Gore Vidal (143 page)

pp. 299
–
300
:
“Serene and working”
: GV/Lehmann, 1/nd/1949. P; “I have such a high”: Lehmann/GV, 1/17/1949. W; “break with John”: Christopher Isherwood/GV, nd/1949. W.

pp. 300
–01:
“as to
The Season”
: GV/Lehmann, 4/11/1949. P; “Did I tell you”: GV/Crocker, 2/nd/1949. W; “Your disease is”: Crocker/GV, 5/17/1949. W; “The mice and”: GV/Lehmann, 4/11/1949. P.

p. 301
:
“I freely admit”
: GV/Lehmann 7/30/1948. P; “wept quietly”:
M
, 71–72.

p. 304
:
“I'd like to talk”
: GV/John Aldridge, 5/1/1948.

pp. 304
–
5
:
“bejewelled epigrams”
: GV/Lehmann, 1/20/1950. P; “Thus do I”: GV/Lehmann, 1/nd/1949. P; “The critics still regard”: GV/Crocker, nd/1948. W.

p. 306
:
“I liked [your lecture]”
: George F. Kneller/GV, 5/2/1949. W.

p. 306
:
“new comets about”
: GV/Lehmann, 9/17/1949. P.

p. 307
:
“Suggest you both”
: Lehmann/GV, 5/18/1949. W; “BOTH ARRIVING”: GV/Lehmann, 5/22/1949. P.

p. 308
:
“She detests London”
: Williams/Windham, 5/8/1949, 241.

pp. 309
:
“examining the literary”
: Bowles,
Without Stopping
, 291; “I have absolutely”: Bowles/GV, 5/18/1949. W; “I must admit”: Bowles/GV, 5/18/1949. W; “Morocco isn't at all”: Bowles/GV, 5/18/1949. W.

p. 310
:
“frozen … nothing to worry about”
: Kelly/GV, 6/3/1949. W; “a lovely journey”: GV/Latouche, 6/nd/1949. C.

p. 310
:
“unofficial … a sort of lighthouse”
: Bowles/GV, 8/13/1949. W.

pp. 311
–
12
:
“he did a little … waving”
: Bowles,
Without Stopping
, 292; “Truman gave”: Bowles/GV, 8/26/1949. W.

pp. 312
–
13
:
“receiving the homage”
:
M
, 130–32; “I was, during”: GV/Lehmann, 9/17/1949. P; “I agree, of course”: GV/Lehmann, 9/17/1949. P.

p. 313
:
“A great deal”
: GV/Lehmann, 11/4/1949. P.

p. 314
:
“All my literary friends … built”
: GV/Crocker, 11/nd/1948. W; “Very intrigued with”: Anaïs Nin/GV, 7/nd/1949. W.

p. 315
:
“I have to sneak”
: John Macrae [signed “old Uncle Jack”]/GV, nd/1959. W; “professional writers”: Virginia Creed/Katherine Everard, 4/8/1950. W.

p. 319
:
“I spent a weekend”
: GV/Lehmann, 11/4/1949. P.

p. 320
:
“the delicately irregular line”
:
GV/1876
, NY: 1976, 239–4.

p. 321
:
“We looked and saw”
:
GV/1876
, 239–44.

p. 322
:
“I think Paul Bowles”
: GV/Lehmann, 9/17/1949. P.

pp. 322
–
23
:
“I still have a mad”
: Bowles/GV, 10/14/1949. W; “on the dock … before me”: Bowles/GV, 12/5/1949. W; “I may also do”: GV/Lehmann, 12/18/1949. P; “She even wants”:
M
, 215.

pp. 323
–
24
:
“Is it true that?”
: Bowles/GV, 1/16/1950. W; “What nonsense”: Bowles/GV, 2/22/1950. W; “You never would have done”: Bowles/GV, 2/22/1950. W; “in a few. days”: GV/Lehmann, 11/4/1949. P; “after writing me”: Williams/Windham, 1/18/1950, 252; “among the husks”: GV/Lehmann, 1/20/1950. P; “I now think that”: GV/Lehmann, 2/5/1950. P.

pp. 324
–
25
:
“I am working”
: GV/Lehmann, 1/20/1950. P; “Vidal has departed”: Williams/Windham, 2/2/1950, 254; “the Endless Quest”: GV/Lehmann, 2/5/1950. P.

p. 325
:
“Haven't seen”
: GV/Lehmann, 2/5/1950. P.

p. 326
:
“Houston is all very”
: GV/Lehmann, 3/14/1950. P; “a piece of total”: GV/Lehmann, 3/14/1950. P.

p. 328
:
“I may do a short”
: GV/Lehmann, 3/14/1950. P; “It's one of the serious”: GV/James Laughlin, nd/1950; “the monster which”: GV/Lehmann, 2/10/1950. P.

p. 329
:
“I've had to learn”
: GV/Lehmann, 3/14/1950. P.

p. 329
–
30
:
“I am designing … prose”
: GV/Lehmann, 4/14/1950. P; “As a matter of fact”: GV, “Pederasty and Mr. Barrett,” unpub. ms., W.

p. 330
:
“in the throes”
: GV/Crocker, 6/nd/1950. W; “This city depresses”: GV/Laughlin, nd/1950; “hardly think of”: GV/Carl Van Vechten, 6/nd/1950. Y.

