Abigail Adams, 252
A. D. Club, Harvard, 42, 44, 45, 49
Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 136
Africa, JPM’s trip to, 293
The African Queen, 252
Agassiz, Louis, 43
America First Committee, 134–36, 148, 170, 186; Adelaide in, 134–36, 166, 242; anti-Semitism in, 135; Lindbergh in, 135, 136
American Association of Manufacturers, 103
American Bridge Company, 32
Anna (housekeeper at Kent’s Island), 18
Anti-Semitism, 135, 164, 166, 186, 242
Argonne, 55
Aspen, Colo., 19, 20, 127, 154, 157, 177, 209, 252
Athens, 211
Atlantic Monthly, 52, 61, 124, 155, 216
Auchincloss, Louis, 253
Austen, Jane, 88, 180, 185; Pride and Prejudice, 88, 90, 180
Bacall, Lauren, 265
Bahamas, 19, 23, 127; see also Treasure Island
Basso, Hamilton, The View from Pompey’s Head, 218
Battery A, Massachusetts Field Artillery, 52–54, 72–73, 162
Baumgarten, Bernice, 96, 98, 134, 161
Beach, Sylvia, 66
Belmont, Mrs. August, 253
Bermuda, JPM with Brandts in, 81
Berry, Mr. (caretaker at Kent’s Island), 254–55
Bessie, Aunt, see Marquand, Elizabeth
The Best Short Stories of 1927, 71
Best Short Stories of the War, 71
B. F.’s Daughter, 195, 198–200, 282; motion picture, 199, 263; sales, 199
Birmingham, Stephen, JPM’s advice on manuscript, 9–11
Blaustein, Julian, 267
Bobbs-Merrill (publishers), 245
Bogart, Humphrey, 265
Book-of-the-Month Club, 203, 215, 221, 242, 277; H. M. Pulham, Esquire in, 150; JPM as judge, 177–82, 200, 219, 255–57, 287–88, 293
Bosshard, Walter, 269
Boston: Athenaeum, 87, 155; Beacon Hill, 19, 46, 61, 87, 142, 154; 206 Beacon Street, Fiske’s apartment, 62, 87, 90; Charles Street, JPM’s room, 62; Chilton Club, 87; Common, 19; Commonwealth Avenue, 47; H. M. Pulham, Esquire banned in, 149; Holland Wine Company bar, 48; JPM’s article on, for Holiday, 233–38, 259; JPM’s attachment to, 18–19; The Late George Apley as novel of, 19, 81, 90, 98–99, 122; Louisburg Square, 19, 154; 2 Mount Vernon Square, Christina’s house, 162; New Riding Club, 53; Pinckney Street, 32; Public Garden, 19; Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 20–21, 23–24; social life, 46–47; Somerset Club, 19, 87, 116, 154, 220, 238; Somerset Hotel, 47; 43 West Cedar Street, “Gift Horse,” 61, 64
Boston Symphony, 46
Boston Transcript, 50, 52, 235–36
Botticelli, Sandro, 180
Bowes, Major, 241
Bowles, Chester, 134
Brady, Charles A., Fifty Years of the American Novel, 216
Brandt, Carl, 80, 85, 106, 110, 115, 133, 136–37, 139, 171, 243, 252; in Bermuda, 81; and Carol’s love affair with JPM, 145–47, 157–58, 176–77, 184–85; character, 76–78, 137; children, 137, 176, 184, 276; and Conney Fiske’s article on JPM, 128–31; death, 275, 281; drinking problem, 136, 138, 274–75; early life, 77; and Holiday article, 234–37; illness, 226, 229, 276; JPM in Bronxville with, 79; JPM reads manuscripts for him, 9–10; and JPM’s divorce from Christina, 82; on JPM’s heart attack, telegram, 248; at Kent’s Island, 247; and The Late George Apley, 96–98; letters to Carol, 146–47, 274–75; literary agent for Drew Hill and Carol, 68, 74; literary agent for JPM, 58–63, 160–61, 185, 228, 234–38, 264, 267, 269; marriage, 78; marriage problems, 136–38, 274–76; at Reservoir Street house, 17, 18, 20–24, 253
Brandt, Carl, Jr., 137, 176–77, 184, 276, 296; in Europe, 268–71; at Kent’s Island, 279; at Pinehurst, 242, 291
Brandt, Carol (Mrs. Carl Brandt), 9–10, 17, 80, 85, 107, 110, 115, 151–52, 171, 178, 182, 228, 229, 243, 252, 265, 282, 288, 293; in Bermuda, 81; in Brandt & Brandt firm, 272, 279, 285, 298–99; children, 137, 176, 184, 276; engagement ring for Adelaide, 107; in Europe with JPM, 268–72; JPM dictates to, 70–71, 75, 79, 174–75; JPM in Bronxville with, 79; and JPM’s death, 296; and JPM’s divorce from Adelaide, 277–79; and JPM’s divorce from Christina, 81; and JPM’s trip to Europe, 211; Kent’s Island decorations, 254–55; and The Late George Apley, 96; letters from Carl, 146–47, 274–75; love affair with JPM, 139, 141, 145–47, 153–54, 158, 163, 167, 174–77, 184–85, 242, 246–47, 257, 279–81; marriage, 78; marriage problems, 136–38, 274–76; as Marvin Myles in H. M. Pulham, Esquire, 23, 141, 158; as Mrs. Drew Hill, see Hill, Carol; at Pinehurst, 279, 291; and Pinehurst housekeeping, 285; at Reservoir Street house, 17, 20–24, 253; in So Little Time, 168; third marriage, 296, 298–99; and Timothy Dexter book, 287
