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absinthe, 83–84, 89–94, 96, 100, 104, 132
“Addict, The” (Sexton), 174
Advice to Opium Eaters, 26–27
alcohol, 104, 111, 154, 211–12
absinthe, 83–84, 89–94, 96, 100, 104, 132
Baudelaire and, 71, 75–76
Berryman and, 171, 172, 175, 176–77, 178
Burns and, 18
Capote and, 197
Carver and, 211
Cheever and, 209, 211
Dowson and, 91–94, 100
Ellis and, 221
Faulkner and, 139–43
Fitzgerald and, 110–13, 116
Frey and, 232, 235–37
Hemingway and, 129–30, 132, 134–35, 137–38
Kerouac and, 159, 161, 162
King and, 138
Mailer and, 188, 189
Millay and, 125–27
Parker and, 118–20, 123, 125, 127–28
Poe and, 48, 49, 51–52, 54, 55
Prohibition and, 104–5, 141
Sexton and, 174
Thomas and, 145–51, 172
Thompson and, 201, 204
Verlaine and, 83–85, 89, 90
Alcott, Louisa May, 27
Algonquin Round Table, 118, 122, 124, 128
Allan, John, 49, 51
Allen, Woody, 178
America, 47–48, 148–49
American Psycho (Ellis), 218–20
American Revolution, 32
amphetamines, 158–60, 164
Anderson, Elizabeth, 104
Anderson, Sherwood, 104, 109, 131, 134
Faulkner and, 139, 140
Annie Hall, 178
Answered Prayers (Capote), 196
Aria da Capo (Millay), 122
art for art’s sake, 83, 95
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 141
atheism, 38, 42
Atlantic Monthly, The, 161, 199
Austen, Jane, xv
Balzac, Honoré de, 57, 58–63, 76, 92, 157
Sand and, 66–67
Barrère, Camille, 85
Battle of Waterloo, 57
Baudelaire, Charles, 57, 60, 69–79, 83, 92, 93, 125, 167, 204, 212
on Poe, 48, 55
Bearde, Chris, 197
Beat Generation, 154–57, 160, 167, 181, 184, 185, 196, 224
Beaton, Cecil, 193
Beauvoir, Simone de, 11, 154
Bell Jar, The (Plath), 177
Belushi, John, 203
Benchley, Robert, 118, 119, 128
Benzedrine, 158–60, 215
Bergen, Candice, 194
Berryman, John, 143, 152, 171–79, 209, 244
Berryman, Kate, 175
Bibi-la-Purée, 90
“Big Blonde” (Parker), 118
Big Sur (Kerouac), 160
Bingham, Rob, 226–28
Bitch (Wurtzel), 226, 227, 228
Blake, William, 182
Blessington, Lady, 33, 44
Boissard, François, 60
Boissevain, Eugen Jan, 125
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 12
Boon, Marcus, 234
Boston Globe, 179
Bower, Brock, 155
Boyd, Thomas Alexander, 109
Boyle, T. C., 209
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote), 192, 195
Bright Lights, Big City (McInerney), 214–17, 221, 239
Bright Shiny Morning (Frey), 238
Brinkley, Douglas, 200
Brinnin, John Malcom, 149, 150
Brontë, Branwell, 27
Brontë, Charlotte, 66
Bruce, Tammy, 220
Buffett, Jimmy, 203–4
Bukowski, Charles, 232
bullfighting, 131, 132
bullshit, 132, 234
Burns, Robert, 18, 25
Burroughs, William S., xiii, 156, 157, 160, 163–65, 167–69, 196, 202, 207–8
Byron, Allegra, 40
Byron, Clara, 42
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, xv, 24, 29–36, 37, 41, 44–46, 110, 202, 237, 243
Coleridge and, 19
Shelleys and, 37, 40, 41, 43, 44
Byron, Will, 42
Campbell, Alan, 123–24, 125, 127
Camus, Albert, 2, 154, 194
Capote, Truman, 142, 150, 187, 191–98, 199, 211, 228, 244
Mailer and, 191–92, 195
Carson, Edward, 97
Carver, Raymond, 207, 211, 214, 217
Cassady, Neal, 157, 160, 161–62, 165, 183–84
Cathedral (Carver), 211
Catholicism, 77–78, 89, 162
“Chambre Double, La” (Baudelaire), 76
Chaplin, Charlie, 149
Charters, Ann, 158–59
Cheap Show, The, 197
Cheever, John, 209–11
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron), 32–33
