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  Bellow’s fellowship applications

  budget request letters

  move to Europe and

  recommendation of Grace Paley

  recommendation of James Baldwin

  recommendation of Louise Glück

  recommendation of others

  recommendations of Bernard Malamud

  renewal application

  renewal rejection

  Guinzburg, Harold

  Guinzburg, Tom

  Haffenden, John

  Hall, Donald

  Hammersmark, Sam

  Hammett, Dashiell

  happiness

  Hardwick, Elizabeth

  Harper & Row

  Harper’s Bazaar

  Harris, Mark

  Harris, Sydney J.

  Harvard University

  Hasenclever, Walter

  Havel, Václav

  Hayek, Friedrich von

  health issues

  aging and

  ciguatera poisoning

  depression

  during divorce from Sondra

  eye hemorrhage

  of friends

  gall-bladder surgery

  heart problems

  hospital stays

  ignoring

  remarks to friends about

  sexually transmitted diseases

  sleeping pills

  weight

  wintertime

  Hearst Press

  heart of mankind

  Hebrew

  Hecht, Anthony

  Held, Abe

  Hellman, Lillian

  Henderson the Rain King (Bellow)

  Bellow’s reaction to reviews of

  Bellow’s own assessment of

  discussion of with Anne Sexton

  discussion of with Edward Hoagland

  discussion of with Leslie Fiedler

  excerpt

  expected sales of

  film of

  opera based upon

  reviewing proofs of

  reviews of

  rewriting of

  writing of

  Henle, Jim

  book advances

  complaints about

  correspondence with

  parting ways with

  remarks on pace of Bellow’s career

  The Victim and

  Herbst, Josephine

  hero figures

  Herskovits, Melville J.

  Herzog (Bellow)

  completion of

  letters in

  reactions to

  reviews of

  Bellow’s own assessment of

  success of

  writing of

  Heschel, Abraham Joshua

  Hicks, Granville

  “Him With His Foot in His Mouth” (story)

  Hitchens, Christopher

  Hitler, Adolph

  Hivnor, Robert

  Hoagland, Edward

  Hoffman, Theodore (“Ted”)

  Holbrook, David

  Holiday (journal)

  Holocaust

  Hook, Sidney

  House Un-American Activities Committee

  Howe, Irving

  Howland, Bette

  Hudson Review monologue

  Human Hope and the Death Instinct (Holbrook)

  human nature

  human relations

  humanity

  heart as origin and seat of importance in mankind

  loss of

  misery and

  remarks to Richard Stern about

  thoughts on growing older and

  truth of artistic works and

  Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow)

  completion of

  death and comedy in

  detachment from

  excerpt

  film rights for

  inscribed editions

  Owen Barfield and

  reviews of

  Hunt, John

  Hunt, William

  Hutchins, Robert Maynard

  Huxley, Aldous

  Hyde Park

  hypocrisy

  I Married a Communist (Roth)

  ideas and writing

  “identity,”

  ideology

  idleness

  Illinois governor

  “Illinois Journey,”

  illness, see health issues

  imagination

  immigration

  immodesty

  “In the Days of Mr. Roosevelt” (essay)

  inconclusiveness

  individuality and technology

  The Information (Amis)

  The Inmost Leaf (Kazin)

  Instead (journal)

  integration

  intellectualism

  intelligence

  internal work as writing theme

  Ironweed (Kennedy)

  irony

  Israel

  Italy

  James, Henry

  Japan

  “The Jefferson Lectures” excerpt

  Jerusalem

  Jesus

  Jewish People’s Committee

  Jewishness

  American society and

  Bellow’s

  Bellow’s critique of Stanley Elkin and

  in Cynthia Ozick’s Messiah of Stockholm

  discussions with Leon Wieseltier

  fellow writers and

  the Holocaust and

  as “marketable,”

  as theme in Bellow’s writing

  Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnson, Samuel

  journalism

  journalists

  Joyce, James

  Kamlani, Beena

  Kaplan, Harold (“Kappy”)

  Kaplan, Justin

  Kaplan, Roger

  Karlen, Arno

  Kauffman, Charles

  Kauffman, Jane (sister)

  Kauffman, Lawrence

  Kaufman, Abe

  Kazin, Alfred

  discussion of mutual friends

  discussions about writing

  discussions of family

  friendship with

  invitation to Tivoli house

  memoir-essay on Bellow

  opinion of Bellow’s early writing

  remarks on Bard College to

  remarks on Paris to

  review of Seize the Day

  Kazin, Ann (Birstein)

  Kennedy, Eugene C.

