Recipes for Living and Loving 233, 238; The Timeless Moment 455
Huxley, Maria (Aldous’s first wife) 186, 297, 299, 648–9
Huxley, Matthew (son of Aldous and Maria) 297, 649
I, Claudius (Graves), C.I.’s and Don Bachardy’s draft screenplay xxxv, xxxvi, 561, 563, 566, 570, 571, 572, 577, 581, 588, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595
If . . . (film) 591
Ikeya-Seki comet 377
In Cold Blood (film) 428, 431, 436, 438
“In a Lonely Place” (television show) 188
India: C.I. visits with Swami Prabhavananda xxii–xxiii, xxv–xxvii, xxxii, xxxvii, 290, 291, 298, 300–334; Huxley’s trip to 129, 145; nationalism 136, 393, 456; Chinese invasion 236 –7, 242, 243, 700
Indio, California 557
Inge, William (Bill) 45, 46, 47, 170, 211, 365n; drinking and depressions 350, 387, 483; 649
Inglis, Frances 547n
Ingraham, John 560
Inspiration Point, Santa Monica 469 –70
International Herald Tribune 111
Ireland, John 46
Irish Times, “A Glimpse of Isherwood” article 245
Irvine, University of California at 233
Isadora (film) 479, 534
Isherwood, Christopher:
Finances: income from Cabaret xxxiii, 425, 432, 436, 446, 452, 465, 519, 556, 566, 569; accounts 6, 7; inheritance from mother’s estate 51, 59, 60, 79, 134, 152, 159, 255; British taxes 91, 105, 106, 108; advance for Down There on a Visit 159; teaching income 159, 336; never involved in stock market 193; costs of improvements to Santa Monica house 201, 204; merger of finances with Don’s 201, 211; savings 242, 372, 375; purchase of duplex buildings as tax write-off 499 –500, 519, 596; pays off mortgage 535; income from “The Legend of Silent Night” television special 598
Health: workouts and exercises viii, ixn, 44, 51, 60, 124, 138, 147, 217, 220, 265, 273, 282, 292, 293, 295, 403, 464, 527, 532, 560–61; fear of cancer xxiii, 200, 208, 217, 247, 255, 354, 374, 402, 453, 515, 553; pyschosomatic bouts xxiii, 43, 291; sore throats xxiii, 141, 146, 284, 286, 287, 289, 290, 291, 330, 515, 517, 519, 535; arthritis 1n, 4, 183, 187, 340, 396, 399; intestinal complaints 11, 132, 147, 195–6, 215, 319, 329, 336, 425, 509, 512, 514, 515, 517; injures leg in fall 15, 16 –17, 24, 28; weight 18, 29, 43, 140, 143, 216, 217, 220, 242, 306, 347, 399, 403, 464, 596 –7, 598; vagus nerve spasms 24, 167; nose bleed 27; impotence 51; back pain 60, 181, 275, 342, 343, 344, 513, 514; depressions 78, 130, 211, 215, 275, 452, 518, 524, 579; cold sores 85; dental work 104, 114, 115, 131, 160, 270–71, 299 –300, 344, 466; pyloric spasms 108, 109, 110, 175, 181, 337, 515; urethra operation 110n; jaw stiffness 114, 124, 126, 130, 131, 132, 134, 139, 141, 143, 147, 176, 180, 181, 183, 201, 231; takes vitamins 124, 132, 305, 345, 532; eyesight 147, 199, 203; colds 151, 193, 236, 260, 436; prostate infection 176, 177, 178, 180, 183; neck ache 180, 181, 183, 396, 399; cyst in ear 194, 220, 221; tongue soreness 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 214, 220, 231, 453; diet 207, 396, 403; possible cracked rib 264, 265; sore mouth 274; broken rib 285, 287; headaches 324, 532; groin pain 340, 432, 433–4, 514, 515; hits head in fall 356; amnesia 389 –90; cholesterol count 396; ruptured blood vessel in eye 397; cyst on lip 401, 402; hip pain 427, 433–4, 436, 439; bruises toe 436; food poisoning 478, 479; knee pain 515; lump on finger 535, 536 –7, 541, 544, 553, 556; strains calf muscle 539, 541; Dupuytren’s Contracture (disease of hand) 553, 556, 567, 573, 626