Brandt, Vicki, 137, 176, 184, 276, 296
Bronxville, N.Y., JPM with Brandts in, 79
Brookline, Mass., 53
Brooks, Hazel, 225
Brooks, Van Wyck, 125
Brown, John Mason, 293; on JPM’s book criticism, 255
Bucks County, Pa., 165
Bush, Vannevar, 162
Callaway, Harold, 240–41
Cambridge, Mass., 34; 7 Linden Street (rooming house), 47, 48; Mount Auburn Street (Gold Coast), 42, 47; 1 Reservoir Street (Adelaide’s house), 17–24, 251, 253–55, 283, 297–98
Canby, Henry Seidel: in Book-of-the-Month Club, 177, 255–56; at Treasure Island, 222
Canfield, Dorothy, 177
Carson City, Nev., 278
Century Club, New York, 202, 265
C’Est la Guerre: Best Short Stories of the World War, 71
Channing, William Ellery, 38
Chaplin, Charles, 155
Chapman, John Jay, 43
Chelmsford, Hookers’ estate, 104–6, 166
China, JPM in, 79, 102–3, 108–10, 269
Codman, Charley, 115
Collins, Joan, 272
Colman, Ronald, 99
Colony Club, New York, 22
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 135
Commonweal, 289
Connecticut River, 76
Connelly, James J., 209
Conrad, Joseph, 179
The Constant Nymph, 125
Coonley, Mrs. Avery, 103–4
Copeland, Charles Townsend, 47, 125
Corinne (servant at Treasure Island), 221
Cosmopolitan, 59, 61, 67, 123, 129, 155, 188
Cosmopolitan Club, New York, 104
Country Life, 34
Cozzens, James Gould, 96
Crowther, Bosley, 99
Curzon, Mary (Great-Aunt Mary), 37–38; in Wickford Point, 37, 119
Curzon, Samuel, 35
Curzon’s Mill, 35–41, 59, 73, 77, 117, 126, 142, 291, 299; Aunt Greta’s bequest, 203; furniture, JPM and Adelaide take, 126–27, 204, 205; JPM buried near, 295; JPM offers to buy Hales’ share, 204–6; JPM’s early life at, 35–41, 59, 73, 77; lawsuit, Hales versus JPM, 20, 206–12; Mill House, 126, 204, 205, 210; Philip Marquand at, 113, 114; Red Brick House, 35, 113, 126, 204, 205, 210; in Wickford Point, 36, 37, 119, 130; Yellow House, 35–39, 40, 126, 203, 205, 210
Dallas Morning News, 284
Davenport, Basil, 293
Davenport, Marcia, 268
Davis, Marjorie, 241, 243, 292; in Africa, 292; hopes to marry JPM, 296; at Treasure Island, 221, 224–25
Davis, Murray, 206
Day, John (publishers), 69
“The Day the General Returns” (unidentified story), 264
Dearborn Independent, 135
Dexter, Lord Timothy, 286–87, 293
Douglas, Kirk, 265
Drury, Allen, Advise and Consent, 256
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y., 104
Edge Moor Iron Works, 45
Edmonds, Walter, Drums Along the Mohawk, 133, 252
Ellery, Uncle, see Sedgwick, Ellery
El Paso, Tex., 54
England, Society modeled on, 33–34, 43, 47
Eric (servant at Treasure Island), 221, 225
Eton, 34
Europe: JPM with Carol in, 269–72; JPM’s trip to, with Adelaide, 211
Everett, Edward, 39
Fadiman, Clifton: in Book-of-the-Month Club, 177, 186, 255, 256, 293; Thirty Years, introduction and suggestions for, 258–59
Far East, see Orient, JPM in
Faulkner, William, 179, 244; “Mississippi,” 233
Federal Security Agency, 161
Ferber, Edna, 228; Giant, 256; JPM’s interview with, 257
Fifty Best American Stories, 71
Finletter, Thomas K., 253
Fiske, Andrew, 88, 98; in The Late George Apley, 90
Fiske, Constance Morss (Conney, Mrs. Gardiner H. Fiske), 27, 28, 62, 78, 79, 85–88, 106, 110, 112, 139, 163, 220, 242, 243, 278, 292; Adelaide’s attitude toward, 226, 242–43; character, 85–88; death of her husband, 271; JPM gives her a Chinese cricket cage, 294; JPM proposes to her, 291; and The Late George Apley, 90, 96, 98–100, 187–88; as literary critic for JPM, 85, 89, 90, 91–92, 115, 188, 189, 215–16; profile of JPM in Saturday Review, 128–31, 159; relationship with JPM, 298–99; at Treasure Island, 221, 224–25; in Washington, 162
Fiske, Gardiner H., 27, 28, 62, 78, 79, 106, 188, 201, 220, 242, 243, 298; character, 88; death, 271; at Harvard, 47; illness, 226, 242, 275, 292; and The Late George Apley, 98, 99, 187; Somerset Club membership for JPM, 116; at Treasure Island, 221, 224–25; in World War I, 88