Chopin, Frédéric, 66
Chouans, Les (Balzac), 59–60
Christabel (Coleridge), 41
Church, Norris, 198
City Lights, 157, 165–66
Cladel, Léon, 78
Clairmont, Claire, 39–41
“Clean Well-Lighted Place, A” (Hemingway), 133
Clemm, Maria, 51
Cleverly, Michael, 202
Clinton, Bill, 224
Cobain, Kurt, 168–69, 185, 224
Coca-Cola, 110, 215–16
cocaine, 103–4, 214, 215–16, 221, 226, 227
coffee, 110–11
Balzac and, 60
Kerouac and, 158
Colbert, Stephen, 236
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 15–20, 39, 41, 50, 76, 202, 207
De Quincey and, 24, 25, 26
Collins, Seward, 119
Collins, Wilkie, 27
Comédie humaine, La (Balzac), 60, 63
Comic Convention, xiii–xiv
Communist Party, 124–25, 156
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (De Quincey), 26–27, 51, 60, 76, 229
Connolly, Cyril, 146–47
consciousness expansion, 182–83
copyrights, 17, 31
Corso, Gregory, 167
Cosmopolitan, 174
Coulmier, Abbé de, 13
creative writing programs, 208
Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 172, 176, 207–11
Cromwell (Balzac), 59
Crowninshield, Frank, 117–18
Curse of Lono, The (Thompson), 204
Dallas Morning News, 224
Dardis, Tom, 132, 133, 134
Darkness Visible (Styron), 210
Daubrun, Marie, 70
Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway), 131, 132
Deaths and Entrances (Thomas), 148
Decadents, 82, 84, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96–97, 98–99, 104, 118, 154, 156, 167, 224
Deer Park, The (Mailer), 188
Dell, Floyd, 109
Democratic National Convention, 185
Denham, Alice, 155–56, 189
Depp, Johnny, 203, 204
Depression, Great, 111
depression and melancholy, 228
Byron and, 30, 33
Kerouac and, 159
Millay and, 126
Parker and, 119–20
Poe and, 48, 50–51, 53, 54, 55
Wurtzel and, 224–25, 229
De Quincey, Thomas, 21–28, 51, 60, 76, 229, 232, 234
Descriptive Sketches (Wordsworth), 16
Desolation Angels (Kerouac), 160
Deveraux, Mary, 52
Devonshire, Duchess of, 32–33
Dickens, Charles, xv
Didion, Joan, 199
Don Juan (Byron), 35
Dorval, Marie, 66
Douglas, Alfred, 96, 99
Downey, Robert, Jr., 217
Dowson, Ernest, 90, 91–94, 98, 99, 100–101
Dream Songs, The (Berryman), 176
drugs, 154, 156, 212, 213, 215, 225–26, 244, 245
amphetamines, 158–60, 164
Burroughs and, 163–64, 168
cocaine, 103–4, 214, 215–16, 221, 226, 227
Ellis and, 220, 221
Frey and, 232–38
Ginsberg and, 182–83
hashish, see hashish
heroin, 168, 215
Kerouac and, 158–60
Kesey and, 183, 184
laws against, 103–4, 184, 185, 213, 216
LSD, 182–83, 184, 215
marijuana, 182, 184, 188, 226
Millay and, 125–26, 127
morphine, see morphine
opium, see opium
Parker and, 127
psychiatric, 225–26
Sexton and, 174
sleeping pills, 174
Thompson and, 201–4
Wurtzel and, 225–26, 227
Dudevant, Casimir, 66
Duval, Jeanne, 71–72, 78
Dylan, Bob, 179
Eastman, Max, 132
Eggers, Dave, 234
Ehrmann, Eric, 162
18 Poems (Thomas), 146
Ellis, Bret Easton, xiv, xv, 217–21, 224, 232, 236
Engle, Paul, 172
Enlightenment, 32, 41, 81
Enough Rope (Parker), 120–21, 123
Entertainment Weekly, 219
Epstein, Daniel Mark, 121
Epstein, Jason, 198
Erasmus, 2
Esquire, 115, 196, 199, 241
Evening News, 94
Executioner’s Song, The (Mailer), 195
existentialism, 154–55
Faulkner, Jill, 141
Faulkner, William, 129, 139–43, 193
FBI, 124–25
Hemingway and, 136–37
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film), 204
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson), 201