Personal life: settles in California xi, xii; improvements to Santa Monica house xvi, 1, 8, 125, 126, 152, 159, 177, 181, 187, 197, 198, 200–201, 202, 204, 206, 210, 214, 216, 226, 234; homosexuality xvii, xviii, xxiii, 354–5, 469; recalls taking hashish in Tangier xx, 257, 315; friendships with women xxx–xxxi; fifty-sixth birthday 1; speeding ticket 11; dreams and nightmares 12–13, 74, 102, 107, 179, 215, 308, 338, 339 –40, 347–8, 349, 367, 368, 531; drinking 15, 18, 23, 35, 36, 43, 50, 58, 71, 96, 110, 124, 154, 158, 177, 187, 195, 237, 248, 250, 257, 261, 270, 273, 275, 295, 347–8, 350, 360, 401, 434, 452, 480, 482, 524, 543, 579; sees green flashes in sky 18, 25, 143; joins gym 44; smoking 51, 261, 262, 270, 273, 562; fifty-seventh birthday 104; contemplates father-son novel about relationship with Don Bachardy 134–5; joins Don in New York (1961) 145–57; train ride back to California 157–8; building of studio for Don 159, 168, 178, 189, 195, 201, 215, 216, 219; pacifism 173, 179, 457; house burgled 185, 187; picks up hitchhiker 187; photographed by Florence Homolka 196 –7, 211; minor car accident on Hollywood Boulevard 209 –210; buys furniture 210; visits moon rocket plant 213–14; fifty-eighth birthday 219; trip to northern California (1962) 219, 220–21; buys new car 220, 223–4; television interview 224; considers two-month stay at Trabuco 225; visits circus 227–9; considers spending Christmas in Mexico 240, 242, 244, 246, 247–8, 249, 250–51; speaks at Charles Laughton’s funeral 249, 250, 251–2; interviewed by Time magazine for proposed Auden article 264; stays in borrowed house in San Francisco (1963) 269, 271, 273–6; speaks at Larry Paxton’s funeral 275–6, 462; buys ring for Don’s twenty-ninth birthday 276 –7; sorrow at development of Santa Monica Canyon 276, 385, 388, 389, 465, 467, 469 –70; sideswipes car 281, 284; plans writing autobiographical works 284, 335, 371, 372, 373, 378; breaks rib in car accident 285, 286, 288; fifty-ninth birthday 288; Francophobia 292; takes Librium 299, 302, 305, 411, 452; contemplates novel based on Prema taking sannyas 336; buys television set 337; visits Big Sur with Bart Johnson 340, 341; at Kirov Ballet with Budd Cherry 345, 346; joins Don in New York (1965) 351–3; pallbearer at David O. Selznick’s funeral 368–9; traffic tickets for jumping red lights 369, 565–6; dislike of dogs 372, 518; sixty-first birthday 374; attempts to view Ikeya-Seki comet 377; clutch fails on car 394; sixty-second birthday 406; discusses drug-taking with Don 407, 542; sixty-third birthday 465; stays with “Ben Underhill” and Ken McDonnell in San Francisco (1967) 469, 471–2; letters offered for sale by dealer 483–4; trip to San Francisco and Santa Cruz (1967) 484–92; makes poetry tapes for Don 494, 497, 578, 581; visits Truman Capote at Palm Springs (1969) 497, 540, 542–3; visits conference at Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions with Spender (1968) 503–4; writes citation for Auden’s Gold Medal award from National Institute of Arts and Letters 515–16; commonplace book 516; sees production of Hamlet in San Diego 517–18; sixty-fourth birthday 523–4; idea for a novel about a Swami and a writer 530, 561; votes in presidential election 531; receives poem from fan 532–3; loses and retrieves ring given by Don 533, 584, 591; watches Apollo 8 lunar mission 534; sees stage version of Fortune and Men’s Eyes 541; watches home movies with Don 547; takes John Lehmann to Watts 549; sees Nureyev and Fonteyn dance 567; sixty-fifth birthday 578, 579; visits Jim Charlton in Honolulu on return from Australia 590–91; asked to nominate most hated man in America 591–2
