress (film), 104
Sound and the Fury, The, 18, 40, 59, 64, 70, 75, 92, 94, 157, 233, 260, 261, 263, 282, 284, 285, 288, 401, 414, 424, 457, 468, 490; “Compson Appendix,” 75, 236, 279, 282, 285–88, 308, 368, 404, 469. See also Compson, Quentin; Compson family
South (U.S.), 22, 23–24, 34, 42, 59–60, 72, 74, 75, 78, 80, 86, 87, 89, 92–93, 94, 97–98, 99, 116, 119, 127, 131, 152, 154, 168, 174, 188, 189, 194, 210, 212, 224, 235, 247, 281–82, 292, 298, 301, 303, 306, 307–8, 310, 311, 312, 320, 330, 333–34, 352, 369, 422, 423, 432, 445, 446, 447, 448–49, 472, 481, 485, 496
Southern Agrarians, 15
southern gentlemen. See Faulkner, William: and gentleman’s code
Southern Gothic, 24, 68, 48, 199
Southern Historical Association, 439, 441
southern history, 1, 59, 68, 77, 198, 230, 466
southern identity, 24, 99, 103, 113, 129, 204, 224, 263, 307, 440, 449, 486
southern ladies, 14, 26, 218–19, 318, 351, 379, 392, 456, 465
southern liberals, 225, 307, 309, 321, 449, 510
southern literature, 69, 126–27, 283, 367, 431, 490
Southerner, The (film), 271–72, 274, 496
southerners, xi, 24, 28, 32, 42, 68, 73, 118, 195, 206, 214, 225, 231, 238, 301, 307, 311, 313, 316, 357, 380, 408, 434, 443, 444, 448, 450, 451, 461, 465, 485, 496, 500, 502, 503, 507, 508, 516, 548n122, 549–50n144, 550n147, 550n151, 552n36, 575n27, 582n48
Southern Reposure, 451
southern white mythology (identity), 263, 549n43
Soviet Union, 223, 417, 439, 491, 508
Sowell, Navy, 19
Spanish Civil War, 150, 222, 230, 248, 293, 500, 507
Spratling, William, 546n100
Stalingrad, 232
Stallings, Laurence, 8
State Department, 215, 290, 403, 410, 411, 412, 416, 426, 427, 433, 435, 439, 443, 444, 459, 462, 473, 491, 494, 508, 512, 517
Stein, Gertrude, 256
Stein, Jean, 351, 360, 394, 395–96, 397, 398, 399, 414, 415, 416, 432, 434, 438, 444, 447, 452, 455, 457, 458, 461–62, 477, 484, 501, 504, 505
Stein, Jules, 477
Steinbeck, John, 334, 459, 460; The Grapes of Wrath, 230
Stevens, Gavin, xii, 157, 320, 341, 498; in Go Down, Moses, 186–88; in Intruder in the Dust, 225, 226, 303–4, 306–7, 309–11, 313, 446, 486, 564n20; in Knight’s Gambit, 225, 320–30, 348; in The Mansion, 225, 499–501, 503–5, 508–10; in Requiem for a Nun, 225, 330, 362, 366–69, 371–73, 496, 497, 570n34; in The Town, 225, 437–38, 469, 473–79, 481, 499, 501
Stevenson, Adlai, 531
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 199
“St. Louis Blues” (Handy), 47
Stockholm, 336–37, 360, 364, 394
Stone, Ike, 292
Stone, Maggie Lea, 292
Stone, Phil, 45, 47, 50, 86, 150, 294, 295, 313, 314, 315, 320, 321, 322, 323–24, 326, 327, 329, 335–36, 341, 342, 348, 358, 364, 392, 393, 421, 498; in Faulkner’s writings, 310, 320, 322, 323, 324, 325–26, 328, 367, 369, 384, 437, 476, 479, 498, 533; hostility toward Estelle Faulkner, 399, 414–15, 537; hostility toward Faulkner, 300, 391, 397, 426–27; and The Marble Faun, 196, 397; as mentor, 36, 40–42, 45–46, 48, 49, 89–90, 109, 206, 223, 324, 397, 401; memoirs of Faulkner, 397; money troubles of, 150, 322, 498; as promoter of Faulkner’s work, 90, 95, 113–14, 127, 129, 182, 322–23; and Snopes trilogy, 151, 152, 159; visits to brothels, 48
Story of Temple Drake, The (film), 34, 314
Stuart, Lyle, 487
Studio Club, 33, 34, 36, 38, 541n2
Sullivan, Jean, 253
Sturges, Preston, 375–76
Sullivan’s Travels (film), 375
Summers, Paul, 399, 413, 528, 531
Supreme Court, 232, 291, 397, 420, 445
