The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder

  Grass, Günter, 640

  Graves, Robert, 194, 634

  Great Depression, 230, 232

  Green, Adolph, 698n218

  Green, Paul, 278

  The House of Connelly, 251

  Greene, Graham, 700

  Greenway, Isabella, 624

  Greet, Sir Philip “Ben,” 9

  Grenfell, Sir Wilfred, 213

  Grey, Orpha, 59

  Griffith, D. W., 118n205

  Gris, Juan, 277

  Gropius, Walter, 496

  Guinan, Texas, 265

  Guinness, Alec, 670

  Guiraud, Edmond, La Bonheur de Jour, 549

  Guitry, Sacha, 310

  Guthrie, Tyrone “Tony,” 504, 527, 531

  Gwyn, Eleanor “Nell,” 81

  H

  Haas, Robert, 372–73

  Hadden, Briton, 646

  Hadley, Arthur Twining, 172

  Hagen, Beulah, 601, 686

  Hague, Eleanor, 73

  Haight, Gordon, 696n217, 697

  Haight, Mary M., TNW letter to, 696–97

  Hale, Nathan, 116

  Hamilton, James Hamish, 239

  Hammerstein, Oscar, 502

  Hammond, Kay, 388n49

  Handel, George Frideric, 681

  Handel Festival, Newport, 467

  Hanna, Leonard C., Jr., 285

  Hardy, Thomas, 226

  Far From the Madding Crowd, 575–76

  The Return of the Native, 613

  Harper & Brothers, 221–22, 233, 271

  and Heaven’s My Destination, 283, 568

  and The Merchant of Yonkers, 364n2

  Harris, Jed, 251, 261–62, 333, 399, 435, 491

  and A Doll’s House, 324, 330, 338, 343–44

  and The Fifth Column, 340, 341

  and The Green Bay Tree, 262n69, 269n81

  and Our Town, 234, 322, 323, 324–25, 328, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 338, 339, 342, 348, 553

  and Skin of Our Teeth, 389n52, 391–93, 408

  TNW letter to, 332

  TNW’s friendship with, 257, 274, 308

  Harris, Sam H., 269n80, 408, 417

  Harrison, Betsy, 674

  Harshe, Robert B., 277n98

  Hart, Clive, 694n212

  Hart, Jerry, 207

  Harvard College, TNW’s wish to attend, 90, 102

  Harvard University, TNW on faculty of, 479, 494

  Harvard University Press, 479, 480

  Hawks, Howard, 474, 475

  Hawley, Helen, 426

  Haydn, Franz Joseph, 684, 694

  Hayes, Helen, 282, 308

  in The Merchant of Venice, 345–46

  in The Skin of Our Teeth, 532n97, 692

  TNW letter to, 457—59

  in Victoria Regina, 309

  Hayman, David, 694n212

  Hazard, Paul, 315

  Hazelton, George C., and J. Harry Benrimo, The Yellow Jacket, 91

  Hazzard, John E., and Winchell Smith, Turn to the Right, 91

  Hearn, Walter, 14

  Hearst, William Randolph, 9n5, 232, 284

  Hearts of the World (film), 118

  Hecht, Ben, 464n171

  Miracle in the Rain, 545n122

  Heifetz, Jascha, 614

  Hellman, Lillian, 370, 667

  The Little Foxes, 417n98

  Hello, Dolly! ( Broadway musical), 364n2, 582, 583, 618n72

  Helmensdorfer, Urs, TNW letter to, 592–93

  Hemingway, Dick, 279

  Hemingway, Ernest, 155n35, 461, 472, 633

  The Fifth Column, 340, 341n218

  “Fifty Grand,” 210

  The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta), 128–29, 195, 201, 238–39

  TNW letters to, 193–95, 227–28, 340–41

  TNW’s friendship with, 192–93, 196, 198, 200–201, 207, 220, 492

  Hemingway, John Hadley Nicanor “Bumby,” 197n121, 201

  Hemingway, Mrs. Ernest, 197–98, 201

  Hennessey, Joseph, 304

  Henry Miller Theater, New York, 338

  Hepburn, Katharine, 261, 262n69, 272, 273

  Heraclitus, 72n126

  Herlihy, James Leo:

  All Fall Down, 650

  Midnight Cowboy, 668

  TNW letters to, 649–51, 666–69, 671–74

  Herlitschka, Herberth, 570

  TNW letter to, 471–73

  Herodotus, 17

  Histoire, 631

  Herriot, Edouard, 314n173

  Hersey, John, A Single Pebble, 542n116

  Heyward, DuBose, Porgy, 237

  Heywood, Thomas, A Woman Killed with Kindness, 597

  Hichens, Robert, The Fruitful Vine, 171

  Higginson, Rebekah, 426

  Higginson, Sally, 506

  TNW letter to, 509–10

  Hilton, Conrad “Nicky,” 498

  Hinckle, Bill, 244

  Hindemith, Gertrude, TNW letter to, 569–70

  Hindemith, Paul, and The Long Christmas

  Dinner, 483, 569–70, 577, 581, 622

  Hirsch, Sidney, 344

  Hitchcock, Alfred, and Shadow of a Doubt, 357, 358, 395, 396, 397, 399, 401

  Hitler, Adolf, 307, 648

  Hobson, Archibald, 637

  Hobson, Verna Harrison, 637n110

  Hobson, Wilder, 637n110, 644

  Hofmann, Heinrich, 41

  Hohenlohe, Furstin, 472

  Hokusai, Katsushika, The Great Wave at Kanagwa, 28

  Holliday, Judy, 590

  Hollywood:

  TNW as screenwriter in, 232–33, 266–67, 272, 273–76, 282, 284–85, 291, 311, 350, 357–58, 395, 397, 397, 401, 455, 473–75

  TNW’s letters from, 241–44, 278–82, 395–402

  Holm, Celeste, 619

  Holt, Hamilton, 274n92

  Homer, 346

  Odyssey (transl.), 245

  Hopkins, Arthur, 118–19

  Hopkins, Miriam, 331, 417

  Hopwood, Avery, 474

  Horowitz, Vladimir, 243

  Hosmer, Helen, 701

  Hotchkiss, Edwin DeWitt, 59, 116

  Hotson, Leslie, Mr. WH, 631

  Housman, Laurence, Victoria Regina, 309

  Howard, Sidney, 341

  Alien Corn, 263n71

  Hubbard, Elbert, 108n179

  Hubbard, Katharine, 108

  Hudson Review, 609

  Hull, Cordell, 384, 386

  Humphrey, Doris, 389n53

  Humphrey-Weidman dance company, 389

  Hunt, James Leigh, “Abou Ben Adhem,” 470

  Hunter, Sir Ian Bruce Hope, 527–28

  Huntington Hartford Foundation, 521, 553

  Hu Shih, 658–59

  Huston, Walter, 247

  Hutchins, Franja, 253, 309

  Hutchins, Maude, 252–53, 284, 285, 309, 373, 402, 405–6, 511

  Hutchins, Robert M., 373, 379, 437n124, 495, 596

  career of, 113n189

  government service of, 276, 284, 289, 381, 406

  and the humanities, 466

  at Oberlin, 6, 313n170, 675

  second marriage of, 466n174

  TNW letter to, 400–402

  and TNW’s lectures, 360, 361, 468

  and University of Chicago, 231, 247, 252, 260, 288, 294, 466

  at Yale, 7, 645

  Hutchins, William J., 313n170

  Hutton, Barbara (Reventlow), 399

  Huxley, Aldous, 379, 438

  I

  Ibsen, Henrik, 519

  A Doll’s House, 234, 324, 330, 338

  Hedda Gabler, 72

  The Master Builder, 72, 119

  Ickes, Harold, 276

  I Married a Witch (film), 394n59

  Indig, Otto, The Bride of Torozko, 232, 256

  Inge, William, Come Back, Little Sheba, 490n14

  Institute for Intellectual Cooperation, 234

  Isaacs, Edith J. R., 177n83

  TNW letter to, 165–68

  Istomin, Eugene, 603

  It Happened One Night (film), 369

  J


  Jackson, Mary, 676

  Jackson, Rose, 498

  James, Henry, 695

  “The Altar of the Dead,” 114n191

  The Golden Bowl, 460

  The Wings of the Dove, 504

  James, William, 206, 695

  Jane Eyre (film), 369

  Jarry, Alfred, Ubi Roi, 533

  Jaws (film), 693

  Jeffers, Robinson, Medea (adapt.), 619n76

  Jerome, Jerome K., Passing of the Third Floor Back, 30, 42

  Joan of Arc, 232, 272, 273, 275–76

  John, Augustus, 239

  Johnson, Lady Bird, 583

  Johnson, Lamont, 546n125

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 582, 628

  Johnson, Mrs. Hobart, 289

  Johnson, Thomas H., 579n180

  Johnson, Walter Willard “Spud,” 286n119

  Jolas, Eugene, 379

  Jones, Clifton, 261n68

  Jones, Frederick Scheetz, 113, 181n96, 511

  Jones, Robert Edmond, 256

  Josset, André, Elizabeth la Femme Sans Homme, 310n163

  Jouve, Pierre-Jean, Paulina, 216, 217

  Joyce, James, 379, 560, 579, 695

  death of, 502

  Finnegans Wake, 355, 358, 360, 371, 372, 412–14, 480, 483, 495, 595, 598, 609n59, 691, 694n211

  James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical Essays (Hart and Hayman, eds.), 694n212