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, Robert

  Kennedy, William

  Kenner, Hugh

  Kenyon Review

  Kerrigan, Anthony

  Kibbutz S’dot Yam

  Kiepenheuer & Witsch

  Kiernan, Frances

  Kirchner, Leon

  Kleinbard, Jonathan

  Klonsky, Milton

  knowing one’s mind

  Koch, Sigmund

  Koestler, Arthur

  Kołakowski, Leszek

  Kollek, Teddy

  Konstantinovski, Ilya

  Kopit, Arthur

  Korean War

  Krim, Seymour

  Landau, Bananas

  Landau, Bernice Meyer

  Landes, Arlette

  Lang, Jack

  Lapp, Rudy

  Lasco, Louis

  friendship with

  illness of

  Lasky, Melvin

  The Last Analysis (play)

  Laughlin, James

  Lawrence, D. H.

  laziness

  Leggett, John

  Lehmann, John

  leisure

  Leites, Nathan

  Leninism

  Lennon, John

  Les Justes (play)

  letter to Evelyn

  letters

  apologies for not writing

  difficulty of writing

  gratefulness for letters from friends

  value of

  Levi, Primo

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Lieber, Maxim
r />   The Life of John Berryman (Haffenden)

  light as literary theme

  Lily (opera based on Henderson the Rain King)

  Linder, Erich

  Lindley, Denver

  literature

  “literary culture,”

  “literary loyalty,”

  love of

  merit of written vs. constructed portions of novels

  polemical

  teaching of

  living abroad

  loneliness

  “Looking for Mr. Green” (story)

  Lourie, Richard

  love

  Bellow’s thoughts on

  feeling unloved by Anita

  feminine beliefs about

  for friends

  as salvation

  as theme of Herzog

  women’s ability to make distinctions about

  Love and Death in the American Novel (Fiedler)

  “low seriousness,”

  Lowell, Robert

  Ludwig, Jack

  Maccoby, Hyam

  Macdonald, Dwight

  MacKenzie, Rachel

  madness as theme in Bellow’s writing

  Mailer, Norman

  Malamud, Ann

  Malamud, Bernard

  Bellow discusses Augie March with

  Bellow discusses God’s Grace

  Bellow on writers’ organizations

  Bellow praises Dubin’s Lives

  Bellow praises The Natural

  Bellow’s eulogy of

  Bellow’s Guggenheim recommendations for

  Bellow’s opinion of A New Life

  Malraux, André

  Manea, Norman

  Mangan, John Joseph Sherry

  Manheim, Mary

  Markels, Bobby

  marketing of Bellow’s writing

  marriage

  as business alliance

  divorce from Alexandra

  effect on friendships

  quarrels with Anita Goshkin

  thoughts on

  Marshall, John

  Martin, Jack

  Marxism

  Maschler, Tom

  Mastroianni, Marcello

  materialism

  mature and perfected form of self

  Maxwell, William

  McCarthy, Mary

  McCloskey, Herbert

  discussions of jobs and writing

  friendship with

  mentioned

  visits with

  McCloskey, Mitzie

  McCormick, John

  McGehee, Ed

  Meade, Marion

  meaning in art

  Medal of Freedom

  meditation

  megalomania

  Memoirs of a Bootlegger’s Son

  Mencken, H. L.

  Merchant Marine

  Merleau-Ponty, Maurice

  The Messiah of Stockholm (Ozick)

  metamorphosis, personal

  Milano, Paolo

  Miller, Arthur

  Miller, Henry

  Miller, Letizia Ciotti

  Miller, Ruth

  Mills, Margaret

  mining deal in Africa

  misery and human life

  The Misfits (movie)

  misology

  Mitchell, Stephen

  Mitgang, Herbert

  moderation

  modernism

  Moe, Henry Allen

  money

  divorce from Anita and

  early book sales

  enjoyment of

  Ford Foundation grant

  need for

  settlement payment to Susan Glassman Bellow

  writing for money

  Monk, Sam

  Monroe, Marilyn

  Montreal

  Moody Lectures

  moral life

  Morante, Elsa

  More Die of Heartbreak (Bellow)

  Morris, Wright

  Mosby’s Memoirs and Other Stories (Bellow)

  Mostel, Zero

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

  “Mr. Green” (story)

  Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Bellow)

  Murdoch, Iris

  music

  Nabokov, Nicolas

  Naipaul, V. S.

  Naked Lunch (Burroughs)

  National Book Award

  The Natural (Malamud)

  natural-resource protection

  naturalism in writing

  Nature-intimacy

  Nef, Evelyn

  Nef, John U.

  negative capability

  Nelson, Benjamin

  nephew’s suicide

  Nevada

  Neven du Mont, Reinhold

  New Criticism

  New Directions (publisher)

  The New Leader article

  A New Life (Malamud)

  New Republic

  New Writing (journal)

  New York City

  The New York Times

  The New Yorker

  News from the Republic of Letters (journal)

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  nihilism

  Nimier, Nadine

  Nobel Peace Prize

  Nobel Prize in Literature

  Nobile, Philip

  The Noble Savage literary magazine

  Bellow discusses poetry editing with John Berryman

  Bellow’s opinion of editing for

  continued publication of

  correspondence with Edward Hoagland about