Sutpen family (Absalom, Absalom!), 62, 67, 68, 89, 109, 522, 544n72, 546n96, 547n110; Clytie, 69, 78, 84, 85, 86, 87, 92, 93, 105, 106–7, 108, 109, 550n150; Judith, 21, 62, 63, 66–67, 68, 69, 70, 74, 78, 80, 81–82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 92, 105, 106–7, 108, 109, 186, 370, 544n67, 550n150, 561n8; Henry, 21, 24, 59, 60, 61, 62–63, 66–67, 68–69, 70, 74, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81–82, 83–84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 105, 106, 109, 112, 118, 184, 547n117, 550n150; Raby, 69; Thomas, 2, 4, 13, 24, 25, 39, 44, 45, 50, 59, 60–61, 62, 66, 67, 68, 70–71, 72, 73, 75, 77–78, 79–80, 83, 85–86, 89–90, 91–92, 93, 94, 97, 99, 100, 105–6, 107–9, 113, 162, 259, 260, 281, 289, 307, 327, 337, 372, 398, 404, 474, 479, 527, 547n118, 548n120, 548n122, 548n124, 551n23
Sutpen’s Hundred, 24, 39, 59, 61, 76, 77, 81, 82, 84, 86, 87–88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 98–99, 231, 266, 398
Swanson, Gloria, 49
Swinburne, Algernon, 38
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens), 214
Talley, Rhea, 357
Tarnished Angels, The (film adaptation of Pylon), 12, 501
Tate, Allen, 459
Taylor, Elizabeth, 313
Taylor, Robert, 45
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 529
Temple, Shirley, 42
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, Maud, 263–64
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 111
Thompson, Dorothy, 338
Thompson, Ralph, 302
Thorp, Willard, 489
Thurmond, Strom, 301
Till, Emmett, 440–41
Toluca Lake, California, 428, 429
Town, The, xi, 152, 225, 339, 431, 435, 437, 457, 458, 469, 473, 474–79, 490, 498, 499, 501, 502; reviews of, 480–81. See also Snopeses; Snopes trilogy; Stevens, Gavin
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” (Eliot), 456
Trilling, Steve, 253
Tucker Hospital, 527
Twentieth Century-Fox, 22, 26, 28, 29, 33, 35, 47, 100, 130, 229, 260
“Twenty Will Not Come Again” (J. Williams), 352–53
Tuchi’s, 103
Tynan, Kenneth, 497
Ulysses (Joyce), 296
United States Information Agency (USIA), 428
United States Information Service (USIS), 428, 431, 441, 479
University of Alabama, 445, 450
University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), 13, 23, 24, 59, 66, 68, 125, 174, 181, 193, 194, 196, 292, 324, 335, 338, 355, 356, 357, 376, 379, 413, 420, 422, 423, 424, 441, 442, 450, 453, 471, 484, 497, 527, 529
University of North Carolina, 450
University of Oregon, 425
University of the Philippines, 433
University of Virginia, 66, 77, 79, 119, 165, 208, 278, 307, 457, 462, 466, 473, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484–87, 488, 489, 490, 495, 496, 499, 500, 507, 516, 519, 527, 531
Unvanquished, The, xi, 31, 99–100, 111–19, 124, 158, 173, 175, 195, 226, 230, 232, 282, 305, 306, 321, 372, 449, 523, 551n5, 551n13, 552n31, 552n36, 552n40, 553n43
Up from Slavery (Washington), 485
Vicksburg, Mississippi, 111
Viking Press, 18, 174, 279, 281, 283
Virginia, 204, 234, 459, 465, 471, 472, 485, 486, 487, 489, 494, 495, 498, 511, 527, 528, 529, 581n48
Virginians, 465–66, 472, 485, 487
Wake Island (film), 230
Wald, Jerry, 253, 259, 266, 512, 513
Walker, Edwin, 529
Walk in the Sun, A (film), 232
Wallace, 218
Wallace, Brad, 439
Waller, Fats, 191
Walton, Anthony, 61
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 290, 334, 407
Ward, Wade, 218
Warner, Harry, 228
