A Tragic Honesty (102 page)

The Bridge at Remagen
(film script)

Brodigan, Michael

Bronxville High School

Brooks, Cleanth

Brooks Brothers (clothiers)

Brown, Dr. (in Iowa)

Broyard, Anatole

marries

negative reviews of Yates's work

womanizing of

Brustein, Robert

Bryant, Charles, Jr. (Sheila's brother)

mental breakdown of

present life

teaches Yates to drive

Bryant, Charles (Sheila's father)

Bryant, Sheila (Yates's first wife)

acting experience

compatibility with Yates

divorce from Yates

early life

fights with Yates

final meetings with Yates

first baby

ghostwriting for Yates

jobs

learns to drive

in London

manuscript typing and grammar corrections of Yates's writing by

married life

meets and marries Yates

present life

reunions with Yates

second baby

separations from Yates

Buchman, Frank

“Builders”

characters and plot

Buitenhuis, Peter

Burr, Winthrop

Cabau, Jacques

Cain, Blanchard “Jerry”

Cain, Jessie

Cain, Robin

Calvinism

Camp Pickett (Virginia)

Canadian Broadcasting Company

“The Canal”

characters and plot

Candels, Lothar

Cannes, Yateses in

Cape Cod

Carole (a Yates girlfriend)

Carver, Raymond

Casey, John

Cassill, Kay

Cassill, R. Verlin

Clem Anderson
by

Cavendish Trading Corporation

Central Islip Hospital (Long Island, N.Y.)

Central Oregon Community College

Chambrun, Jacques

Chantal (Sheila's friend in Paris)

Chappell, Fred

characters, Yates's

autobiographical nature of

development of

exposing the limitations of

names of, thinly disguised

Charm

Cheever, John

Cheever, Susan

Chekhov, Anton

Cheuse, Alan

Chicago Tribune

Child, Julia

Child, Paul

Childress, Dan

Chrysler Museum

Chumley's (New York City)

Ciardi, John

Cincinnati Art Academy

City Center (New York City)

Civil Rights Bill

Clark, Geoffrey

Clayton, Jack

Cleveland, Clarissa Antoinette (Yates's paternal grandmother)

clothing

and breeding

dress code at prep schools

See also
Yates, Richard, clothing and style

Cocks, Jay

Cold Spring Harbor

characters and plot

film adaptation project

reviews of

Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

Collier's

Columbia Pictures

Columbia University

School of General Studies

Commentary

“A Compassionate Leave”

characters and plot

“The Comptroller and the Wild Wind”

characters and plot

Connell, Evan

Connolly, Paul

Conrad, Joseph

Conroy, Frank

“A Convalescent Ego”

Coover, Robert

Corman, Roger

Cosmopolitan

Costello, Mark

Cox, Elizabeth

Craige (a Yates girlfriend)

Crane, Stephen

Crossroads Irish Pub

Crumley, Jim

Cubeta, Paul

Cullinan, Elizabeth

Cuomo, George

Curtis Brown agency

Cushman, Elisabeth

Cushman, Howard

Cushman, Nancy

Cutler, Bruce

Cuttmacher, Alan F.

Dalrymple, Jean

Dalton, Elizabeth

Dalton School

Daly, Dorothy

Darke County, Ohio

David, Larry

David, Saul

Davison, Peter

“dead white males”

Delacorte

Dell

Delynn, Jane

Democratic Party

Dempsey, Jack

Derrick, Clarence

Deux Magots (Paris)

DeVoto, Avis

Dewey, Donna

Dial

Dickens, Charles

Dickey, James

Didion, Joan

Dintenfass, Mark

Discovery

Disney, Walt

Disturbing the Peace

characters and plot

reviews of

sales

writing of

Dobson, John

“Doctor Jack-o'-Lantern”

characters and plot

Doctorow, E. L.

Doe, Sue

Doel, Frances

Doherty, Bob

Donleavy, J. P.

Donoso, José

Dostoyevsky

Douglas, Mitch

Douglas “Something” (in London)

Downing, Catherine

drinking

Yates's encouragement of

See also
Yates, Richard, drinking and alcoholism

Dubus, Andre

eulogy of Yates

Dubus, Pat

Dufault, Peter Kane

Duncan, Isadora

Dunne, John Gregory

Dutton

Earley, Tony

Easter Bonnet Tea Dance

The Easter Parade

autobiographical nature of

characters and plot

film and TV adaptation projects

publication

reprints

reviews of

sales

Éditions Robert Laffont

Edward, Thomas R.

Eimerl, Sarel

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

characters and plot

publication

reprints

reviews of

sales

Eliot, George

Eliot, T. S.

Ellison, Ralph

Emerson College

“The End of the Great Depression”

Engle, Paul

Episcopalians

Epstein, Leslie

Epstein, Miriam

Epstein, Seymour

Esquire

Estabrook, Reed

Evans, Evans

“Evening on the Côte d'Azur”

characters and plot

Express

Fagin, Barbara

Fagin, Gemma

Fagin, Mary

Fairfield Hospital (Connecticut)

Farber, Jackie

Faulkner, William

Feld, Ross

Fess (friend of Sheila's)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Crack-Up

The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Five Kinds of Dismay
project

Flaubert, Gustave

Madame Bovary

Fleischer, Larry

Flesch, Rudolf

Flynn, Harry

Food Field Reporter

Ford, Elise

Ford, Ford Madox

Ford, Richard

“Forgive Our Foolish Ways” (early story)

characters and plot

“Forms of Entertainment” (lost story)

Forster, E. M.

