American Jewish experience in, 104, 151–52, 154

  anti-Semitism accusations and, 167–70, 181

  Broadway adaptation of, 344

  “Eli, the Fanatic” and, 153

  Esquire’s rejection of, 166

  on goodness, 164

  PR’s estimation of, 150

  PR’s military service and, 104, 151–52

  publication of, 150–51, 154, 166–67

  Defoe, Daniel, 749

  DeLillo, Don, 2, 334, 537–38, 550, 616-17, 772, 800

  Del Tredici, David, 401

  Demjanjuk, John, 503, 547

  Dench, Judi, 432

  Denham, Alice, 217, 218, 250, 323

  Denholtz, Dick, 74

  Denney, Reuel, 120

  Denney, Ruth, 120

  Dewey, Thomas, 61

  Diary of Anne Frank, The, 168, 428–29, 431–32, 440

  Dickens, Charles, 139n, 209, 600

  Dickstein, Morris, 390–91, 392, 393, 425

  Dillon, Joan, 142

  Dillon, Melinda, 269

  Dinesen, Isak, 463

  Dirda, Michael, 670

  Disner, Bernard, 19

  Dissent, 370, 375

  dissident assistance. See Eastern European dissidents, PR’s support for

  Distracted and Unblessed (Roth) (unfinished), 181

  Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 83

  Doerflinger, William, 98

  Doll’s House, A (Ibsen), 434, 595

  Donadio, Candida

  becomes PR’s agent, 142

  Esquire and, 289, 290

  Goodbye, Columbus and, 149, 189, 197

  Portnoy’s Complaint and, 303

  PR’s dissatisfaction with Random House and, 282, 293n, 304–5

  PR’s firing of, 353

  PR’s move to Random House and, 197–98

  Random House and, 293n

  Donato, Pietro di, 222

  Dongala, Emmanuel, 619–20, 645

  Donne, John, 100, 146

  Donovan, Laurie Geisler, 342, 403, 597

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 108, 126, 136, 337, 748

  Douglas, Kirk, 172

  Doyle, Clyde, 604

  Dreiser, Theodore, 6, 66, 120, 537, 548

  Dr. Huvelle: A Biographical Sketch (Roth), 627–28

  Drowned and the Saved, The (Levi), 489

  Drucker, Mort, 320

  Drury, Allen, 188, 191, 204

  Dunford, Judith, 544, 562, 577, 620–21, 675

  Durante, Jimmy, 442, 484, 727

  Dutchman (Jones), 267–68, 682

  Dying Animal, The (Roth)

  Jonathan Brent and, 630

  critical reception of, 670–71

  film version (Elegy), 782–83

  Huvelle and, 628

  Margot and, 654–55

  reading guide for, 697

  on sexual revolution, 670–71

  Stern on, 676

  translations of, 660

  Dylan, Bob, 778

  Eastern European dissidents, PR’s support for

  Ad Hoc Fund, 383–85, 399, 774

  Formations and, 629

  initial introductions, 361, 380–83

  Klíma, 380-81, 399–400, 523–25

  Kundera, 4, 381–82, 523–25

  Manea, 495–98

  PEN American Center Literary Service

  Award and, 385, 774

  Stoppard and, 419

  Vaculík, 4, 381

  Velvet Revolution and, 523

  Writers from the Other Europe, 4, 385–87, 388, 495, 524, 729

  Eckstine, Billy, 20, 68

  Ecstatic Nation (Wineapple), 785

  Edice Petlice, 381

  Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, The (Rosten), 168

  Egg and I, The (MacDonald), 470

  Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt), 183, 438

  Eisen, Arnold, 174, 776

  Eisenberg, Deborah, 800

  Eisenberg, Lee, 530

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 76–77, 106, 129, 167, 205, 259, 347, 583, 696

  “Eli, the Fanatic” (Roth), 152–54, 164, 166, 168, 173–74, 344

  Elkins, Hillard (Hilly), 409, 415, 417, 418–19, 436, 551, 595, 639, 756

  Ellenstein, Meyer, 47, 440

  Elliott, George P., 200–201, 252, 345, 393

  Elliott, Mary Emma, 200–201, 393

  Ellison, Ralph, 203, 222, 223

  Ellmann, Richard, 190, 545

  Elman, Richard, 545

  Elon, Amos, 471–73

  End of Obscenity, The (Rembar), 369

  Engdahl, Horace, 730

  Englander, Nathan, 730, 800

  Engle, Paul, 196, 201

  Ennis, Jean, 314

  Epstein, Barbara, 255, 333, 409, 593–94, 618, 621, 706–7, 761

  Epstein, Jason, 255, 304, 309, 353

  Epstein, Joseph, 468

  “Epstein” (Roth), 143–44, 150, 166, 344

  Erdrich, Louise, 538, 774

  Erikson, Erik, 804

  Et Cetera, 76–77, 80, 85–88

  Everybody Who Was Anybody (Hobhouse), 397

  Everyman (Roth)

