Greiss, Philip (PR’s cousin), 61n, 63

  Grimes, Perley, 666

  Grisham, John, 752

  Groffsky, Belle, 91

  Groffsky, Herman, 91

  Groffsky, Irene, 91, 175

  Groffsky, Maxine (Mackie)

  in Goodbye, Columbus, 91, 121, 138, 175, 763

  PR’s late-life connection attempts, 763

  PR’s relationship with, 90–92, 99, 100–101, 121–22, 608

  Groffsky, Paul, 92, 121, 139n

  Guinea Pigs, The (Vaculík), 381, 385

  Gurland, Bob, 420

  Guston, Musa, 329–30, 357

  Guston, Philip, 328–30, 357, 373, 377, 494

  Guttman, Samuel, 237

  Gutwillig, Robert, 207

  Haber, Herb, 93–95, 98, 109, 111, 120, 152

  Hadassah, 29, 169

  Haetzni, Elyakim, 472

  Hage, Victor, 679–80

  Hagopian, Richard, 261

  Haldeman, Bob, 347–49

  Halliday, Lisa

  birth of daughter, 795

  Ross Miller’s biography and, 698

  PR’s health issues and, 758, 796

  PR’s last birthday party (2017) and, 794

  PR’s last illness and, 796

  PR’s retirement and, 782

  PR’s romantic relationship with, 683–84, 689–91, 725–26

  Hamill, Pete, 366

  Hamilton, James, 618

  Hanson, Polly, 321, 461

  Hard Way, The (Williams), 187

  Hardwick, Elizabeth, 485

  Hare, David, 432

  Harel, Israel, 472–73

  Harrington, Roberta, 1

  Harris, Brian, 41n

  Harris, Louis “Bucky,” 41, 751

  Harris, Mark, 351, 536

  Harrison, Bill, 272

  Harrison, Gilbert, 129

  Harrison, Kathryn, 741

  Hart, Kitty Carlisle, 273

  Hartley, Hermine Pepinger, 609

  Havel, Václav, 523

  Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress (Gray), 354

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 266, 651, 728, 738

  Hayes, Harold, 288–90

  Hays, Charlotte, 567

  Hayward, Dougie, 306

  Heatter, Gabriel, 38

  Heim, Michael Henry, 388

  Heiserman, Virginia, 736

  Heller, Joseph, 142, 217, 310, 353

  Heller, Zoë, 596

  Hellman, Lillian, 275, 276, 284, 377

  Hemingway, Ernest, 6, 93–94, 106, 125, 129, 135–36, 153, 334, 360, 378, 621–22, 626n, 655, 748

  Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), 188, 207, 232, 637

  Hendrix, Jimi, 255

  Here’s the Deal (Miller), 605

  Herr, Michael, 617, 631

  Hersey, John, 284

  Hertzberg, Hendrik, 618

  Herzberg, Max J., 51

  Herzog (Bellow), 246, 276, 311, 632, 638–39

  Heyman, Arlene, 330n

  Heyman, Robert (Bob)