  Ulysses, 695

  Jung, Carl, 206n141

  K

  Kafka, Franz, 555, 640

  The Trial, 458

  Kahn, Michael, 371n16

  TNW letter to, 691–92

  Kanin, Garson, 523, 554

  Born Yesterday, 446n144, 590n9

  Do Re Mi, 576n172

  and Gordon, 441n130, 680

  The Live Wire, 490

  The Marrying Kind, 490n13

  Pat and Mike, 490n13

  The Rat Race, 490

  TNW letters to, 440–41, 443–46, 522–24, 590–92, 619–21, 685–86

  TNW’s friendship with, xiii, xxxvi, 506, 586, 680, 693

  Years Ago, 444n143

  Kaufman, Beatrice, 380

  Kaufman, George S., 269n80

  Kazan, Elia, 394, 395, 398n69, 407, 590n9

  Keats, John, 135, 140, 144

  Keedick, Lee, see Lee Keedick Agency

  Keller, Ruth, 75

  at Oberlin, 6, 68–70, 108

  TNW letter to, 100–101

  Kelman, John, 169

  Kendall, Beatrice, 515

  Kendall, Mrs. Sergeant, 146

  Kennedy, John F., 582

  Kennedy, Stanton, 250

  Keyserling, Alexander, South American

  Meditations, 378n29

  Kierkegaard, Søren, 435–36, 449, 502, 584

  Kilty, Jerome, 582, 622

  King, Harold, 95

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 655

  King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 431n116

  Kipling, Rudyard, 17

  Kirkpatrick, Jack, 196

  Knee, Ernest and Gina, 285n117, 286

  Knickerbocker, H. R., 268

  Knight, Marion E., 57

  Kokoshka, Oskar, 496

  Kommer, Rudolf, 82–83, 94, 166–67, 168, 201, 331

  TNW letter to, 76–78

  Koppelman, Bill, 691

  Kwong Ling, 35, 37, 48

  L

  La Argentina (Antonia Merce), 242

  La Bruyère, Jean de, 171

  La Follette, Mrs. Philip F., 253n39

  Lahr, Bert, 538

  Lamartine, Alphonse-Marie-Louis de, 134

  Lamb, Charles, 659

  Lamb, Henry, 240n9

  Lanchester, Elsa, 282

  Landowska, Wanda, 621

  Langner, Ruth, 256n47

  Lansbury, Angela, 650n132

  Lardner, Reginald “Rex,” 225

  Lardner, Ringold “Ring,” 225n180

  Latin America, TNW’s travels in, 357, 385–87

  Laughton, Charles, 253, 279, 311, 455

  TNW letter to, 280–82

  Laurence, Dan H., ed., Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 641

  Law, William, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, 177

  Lawrence, D. H., 173, 206n141, 286n120, 608, 614

  The Plumed Serpent, 665

  Women in Love, 60

  Lawrence, Frieda, 286n120

  Lawrence, T. E.:

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 245

  TNW letter to, 244–45

  transl., Odyssey (Homer), 245

  Lawrenceville School, New Jersey:

  Davis House, 127, 129, 151, 214

  TNW on faculty of, 126, 127, 130, 149, 210–11

  TNW’s letters from, 150–77, 219–28

  Layton, William, 445

  League of Nations, 234, 314n173

  Lederer, Francis, 255

  Lee Keedick Agency, 223n174, 229, 242, 261, 374

  Le Gallienne, Eva, 203

  Léger, Alexis (Saint-John Perse), 465, 521, 602

  Léger, Fernan, 277

  Le Grand, Eileen, TNW letters to, 427–29, 439–40, 545–47, 610–12, 678–79, 704–5

  Le Grand, Julian, 429n112, 547, 678–79

  TNW letter to, 545–47

  Le Grand, Roland, 424n106, 427–29, 451n153

  TNW letters to, 439–40, 545–47, 610–12, 678–79, 704–5

  Lehmann, Lotte, 614

  Lehr, Wilson, TNW letter to, 370–71

  Leigh, Vivien, 431, 435

  in Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra, 501n43, 684

  and The Skin of Our Teeth, 429, 430n114, 433

  TNW letter to, 489–91

  TNW’s friendship with, 443, 444, 450, 489, 577n175, 684

  Leinsdorf, Erich, 683

  Leopardi, Giacomo, 309–10

  Pensieri, 309

  Lesser, Sol, 399

  and Our Town (film), 367–68, 374–76

  TNW letters to, 368–70, 374–76

  Lewis, Rosa, 239, 240n9

  Lewis, Sinclair, 220, 322, 379, 650

  Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon “Lefty,” 158

  Lewis and Smith, eds., Horace Walpole’s Correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart, 374