Warner, Jack, 203, 206, 208, 245, 255, 259, 260, 269, 273–74, 279, 280, 398
Warner Brothers, 105, 202–3, 205–9, 221, 222, 229–30, 239, 243, 255, 290, 292, 293, 342, 343, 357, 358, 360, 551n17, 558n33
Warren, Bud, 19
Warren, Robert Penn, 153, 283, 284–85, 374, 405
Washington, Booker T., 481, 443, 485, 507
Washington, D.C., 17, 98, 99, 213, 435, 451, 550n2
Washington, George, 481, 443, 507
Wasson, Ben, 13, 30, 49, 54–56, 193, 194, 391, 412, 429, 444, 481, 502, 537
Wasteland, The (Eliot), 2
“Water Boy” (song), 191, 219, 241
Waters, Zeke, 471
Wayne, John, 365
Waverley novels, 154
Weine, Robert, 12
Weinstein, Philip, 547n107, 554n32
Wells, Dean Faulkner (niece), 10, 197, 218, 544n66, 561n2
Welty, Eudora, 304–5, 316, 365, 532
West, Anthony, 373
West, Nathanael, 40, 49, 545n87
West, Rebecca, 311
West of Eden (J. Stein), 396
West Point, 124, 399, 508, 528–31
Weybright, Victor, 318
“Where the Southern Crosses the Yellow Dog” (Handy), 219
White, Walter, 316
white-black relationships, 188, 227, 233
white blood, 97, 99, 184, 309, 444, 446, 485
white boys, 34, 99, 112, 226, 231, 306, 316
White Citizens’ Councils, 444, 446
white hegemony, 109, 449, 451, 523
white men, 88, 107, 131, 143, 163, 174, 176, 178, 181, 189–90, 237, 305, 306, 310, 361, 362, 373, 422, 440, 445, 448, 449, 453, 486, 487, 524, 525, 530
white Mississippians, 93, 582n48
white mobs, 237, 311–12, 313, 318, 335, 450
white people, 86, 93, 105, 108–9, 114, 116, 124, 172, 177, 178, 284, 298, 306, 307, 309, 352, 357, 363, 364, 423, 432, 441, 443, 444, 447–48, 449, 450, 451, 453, 466, 467, 485, 487, 545n86, 574n7
white schools, 445–46, 448, 453, 466, 486
white students, 420
white supremacy, 64, 77, 90, 92, 93, 94, 108–9, 119, 453, 552n36
white womanhood, 440
whores, 38, 126, 141, 145–46, 161, 356, 371, 508, 521, 525
Wild Palms, The, xi, 42, 110, 120, 121, 123, 124, 129–30, 132–47, 149, 151, 152, 153, 159, 190, 223, 252, 317, 318, 345, 389, 393, 404, 457, 553–54nn25–26
Wiley, Bell Irvin, 184, 191, 192, 219, 556n19
Williams, Bob, 314, 315, 346, 386
Williams, Joan, 341–46, 348–49, 350–53, 357–58, 359, 361, 365, 367, 378, 385–86, 388, 390, 391, 397, 436, 437, 442, 455, 477, 482, 501, 503, 533
Williams, Tennessee, 438
Williamson, Joel, 544n61, 545n83
Willis, Ridley, 94–95
Willkie, Wendell, 185
Wilson, James Southall, 466
Wilson, Woodrow, 473
Wintering, The (J. Williams), 351–53, 573n38
Winton Flyer, 521, 524, 525, 526
Wister, Owen, 145; Lin McLean, 146; The Virginian, 465
Wolfe, Tom, 7
World War I, 21, 27, 36, 37, 65, 101, 115, 173, 210, 226, 243, 323, 330, 334, 378, 402, 506
World War II, 101, 185, 212, 226, 231, 284, 323, 334, 405, 467, 482, 500, 506, 507, 512, 558n33, 559n23
Wright, Moses, 480
Wright, Leonard, 535
Wuthering Heights (Brontë), 260
Wyman, Jane, 509
Wynn, W. T., 380
Yale University, 24, 86–87, 196, 226, 238, 299, 323, 377
Yankees, 27, 70, 112, 113, 116, 276, 466, 485, 561n2
Yank in the RAF, A (film), 230
Yearling, The (film), 313
Yoknapatawpha, xi, xii, 1, 2, 50, 95, 98, 115, 152, 157, 172, 197, 219, 226, 231, 283, 284, 287–88, 303, 304, 308, 309, 310, 312, 322, 324, 325, 330, 334, 368, 373, 374, 389, 393, 431, 436, 437, 457, 473, 474, 483, 496, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 510, 521, 522
Young, Robert, 27
Young, Stark, 68, 118, 367; So Red the Rose, 68
Zanuck, Darryl, 11, 29, 47, 101, 140, 235, 260, 261, 408, 475