Professional activities: teaches at L.A. State xii, 9, 140, 144, 159, 166, 169, 170, 175–6, 177, 181–2, 190–91, 192–3, 195, 468; teaches and lectures at UCSB xii, 6 & n, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18, 25, 27–8, 33–4, 132, 187, 663; film script writing xxix, xxxv, 189, 200, 201, 337, 338, 339, 341, 342, 343, 344, 348, 374, 376, 377, 385, 389, 394, 395, 561, 590, 594, 595; Regents’ Professor at UCLA xxx, 17n, 336, 351, 354, 356, 362–4, 366, 367–8; visiting professor at UCLA xxx; television work xxxiii, 17, 18, 73, 77–8, 99, 401, 403, 407, 422, 425, 479, 493, 494, 495, 512, 519 –20, 534, 536; stage adaptations xxxv, 422, 445, 446, 457–8, 473, 475, 494, 495, 520; lectures at UCLA 30, 42, 43, 44, 51, 56, 225, 236; lectures and talks at Berkeley 32–3, 191, 273, 275, 284; lecture at Monterey Park public library 173; lecture at L.A. City College 183, 184, 185; radio broadcasts 187, 209, 211; lecture at Garden Grove High School 225, 232, 233; lecture at Mission Inn, Riverside 225, 230; speaks at Pacific Coast Writers’ Conference 280; talk at Javadpur University 328; talk at One, Incorporated 351, 354–5; teaches at U.C. Riverside 377, 384, 385, 389, 392, 393, 394, 395–6, 397; lectures at Long Beach State College 475, 481–2; offered teaching post at UCLA 483; talks at U.C. Santa Cruz 489 –92; round table discussion at Cal. State 519 –20;
talks and round table discussions for ACLU 519, 563; Cabaret film treatment 556, 560, 563, 564, 566
Relationships: with Don Bachardy see separate entry under Bachardy, Don; with William Caskey xvi, 18, 47n, 75, 140, 246, 275, 355, 373, 618; with Denny Fouts 117, 140, 476, 631–2; with Vernon Old 274, 377n, 679 –80
Spiritual ideas and practices: devotion to Swami Prabhavananda xi, xii, xvii– xxviii, xxxvii, 324–5, 389, 507, 538, 539, 551, 553, 556, 561; regular attendance at Vedanta Center xii, 48, 52, 132, 190, 226, 231, 236, 245, 263, 268–9, 291, 338, 344, 397–8, 451, 537, 539, 553; spiritual and mystical dimensions of relationship with Don xv, xx, xxxvii, 296, 438, 465, 503, 510, 515, 519, 543; questions Swami’s teachings xxii, xxvi–xxvii, xxviii, 159, 215; associates good health with honesty and purity xxiii–xxiv, 231–2; reasons for leaving monastery xxv, xxvi, 9; Swami’s counsel to xxv, xxvi, xxvii, 133–4, 157, 159, 279, 401–2, 435, 516, 561; devotion to Ramakrishna xxviii, 278, 373, 402; views on death and afterlife xxxvii, 218, 366, 371, 436, 465, 478, 517, 527; belief in Atman 22, 296, 331, 474, 604; making japam 27, 44, 51, 63, 79 –80, 104, 151, 159, 179, 204, 214, 222, 268–9, 291, 389, 407, 461, 476, 480, 529, 652; meditation 44, 214–15, 239, 342, 355–6, 399, 476, 478, 529, 592; Ramakrishna puja 48; Kali puja 132, 330, 377, 480; visits Trabuco 132–4, 238, 239 –40, 277–9, 567–8; questions certainty of existence of God 133–4, 243, 516; reads at Swami’s breakfast puja 156, 157, 259 –60, 538; diminished importance of spiritual life 214–15; questions value of prayer 247, 248, 291, 393; talk on Vivekananda at Hollywood Vedanta Center 260; prayers 261, 274, 278, 332, 402, 445, 480; speaks at Sarada Convent, Montecito 285, 286; making pranams 305, 325, 582, 685; talk at Ramakrishna Mission College in India 312, 313, 342; speaks at Parliament of Religions 318, 322, 325; resolves to stop talking publicly on religion 319, 320, 324–6, 330; talk at Belur Math 320; speech at Vivekananda centenary celebrations 330; solitary moment in shrine at Vedanta Center 566, 592