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail (Thompson), 201
Ferber, Edna, 122
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 157, 165–66
Festival of Life, 184–85
Ficke, Arthur, 126
Final Testament of the Holy Bible, The (Frey), 241
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, xv, 103, 105–16, 120, 124, 129, 134, 157, 181, 195–96, 221
Hemingway and, 110, 112, 115, 131, 135
Parker and, 108, 115, 116, 122, 123
Thompson and, 200, 205
Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre, 107–9, 111, 112, 113–15, 116, 123, 132
Parker and, 108, 123
flappers, 106, 115
Flaubert, Gustave, 57, 63–65, 67, 74, 92, 93, 127, 196, 235
Baudelaire and, 73
Sand and, 67
Fleshly School, The, 77
Fleurs du mal, Les (Baudelaire), 73–75, 77, 79, 125
Flynn, Nora, 115
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 133
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (Shelley), 41
French Revolution, 32, 57
Freud, Sigmund, 215
Frey, James, xv, 231–42, 244
Frey, Lynne, 232–33
Friedman, Daniel, 29
Fugitive Pieces (Byron), 31
Full Fathom Five, 238–40
Gallagher, Tess, 211
gambling, 49
Generation X, 223, 224, 225
“Genius and Madness Akin in the World of Art” (Thomas), 146
Gill, Charles, 98
Ginsberg, Allen, 156–57, 159–61, 165–67, 168, 179, 181–85, 202, 203
Ginsberg, Naomi Livergant, 156
Godwin, Fanny, 41
Godwin, William, 39
Goldsmith, James, 131
Goldwyn, Samuel, 108
Gospel According to the Son, The (Mailer), 241
Graham, Sheilah, 115, 123
“Gravy” (Carver), 211
Great Depression, 111
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), xv, 110, 115, 116, 131, 195–96, 200, 205
Griswold, Rufus, 56
grunge music, 224
Guardian, The, 232, 241
guns, 244, 245
Burroughs and, 164–65, 168
Cobain and, 168–69
Thompson and, 201, 202, 205
Verlaine and, 87–88
Gurganus, Allan, 209
Gutenberg, Johannes, 1–2
Haight-Ashbury, 181
Halma, Harold, 193
Ha
ska, Ewelina, 62–63
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 149
Harper’s Magazine, 173, 199, 200
Harvard Crimson, 224
hashish, 84
Balzac’s use of, 60, 76
Baudelaire’s use of, 60, 76–77
Haverty, Joan, 158, 159
Hawks, Howard, 142
Hemingway, Clarence, 137
Hemingway, Ernest, xv, 105, 129–38, 156, 160, 161, 181, 188, 191, 201, 204, 225, 235, 243
on Faulkner, 141
Fitzgerald and, 110, 112, 115, 131, 135
Parker and, 120, 121, 122
suicide of, 132, 137, 162, 177, 205
Hemingway, Leicester, 137
Hemingway, Marceline, 130
Hemingway, Margaux, 137
Hemingway, Ursula, 137
Henley, W. E., 98
Her Kind, 179
heroin, 168, 215
hippies, 181–82, 184, 185, 202, 224
Hitchcock, Alfred, 124
Holmes, John Clellon, 155, 160
homosexuality, 166
Capote and, 191–92, 193
Rimbaud and Verlaine’s relationship, 84–89
Wilde and, 95–96, 97, 98, 99
Hoover, J. Edgar, 137, 156
Hotchner, A. E., 132, 135–37
Hours of Idleness (Byron), 31
Howard, Jane, 175–76
“Howl” (Ginsberg), 160, 166
Howl and Other Poems (Ginsberg), 166–67
Hugo, Victor, 82
Hunt, Leigh, 19, 42
Hutchinson, Sara, 25
In Cold Blood (Capote), 194, 195
Indiana (Sand), 66
Interview, 220
Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 172, 176, 207–11
Izambard, Georges, 83
James, Henry, 66
Jarvis, Charles E., 161
Jazz Age, 105, 106, 115, 124
Johnson, Joyce, 160
Johnson, Samuel, 157
journalism, 199–201
Joyce, James, 108, 131, 134
Junky (Burroughs), 163
Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised (Sade), 11, 12–13, 35
Kansas City Star, 130
Kazin, Alfred, 47
Kennedy, John F., 182, 188, 190
Kerouac, Jack, xv, 153, 155–62, 165, 183, 184, 196, 202, 232
Kesey, Ken, 181, 183–84, 185, 200, 202
Killick, Vera, 147
Killick, William, 147–48
King, Larry, 233, 235, 237
King, Stephen, 138, 183
Kosiski, Jerzy, 162
“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 18–19
Kurth, Peter, 228
Lady Windermere’s Fan (Wilde), 124
Lamb, Caroline, 34–35
Lamb, Charles, 18, 20
Lanahan, Eleanor, 116
laudanum, see opium
Latour (manservant of Marquis de Sade), 7–8, 9
Lauris, Laure-Victoire de, 4, 5
Leary, Timothy, 159
Lee, Harper, 192–93, 194
Leigh, Augusta, 35
Lerner, Betsy, 226
Less Than Zero (Ellis), xiv, 217, 219
Létinois, Lucien, 89
Liberal, The, 42
Library Journal, 193
Life, 136, 175–76
Listener, The, 146
Liveright, Horace, 141
London Magazine, 26
Lord, Sterling, 162
Los Angeles Times, 218, 220
Lost Generation, 103, 105, 106, 111, 140, 148, 155, 160, 167, 189, 224, 237
Lowell, Robert, 172
LSD, 182–83, 184, 215
MacArthur, Charles, 119
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 64–65, 74
Maffei, Clara, 62
Magid, Marion, 190
Mailer, Adele, 189–90, 194–95, 198
Mailer, Norman, 135, 155, 168, 182, 184, 187–92, 198, 199, 203, 210–11, 216, 220
Capote and, 191–92, 195
Frey and, 232, 238
Parker and, 187–88
Maltin, Leonard, 202
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (Wilson), 154
Map of Love, The (Thomas), 147
marijuana, 182, 184, 188, 226
McClure, Michael, 166
McDonald, Sean, 233, 236
McGinniss, Joe, 217
McInerney, Jay, 111–12, 213–18, 221–22, 224, 239
meditation, 183
Merry Pranksters, 183–84, 185
Milbanke, Anne Isabella, 34–36
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 121–22, 125–27
Parker and, 121, 122, 125
Miller, Laura, 241
Million Little Pieces, A (Frey), 233–38
Mok, Michel, 112, 115
Monroe, Marilyn, 149
Montreuil, Anne-Prospère de, 7, 8, 9
Montreuil, Renée-Pélagie de, 4–7, 8, 11, 13
Moon-Calf (Dell), 109
Moore, Thomas, 45
More, Now, Again (Wurtzel), 226, 227
morphine, 96, 118
Burroughs and, 163–64
Millay and, 125–26
Mosher, John Chapin, 111
Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway), 135, 136
Murray, Bill, 203, 204
Murray, John, 19, 24
Musset, Alfred de, 66
Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer), 187, 188
Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 167–68
National Observer, 98
“Necessity of Atheism, The” (Shelley), 38
Nembutal, 174
New English Weekly, 146
Newsweek, 218
New York City, 111, 155, 157, 213–16, 218
Mailer’s run for mayor of, 195
New Yorker, The, 117, 123, 173, 194, 199, 214, 224
New York Post, 110, 112, 115, 166
New York Times, The, 95, 121, 122, 160, 191, 195, 198, 219, 234–35
New York Times Book Review, The, 227
Nicholson, Jack, 203
Nirvana, 168, 224
Nisard, Désiré, 83
Nixon, Richard, 185, 213
Notebook, The (Sparks), 231
Oates, Joyce Carol, 245
Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway), 134, 135
Olsen, Eric, 208
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey), 183
l20 Days of Sodom, The (Sade), 11, 12
On the Road (Kerouac), xv, 158, 159, 160, 183, 196
On Writing (King), 138
Open City, 226
opium (laudanum), 15, 17–18, 27, 41, 95, 96, 103–4
Balzac’s book on, 60
Baudelaire’s use of, 70, 75–76, 77–78