  college years, 69, 73

  on Maxine Groffsky, 101

  post–high school retail job, 66

  on PR’s admiration for Wolfe, 67

  PR’s childhood friendship with, 53–56

  reunion (1985), 623-24

  young-adult sexuality and, 68, 624

  Hicks, Granville, 234, 311–12

  Hill, Mrs. James Otto, 48

  Hills, Rust, 145, 160, 166, 202, 365n

  Hinckley, Lois, 652

  Hine, Thomas, 605–6

  Hiss, Alger, 240

  Hitchens, Christopher, 726, 758

  Hoagland, Edward, 304, 634, 736, 768

  Hobbie, Douglas, 538–39, 567, 606

  Hobhouse, Janet, 4-5, 397–98, 463, 528, 539, 800

  Hoffman, Dustin, 269

  Holocaust

  American Jewish experience and, 168, 174, 183, 223–24, 314, 375–76

  Appelfeld’s experience, 473

  A Coffin in Egypt on, 181–83

  Eastern European writers on, 386–87

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

  Kafka and, 365, 382n

  Klíma and, 380

  Manea and, 496

  Operation Shylock on, 547

  The Plot Against America and, 693–94

  PR’s family background and, 12

  Shop Talk and, 671

  war crimes trials, 213, 477, 503

  Holub, Miroslav, 399

  homoeroticism, 134–35

  “Hoo-Boy, Columbus” (Mad magazine), 320

  Horkheimer, Max, 120

  “How Could They Capture My Hero’s Obsession with Anne Frank?” (Roth), 461–62

  Howe, Irving

  in The Anatomy Lesson, 70, 373–74, 376–77

  on Arendt, 183

  dissident assistance and, 384

  on Goodbye, Columbus, 171–72, 371–72

  on Old World Jewish experience, 10, 370

  on Portnoy’s Complaint, 311, 319, 370–76

  PR’s relationship with father and, 70

  Styron on, 719–20

  on Yom Kippur War, 373–74

  How the Other Half Lives (draft title), 587

  see also American Pastoral

  How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie), 75

  Hrabal, Bohumil, 399

  “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu” (Updike), 351, 772n

  Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 95, 107, 667

  Hudson, Judy, 745–46

  Hudson River Bracketed (Wharton), 184–85

  Human Stain, The (Roth)

  acclaim for, 3, 666

  Asher on, 735

  awards for, 666, 712

  Bill Clinton on, 721

  critical reception of, 662–63

  on fantasy of purity, 663–64

  film version, 684–85, 782

  French popularity of, 660

  male friendship in, 631

  Freya Manfred and, 652–53

  passing in, 100, 664–65

  political correctness and, 651–52, 658, 663, 766

  PR’s evolution and, 3

  Sylvia and, 646, 649, 651, 666, 726

  Wikipedia on, 765–66

  writing process, 600, 650–54

  Humbling, The (Roth), 669n, 713n, 746, 788n

  critical reception of, 741

  film version, 783–84

  nominated for Bad Sex in Fiction Award, 742

  Stern on, 740–41

  Susan Rogers and, 742–43

  Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow), 633

  Humes, Harold (Doc), 367

  Humphries, Barry (Dame Edna), 383, 632, 654

  Hunter, Carter, 297–98, 300

  Hurst, Victor, 457, 627

  Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 90, 94, 117

  Huvelle, C. H. (Camille Henry)

  Claire Bloom’s birthday party and, 542

  death of, 628

  PR’s biographical sketch of, 627–28

  PR’s coronary artery disease and, 456–57, 517, 533

  PR’s friendship with, 456, 619, 627

  PR’s relationship with Claire Bloom and, 526

  Huxley, Thomas, 84

  “ ‘I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting’; or, Looking at Kafka” (Roth), 364–65

  Ibsen, Henrik, 418, 434, 455, 493n, 533, 595

  “Imagining Jews” (Roth), 430, 441, 476–78

  I Married a Communist (Roth)