Travels: joins Don Bachardy in England (1961) xiii, 58–124; in Tangier with Don (1955) xx, 257, 315; in India with Swami Prabhavananda (1963-64) xxii–xxiii, xxv–xxvii, xxxii, xxxvii, 290, 291, 298, 300–334; to Austria for television special (1966) xxxiii, 403, 407, 408, 411–16; visits England on return from Austria (1966) xxxiii, 412–13, 419 –21, 422, 423; to Tahiti and Australia with Don (1969) xxxv–xxxvi, 532, 541, 546, 554, 568, 569, 570–71, 573– 8, 579 –81, 582–4, 585–90; stays with Tony Richardson in South of France (1961) 101, 102, 103, 105, 107–113; trip to England (1967) 432, 441, 446, 447–8, 452–3
Writings: diary keeping viii–x, xxiv, 1 & n, 46, 63, 122, 173, 233, 269, 277, 285, 403, 423, 492, 515, 560; importance of characterization in novels 2; contributions to Vedanta and the West magazine 6 & n, 66; Gita translation 9 & n, 265n, 399, 516; introduction to Vedanta for the Western World anthology 10, 279, 539 –40; notes for proposed novelette on homosexual relationship on campus 160–66; translation of Patanjali 179; translation of Chaitanya hymn 197; reviews 211, 212, 214; article on Brahamananda 277; article for Huxley memorial volume 335, 336, 338; introduction to Religion in Practice (collection of Prabhavananda’s lectures) 436, 439, 441, 442; foreword to Journey to a War 521; translation of Vivekananda’s poetry 552; inspiration for writing 562–3; draft foreword to book of Hockney’s drawings 581, 593; introduction to Narada’s Way of Divine Love 581, 595, 596, 597, 598; see also “Afterwards”; All the Conspirators; An Approach to Vedanta; The Ascent of F6; Christopher and His Kind; Down There on a Visit; Exhumations; Goodbye to Berlin; Kathleen and Frank; Lions and Shadows; A Meeting by the River; The Memorial; Mr. Norris Changes Trains; My Guru and His Disciple; Prater Violet; Ramakrishna and His Disciples; Sally Bowles; A Single Man; “A Visit to Anselm Oaks”; “What Vedanta Means to Me”; The World in the Evening
Isherwood, Esther (C.I.’s aunt) 200, 417, 650
Isherwood, Frank Bradshaw (C.I.’s father): death xxxiii, xxxvii, 186, 416 –18, 441; marriage xxxiii, 419, 595; C.I.’s relations with xxxiv; correspondence 419, 446, 459, 463, 464, 473, 493, 496, 497, 578, 595; in South Africa 464, 475, 578; appreciation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s works 578, 580; 650 Isherwood, Henry (Harry) Bradshaw (C.I.’s uncle) 417, 419, 650
Isherwood, John Bradshaw (C.I.’s grandfather) 416n Isherwood, John (Jack) Bradshaw (C.I.’s uncle) 167–8, 416, 417, 650
Isherwood, Kathleen Bradshaw (M.; C.I.’s mother): marriage xxxiii, 419, 595; C.I.’s relations with xxxiv; relations with parents xxxiv–xxxv; death 51n; her will and estate 51, 59, 60, 79, 134, 152, 159, 255; life at Wyberslegh 89n; C.I.’s letters to 92, 116; her grave 93; diaries 416 –18, 445, 446, 449, 451, 459, 460–61, 463, 464, 473, 493, 496, 497, 508, 520, 522; correspondence with Frank 419, 446, 473, 496; 651
Isherwood, Richard (C.I.’s brother): inheritance from mother’s estate 60; and Alan Bradley 61, 90–91; visits C.I. in London 61; C.I. visits in Cheshire 73, 80, 88, 89 –91, 92–3, 123–4, 416, 419 –21, 447; relations with C.I. 80, 93, 420; appearance and character 90, 92, 355; diary 90, 91; drinking 90, 93, 419 –20, 451; health 90, 420; reaction to mother’s death 92–3; letters to C.I. 167–8, 450–51; and Dan Bradley 419 –20; and C.I.’s Kathleen and Frank 442, 445, 446, 447, 474–5, 542;