Chapter Ten

INTERVIEWS: Miles White, 3/25/1998; Howard Austen, 1/17/1996, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Joseph O'Donohue, 5/24/1997; Johnny Nicholson, 7/4/1997; Tommy Auchincloss, 6/8/1995; Joe Ryle, 4/30/1996; Jason Epstein, 3/6/1997; Sam Lurie, 4/1/1996; Romana McEwen, 1/23/1996; Ted Weiss, 3/14/1998; Richard Poirier, 7/1/1996; John Aldridge, 9/16/1996; Vance Bourjaily, 9/11/1995; John Bowen, 1/22/1996; Tina Bourjaily, 10/19/1996; Louis Auchincloss, 10/21/1994; Norman Mailer, 3/15/1996, 3/16/1996, 3/17/1996; George Plimpton, 2/9/1996; Owen Laster, 2/25/1996, 3/5/1996, 3/22/1996; Theresa Baxter, 3/29/1997.

ENDNOTES

pp. 333
–
34
:
“One of those shows”
: GV/John Lehmann, 10/nd/1950. P; “there are no places”: GV/Lehmann, 10/nd/1950. P; “I've bought an 1820”: GV/Lehmann, 8/15/1950. P.

p. 334
:
“Meredithean comedy”
: GV/Lehmann, 10/nd/1950. P; “Life in the mansion”: GV/Pat Crocker, 9/nd/1950. W.

p. 335
:
“My dear Carlo”
: GV/Carl Van Vechten, 9/nd/1950. Y; “I am not a naturalistic … pleasure”: GV/Lehmann, 4/14/1950. P.

p. 336
:
“My place is”
: GV/Lehmann, 9/nd/1950. P.

p. 351
:
“I raced beside him”
:
M, 251
.

pp. 352
–
53
:
“since I plan”
: GV/Theodore Weiss, nd/1953; “three British poets”: GV/Lehmann, nd/1951. P.

p. 353
:
“As for Tennessee”
: GV/Weiss, nd/1953.

p. 354
:
“My life has been”
: GV/Lehmann, 11/23/1951. P.

p. 355
:
“I am in physical”
: GV/Lehmann, 11/23/1951. P; “characteristically … dumb”: Raymond Washburn/GV, 5/11/1951. W.

p. 356
:
“a perfect summer”
: GV/Anaïs Nin, 8/nd/1951. UC; “My mother, her twelve”: GV/Nin, summer/nd/1951. UC.

p. 358
:
“I went to Vermont”
: GV/Nin, 8/nd/1952. UC.

p. 359
:
“Material is being collected”
: GV/Lehmann, 11/23/1951. P.

p. 360
:
“I am going out … best writers”
: GV/Lehmann, 11/23/1951. P; “triumphant, in advance”: GV/Lehmann, nd/1951. P.

p. 361
:
“I have been busy”
: GV/John Aldridge, 5/nd/1952.

pp. 364
–
65
:
“I am in the throes … New York”
: GV/Arabel Porter, 1/nd/1953. Y; “We made our way”:
US
, 449.

p. 367
:
“startlingly excellent”
: GV/F. M. Markoe, nd/1953. Y.

p. 368
:
“satiric queer … sophomoric imitations”
: Jack Kerouac/Allen Ginsberg, 5/18/1952,
Selected Letters, Jack Kerouac, 1940–1956
, ed. Ann Charters, NY: 1995, 357; “recognised him from”: Kerouac,
The Subterraneans
, NY: 1958, 52–53.

p. 369
:
“stared at me”
:
M
, 233.

p. 370
:
“You sneak”
: Inez Salinger/GV, 4/22/1953. W.

p. 371
:
“
worry
about”
: Henry Volkening/GV, 5/14/1948. W; “a good technician … generally”: Audrey Wood/GV, 5/21/1948. W. “I think that rightly”: Wood/GV, 2/21/1950. W.

pp. 371
–
72
:
“Mrs. Goldwyn thought”
: Wood/GV, 5/2/1950. W; “a happy honeymoon … picture”: Wood/GV, 6/21/1950, 7/7/1950. W; “I am trying to buy”: GV/Robert Halsband, nd/1950. W; “it is very difficult”: Wood/GV, 7/18/1952. W.

Chapter Eleven

INTERVIEWS: Martin Manulis, 4/1/1996; Dominick Dunne, 6/19/1996; George Axelrod, 5/8/1997; Howard Austen, 1/17/1996, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Joanne Woodward, 2/8/1996; Paul Newman, 2/8/1996; Don Bachardy, 12/28/1995, 4/3/1996; Elaine Dundy, 3/30/1996; Romana McEwen, 1/23/1996; Joe O'Donohue, 5/24/1997; Conrad Janis, 4/12/1997; Sarah Marshall, 4/16/1997; John Galliher, 4/29/1996; Sally Vidal, 3/28/1996; Oatsie Leiter [Mrs. Robert Charles], 5/14/1997; Louis Auchincloss, 10/21/1994; Nini Auchincloss, 11/28/1994, 7/19/1995.

