A Tragic Honesty (103 page)

marijuana

Marshall, Burke

Massachusetts General

Matthiessen, Peter

Maurer, Amos Bigelow (Yates's maternal grandfather)

Maurer, Elsa (Yates's aunt)

Maurer, Henry and Julia Ann (Yates's maternal great-grandparents)

Maurer, Ida (Yates's aunt)

Maurer, Love (Yates's aunt)

Maurer, Margaret (Yates's aunt)

Maurer, Mina (Yates's aunt)

Maurer, Rufus (Yates's uncle)

Maurer, Ruth Walden “Dookie” (Yates's mother)

called an “art bum”

character of, as seen by Yates

death of

drinking habit

early life

family background of

final illness

as grandmother

job at City Center

jobs of convenience

marriage of, to Vincent Yates

men friends

mental instability of

money problems

physical unpleasantness of

resents Sheila

sculpture career

social aspirations

study in Paris

unconventional life of

Who's Who
entry

Yates's disparagement of

Yates's financial support of

Yates's love/hate attitude toward

Maurer sisters

their ostracism of Dookie

McCall, Monica

becomes Yates's agent

career advice to Yates

encounters Yates in midst of breakdown

helps find screenwriting jobs for Yates

retires and moves to Canada, death of

takes Monica Yates as client

McCarthy, Eugene

McClusky, Mary Jo

McGuane, Thomas

McGuire, Noreen

McInturff, Donn C.

McPherson, James Alan

Melville, Herman

Metz, Lisa

Metz, Robin

Meyer, Lynn

Michals, Duane

Milch, David

Miller, Arthur

Miller, Jill

Miller, Penny

Milton, Vermont

“The Misfits” (lost story)

Mitgang, Herbert

Modern Language Association

Modern Library

Mohbat, Joseph

Mohbat, Nancy

Mojtabai, A. G.

Moore, Brian

Moore, Marianne

Moral Rearmament movement

Morrison, Toni

Mortimer, Penelope

Moses, Jennifer

Mosher, Howard Frank

Motherwell, Robert

Moulding, Murray

movies

going to the, to kill time

malignancy of, in Yates's opinion

Moynahan, Julian

Munro, Alice

Murray, William

Nabokov, Vladimir

Najarian, Peter

The Nation

National Arts Council

National Association of Women Artists

National Book Award

National Book Critics' Circle Award

National Council on the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts fellowship

National Institute of Arts and Letters

“A Natural Girl”

characters and plot

Nazimova, Alla

New American Writing

New Republic

New School for Social Research

Newsweek

New Voices

New World Writing

New York City

accent and mannerisms of secretaries of

Yates's disillusion with

Yates's love of

The New Yorker

rejects Yates's stories

reviews Yates's work

Ruth Yates a fan of

Yates a fan of

Yates's ambition to be published in

New York Herald Tribune

New York Review of Books

New York Sun
, Yates's work on

New York Times

Yates's obituary in

New York Times Book Review

Nickerson, Mary

“No Pain Whatsoever”

Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences

Norris, Frank

Norris, Joan

Northern Dispensary (New York City)

Northport VA Hospital

Nowell, Elizabeth

Nugget

“Nuptials”

Oakley, Annie

Oates, Joyce Carol

objective correlative

O'Brien, Tim

O'Connor, Flannery

Offit, Sidney

“Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired”

characters and plot

O'Hara, John

O. Henry

O. Henry Award

O'Malley, Peter

O'Nan, Stewart

O'Neal, Patrick

“The Ordeal of Vincent Sabella”

Ordway, Gilman

Orwell, George

“Out with the Old”

Owens, Marjorie

Owens, Warren

Pageant

Paley, Grace

Paris

Dookie and Yates live in

the Yateses in

Paris Review

Parker, Dorothy

Parker, Dot

Parker, Robert Andrew (Bob)

“A Clef” essay

Parrish, Tim

Pei, Lowry

PEN

Pen and Brush

Penner, Jonathan

Percy, Walker

96 Perry Street

“Personal Record of Illness”

Pesci, Joe

Pete's Tavern

Phillips, Frances

Phillips, Jayne Anne

Pierce, Mrs.

Pine, J. C.

“Pinner and Shirley” (alter egos)

Plath, Sylvia

Plimpton, David

Plimpton, George

Ploughshares

Pocket Books

Podhoretz, Norman

Pomerance, Ruth

Porter, Katherine Anne

Portis, Charles

Powers, Gershom

Pratt, Davis

Pratt, Hugh

Preece, W. E.

Prescott, Orville

Prescott, Peter

Prettyman, E. Barrett, Jr.

Price, Richard

Pritchard, William

Publisher's Weekly

Putnam County Playhouse

Pynchon, Thomas

Rackstraw, Loree Wilson.
See
Wilson, Loree

Ragan, James

Rambach, Peggy

Ramsey, Gordon, history of Avon school

Random House

“A Really Good Jazz Piano”

characters and plot

Reardon, Bill

Redding, Conn., Yateses in

“Regards at Home”

characters and plot

Remington Rand

Republican Party

Revolutionary Road

characters and plot

fame of

film adaptation attempts

publication of

readers' responses to

reprints

reviews of

title of, choosing

writing of

Richards, Gail

Riche, Robert

Ricker, Bruce

Riddle, Mr.

Riddle, Mrs. Theodate Pope

Rivers, Larry

Robison, Mary

Rockefeller, Nelson

Rockefeller, Winthrop

Rockefeller grant

Rodgers, Fred (Yates's brother-in-law)

loutishness of

marriage

Rodgers, Fred, Jr. (Yates's nephew)

Rodgers, Frederick “Fritz” (Ruth Yates's father-in-law)

Rodgers, Louise (Ruth Yates's mother-in-law)

Rodgers, Louise (Ruth Yates's sister-in-law)

Rodgers, Peter (Yates's nephew)

Rodgers, Ruth (“Dodo”) (Yates's niece)

Rodgers family

Roger Williams College

Rollin, Betty

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Dookie's bust of

Rosen, Ken

Rosenberg, Dr.

