15. Vindicated
1. Atlas, Saul Bellow, p. 144.
2. Remarks by Saul Bellow to Padgett Powell’s graduate class in fiction writing at the University of Florida, Gainesville, February 21, 1992.
3. Atlas, Saul Bellow, p. 144.
4. Ibid.
5. Saul Bellow, “How I Wrote Augie March’s Story,” New York Times, January 31, 1954.
6. Bellow, Letters, p. 80.
7. Conceived as a tetralogy, but Sartre never finished the fourth part. He wrote only two chapters, which were published in Les Temps modernes later in 1949.
8. As summarized in Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944–1955, April 28, 1949, p. xx.
9. Abel, Intellectual Follies, p. 133.
10. James Salter, Burning the Days (New York: Random House, 1997), p. 239.
11. Ibid., p. 240.
12. Florence Gilliam, France: A Tribute by an American Woman (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1945).
13. Catalogue of exhibition Ellsworth Kelly: The Years in France 1948–1954, National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, 1993.
14. Still standing at 10 rue des Beaux-Arts, in the 6th arrondissement.
15. Seaver, Tender Hour of Twilight, p. 16.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., p. 32.
18. Ibid., p. 34. “Delphine Seyrig asked if I’d like to come to the recording by Roger Blin of Beckett’s Godot at Club d’Essai de la Radio, rue de l’université.”
19. Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist, p. 406.
20. February 1952, part of Godot broadcast on radio, which helped secure a grant for Roger Blin’s theater production of it a year later.
21. Cronin, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist, p. 410.
22. Beauvoir, Beloved Chicago Man, p. 275.
23. White, In Search of History, pp. 270–71.
24. Ibid., p. 275.
25. Ibid., p. 286. White continues on the subject of Britain: “By June 1949, the tough mechanical, distribution and payments problems within Europe had been solved; at which point the planners ran into the insoluble problem—which was England. Of the first 18 months of the Marshall Plan it can be written that the USA saved Western Europe and discarded England.” White adds on page 291: “In the summer [of] 1949, one could sense that the shove was on. On the week-end of September 17–18, the British dropped the value of the pound from $4.03 to $2.80. I went on Monday 19th, boarding the Golden Arrow out of Paris. But in London, I found that the British had set out on the long road leading off and away from the mainstream of world affairs with complete, affable and cheerful indifference. The world was distant. Whether Labour had managed or mismanaged the pound meant nothing here.”
26. Miles Davis, The Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1990).
27. Conversation with the author on January 7, 2014.
28. Interview by Philippe Carles, translation by Richard Williams, published in the Guardian, May 25, 2006.
29. George Cole, “Miles Davis: His Love Affair with Paris,” in the Guardian, December 10, 2009.
30. Interview by Philippe Carles, translation by Richard Williams, published in the Guardian, May 25, 2006.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. Beauvoir, La force des choses, vol. 1, p. 250.
36. Simone de Beauvoir fantasized about Nelson Algren being her “Beloved Husband,” as she called him in her letters. She wore the cheap wedding ring he made for her until the day she died and was buried with it.
37. Rowley, Tête-à-tête, p. 199.
38. Earl Rovit and Arthur Waldhorn (eds.), Hemingway and Faulkner in Their Time (New York: Bloomsbury, 2005), p. 136.