Fiske, Gertrude, 88
Fiske family, 88
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary, 180
Florida, 177; see also Hobe Sound
Fly Club, Harvard, 42
Fonda, Henry, 217
Forbes, F. Murray, Jr., 209
Ford, Ford Madox, 66
Ford, Henry, 134–35
Forman, Henry James, 178
Fort Bliss, Tex., 54
Fort Greene, N.C., 55
Freud, Sigmund, 175
Fuller, Margaret (Marchioness Ossoli), 32
Fuller, R. Buckminster, 32, 276
Gardiner family, 88
Gardiner’s Island, N.Y., 88
Gary, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, 299
Geismar, Maxwell: review of Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., 244–45; review of Point of No Return, 217–18
George Washington (brig), 38
Gibbons, Mr. and Mrs. Cedric, 27; at Treasure Island, 225
Gibbs, Wolcott, 181; parody of H. M. Pulham, Esquire, 141
Gish, Lillian, 135
Glasgow, Ellen, In This Our Life, Pulitzer Prize, 151
Gobi Desert, 109
Good Housekeeping, 129, 188, 194, 228
“Good Morning, Major,” 70–71, 162
Goodwin, Eddie, 295
Gordon, Max, 186
Gould, Edwin, 181
Gould, Jay, 181
Greene, Col. Joseph I., advice on Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., 230–33
Greenwich, Conn.: Chelmsford (Hookers’ estate), 104–6, 166
Greta, Aunt, see Oakman, Margaret Marquand
Guernsey, Isle of, 30
Gwathmey, Father, 77
Haggard, Edith, 189
Hale, Dudley, 39, 41, 56; interview on JPM, 207; in Wickford Point, 119, 207
Hale, Edward Everett, 39, 40, 210; in Wickford Point, 120, 125
Hale, Herbert Dudley, 39
Hale, Mrs. Herbert Dudley, see Oakman, Margaret Marquand
Hale, Laura, 119, 210; interview on JPM, 207–8
Hale, Nathan, 39
Hale, Robert B.: interviews on JPM, 207, 267–68; in Wickford Point, 119
Hale, Thomas Shaw, 205–6, 208, 210
Hale family (JPM’s cousins), 39–40, 44–45, 56, 106, 107, 113, 117–18, 299; Adelaide and, 126–27, 208, 210, 212; and Curzon’s Mill estate, 203–4; furniture, quarrel about, 126–27, 204, 205; JPM offers to buy their share of Curzon’s Mill, 204–6; lawsuit on Curzon’s Mill, 20, 206–12; in Wickford Point, 119–27, 130, 204, 207–8, 266–68
Hamburger, Philip, 297; J. P. Marquand, Esquire, profile in New Yorker, 28, 245
Hammersley, Gordon, 52–53
Happy Knoll series, 283–85
Harper & Row, 268
Harper’s Magazine, 284
Harrow, 34
Hartford, Conn., 103
Harvard, 34; Board of Overseers, JPM on, 283; Jews at, 242; JPM at, 44–49, 72, 73; JPM’s gift to, 291; JPM’s honorary degree, 247; JPM’s manuscripts requested for library, 150–51; Philip Marquand at, 30
Harvard, clubs of: A.D., 42, 44, 45, 49; Delphic, 42, 43; Fly, 42; Owl, 42, 43; Porcellian, 42–45, 49; Spee, 42–44, 49; Sphinx, 44
Harvard Club, New York, 202–3, 265
Harvard Club, Newburyport, 45, 259
Haven’s End, 89
Hawley, Cameron: Cash McCall, 262; Executive Suite, 218, 262
Hellman, Lillian, on Marquands in Reservoir Street house, 253–54
Hemingway, Ernest, 66, 125, 244, 260; JPM’s opinion of, 179; Tunney’s story of, 222–23
Hersey, John, 179
Hibbs, Ben, 228
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 38, 125
Highet, Gilbert, 293
Hill, Carol (Mrs. Drew Hill, later Mrs. Carl Brandt), 66, 68–70, 71; JPM dictates to her, 70–71, 75; marriage problems, 74–76; marries Brandt, 78; Wild, novel, 68, 69, 74, 76; see also Brandt, Carol
Hill, Drew, 66, 68–69, 138; death, 76; marriage problems, 74–76
H. M. Pulham, Esquire, 141–45, 149–51, 159, 160, 168, 188, 238, 282, 292; Babbitt compared with, 144–45; banned in Boston, 150; Harvard asks for manuscript, 150–51; joint copyright, JPM and Adelaide, 149; JPM as character, 141; Marvin Myles, 23, 122, 141–44, 158; motion picture, 154, 156, 157, 263; in North of Grand Central, 183; sales, 149–50; title, 149
Hobe Sound, Fla., 19, 127, 186, 254; anti-Semitism, 186; coconuts in fireplace, 27
Holicong, Pa., 165
Holiday, JPM’s article on Boston, 233–38, 259
Hollywood, JPM in, 154–57
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 43
Hooker, Adelaide, see Marquand, Adelaide Ferry Hooker
Hooker, Barbara, 102
Hooker, Elon Huntington, 103, 201