  Bellow’s death and, 699

  critical reception of, 710–11

  generic characters in, 711–12, 741

  Philip Seymour Hoffman and, 68n Ann Mudge and, 307

  PEN/Faulkner Award for, 712

  PR’s health issues in, 294n, 518–19, 711

  reading guide for, 712–13

  Howard Wagman and, 343

  writing process, 701

  Executioner’s Song, The (Mailer), 442

  Exit Ghost (Roth)

  Brigit and, 715

  critical reception of, 726

  Mia Farrow and, 575

  Geng and, 618

  Ross Miller on, 727–28

  Ross Miller’s biography and, 725

  plot of, 726–27

  research for, 722

  Sabbath’s Theater and, 591n

  solitude in, 627

  writing process, 726

  Exodus (Uris), 168, 213, 220, 221, 222

  “Expect the Vandals” (Roth), 134–35, 154

  Facts, The (Roth)

  critical reception of, 26, 509–10

  on literary influences, 80

  on London summer visit (1963), 244n

  on Maggie’s death, 299

  on Maggie Martinson, 118–19, 122, 132, 157, 160–61, 163

  on the Maurers, 75–76

  on Ann Mudge, 260

  on Betty Powell, 89

  on PR’s hospitalization, 294

  on PR’s mother, 24, 26

  Herman Roth in, 56n, 520

  on Herman Roth’s frozen-food business, 56n

  Rushdie on, 522

  sales of, 515

  writing process, 508–9

  on Yeshiva University panel, 222n

  Fagin, Don, 72

  Fall, The (Camus), 670

  Fanning, Dakota, 784

  Farrell, James T., 222

  Farrow, Mia, 573–75, 592, 640, 720-21, 747, 786-88, 800

  Fast, Howard, 60

  Fat City (Gardner), 333n

  Fathers (Gold), 282

  Faulkner, William, 66, 109, 188, 334, 748

  FDR and the Jews (Breitman), 785

  Feiffer, Jules, 249, 255–56, 276, 283, 284, 350

  Felburg, Sunya (PR’s cousin), 28

  “Fence, The” (Roth), 80

  Fiedler, Leslie, 124, 155–56, 171, 191, 203, 242, 243–44

  film versions of PR’s work, 91n, 135, 320, 684–85, 782–84

  Fingerhood, Shirley

  marries PR and Claire Bloom, 535

  Portnoy’s Complaint and, 318–19

  PR’s divorce negotiations with Maggie and, 249, 251, 252, 265, 270, 272, 299, 300n

