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Authors: Saul Bellow

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Israel
 
Italy
 
 
James, Henry
 
Japan
 
“The Jefferson Lectures” excerpt
 
Jerusalem
 
Jesus
 
Jewish People’s Committee
 
Jewishness
 
American society and
 
Bellow’s
 
Bellow’s critique of Stanley Elkin and
 
in Cynthia Ozick’s
Messiah of Stockholm
 
discussions with Leon Wieseltier
 
fellow writers and
 
the Holocaust and
 
as “marketable,”
 
as theme in Bellow’s writing
 
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
 
Johnson, Lyndon
 
Johnson, Samuel
 
journalism
 
journalists
 
Joyce, James
 
 
Kamlani, Beena
 
Kaplan, Harold (“Kappy”)
 
Kaplan, Justin
 
Kaplan, Roger
 
Karlen, Arno
 
Kauffman, Charles
 
Kauffman, Jane (sister)
 
Kauffman, Lawrence
 
Kaufman, Abe
 
Kazin, Alfred
 
discussion of mutual friends
 
discussions about writing
 
discussions of family
 
friendship with
 
invitation to Tivoli house
 
memoir-essay on Bellow
 
opinion of Bellow’s early writing
 
remarks on Bard College to
 
remarks on Paris to
 
review of
Seize the Day
 
Kazin, Ann (Birstein)
 
Kennedy, Eugene C.
 
Kennedy, John F.
 
Kennedy, Robert
 
Kennedy, William
 
Kenner, Hugh
 
Kenyon Review
 
Kerrigan, Anthony
 
Kibbutz S’dot Yam
 
Kiepenheuer & Witsch
 
Kiernan, Frances
 
Kirchner, Leon
 
Kleinbard, Jonathan
 
Klonsky, Milton
 
knowing one’s mind
 
Koch, Sigmund
 
Koestler, Arthur
 
Kołakowski, Leszek
 
Kollek, Teddy
 
Konstantinovski, Ilya
 
Kopit, Arthur
 
Korean War
 
Krim, Seymour
 
 
Landau, Bananas
 
Landau, Bernice Meyer
 
Landes, Arlette
 
Lang, Jack
 
Lapp, Rudy
 
Lasco, Louis
 
friendship with
 
illness of
 
Lasky, Melvin
 
The Last Analysis
(play)
 
Laughlin, James
 
Lawrence, D. H.
 
laziness
 
Leggett, John
 
Lehmann, John
 
leisure
 
Leites, Nathan
 
Leninism
 
Lennon, John
 
Les Justes
(play)
 
letter to Evelyn
 
letters
 
apologies for not writing
 
difficulty of writing
 
gratefulness for letters from friends
 
value of
 
Levi, Primo
 
Lewis, Sinclair
 
Lieber, Maxim
 
The Life of John Berryman
(Haffenden)
 
light as literary theme
 
Lily
(opera based on
Henderson the Rain King)
 
Linder, Erich
 
Lindley, Denver
 
literature
 
“literary culture,”
 
“literary loyalty,”
 
love of
 
merit of written vs. constructed portions of novels
 
polemical
 
teaching of
 
living abroad
 
loneliness
 
“Looking for Mr. Green” (story)
 
Lourie, Richard
 
love
 
Bellow’s thoughts on
 
feeling unloved by Anita
 
feminine beliefs about
 
for friends
 
as salvation
 
as theme of
Herzog
 
women’s ability to make distinctions about
 
Love and Death in the American Novel
(Fiedler)
 
“low seriousness,”
 
Lowell, Robert
 
Ludwig, Jack
 
 
Maccoby, Hyam
 
Macdonald, Dwight
 
MacKenzie, Rachel
 
madness as theme in Bellow’s writing
 
Mailer, Norman
 
Malamud, Ann
 
Malamud, Bernard
 
Bellow discusses
Augie March
with
 
Bellow discusses
God’s Grace
 
Bellow on writers’ organizations
 
Bellow praises
Dubin’s Lives
 
Bellow praises
The Natural
 
Bellow’s eulogy of
 
Bellow’s Guggenheim recommendations for
 
Bellow’s opinion of
A New Life
 
Malraux, André
 
Manea, Norman
 
Mangan, John Joseph Sherry
 
Manheim, Mary
 
Markels, Bobby
 
marketing of Bellow’s writing
 
marriage
 
as business alliance
 
divorce from Alexandra
 
effect on friendships
 
quarrels with Anita Goshkin
 
thoughts on
 
Marshall, John
 
Martin, Jack
 
Marxism
 
Maschler, Tom
 
Mastroianni, Marcello
 
materialism
 
mature and perfected form of self
 
Maxwell, William
 
McCarthy, Mary
 
McCloskey, Herbert
 
discussions of jobs and writing
 
friendship with
 
mentioned
 
visits with
 
McCloskey, Mitzie
 
McCormick, John
 
McGehee, Ed
 
Meade, Marion
 
meaning in art
 
Medal of Freedom
 
meditation
 
megalomania
 
Memoirs of a Bootlegger’s Son
 
Mencken, H. L.
 
Merchant Marine
 
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
 
The Messiah of Stockholm
(Ozick)
 
metamorphosis, personal
 
Milano, Paolo
 
Miller, Arthur
 
Miller, Henry
 
Miller, Letizia Ciotti
 
Miller, Ruth
 
Mills, Margaret
 
mining deal in Africa
 
misery and human life
 
The Misfits
(movie)
 
misology
 
Mitchell, Stephen
 
Mitgang, Herbert
 
moderation
 
modernism
 
Moe, Henry Allen
 
money
 
divorce from Anita and
 
early book sales
 
enjoyment of
 
Ford Foundation grant
 
need for
 
settlement payment to Susan Glassman Bellow
 
writing for money
 
Monk, Sam
 
Monroe, Marilyn
 
Montreal
 
Moody Lectures
 
moral life
 
Morante, Elsa
 
More Die of Heartbreak
(Bellow)
 
Morris, Wright
 
Mosby’s Memoirs and Other Stories
(Bellow)
 
Mostel, Zero
 
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
 
“Mr. Green” (story)
 
Mr. Sammler’s Planet
(Bellow)
 
Murdoch, Iris
 
music
 
 
Nabokov, Nicolas
 
Naipaul, V. S.
 
Naked Lunch
(Burroughs)
 
National Book Award
 
The Natural
(Malamud)
 
natural-resource protection
 
naturalism in writing
 
Nature-intimacy
 
Nef, Evelyn
 
Nef, John U.
 
negative capability
 
Nelson, Benjamin

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