Hooker, Mrs. Elon Huntington (Blanche), 103–4, 113, 134, 148
Hot Springs, Va., 171; Homestead Hotel, 77
Howard, Sidney, 125
Howe, Helen, 46, 110; We Happy Few, satire on JPM, 110
Howe, Quincy, 130
Ipswich, Mass., 112
Jamaica, 113
James, Sidney, 284
Johnson, Gen. Hugh S., 134
Johnston, Richard, 284
Jones, James, From Here to Eternity, 180
Josephas (caretaker at Treasure Island), 221, 224–26
Joyce, James, 66; Ulysses, 293
J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, 56, 58, 59
Kahler, Hugh McNair, 228
Kaufman, George S., 151, 164–65, 167, 188, 253; The Late George Apley, play, 164, 165
Kaufman, Mrs. George S. (Beatrice), 165–67
Keats, John C., The Crack in the Picture Window, 218
Kennedy, John F., 248
Kent’s Island, Newburyport, 18–19, 105, 126, 174, 271, 291; Adelaide’s decorating and remodeling, 111; Adelaide’s last visit, 279; Carl Brandt at clambake, 247; Carol’s decorations, 254; furniture from Curzon’s Mill, 127, 204; JPM at, 131, 153, 185, 251–53, 282, 293–94; JPM buys, 28; JPM’s children inherit, 297, 298; JPM’s death at, 294; after JPM’s funeral, 295; Philip Marquand at, 114
Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 23–24
Kidder, Peabody & Company, 78
Knickerbocker Club, New York, 265, 293
Korean War, 227
Kramer, Stanley, 264
Ladies’ Home Journal, 60, 121, 123, 129, 285; Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. as serial, 228, 232–33, 263; Sincerely, Willis Wayde as serial, 260–61; Women and Thomas Harrow as serial, 288
Lamarr, Hedy, 156
Lamson, Peggy, 297–98
Lamson, Roy, 297–98
Larsen, Roy, 283
Last Laugh, Mr. Moto (or Mercator Island), 161
The Late George Apley, 92–100, 106, 109, 110, 111, 130, 142, 151, 168, 182, 238; error on Athenaeum, 155; Harvard asks for manuscript, 150–51; Horatio Willing as narrator, 92–95; McIntyre’s correspondence with JPM on, 97; Mary Monahan episode, 93–95, 97, 99; motion picture, 99, 199–200, 263; in North of Grand Central, 183; O’Reilly episode and lawsuit, 100–1, 122, 125, 140–41; plans for, 81, 90; play, 99, 164, 165, 187–88; on Porcellian Club, 43; publication, reactions to, 98–99; Pulitzer Prize, 99, 131, 134; sales, 131; setting, 19; writing, style and form, 92–93
Lawrence, D. H., 178
Lawrence, Gertrude, 107
Lawrence Bishop William, 88
Lewis, Sinclair, 74, 125; Arrowsmith, (motion picture), 182; Babbitt, 144–45; JPM with, 183; Main Street, 182; Mayes and, 189
Lewis, Mrs. Sinclair (Dorothy Thompson), 183
Lexington, Mass., 75
Life at Happy Knoll, 283–85
Lindbergh, Charles A., 166, 167, 186; in America First Committee, 135, 136; at Treasure Island, 221, 223
Lindbergh, Mrs. Charles A. (Anne Morrow), 165–66, 186; at Treasure Island, 223
Lineth (servant at Treasure Island), 221
Little Boar’s Head, N.H., 32
Little, Brown & Company, 63, 133, 161, 183, 185, 197, 230, 245, 258, 268, 287, 293; and H. M. Pulham, Esquire, 149; joint copyright agreement, 149, 185; JPM proposes himself as director, 238; end The Late George Apley, 96–98, 100; O’Reilly lawsuit settled, 141; and So Little Time, 168, 171–73; Wickford Point, advertisement, 133
London: Brown’s Hotel, 87; Claridge’s Hotel, 211, 270; JPM and Carol in, 270–72
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 125
Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, Mass., 286–87
Lorimer, George Horace, 58, 59, 79, 98, 188, 194, 272; in Tarkington’s story, 189–90
Lorre, Peter, 90
Lowell, James Russell, 168
Luce, Clare Boothe, Pilot’s Wife, 157
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 229
McCall’s, 149
McIntyre, Alfred, 96–98, 115, 121–22, 134, 149, 160, 195, 197, 200, 230; JPM’s correspondence with, on The Late George Apley, 97; Saturday Evening Post offended by advertisement, 133–34; and So Little Time, 168, 172, 173; and Wickford Point, 131–33
McIntyre, Helen, 115
McWilliams, Joe, 135
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 180
Maine, University of, 247
Malquinn, Miss (nurse), 18
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 99
Markel, Lester, 189