Byron’s use of, 36
Coleridge’s use of, 15, 17–18, 19–20, 26, 39, 76
De Quincey’s use of, 23, 25–28, 51, 76, 234
Poe’s use of, 51
Shelley’s use of, 38, 39
Opium, L’ (Balzac), 60
Orlovsky, Peter, 167
Orne, Martin, 173, 174
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Capote), 193, 228
Paradis artificiels, Les (Baudelaire), 76–77
Paris, 111, 131, 155, 157, 167, 181, 237
Parker, Dorothy, xv, 64, 117–21, 122–25, 127–28, 156
Faulkner and, 140–41
Fitzgeralds and, 108, 115, 116, 122, 123
Hemingway and, 120, 121, 122
Mailer and, 187–88
Millay and, 121, 122, 125
Parker, Edie, 157
Parker, Edwin Pond, II, 118, 119, 122
Pemberton, John, 215–16
Penn, Sean, 203
Penn Magazine, 52
Perkins, Maxwell, 109–10, 132, 134
Petites-Affiches, 12
Philosophy in the Bedroom (Sade), 11
Picasso, Pablo, 131
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 97
Pinard, Ernest, 65
Plarr, Victor, 81, 92–93
Plath, Sylvia, 177–78
Plato, 98
Playboy, 174, 189, 215
Plimpton, George, 199
Poe, Edgar Allan, 47, 48–56, 121, 212
Baudelaire and, 73
Poe, Virginia Clemm, 51, 52, 53
Poems and Ballads (Swinburne), 77
Polidori, John, 41
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (Thomas), 147
Pound, Ezra, 131
Présidente, Madame la, 5, 6, 9–10
“Priest” They Called Him, The (Burroughs and Cobain), 168
printing press, 1–2
Prohibition, 104, 106, 141
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America (Wurtzel), 225, 226, 233
psilocybin, 159, 182
Queensberry, Marquess of, 96, 97, 98
Queer (Burroughs), 165
Raimond, Madame de, 4
“Raven, The” (Poe), 52, 121
Reagan, Ronald, 214, 223, 224
Realists, 57–58, 63, 97, 99, 167
religion, 81
Catholicism, 77–78, 89, 162
“Renascence” (Millay), 121
Renascence and Other Poems (Millay), 122
Revue de Paris, La, 65
Rhymers’ Club, 92, 100
Rhys, Ernest, 92
Rimbaud, Arthur, 82–83, 118, 146, 157, 204
Verlaine’s relationship with, 84–89
Ritalin, 226, 227
Road of Excess, The: A History of Writers on Drugs (Boon), 234
Roethke, Theodore, 75
Roiphe, Anne, 243
Rolling Stone, 199, 200, 202, 205
Romances sans paroles (Verlaine), 88
Romantics, 32, 57, 63, 73, 81, 99
Rose et Blanche (Sand and Sandeau), 66
Ross, Robbie, 100
Rules of Attraction, The (Ellis), 218, 219
Rum Diary, The, 204
Rushdie, Salman, 218
Saboteur, 124
Sade, Abbé de, 2–3, 5
Sade, Comte de, 2, 4, 6, 7
Sade, Marquis de, 1–14, 35, 96
sadism, 14
Sadler, Shelby, 205
St. Paul Daily News, 109
Salome (Wilde), 97
Salomon, Monique, 142
Salon, 111
Sand, George, 65–67
Baudelaire and, 69–70
Sandburg, Carl, 109
Sandeau, Jules, 66
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 154
Save Me the Waltz (Z. Fitzgerald), 113
Savoy, The, 82, 99
Schaeffer, Glenn, 188, 208
Schwartz, Alan, 197
Seventeen, 224
Seven Years’ War, 32
sex, 154, 166, 182
Baudelaire and, 70, 71, 78
Byron and, 35–36
Ellis and, 220
Flaubert and, 64
Millay and, 121
Parker and, 119
Sade and, 3, 6–8, 9, 12, 13–14
see also homosexuality
Sexton, Anne, 171, 173–74, 177, 178, 179
Sexton, Linda Gray, 173–74
sexually transmitted diseases, 56, 71, 76, 78
Seymour, Corey, 204
Shakespeare, William, 31, 141, 145
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 37, 39–42, 43, 44
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 24, 37–44, 202
Sherard, Robert, 100–101
Sherwood, Robert, 118
Sinatra, Frank, 190, 194
Sipchen, Bob, 218