  awards for, 719

  Bellow on, 638–39

  as bildungsroman, 642–43

  Claire Bloom and, 556, 602, 604, 639, 643–44

  Irv Cohen and, 60, 605

  Corwin and, 45

  critical reception of, 640–41

  excerpt published in The New Yorker, 638n

  fact vs. fiction in, 639–41

  Lowenstein and, 51, 605

  Manea’s Bard College course and, 656–58

  on McCarthyism, 604–5, 640

  Ross Miller’s biography and, 607

  politics as mask for personal issues in, 641–42

  PR’s early writing and, 60

  PR’s evolution and, 3

  research for, 641

  Herman and Nina Schneider and, 240

  Anna Steiger and, 420, 602, 640

  writing process, 600, 604–5

  Immoralist, The (Gide), 670

  Immortal Bartfuss, The (Appelfeld), 503

  In Cold Blood (Capote), 318

  Indignation (Roth), 744, 746,

  Bucknell and, 72, 78–79, 87

  critical reception of, 734–35

  film version, 784

  research for, 53

  themes in, 174

  Interracial Council, 47-8

  Into That Darkness (Sereny), 511

  Invisible Man (Ellison), 223

  “Iowa: A Very Far Country Indeed” (Roth), 198

  Isaacson, Walter, 512

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 741

  Israel

  Arab-Israeli conflict, 370, 373–74, 473, 503–5, 545–47

  Baraka on, 681–82

  in The Counterlife, 484

  First Intifada, 503–5

  Operation Shylock on, 545–46, 549

  PR’s visits to, 4, 242–44, 471–74, 503–4

  symposium on American Jewish experience (1968), 242–44

  Jackson, Charles, 111–12

  Jakeš, Miloš, 523

  Jakobson, Barbara, 307, 326–27, 413, 798

  James, Henry, 136, 139, 184

  The Ghost Writer and, 440

  influence on PR, 181

  Letting Go and, 3, 233–34

  Library of America and, 696–97

  PR’s admiration for, 334

  PR’s University of Chicago years and, 94, 96, 133, 135, 137

  James, Sharpe, 1–2, 579

  Jennings, Peter, 308

  Jerk, The, 685n

  Jewboy, The (unfinished) (Roth), 256–57, 258, 335–36

  “Jewish Patient Begins His Analysis, A” (Roth), 288–89

  Johns, Jasper, 354

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 278, 283–85, 345, 449

  Johnson, Nora, 172

  Johnson, Viola, 47

  Joke, The (Kundera), 361, 382

  Jones, James, 334

  Jones, LeRoi, 267–68, 589, 682 see also Baraka, Amiri

  Jones, Malcolm, 734

  Jones, Toby, 68n

  Jong, Erica, 315, 591

  Joplin, Janis, 255

  Jordan’s Stormy Banks (Robertson), 201

  Josephson, Joe, 103, 105

  Journal of the Plague Year, A (Defoe), 749

  Journey into the Whirlwind (Ginzburg), 461

  Journey to the End of the Night (Céline), 511

  Joyce, James, 84, 95–96, 194, 310, 612

  Jungle, The (Sinclair), 60

  Junker, Howard, 309, 310, 317

  “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” (Salinger), 80

  Kafka, Franz, 174, 233, 264, 386, 525, 544

  Bellow and, 108

  The Breast and, 352, 362–64

  Holocaust and, 365, 382n, 672

  The Plot Against America and, 691

  Portnoy’s Complaint and, 286, 303

  The Professor of Desire and, 425–26

  PR’s family and, 30, 58

  PR’s father’s death and, 519n

  PR’s Prague visits and, 359, 523

  PR’s tribute to, 364–65

  Updike and, 284n

  Wagman’s gift to PR and, 343, 513

  Kahan, Herman L., 50, 797

  Kahn, Roger, 41

  Kakutani, Michiko, 412, 467, 588, 672, 776

  on American Pastoral, 611

  on The Dying Animal, 670

  on Everyman, 711

  on Exit Ghost, 726

  on The Human Stain, 663

  on The Humbling, 741

  on I Married a Communist, 640–41

  Limelight and After (Bloom) and, 412

  on Nemesis, 749

  on Operation Shylock, 548

  on Patrimony, 540

  on The Plot Against America, 691

  Pulitzer Prize, 617

  on Rage and Fire (du Plessix Gray), 570

  on Sabbath’s Theater, 584–85

  on Zuckerman Unbound, 450

  Kalish, Emily, 800

  Kallman, Chester, 149

  Kaltenborn, H. V., 38

  Kamoun, Josée, 659–60

  Kaplan, Gladys, 607

  Kaplan, Helene, 436, 464, 569, 609

  Kaplan, Roman, 684

  Karel, William, 770

  Karr, Mary, 798

  Kastner, Rudolf, 182

  Katzenbach, Nicholas, 283–84

  Kauffmann, Stanley, 130

  Kavan, Jan, 400

  Kazin, Alfred, 276, 357, 373, 491, 520, 544, 547, 562, 577, 675, 736

  on “Defender of the Faith,” 170

  on The Facts, 509–10

  on Goodbye, Columbus, 170, 172

  on Jewish fiction, 168

  Loyola University symposium and, 221

  on Arthur Miller, 357

  on Patrimony, 32

  on Portnoy’s Complaint, 26, 108, 287, 311–14

  on PR’s commemoration of Malamud, 479

  PR’s friendship with, 620–21, 787

  PR’s writing process and, 180

  on David Rieff, 452