Marquand, Adelaide Ferry Hooker (JPM’s second wife), 27, 102–7, 126–27, 139, 162, 163, 199, 220, 241, 246, 265, 288; in America First Committee, 134–36, 166, 242; in Aspen, 20, 154, 252; in B. F.’s Daughter, 198; buys houses, 17–19, 21–24, 127, 154, 156–57; character, 20–22, 104–6; children born, 135, 161, 171; Christina compared with, 106, 110; collaboration in JPM’s writing, 115, 148–49, 160, 171, 184–85, 282; and Conney Fiske, 226, 242; Curzon’s Mill estate and lawsuit, 210; death, 298; divorce, 277–79; drinking habits, 152, 242; engagement and wedding, 105–7; European trip with JPM, 211; family connections, 17–18, 103–4; Hale family and, 126–27, 208, 209, 212; at Hobe Sound, 185–86; interior decoration, taste in, 254–55; JPM imitates her, 21–22; after JPM’s death, 297; at JPM’s funeral, 295; and JPM’s love affair with Carol Brandt, 145–46, 158, 174–77, 183–85, 242–45; and Kaufmans, 165–67; at Kent’s Island, 247, 279; and Lindberghs, 165–67; meets JPM, 102; in Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., 229, 232; in Point of No Return, 213; relationship with JPM, 19–22, 110–11, 151–53, 158, 167, 177–78, 240, 242–43, 251, 253–55, 268, 276, 282–83; in Reno, 277; Reservoir Street house, 17–19, 21–24, 251, 253–55; at Rogue River, 156; in So Little Time, 169, 170; at Treasure Island, 223–24; in Washington, 161–62
Marquand, Christina (Tina, JPM’s daughter), 81, 162, 247, 252; birth, 62; illness, 63; in JPM’s will, 296–97; wedding, 238
Marquand, Christina Sedgwick (JPM’s first wife), 25, 50–52, 54, 56, 57, 69, 75, 90, 145, 152, 163, 273, 289; Adelaide compared with, 106, 110; character, 50–51, 61–64; children born, 61, 62; children live with her, 162; death, 251; divorce, 81, 105; divorce settlement, 27–28, 90; in Europe, 60, 67; JPM ridicules her, 67–68, 74; JPM’s courtship, 50–52, 55–56; marriage, 60, 107; married life, 61–64, 67–68, 74, 78–81, 103; in Point of No Return, 214; second marriage, 214; separated from JPM, 68; in So Little Time, 169
Marquand, Daniel, 30
Marquand, Elizabeth (Aunt Bessie), 31, 35, 37–39, 40, 205
Marquand, Elon Huntington Hooker (Lonnie, JPM’s son), 171, 247; and JPM’s death, 294
Marquand, Ferry (Blanche Ferry, JPM’s daughter), 18, 186, 247, 254; birth, 134; JPM’s relationship with, 252, 254
Marquand, John, Jr. (JPM’s son), 64, 81, 162, 247; birth, 61; in JPM’s will, 296–97; The Second Happiest Day, 268; trip to Orient with JPM, 268–69; in World War II, 163
Marquand, John Phillips (JPM)
in Africa, 293
appearance in youth, 46
birth, 32
as Book-of-the-Month Club judge, 177–82, 199, 219, 255–57, 286–88, 293; reviews quoted, 178–79, 180–82; verbal reviews, 255
Boston, attachment to, 18–19
childhood, 32–34
children, attitude toward, 162, 252, 278
in China, 79, 102–3, 108–10, 269
Chinese soothsayer’s advice to, 108–9
conversation: anecdotes, telling, 72–74, 222; book reviews, 255; explosions of rage, 28; imitations of people, 21, 113; manner and style of, 10, 21; parodies, verbal, 10, 21
at Curzon’s Mill, 35–41, 59, 73, 77
Curzon’s Mill and Hale family quarrel, 203–12; lawsuit, 20, 206–12
death and funeral, 294–95
drinking habits, 153
earnings, 28, 79, 106, 173, 187, 219, 228, 245
family background, 30–31
golf, 240–41
health, worries about, 220, 245
heart attack, 18, 20, 248, 251–53
in Hollywood, 154–57
honorary degrees: from Harvard, 247; from other universities, 247
horse named for him, 219–20
income tax, 291
love affair with Carol Brandt, 139, 145–47, 153–54, 158, 163, 167, 174–77, 183–85, 242, 246–47, 257, 279–81
marriage with Adelaide Hooker: engagement and wedding, 105–7; first meeting, 102; relationship in marriage, 19–22, 110–11, 151–53, 158, 167, 177–78, 240, 242–43, 251, 253–55, 268, 276–77, 282–83; Reno confrontation and divorce, 277–78
marriage with Christina Sedgwick: courtship, 50–52, 55–56; divorce, 82, 105; divorce settlement, 27–28, 90; engagement and wedding, 60, 107; married life, 61–64, 67–68, 74, 78–82, 103; separation, 68
military service, 52–55
money, attitude toward, 26–29, 106, 129, 177, 265
O’Reilly lawsuit, 100–1, 122, 125, 140–41
as poor social outcast, 47–49, 51, 105–6, 168