Rosenthal, Jack

Rosenthal, Jean

Rossner, Judith

Roth, Arthur

Roth, Philip

Roth, Ruth

Rubin, Dr. Robert T.

Ruddy, Albert

Rudin, Scott

Rudnak, Theo

Rukeyser, Muriel

Russell, Franklin

Russo, Richard

Rutgers University

Ruth, Patsy

St. Vincent's Hospital (New York City)

St. Vincent's Hospital (Staten Island)

Salassi, Booghie

Salem, N.Y.

Salinger, J. D.

Salinger, Steve

San Francisco Chronicle

San Remo (New York City)

Saturday Evening Post

Saturday Review

“Saying Goodbye to Sally”

characters and plot

Scarborough Country Day School

Scarborough-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Scarsdale, N.Y.

“Schedule” (early story)

characters and plot

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.

Schrader, Paul

Schulman, Grace

begins friendship with Yates

photographs Yates

recalls friendship with Yates

rejects friendship with Yates

Schulman, Jerry

Schwertley, Suzanne

Scientific American

Scribner, Charles

Scribner's

Sears, Wendy

Sebastiani, Maria

Seidman, Hugh

Seinfeld
episode

27 Seventh Avenue South (New York City)

shabby-genteel

Shafer, Virginia

Shapiro, Brian

Shapiro, Harvey

“Shepherd's Pie on Payday” (lost story)

Sherin, Ed

Shokoff, Jim

Short Story 1

Sielenski, Ron

Sinats, Andrew

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Skow, John

Solotaroff, Theodore

“Some Very Good Masters” (essay)

Sorenson, Theodore

A Special Providence

characters and plot

publication

reprints

reviews of

sales

writing of

Spector, R. D.

Speer, Dr.

Speer, Martha (Yates's second wife)

has baby

marries Yates

meets Yates

new life

present life

remarriage of

separates from Yates

Yates's dependence on

Stabler, Brooke

Stafford, Jean

Stanley, David James

Starbuck, George

Starbuck, Kathy

State Hospital (Staten Island)

Staten Island, Yates in

Stegner, Wallace

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Stewart, Jim

Stewart, Jo

Stone, Robert

Stone Coast Conference

Stonehill, Brian

Stories for the Sixties
(edited by Yates)

Streitfeld, David

Stuart, Malcolm

Styron, William

Lie Down in Darkness,
Yates's film script for

Sullivan, Richard

Suzie (Wendy Sears's roommate)

Swank

Sweetheart (cat)

Systems

Talese, Gay

Taylor, Peter

Tennenbaum, Sylvia

“Thieves”

Thomas, Dylan

Thompson, John

Thomson, Chad (Gina's husband-to-be)

Thon, Melanie Rae

Tiffany, Louis Comfort

Time

The Times
(London)

“To Be a Hero”

Todd, Richard

Tolstoy, Leo

Tommie (a Yates girlfriend)

Towers, Robert

Trade Union Courier

Transatlantic Review

“Trying Out for the Race”

characters and plot

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Yates in

Twenty-sixth off Fifth Avenue apartment (New York City)

UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute

Ultima Optical Company

Uncertain Times

characters and plot

unfinished and unpublishable condition of

writing of

United Artists

United Press

UNIVAC computer

University of Alabama

University of Arkansas

University of Denver

Updike, John

USC Masters of Professional Writing

Ustinov, Peter

Van Cleve, Jill

Vandenburg, Jack

Vanderbilt, Gloria

Vanderlip, Frank A.

Vanderlip, Mrs. Frank A.

Van Doren, Charles

Van Dyck, Anthony

Van Nordan, Pierre

Venant, Elizabeth

Veterans
(book project)

Veterans Administration

Vevers, Elspeth

Vevers, Pamela

Vevers, Tony

Victoria (a Yates girlfriend)

Vietnam War

Vintage

Virginia, Yates's visits to

Vonnegut, Kurt

admired by Yates

blurbs for Yates's books

encounters Yates in midst of breakdown

eulogy for Yates

helps Yates

Wagner, Richard

Wakefield, Dan

Walcott, Sandra

Wald, Jerry

Walden, Fannie Hatch (Yates's maternal grandmother)

Wallace, Henry

Wallant, Edward Lewis

Wallin, Luke

Walter, John

war, trauma of

Ward, Bill

Ward's Island Psychiatric Hospital

Warnke, F. J.

Warren, Robert Penn

Washington Post

62 Washington Square (“Genius Row”) (New York City)

Waugh, Evelyn

Weeks, Edward

Weesner, Ted

Weidman, Jerome

Weihe, Edwin

Weiner, Jack B.

Weiss, Theodore

Wellman, Rosalind

Wesley, John

Wesleyan Writers' Conference

WestBeth

Westchester, Yateses in

Westchester Workshop

Western Review

West Twelfth Street (New York City)

White, David Omar

White, E. B.

Whitehead, Jim

White Plains, N.Y.

Wichita State University

Wiedeman, Dr.

Wier, Allen

Wiest, Dianne

Wilbur, Ellen

Wilbur, Richard

William Morrow (publisher)

Williams, Galen

Williams, John A.

Williams, Miller

Williams, Tennessee

Willingham, Calder

Wilson, Edmund

Wilson, Loree

Wilson, Robert

Wilson, Sloan,
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Winesburg, Ohio

Winged Beaver
school yearbook