Smiley, Jane, 208, 210–11
Socrates, 157
Solders’ Pay (Faulkner), 140
Solheim, Michael, 205
Sometimes a Great Notion (Kesey), 183
songwriting, 179
Sonnets in Suicide, or the Life of John Knox (Parker), 127, 128
Sotolongo, Herrera, 134
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner), 141
Southern Literary Messenger, 51–52
Southey, Robert, 18
South Wales Daily Post, 146
Sparks, Nicholas, 231
Spielberg, Steven, 239
Stein, Gertrude, 105, 131, 134, 181
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 81–82, 92
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The (Stevenson), 82
Styron, William, 197, 210
Subterraneans, The (Kerouac), 159
suicide, 197
Berryman and, 171–72, 178
Fitzgerald and, 108–9, 115
Hemingway and, 132, 137, 162, 177, 205
Kerouac and, 162
Parker and, 119
Plath and, 177–78
Sexton and, 174, 178
Thompson and, 205
Sun, 29
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 131, 160, 225
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 77, 92
Symons, Arthur, 82, 93, 99
Talese, Nan, 233, 236
Tamerlane and Other Poems (Poe), 49–50
Taylor, Alfred, 98
Thaulow, Fritz von, 91
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 106, 110–11, 115
Thomas, Caitlin, 146, 147–48, 149, 150
Thomas, Dylan, 145–52, 172, 174, 179 244
Thompson, Hunter S., xv, 143, 165, 199–205, 223, 235, 244
Thompson, Juan, 205
Thompson, Sandy, 203
Thorazine, 174
Time, 150, 161, 222
Todd, Ruthven, 150
To Have and Have Not (Hemingway), 133
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 193
Torn, Rip, 190–91
Toronto Star Weekly, 131
Town and the City, The (Kerouac), 158
Travel and Leisure, 210
Trelawny, Edward, 43
Trips festival, 183
“Triumph of Life, The” (Shelley), 43–44
Turgenev, Ivan, 65
Unger, Douglas, 214–15
United States, 47–48, 148–49
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 172, 176, 207–11
Vanity Fair, 117, 132, 220, 238
Vanity of Duluoz (Kerouac), 161
Verlaine, Mathilde, 84–85, 90
Verlaine, Paul, 73, 83–84, 89–90, 118
Rimbaud’s relationship with, 84–89
Vice, 225
Victoria, Queen, 81
Victorian era, 81–82, 96, 106, 154
Vidal, Gore, 191, 198
Vietnam War, 184, 185, 194
Village Voice, The, 188
Vogue, 117
Vollmer, Joan, 164–65
Voltaire, 3
Vonnegut, Kurt, 196
Wakefield, Dan, 145
Walk to Remember, A (Sparks), 231
Walpole, Hugh, 109
Waters, John, 168
Wenner, Jann, 203, 204
West, Nathanael, 124
Westbrook, Harriet, 38–39, 40, 41–42
We Wanted to Be Writers (Olsen and Schaeffer), 208
Where the Buffalo Roam, 204
Whitman, Sarah Helen, 54
Wilde, Oscar, 84, 91, 94–100, 118, 124, 130
Williams, Tennessee, 162
Willis, N. P., 49
Wilson, B. F., 107
Wilson, Edmund, 107, 126
Wilson, Sloan, 154
Winfrey, Oprah, 234–35, 236, 237, 238
Winters, Shelley, 149
Wolfe, Tom, 199
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 39, 65
Wordsworth, William
Coleridge and, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24
De Quincey and, 22, 23, 24, 25
Wordsworth, William, Jr., 24
World War I, 101, 103, 104, 105, 118
Faulkner in, 140
Hemingway in, 130–31
World War II, 147, 148, 153
Hemingway as journalist during, 133–34
Writer’s Digest, 231
writing programs, 208
Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 172, 176, 207–11
Wurtzel, Elizabeth, 179, 223–29, 232, 233
Yeats, W. B., 92
Yellow Book, The, 99
Young, Stark, 140
Young, Toby, 228
yuppies, 214, 218