poverty in early life, 26, 31, 35, 40, 45, 47
property and possessions, desire for, 127
Pulitzer Prize, 99, 131, 134, 151, 168
self-dramatization, 130–31
speech and voice, 73
at Treasure Island, 220–26
will, 295–96
World War I service, 53–55, 162–63
writers, likes and dislikes, 179–80, 186
writing: Adelaide’s collaboration, 115, 148–49, 160, 171, 184, 282; advice from collaborators, 188, 201–3, 230–32; chronological list, 301–10; development shown in Thirty Years, 258–59; dictates to Carol, 70–71, 75, 79, 269–70; first published story, 57; flashback technique, 89, 125, 290; Harvard asks for manuscripts, 150–51; last novel, work on, 292; as revenge for the past, 123–24; sales figures, preoccupation with, 131, 133–34; style, 89, 91–92, 260; two types of fiction, 128–29, 159–60, 168; wants to write one great novel, 71, 90, 168; see also separate titles
Marquand, John Phillips (JPM’s grandfather), 31
Marquand, Joseph (JPM’s ancestor), 30–31
Marquand, Joseph (JPM’s uncle), 31
Marquand, Margaret (JPM’s aunt), see Oakman, Margaret Marquand
Marquand, Margaret Curzon (Mrs. John Phillips Marquand, JPM’s grandmother), 31
Marquand, Margaret Fuller (Mrs. Philip Marquand, JPM’s mother), 33, 55, 106, 114; character, 32, 35; death, 113; family background, 32; travels with her husband, 35, 45
Marquand, Mary (Aunt Mollie), 31, 35, 37, 38, 40, 205
Marquand, Philip (JPM’s father), 26, 29–35, 220; in California, 35; and Curzon’s Mill estate, 203, 205; gambling craze, 31–32, 113; gambling debts, 28; at Hale lawsuit hearing, 209; JPM’s attitude toward, 29; JPM’s responsibility for, 113–14; loses his inheritance, 31; old age, 114; in Panama Canal Zone, 45; in panic of 1907, 34–35; in Wilmington, 32, 45, 55
Marquand, Russell (JPM’s uncle), 31
Marquand, Timothy Fuller (JPM’s son), 161, 247
Marquand family, 30–31
Marshall, Gen. George, 243
Mary, Great-Aunt, see Curzon, Mary
Massachusetts Field Artillery, Battery A, 52–55, 72–73, 162
Matthiessen, F. O., book on New England renaissance, 297–98
Maugham, W. Somerset, 178, 179, 185, 228; Mayes and, 188–89; “A Woman of Fifty,” 189
Mayes, Herbert R., 188–91, 228, 252; and JPM’s stories, 190–91, 194–95; and Lewis, 189–90; and Maugham, 188–89
Mayes, Mrs. Herbert R. (Grace), 189
Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., 227–32, 244–45, 260, 282; Geismar’s review, 244; Greene’s advice on, 230–32; motion picture, 263–65; as serial, 228, 232–33, 263
Mercator Island (Last Laugh, Mr. Moto), 161
Merck, George, 59, 73, 161, 186, 201
Merrimack River, 35
Metcalf, K. D., 150
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 22, 152, 154, 156, 264
Mexico, American troops in, 53
Michener, James, 179; Hawaii, 179
Middlesex School, 45
Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman, 203
Milo Junction story, 73–74
Milton, John, 180
Minton, Balch (publishers), 286
Miss Chapin’s School, 166
Miss Spence’s School, 104
Mr. Moto Is So Sorry, 129
Mizener, Arthur, On Women and Thomas Harrow, 290
Mollie, Aunt, see Marquand, Mary
Mooney, Miss, rooming house, 47, 48
Moore County Hunt, 87
Morley, Christopher, 177, 255, 256
Morris, John, 284
Morristown School for Boys, 41
Morton, Charles, on Geismar’s review of Point of No Return, 217–18
Moto, Mr., stories about, 79–80, 90, 103, 129, 159–61, 219, 263, 268, 270–73
Myopia Hunt Club, 284
Myrtis (servant at Treasure Island), 221
Nassau, 222; see also Treasure Island
Nathan, Robert, 48
National Industrial Conference Board, 103
New Hope, Pa., 165
New South Wales, reformatory in, 265
New York: 1 Beekman Place, JPM’s apartment, 107, 111, 126, 152, 174, 254; Century Club, 202, 265; Colony Club, 22; Cosmopolitan Club, 104; Harvard Club, 202–3, 265; JPM in, 19, 55, 59, 62, 75, 80, 105, 107, 111, 138; JPM’s parents in, 32; Knickerbocker Club, 265, 293; Plaza Hotel, 176; St. Regis Hotel, 175, 191, 257; Stork Club, 189
New York Herald, 56
New York Herald-Tribune, 131, 278
New York Junior League, 104
New York Times, 99, 107, 178, 216, 273
New York World-Telegram, 206
New York World’s Fair (1939–40), 154