  Leyda, Jay, 579–80

  Libman, Emanuel, 264

  Library of Congress, 357

  Lillie, Beatrice, 339

  Lillie, Helen M., 313n172

  Lillie, Ralph S., 250, 313n172

  Lincoln, Abraham, 20n30, 48

  Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 602

  Link, Franz, TNW letter to, 536–37

  Lippmann, Walter, 381

  Littlefield, Catherine, Philadelphia Ballet, 389

  Little Foxes, The (film), 399

  Little Night Music, A (musical), 686

  Logan, Spencer Hancock, 33

  London Mercury, 209n147

  Longman, Richard, 223

  Longmans, Green & Co., 276

  and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, 217

  and The Cabala, 128, 197n120

  and Heaven’s My Destination, 233

  and TNW’s translations, 216

  Lonigan, Studs, 651n134

  Lope de Vega, see Vega, Lope de

  Lord, Pauline, 308, 455

  Louis XIV, court of, 164, 571

  Lowell, Robert, 602, 603

  Lowry, Howard, TNW letter to, 493–96

  Lucas, F. L., Tragedy, 258

  Luce, Clare Booth, 542, 645

  Luce, Henry R., 140, 596

  at Chefoo, 4

  death of, 645n128

  TNW letter to, 541–42

  tributes to, 645–46, 658–59

  at Yale, 7, 645

  Ludwig, Ken, 371n16

  Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 268

  death of, 614n65

  salon of, 372

  Taos ranch of, 206, 232, 233, 272, 389n52

  TNW letters to, 266–67, 273–75, 283–87, 297–98

  Luhan, Tony, 614n65

  Lukács, George, 641

  Lull, Richard S., 616n69

  Lunt, Alfred
, 376, 568

  TNW letter to, 391–93

  TNW’s friendship with, 239, 259n63, 261, 264

  M

  MacDonald, Margaret, 428n111

  MacDougall, Ainslie, 242

  MacDowell, Edward Alexander, 217n159, 237

  MacDowell, Marian, 216–17n159

  MacDowell Colony, 521, 553, 567

  TNW’s acquaintances from, 192n113, 237–38, 481, 507n55, 516n72, 517n73, 601–2

  TNW’s letters from, 237–40

  TNW’s residencies in, 128, 129, 185n102, 188, 229, 231, 234, 273, 356, 378, 480, 650

  MacGowan, Kenneth, 276

  Macht, Evelyn, TNW letter to, 456–57

  MacKaye, Percy, 86, 274

  Jeanne d’Arc, 274n91

  MacKenzie, Compton, Sinister Street, 113

  MacLeish, Archibald, 379, 395n60, 401, 432

  Macy, Gertrude, 259n63

  Madariaga y Rojo, Salvador de, 314n174

  Maeterlinck, Maurice, The Blue Bird, 346

  Magee, Joe, 446

  Magic Flute (film), 703

  Magni, Eva, 614

  Mahler, Gustav, 496, 701

  Malden, Karl, 650n132

  Mallarmé, Stéphane, 516, 552

  Malraux, André, 602

  Mamoulian, Reuben, 279

  Mann, Thomas, 299, 503, 695

  Mansfield, Katherine, 509, 614

  Mantegna, Andrea, 240n9

  March, Fredric:

  and The Skin of Our Teeth, 394, 406, 407, 409–10, 417, 528

  in We Live Again, 278–79

  in Years Ago, 444

  Marcin, Max, Cheating Cheaters, 91

  Marcuse, Herbert, 656–57

  Marivaux, Pierre de, Les Fausses Confidences, 458

  Marquand, John P., 380

  Marsh, Mae, 118, 201

  Martin, Mary, 532n97

  Martineau, Henri, 631n100

  Marvel, Ik (pen name), 104

  Marvell, Andrew, “The Garden,” 622n78

  Massey, Doro, 384

  Massey, Raymond, 308, 384

  Massingham, Dorothy, and Murray

  MacDonald, The Lake, 262

  Match Girls, The (musical), 641

  Matheson, Edith Wynne, 520

  Matzenauer, Margaret, 389

  Maugham, Somerset, The Circle, 270

  Mauriac, François, 700

  Maynor, Dorothy, 468

  McAfee, Helen, 248, 251n34, 498

  McArthur, Charles, 308

  McCarthy, Daniel Clifford, 285n117

  McCarthy, Lillah, 47, 48n92

  McClatchy, J. D., 587n1

  McClintic, Guthrie, 260, 263, 308

  McCormick, Cyrus, 207n144

  McCormick, Muriel, 207

  McCormick, Renée de Fontarce, Little Coquette, 426

  McCullers, Carson, 560

  McCullough, Duff, 223n175, 374

  McGinley, Phyllis, TNW letter to, 633–35

  McMein, Neysa, 590, 591n10

  Mei Lan-Fang, 589

  Melville, Herman, 494, 502, 579

  Mendelssohn, Eleanora von, 305, 576