  Keeley, Edmund (Mike), 235, 296, 331

  Keeley, Mary, 331

  Ken (short-lived magazine), 166

  Kennedy, Edward, 348, 619

  Kennedy, Jackie, 273–74, 276–77

  Kennedy, John F., 142, 245

  Kennedy, Robert, 94, 277, 283

  Kent, Cheryl, 606

  Kermode, Frank, 2, 585–86, 710, 735

  Kerr, Jean, 273

  Kerr, Walter, 273

  Kid from Tomkinsville, The (Tunis), 612–13

  Kidman, Nicole, 684–86, 783

  Kierkegaard, Søren, 160, 411, 782, 790

  Kiess, Susie, 84

  Kim, Penelope, 200

  Kim, Richard, 199–200

  Kindly Ones, The (Littell), 742

  “Kind of Person I Am, The” (Roth), 150

  King, B. B., 255

  Kingdon, Frank, 48

  Kingsley, Ben, 783

  Kissinger, Henry, 228, 329, 354–55

  Kitaj, R. B., 493–94

  Klein, Arthur, 353

  Kleinschmidt, Hans J., 235, 255, 257, 275, 285, 288, 409

  “The Angry Act,” 23, 25, 228, 241, 290–92

  background of, 227–28

  East Eighty-first Street apartment and, 309

  Fox and, 304

  Gopnik on, 24, 228–29

  gossip and, 228–29

  Ross Miller’s biography and, 607

  PR’s breakup with Ann Mudge and, 325–26

  PR’s breakup with Barbara Sproul and, 395

  PR’s divorce negotiations with Maggie and, 238–39, 247, 251

  PR’s health issues and, 293, 488

  on PR’s mother, 23–25, 227, 288

  on Barbara Sproul, 308, 328

  urine-fraud story and, 228

  Klíma, Ivan, 619, 752

  Ad Hoc Fund and, 384, 399, 400

  background of, 380–81

  Kafka and, 426

  Kundera and, 524–25

  Literární noviny and, 361

  in The Prague Orgy, 470

  PR’s interview of, 523–25

  in Shop Talk, 672

  Klímová, Rita, 380, 752

  Kling, Samuel G., 272

  Klinghoffer, Larry, 101

  Klopfer, Donald, 197–98

  Knipper, Olga, 435, 455, 551, 592, 607

  Knowlton, Winthrop, 763

  Koenig, Rhoda, 510, 540

  Kome, Jane, 126

  Kondrysova, Eva, 360

  Korda, Michael, 515, 544

  Kosinski, Jerzy, 383–85

  Koufax, Sandy, 786n

  Kramer, Hilton, 329

  Kransdorf, Jerry, 436

  Krauss, Nicole, 746, 757, 770, 780, 794

  Krieger, Karl, 518, 739

  Kristallnacht (1938), 37, 674, 692

  Krohn, Barbara, 170

  Krohn, David, 170

  Kuhn, Julius, 38

  Kundera, Milan, 360, 659, 736, 745

  Aaron Asher and, 189

  conflict with PR, 523–25

  dissident experience and, 380n

  Literární noviny and, 361

  in The Prague Orgy, 470

  PR’s friendship with, 381–82, 456, 523–25

  PR’s teaching and, 340

  Anna Steiger and, 456

  Writers from the Other Europe and, 4, 385, 387–88, 524

  Kundera, Vera, 381–82, 736, 745

  Kuvin, Sandy (PR’s cousin), 89, 439, 747

  LaBute, Neil, 769

  Ladies and Gentlemen—-Lenny Bruce!! (Goldman), 255

  Laing, Alexander, 188n

  Lambert, Josh, 777

  Lapidus, Bob, 41

  Lardner, Ring, 66

  Larkin, Philip, 671–72, 729

  Larner, Jeremy, 172–73

  Larsen, Inga (pseud.), 535, 543, 559, 561, 608

  alcoholism recovery, 542

  divorce of, 564–65

  Francine du Plessix Gray and, 455, 567

  health issues, and, 457, 458, 557

  Leaving a Doll’s House on, 415–16, 564–65, 754–56

  PR’s breakup with, 572–74

  PR’s conflicts with Claire Bloom and, 526, 551–52, 553, 556, 558

  PR’s health issues and, 457, 458, 553

  PR’s psychiatric hospitalization and, 557, 558

  Sabbath’s Theater and, 415-16, 565–66, 573, 592

  sexuality and, 417, 565

  writing of Leaving a Doll’s House and, 592

  Laughable Loves (Kundera), 382, 385

  “Laureate of the New Class” (Podhoretz), 371

  Lavare, Ruth, 86

  Leader, Zachary, 632

  Leaf, June, 144

  Leaving a Doll’s House (Bloom), 435, 455, 627n

  Claire Bloom’s anti-Semitism and, 436–37

  Bloom’s Dateline NBC appearance, 596–98

  on Bloom’s early life, 407–8

  on Bloom’s early relationship with PR, 410–12

  on Bloom’s marriage to PR, 533–35

  on Bloom’s relationship with Anna Steiger, 414, 418–23, 456, 551

  on conflicts with PR, 456, 528–30, 552, 558, 560–61

  critical reception of, 595–96

  on divorce negotiations, 568–69, 575

  fact vs. fiction in PR’s writing and, 4

  on father figures, 594–95

  ghostwriting and, 570n, 642, 706–7

  The Human Stain and, 651

  impact on PR of, 594, 600–602, 624, 679

  influence on academia, 754–55

  on Inga Larsen, 415–16, 564, 756

  libel and, 597, 598–600

  Man Booker International Prize and, 754

  Ross Miller’s biography and, 605–8, 698, 706–7

  on mother’s death, 458–60

  on PR’s alleged psychiatric illness, 598, 599, 733

  PR’s contemplated defamation lawsuit, 597–600

  on PR’s emotional collapse, 554, 558

  PR’s financial assistance to Bloom and, 436