  PR’s friendship with, 353n

  Finkel, Anita (Honey) (PR’s aunt), 12n, 18, 365

  Finkel, Dora Eisenberg (PR’s grandmother), 10–11, 15, 17, 31, 64

  Finkel, Emanuel (Mickey) (PR’s uncle), 18, 61, 96, 234

  Finkel, Emanuel (PR’s cousin), 16

  Finkel, Joseph (PR’s great-uncle), 16

  Finkel, Julius (PR’s cousin), 16

  Finkel, Marcus (PR’s great-uncle), 12

  Finkel, Michael (PR’s great-uncle), 16

  Finkel, Milly (PR’s aunt), 18, 101, 191, 446–47

  Finkel, Nathan (PR’s great-uncle), 11–12, 15–16, 17

  Finkel, Philip (Farvish) (PR’s grandfather), 10, 11–12, 15, 16, 17, 63

  Finkel Fuel (Elizabeth, New Jersey), 16, 17

  Finkielkraut, Alain, 456, 540, 630–31, 665, 726, 772

  Finneman, George, 31

  First Intifada, 503–5

  Fishwife, The (play) (Roth), 258, 259

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 91, 97, 138, 235n, 262n

  Fixer, The (Malamud), 477–78

  Flaschner Family Association, 32–33

  Flaubert, Gustave

  Bellow and, 108

  on critical responses, 440

  disappearing narrator and, 612, 749

  on fact vs. fiction, 330n, 615–16, 696

  The Great American Novel and, 379

  Howe on, 372–73

  on pitilessness, 279, 282

  Portnoy’s Complaint and, 287–88

  PR’s admiration for, 334

  PR’s teaching and, 136, 339

  on “le vrai,” 120, 448–50, 625, 807

  When She Was Good and, 3, 279, 282

  on writing process, 229

  Zuckerman Unbound and, 448–50

  Focus (Miller), 60

  Foley, Martha, 99, 111, 129

  Fonseca, Caio, 745

  For 2₡ Plain (Golden), 221

  Forcey, Pamela, 294, 295, 297, 300

  Ford, Anne, 170

  Ford, Henry, 674, 692

  Forman, Miloš, 361

  Formations, 629

  Foster, Solomon, 692–93

  Fox, Joe

  Capote and, 277

  controversies over PR’s writing and, 223

  on The Jewboy, 256

  Jackie Kennedy and, 273

  Letting Go and, 225

  Maggie and, 247

  Portnoy’s Complaint and, 289, 303

  PR’s dissatisfaction with, 2, 282–83, 304–5, 452

  on “Whacking Off,” 289

  Fox, Paula, 180n

  Fox, Yolande Betbeze, 590–91

  Frame, Janet, 321

  Franco, James, 769

  Frank, Anne, 168, 428–29, 431–32, 438–41, 461, 587–88, 657, 727

  Frank, Edwin, 791

  Frankfurter, Felix, 37

  Franzen, Jonathan, 672, 770, 778

  Franz Joseph (Austro-Hungarian emperor), 11

  Fraser, Antonia, 435

  Fraser, Janet. See Hobhouse, Janet

  Fraser, Nick, 397–98

  Frazier, Ian, 438

  Free at Last: Why the Jews Discovered America (Miller), 698, 724

  Fremont-Smith, Eliot, 282

  Freud, Sigmund, 183, 228, 237, 241,

  Freudenberger, Nell, 769

  Frey, Albin, 48

  Friday, Nancy, 622

  Fried, Nona, 568

  Friedman, Richard, 721, 797–98

  Frosch, Bill, 556, 575–76, 599

  Frost, Robert, 536

  Fuentes, Carlos, 387–88, 513

  Fuller, Blair, 142–43, 178

  Furies, The (Hobhouse), 4, 397-98

  Fussell, Betty, 236, 242, 296, 298, 300

  Fussell, Paul, 236, 242, 249, 296, 509

  Gabel, Martin, 273

  Gaddis, William, 217

  Gallimard, Claude, 659

  Garbus, Martin, 104, 307–8, 353n, 367–68, 567–68, 800, 805

  Gardner, Ava, 499–500

  Gardner, Herb, 395

  Gardner, John, 362

  Gardner, Leonard, 333n

  Garland, Judy, 309

  Garner, Dwight, 694–95

  Gary, Romain, 387

  Gass, William H., 377–78, 484

  “Gate Receipts and Glory” (Hutchins), 90

  Gates, David, 666, 712, 735

  Geffen, Arthur, 93–94, 96, 109, 110n, 124, 129, 139–40, 297

  Geisler, Laurie, 342, 403, 597

  Gekoski, Rick, 753

  Gelfman, Joan, 62

  Genet, Jean, 255, 339, 386, 511, 528

  Geng, Veronica, 438–39, 512, 607, 618–19, 621, 706

  Gens, Jacob, 181–82

  German American Bund, 38

  Gerwig, Greta, 783–84

  Ghost Writer, The (Roth)