The New Yorker: Gibbs’s parody Of H. M. Pulham, Esquire, 141; Hamburger’s profile of JPM, 28, 245; JPM’s opinion Of, 181; obituary tribute to JPM, 99; Women and Thomas Harrow reviewed, 289–90
Newburyport, Mass., 30, 35, 41, 89, 114, 118, 120, 142, 168, 177, 278, 293; Anna Jacques Hospital, 248; Harvard Club, 45, 259; High School, 35, 41, 45, 48, 106; JPM’s funeral, 295; Lord Timothy Dexter in, 286–87; Tuesday Night Club, JPM’s papers, 258, 269; see also Curzon’s Mill; Kent’s Island
No Hero, 79
Norris, Kathleen, 134
North of Grand Central, 97n, 183
North Shore, 112
Northeastern University, 247
Oakman, John, 40, 117; in Wickford Point, 119–20
Oakman, Margaret Marquand (Aunt Greta, Mrs. Herbert Dudley Hale, Mrs. John Oakman), 31, 40, 117, 126, 127, 208; death and will, 203, 207; JPM asks her for settlement of Curzon’s Mill property, 204–5; in Wickford Point, 119, 207
Oakman, Renée, 40, 117–18; and Curzon’s Mill estate, 203; interview on JPM, 208; in Wickford Point, 119
Oliver, Edna May, 126
O’Malley, Ernie, 102
O’Malley, Helen Hooker (Adelaide’s sister), 102, 166
O’Neill, Eugene, 151
O’Reilly, Peter M., lawsuit, 100–1, 122, 125, 140–41
Orient, JPM in, 79, 102–3, 108–10, 268–69
Osborn, Paul, Point of No Return dramatization, 217
Ostrom, John, 243
Ostrom, Mrs. John (Kitty), 243
Otis, William, 73
Paris, JPM in, 66–71
Parker, Dorothy, 181
Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Donald, 243
Pearl Harbor attack, 138
Pentagon, 230–31
Perkins, Maxwell, 194
Pershing, Gen. John J., 53
Pete (JPM’s Filipino servant), 105
Pinehurst, N.C.: architecture, 241; Carol at, 280, 291; Carol supervises housekeeping, 285; JPM at, 240–43, 256, 281, 283, 284, 287, 291, 293; Nandina Cottage, 241, 243, 299
Plato, Republic, 185
Plattsburg, N.Y., Officers’ Training Camp, 54
Pleasants, Miss, 243, 285, 286
Point of No Return, 203, 213–19, 228, 243–44, 262, 296; background studies, 201–3; Geismar’s review, 216–17; play, 217, 264; title, 201
Porcellian Club, Harvard, 42–45, 48
Powel, Harford, 214
Powers, John Robert, 118
Prescott, Orville, 273
“The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” 135
Pulitzer Prize, 100, 131, 134, 151, 168, 179
Pusey, Mrs, Nathan M. (Anne), 297, 298
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, The Yearling (motion picture), 156
Reed, Mrs. Joseph Verner, 186
Reno, Nev.: Adelaide in, 277; JPM in, 277–79
Research Corporation, 103
Resor, Stanley, 58
Richard (servant at Treasure Island), 221, 224
Rickenbacker, Edward, 135
Ricker, Mr. and Mrs., at Kent’s Island, 247
Riesman, David, The Lonely Crowd, 218
Roberts, Kenneth, 97n, 125, 183
Robinson, Robert (“Hard Rock”), 241, 243
Rochester, University of, 247
Rockefeller, John D., III, 105; search for summer house, 111–12
Rockefeller, Mrs. John D., III (Blanchette, Adelaide’s sister), 18, 22, 28, 102, 105
Rockingham Park race track, 113
Rogue River, Ore., 156
Roosevelt, Archibald, 48
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 99, 103
Roosevelt, T. R. (father of Theodore), 43
Roosevelt, Theodore, 103
Rose Island, Bahamas, 222
Rosenwald, Lessing J., 135
Russell, Rosalind, 155
Rye, N.Y., JPM’s childhood in, 32
Ryerson, Edward L., Jr., 135
St. Mark’s School, 45
St. Mihiel, 55
St. Paul’s School, 45
Salem, Mass., Hale lawsuit in, 209
Salmen, Stanley, 230, 232, 251, 259, 260, 287
San Francisco, 279
Saturday Evening Post, 58–59, 61, 63, 67, 121, 123, 129, 159, 188, 228; JPM’s first story, 57; and JPM’s trips to Orient, 79, 268; The Late George Apley serialized, 98; Little, Brown advertisement offends, 133–34; and Stopover: Tokyo, 268, 272–73; Wickford Point serialized, 131–33
Saturday Review of Literature: Conney Fiske’s profile of JPM, 128–31; JPM’s article, “Do You Know the Brills?” 126
Scaife, Roger, 132
Scherman, Harry, 186, 255, 287
Schneider, Anne Kaufman, 164
Scott, Sir Walter, 37
Scribner’s, Charles, Sons, 60, 63
Seal Harbor, Me., 112
Sears, Mr., 116
Sedgwick, A. C., Jr., 80
Sedgwick, Mrs. Alexander C., 51, 60–62, 67, 78–80
Sedgwick, Christina, see Marquand, Christina Sedgwick