ENDNOTES

p. 376
:
“You have no idea”
: GV/Kimon Friar, 8/nd/1954. P.

pp. 376
–
77
:
“My own days are”
: GV/Friar, 8/nd/1954. P; “The day after”:
US
, 1157–59.

p. 377
:
“still smiling … think why”
: GV/Helen Harvey, 7/14/1954. W.

p. 379
:
“GET WRITING, PUSS”
: Martin Manulis/GV, 5/30/1955. W; “the role of”: GV, Devil's Theater proposal, unpub. ms. nd, W.

p. 380
:
“Yes, I am television's … gold”
: GV/John Aldridge, 3/nd/1955.

pp. 380
–
81
:
“immense practical problem”
: Felix Jackson/GV, 3/2/1955. W.

pp. 381
–
82
:
“Do you realize”
: GV/Aldridge, 3/nd/1955; “The only sad aspect”: GV/Aldridge, 3/nd/1955.

p. 382
:
“that he had just”
:
US
, 387; “if they had their way”:
Isherwood Diaries
, 478.

p. 383
:
“I am at heart”
:
US
, 1157–59.

p. 383
:
“Too much social”
: Ben Gross, “Are Sponsors Lacking in Courage?”
Sunday News
, 6/23/1957. WY.

p. 385
–
86
:
“Dear Gorgeous”
: Cyril Ritchard/GV, 6/28/1955, 7/17/1955. W; “I have been studying”: George Axelrod/GV, 7/24/1955. W.

p. 388
:
“a noble failure”
: GV/Friar, 8/nd/1954. P; “A gift for playwriting”:
US
, 1157–59.

p. 389
:
“though by no means”
: GV/
Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays
, Boston: 1956, 207.

p. 390
:
“My decision, finally”
: GV/
Small Planet
, 209.

p. 391
:
“knew what death”
: Stanton, 134.

p. 392
:
“in working out”
: Jerry Wald/GV, 3/23/1955. W; “he described how”:
Isherwood Diaries
, 518.

p. 392
:
“is Christopher Isherwood”
: GV/John Bowen, summer/nd/1955.

p. 393
:
“I have finished”
: GV/Louis Auchincloss, 9/28/1955.

p. 396
:
“looked at the books … feeling that life … creative joy”
:
Isherwood Diaries
, 533; “I am here doing”: GV/John Lehmann, 12/7/1955. P.

pp. 397
–
98
:
“I think you were”
: Paddy Chayevsky/GV, 2/24/1956. W.

pp. 398
–
99
:
“They definitely want”
: Sam Zimbalist/GV, 1/20/1956. W; “been saving for many”: GV/Manulis, 3/22/1956. W; “GO AHEAD WITH”: Manulis/GV, 4/10/1956. W.

p. 400
:
“I very much enjoyed”
: GV/Tom Driberg, 5/nd/1956. CC.

p. 400
:
“The political world … come down”
: GV/Driberg, 5/nd/1956. CC.

p. 404
:
“He never could”
: Dawn Powell,
Diaries, 1931–1965
, ed. Tim Page, NY: 1955, 361.

p. 404
:
“I have lost”
: GV/Edith Sitwell, summer/nd/1956. T.

p. 405
:
“uninvited return”
: GV/Woods S. Gray, 12/17/1956.

pp. 406
–
7
:
“He was amused”
:
US
, 799–800; “in a bathrobe”:
M
, 10–11; “for a February debut”: GV/Sitwell, summer/nd/1956. T.

p. 409
:
“because it costs”
:
US
, 1163–65.

p. 413
:
“In principle,” Vidal agreed
: GV/Fred Coe, 4/4/1957. W.

p. 413
:
“I shall want to pull out”
: GV/Harold Franklin, 5/3/1957. W.

p. 416
:
“I shall be happy”
: GV/Newton Steers, 4/17/1957. W; “raised high his”:
M
, 17.

Chapter Twelve

INTERVIEWS: Joanne Woodward, 2/8/1996; Paul Newman, 2/8/1996; Claire Bloom, 2/23/1996; Sam Lurie, 4/1/1996; Stan Kaminsky, 4/1/1996; Miles White, 3/25/1988; Elaine Dundy, 3/30/1996; Howard Austen, 1/17/1996, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Don Bachardy, 4/3/1996; John Bowen, 1/22/1996; Norman Mailer, 3/15/1996, 3/16/1996, 3/17/1996; Jason Epstein, 3/6/1997; Barbara [Andy] Dupee, 1/26/1995, 2/7/1995, 3/7/1995, 3/24/1997; Jack Bady, 1/7/1996; Eleanor Rovere, 5/30/1995; Barbara Epstein, 7/15/1995, 7/27/1995; Lyn Austin, 5/1/1998; Saul Bellow, 2/25/1998.

ENDNOTES

p. 418
:
“I am bogged down”
: GV/Woods S. Gray, 7/31/1957.

p. 418
:
“Paul, Joanne and I”
: GV/Gray, 7/31/1957; “extraordinarily funny”:
Isherwood Diaries
, 721.