“Foursome” (lost story)

France, Yateses moving to

France, Anatole

Frankenheimer, John

Franklin Simon (clothiers)

Frede, Richard

Friedman, Bruce Jay

Frost, Robert

Frye, Northrop

“Fun with a Stranger”

Funk & Wagnall's

Gaiser, Carolyn

“The Game of Ambush”

Gannett, Lewis

Garelick, Jon

Garrett, George

Geer, Will

Gehman, Richard

General Electric Company

Gentry

Gerber, John

German immigrants in the Midwest

The Getaway
(early version of
Revolutionary Road
)

Gieves and Hawkes

Gilhooley, Marjorie

Gingrich, Arnold

Ginsberg, Allen

Glamour

“A Glutton for Punishment”

characters and plot

Godoy, Arturo

Gold, Herbert

Golditch (lawyer)

Goldwasser, Jim

Goldwasser, Tom

Goldwyn, Sam, Jr.

“A Good and Gallant Woman”

A Good School

characters and plot

publication

reprints

reviews of

sales

Gotham Book Mart (New York City)

Gottlieb, Robert

Grace Church School (New York City)

Graham, Sheilah

Grand Street

Grassi, Andrea

Green, Hannah

Greenville, Ohio

Greenwich Village, New York

Greenwood Press

Grumman Aviation

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guild, Nicholas

Guirey, Mr.

Guthman, Edwin

Hale, Nancy

Halifax Courier and Guardian

Halloran Hospital (Staten Island)

Harper's

Harris, Robert

Harrison, William

Hartford, Conn.

Harvard Club (New York City)

Harvard Extension

Harvard University

Harwood, Mr.

Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Hawkes, John

Haydn, Hiram

Hayes, Harold

Hayes, Helen

Hecht, Dr. George

Heller, Joseph

Hemingway, Ernest

Hendrie, Don

Henry, DeWitt

Hetzel, Jennifer

Hicks, Granville

High Hedges, St. James, Long Island

Hills, Rust

hippies

Hippler, Shelley

Hitchcock, Alfred

Hoagland, Edward

Hodgson Portable Chapel

Hollins Writing Conference

Hollywood

effect on writers

producers

Yates in

Holm, Celeste

Holt

homosexuality

prep school jokes about

Yates's fear of being identified with

Yates's intolerance of

Houghton-Mifflin

housekeeping

Dookie's avoidance of

Sheila's excellent

Yates's idea of

Howard, Maureen

Hoyt, Bud

Hudson, Helen

Hudson Review

Hudson Street (New York City)

Humphrey, William

Hunter, Commander (at Avon)

Hunter, “Ret”

Hunter, Ross

Hunter High School (New York City)

International Writers' Workshop

Iowa, University of

Iowa City, Yates in

Iowa Workshop

Yates seeks tenure at

IQ test, Yates's

Ireland

IRS

Irving, John

Jacobs, Hayes

Jacobus, Lee

Jaffe, Marc

James, Henry

James, William

Jamison, Kay

Jarrell, Randall

Jennings, Irv

Joan (Yates's girlfriend overseas)

“Jody Rolled the Bones”

characters and plot

John Birch Society

Johnson, Johnny

Johnson, Julia

Johnson, Rosie

Johnson & Johnson

Jones, Ann Wright

Jones, Conrad

Jones, George

Jones, James

Jones, J. R.

Jones family

Jones Street (New York City)

Joyce, James

“Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba”

Juan-les-Pins

Jukovsky, Martin

Kakutani, Michiko

Kastner, Elliott

Kazin, Alfred

Keats, John

Keban, Dr. Carol

Kelly, Thalia Gorham

Kemmler, William, electrocution of

Kendall, Elaine

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, Robert F.

first meeting with Yates

working relationship with Yates

Yates's ambivalence toward

Keough, William

Kerouac, Jack

Kessler, Edward

Kiernan, Fran

King Street (New York City)

Kittredge, William

Kline, Franz

Kline, Dr. Nathan S.

Klinkowitz, Jerome

Klompus, Dr. Irving

Knopf

Knorr, Frank

Knorr, Janis

Knorr, Rebecca

Knowles, Richard

Kowalsky, John

Krementz, Jill

Krim, Seymour

Kubrick, Stanley

Lacy, Lyn

Lacy, Robert

“Lament for a Tenor”

characters and plot

Landowski, Paul

Lardner, Ring

Larner, Jeremy

Larry (Yates's helper in Los Angeles)

“A Last Fling, Like”

Laura (a Yates girlfriend)

Lawrence, Nick

Lawrence, Seymour (Sam)

discovers Yates

early career

help given to Yates

obituary of

starts own publishing house

tribute to Yates

Leavitt, Ned

Lee, Don

Leggett, Jack

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher

Lehrman, Robert

Lemmon, Jack

Lester Rossin Associations

Levin, Ira

Levin, Martin

Levin, Meyer

Levine, Emily (Yates's granddaughter)

Levine, Richard (Yates's son-in-law)

Levine, Sonia (Yates's granddaughter)

Levittown, N.Y.

Lewis, Richard (actor)

Lewis, Richard (producer)

Lewis, Sinclair

“Liars in Love”

characters and plot

Liars in Love

reviews of

sales

Library Journal

Lion's Head (New York City)

Lish, Gordon

Little, Brown

Little, Colonel Roger

London

pubs of, Yates in

Yates alone in

Los Angeles

Yates in

Yates's apartment in

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

Los Angeles Times

Louis, Joe, Dookie's bust of

Lowell, Robert

Lowens, Jody

Lynn (a Yates girlfriend)

Lyons, Gene

Macaulay, Jeff

MacDowell colony

Magee, John

Mahopac, N.Y., Yateses in

Mailer, Norman

Malamud, Bernard

manic depression (bipolar disorder)

Mansfield, Katherine