Sedgwick, Ellery (Uncle Ellery), 52, 61, 71, 90, 123, 124, 160, 239
Sedgwick Minturn, 78–79
Sedgwick, Judge Theodore, 51–52
Sedgwick, the Rev. Theodore, 238
Sedgwick family, 43, 51–52, 60–63, 67, 68, 78, 87, 106, 123
Sedgwick House, Stockbridge, Mass., 38–39, 60, 79, 299; dog cemetery, 80, 239
Shady Hill School, Cambridge, 18
Shattuck, Henry, 150
Shearwood, George, 243; in Africa with JPM, 292
Siegel, Sol, 267
Silver Hill Sanitarium, 138, 275
Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, 243
Sincerely, Willis Wayde, 243, 245, 261–63; as serial, 260
Sions, Harry, and JPM’s Holiday article, 233–37, 259
Smith, William James, 289
So Little Time, 167–73, 195, 197, 200; characters taken from life, 169; sales, 173; title, 172
Social Register, Boston, 283
Somerset Club, Boston, 19, 87, 154, 220, 238; JPM’s membership in, 116
Southern Pines, N.C., 86, 242, 298
Sphinx Club, Harvard, 44
Sports Illustrated, 283, 284, 292
Stark, Ray, 263
Steegmuller, Francis, translation of Madame Bovary, 179–80
Stein, Gertrude, 66
Stevens, George, 128; letter from Brandt, 129–30
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 179; Treasure Island, 223
Stockbridge, Mass.: Christina Marquand’s wedding, 238; Sedgwick House, 38–39, 60, 79, 239, 299
Stopover: Tokyo, 270–73; moving picture, 272
Streeter, Edward, 188, 245, 248, 295–96; advises JPM on Point of No Return, 201–3, 213; Daily Except Sunday, 201; Dere Mabel, 201; Father of the Bride, 203
Stribling, T. S., The Store, Pulitzer Prize, 151
Stuart, R. Douglas, Jr., 134
Sulzberger, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hays, 186
“Sun, Sea, and Sand,” 189
Swanberg, W. A., Jim Fiske, 180
Swanson, Gloria, 241
Sweeting, Captain, of Windrift, 221
Tacitus, 185
Tarkington, Booth, 189–90
Think Fast, Mr. Moto, 129
Thirty Years, 194, 245, 258–59
Thomas, Norman, 134
Thompson, Dorothy, 183
Thompson, J. Walter, advertising agency, 56, 58, 59
Thoreau, Henry David, 38, 75, 185
Thornhill, Arthur, Sr., 238
Thucydides, 185
Thurber, James, 180
Timothy Dexter, Revisited, 293, 294
Top Secret Affair (film version of Melville Goodwin, U.S.A.), 265
Treasure Island, Bahamas, 220–26, 235
Tuckerman, Bayard, 219
Tuckerman, Mr. and Mrs. John, 243
Tufts, James W., 241
Tunney, Gene, story of Hemingway, 222
Twain, Mark, JPM mistaken for, 111
Twentieth Century-Fox, 272
The Unspeakable Gentleman, 59–60, 293
Vassar College, 104
Versailles, 68; JPM and Carol in, 268–70
Vesle River, 55
Vidor, King, 154–57; in Aspen, 157; in Boston, 154–55
Villa, Pancho, 53
Wagner, Robert, 272
Warren, Robert Penn, 179
Washington, D.C., 161; Pentagon, 230–31
Watkins, Ann, 76
Weeks, Edward, 263; JPM’s attitude toward, 124; The Open Heart, 97n
Welch, Richard E., 238
Wells (Conney Fiske’s uncle), 98
West, Benjamin, 297
West Point graduates, 231
Wharton, Edith, 88
White, Andy, 181
White, William Allen, 177; Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 135
Whitehill, Walter Muir, 155
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 37, 125
Whyte, William H., The Organization Man, 218
Wickford Point, 118–26, 141, 149, 151, 168, 196, 292; advertisement and controversy with Saturday Evening Post, 132–33; Curzon’s Mill in, 37, 119; Hale family in, 119–25, 129–30, 204, 206–7, 266–68; JPM in, as narrator, 123–25; JPM’s article on identification of characters, 125; motion picture proposed, 266–68; sales, 131–32; serialization, 131–33, 159
Williams, Alexander, 287
Williamsburg, Va., 112
Wilson, Sloan, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 218
Wister, Owen, 43
Woman’s Home Companion, 228
Women and Thomas Harrow, 24, 291
Wood, Grant, “Parson Weems’ Fable,” 111
Wood, Gen. Robert E., 135
Woollcott, Alexander, 182
World War I: Gardiner Fiske in, 88; JPM’s service in, 54–55, 162–63
World War II, 160; JPM in, 161–63, 167; JPM’s novels of, 195–200; Pearl Harbor attack, 138
Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny, 180
Yale, 33; honorary degree for JPM, 247; JPM’s manuscripts in library, 151
The Yearling (film), 156
Young, Robert, 156
Zanuck, Darryl, 264