  alternative history in, 365

  Bellow and, 128, 203n, 536, 636n

  Cheever and, 203n

  critical reception of, 440–42

  Exit Ghost and, 726-27

  on Anne Frank, 428–29, 431–32, 438–39, 440, 441, 588

  friends’ critiques of, 439, 633

  on Goodbye, Columbus publication, 172

  Philip and Musa Guston and, 330

  Malamud and, 321, 330, 428, 640

  plot of, 439–40

  PR’s evolution and, 3

  PR’s isolation and, 330, 338

  PR’s Miller Theater tribute and, 731

  Pulitzer Prize rejection, 442, 616

  research for, 428, 588

  sales of, 515

  C. Willard Smith on, 444

  style of, 439

  television adaptation, 461–62

  translations of, 659

  writing process, 387, 428, 431–32, 438–39

  Gibb, Barbara (Bobby) Roemer, 85–88

  Gibberd, Vernon, 149, 157, 164, 272, 297, 306, 330, 337

  Gibson, William, 550

  Gide, André, 670

  Gill, Brendan, 188, 189, 311

  Gingrich, Arnold, 166

  Ginsberg, Allen, 155

  Ginzburg, Eugenia, 461

  Giroux, Robert, 367

  Glaser, Milton, 197, 609–10

  Glassman, Susan, 140–41, 275

  Glick, Sammy, 74

  God: A Biography (Miles), 430

  Gogol, Nikolai, 339, 363

  Goheen, Robert, 236

  Going Places (Michaels), 333n

  Gold, Herbert, 282

  Goldberg, Elaine, 67

  Goldberg, Nelson, 110

  Goldberg, Samuel S., 175

  Golden, Harry, 221, 224

  Golding, William, 202, 235n

  Goldman, Albert, 254–55, 309–10, 319

  Goldstein, Jonah, 37–38

  Goldstein, Julius, 262, 266, 275, 352, 357, 609, 630, 706n

  Golier, Amelia, 764–65, 775, 800

  Golier, Julia

  Book Festival of Aix-en-Provence and, 661

  breakup with PR, 625–26

  Brigit and, 715

  children of, 764–65, 798, 800, 801

  in Exit Ghost, 570

  Ross Miller’s biography and, 609, 706

  PR’s Commandeur de la Légion d’honneur award and, 775

  as PR’s executor, 626, 732

  PR’s grave marker and, 799

  PR’s last illness and, 797

  PR’s National Humanities Medal and, 740n

  PR’s National Medal of Arts award and, 645

  PR’s romantic relationship with, 569–70, 571, 625–26

  publication of Leaving a Doll’s House and, 594, 600

  visits to Warren, Connecticut, house, 593, 625

  Golier, William, 764, 800

  Gombrowicz, Witold, 386, 518

  Goodale, James, 568

  Goodbye, Columbus (Roth) (collection)

  anti-Semitism accusations and, 220–24

  Bellow on, 137, 170–71, 535

  Cheever on, 203

  cover design, 197

  critical reception of, 155, 170–73

  editing of, 154

  Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial

  Award, 220

  National Book Award, 188–89, 190–93, 196, 202, 205, 273

  paperback edition, 189–90

  promotion of, 170

  PR’s estimation of, 172, 174

  PR’s evolution and, 3

  publishing contract, 148–49

  see also “Conversion of the Jews, The”; “Defender of the Faith”; “Eli, the Fanatic”; “Epstein”; Goodbye, Columbus (Roth) (novella); “You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings”

  Goodbye, Columbus (Roth) (novella)

  acclaim for, 3

  American Jewish experience in, 136–37, 138, 139, 170–71, 371

  critical reception of, 170–73, 234

  film version, 91n, 139n, 320, 782–83

  Milly Finkel and, 101

  friends’ critiques of, 429

  Maxine Groffsky and, 91, 121, 138, 175, 763

  Bob Heyman and, 55

  humor in, 139–40

  influences on, 137–38

  Judaism in, 32n

  PR’s college years and, 69

  PR’s estimation of, 150n, 173

  PR’s family background and, 13

  style of, 138–39

  themes of, 137

  translations of, 659

  voice in, 181

  writing process, 136–37, 139, 202

  Goodman, Ed, 293-94

  Goodman, Paul, 137

  Goodwin, Dick, 277

  Gopnik, Adam, 24, 228–29, 769

  Gordimer, Nadine, 710–11

  Gordon, Alice, 576, 722

  Gordon, Max, 27

  Gornick, Vivian, 635

  Gottlieb, Arnie, 62

  Goyim, The (draft title), 263, 372

  see also When She Was Good

  Grausman, Philip, 401, 410, 481

  Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 543

  Gray, Cleve, 354, 357–59, 395, 488, 526, 567, 787

  Gray, Francine du Plessix

  anonymous letter to PR, 563n, 567–68, 570

  Baraka and, 681

  friendship with Claire Bloom, 455, 526, 567, 706–7, 805

  in I Married a Communist, 640

  Julia Golier and, 570

  Leaving a Doll’s House and, 570n, 593, 706–7

  Meetz and, 626

  PR’s animosity toward, 357–59, 455, 566–67, 640, 681, 706–7

  PR’s early friendship with, 357–58

  on PR’s relationship with Claire Bloom, 805

  relationship with husband, 358–59

  Warren, Connecticut, house and, 354

  Great American Novel, The (Roth)

  baseball and, 41, 351–52

  Blair and, 95

  contract for, 353–54

  critical reception of, 377–78, 379, 484

  Library of America edition notes on, 708, 710

  “On the Air” and, 335

  PR’s evolution and, 3

  PR’s funeral and, 800

  PR’s mustache and, 720

  Roth on, 378–79

  translations of, 659

  writing process, 351–52

  Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 91, 97, 123, 138, 235n, 792

  Green, Joe, 43

  Green, Selma, 43

  Greenberg, Martin, 133, 154, 180, 192, 227, 369

  Greenberg, Uri Zvi, 12

  Greenfeld, Josh, 177, 311, 319

  Greenspan, Joan Bressler, 68

  Greiss, Ethel Finkel (PR’s aunt), 18, 63–65

  Greiss, Helene (PR’s cousin), 63–64