651–2 Isla Vista, California 21
Italy 334
Jackson, Bob 69 –70
Jackson, Carl T. 209
Jackson, Marie 557
Jacobson, Emilie 429
Jagannath Temple, India 157
Jagger, Christopher 588n
Jagger, Mick xxxv–xxxvi, 561, 571, 586, 587–8
James, Jesse 286
Janvier (student at L.A. State) 190
Jarka, Horst 552
Jason, Peter 572, 578, 652
Javadpur University 328
J.B. (small-town lawyer) 568–9
Jebb, Julian 170
Jeffers, Robinson, The Tower Beyond Tragedy 138
Jenkins, Elizabeth, Elizabeth the Great 431
Jenkins, Gwen 116
Jenkins, Ivor 99, 106, 113, 116, 652
Jenkins, Terry: travels to Japan with Charles Laughton 13, 17; relations with Laughton 15, 29, 32, 47–8, 139, 195, 514; character 17; modelling career 29, 36, 82; at C.I.’s party for Jo Masselink 55, 56; C.I. meets in London 76, 82; settles in New York 195; and Laughton’s final illness 205, 208, 210, 515; 652
Jennings, Bob 264
Jiras, Bob and Minelda 34n
John XXIII, Pope 279
John, Augustus 122
John Birch Society 173, 249, 652
Johns, Larry 395
Johnson, Bart (pseud.) 15, 53, 216, 240, 337, 340, 560
Johnson, Diane 362
Johnson, Don 541, 559 –60
Johnson, Lamont (Monty): and C.I.’s adaptation of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God 422, 428, 473, 492, 520, 529, 544, 546, 548, 550; friendship and socializing with C.I. 518, 544; 653
Johnson, Lyndon 299, 344, 345, 350, 364, 591; and Vietnam War 460, 502; withdraws from 1968 election 502
Johnson, Pamela Hansford (Lady Snow) 32
Johnson, Samuel 537
Johnson, Uwe, Two Views 431, 433
Johnson, Virginia 206n
Jones, Ernest (psychoanalyst) 204
Jones, Jack (painter) 190, 234, 235, 411, 423, 442, 458–9, 474, 653
Jones, Jennifer (Mrs. David O. Selznick): friendship and socializing with C.I. 41, 169, 370–71, 434, 435, 437, 450, 523, 560; enthusiasm for C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 160, 167; and death of Selznick 368, 370–71; at opening of Don Bachardy’s show at Rex Evans’s gallery 387; suicide attempt 482, 501; “marathon” group experience 501; relationship with psychiatrist 501; and Bob Thomas’s biography of Selznick 541; sends copy of Jung to C.I. 560, 594; 653–4
Jonson, Ben 85
Joyce, James 219; Ulysses 56, 72, 596
Judgment at Nuremberg (film) 176
Jung, Carl 187n, 588, 594; Psychology and Alchemy 560, 594–5; “Synchronicity” 560
Kabir, Humayun 321–2
Ka
llman, Chester: and C.I.’s proposed Berlin musical x, xxxiii, 72, 76, 77, 79, 80, 82; relationship with Auden 60, 443; C.I.’s relations with 77, 335; Don Bachardy’s drawing of 82; at Glyndebourne 84; in New York 148, 153; 654
Kaln, Erik (pseud.) 14–15
Kamarpukur 307
Kander, John xxxiii, 424n
Kanin, Garson 392; Remembering Mr. Maugham 392n, 438
Kanto, Shashi 315, 318, 320, 321, 323, 331
Kaper, Bronislau 654; wife of 350
Kaplan, Abbot 42, 236, 654
Kaplan, Abraham 141–2, 654–5
Kaplan, Al 96, 97–8, 111, 113, 655
Karachi 333–4
Karapiet, Rashid 65, 115, 655
Kathleen and Frank (C.I.; earlier title Hero-Father, Demon-Mother): researching and writing ixn, xxxiii, 378, 380–81, 407, 424– 5, 428, 436, 437–8, 439, 442, 445, 446, 473, 474–5, 493, 496, 497–8, 519, 520, 521, 532, 533, 534, 535, 539, 541, 542, 544, 555, 560, 593, 594, 598; themes xxxiii, xxxiv–xxxv, 425, 437, 441; use of family’s personal papers 407, 417–19, 420, 445, 446, 447, 449, 451, 459, 463, 464, 467, 473, 493, 496, 497, 508, 511, 520, 522; Don Bachardy’s suggestions for 422, 440–41; title 422, 594; modelled on Virginia Woolf’s The Waves 437; proposed introductory “letter” 519, 527, 528; C.I. bored by 544