on PR’s health issues, 489–91, 517, 531, 558

  PR’s rebuttal to, 755–57

  on PR’s relationship with Anna Steiger, 419–23, 455, 533, 552, 597–98

  on PR’s separation proposal, 560

  on PR’s sexual advances to Felicity, 500, 502, 598–99

  publicity for, 593–94, 595–601

  on separation from PR, 563

  Barbara Sproul on, 601

  Updike on, 737–38

  writing of, 570n, 576, 577–78, 592–94

  le Carré, John, 433

  Lechay, Jim, 219

  Lechay, Rose, 219

  Lechter, Gerry, 66

  LeClerc, Paul, 655

  Lee, Hermione, 510–11, 631, 725, 731, 772, 779

  on Deception, 531

  on Nobel Prize, 730

  on “Notes for My Biographer,” 757

  on Operation Shylock, 548

  Paris Review interview with PR, 465–66

  as possible biographer, 748n

  Leggett, Jack, 284

  Lehman, Bette, 230, 792

  Lehman, Stuart, 230–31

  college years, 69, 73

  death of, 792

  on Herman Groffsky, 91n

  on Maxine Groffsky, 92

  Nemesis and, 747

  PR’s childhood friendship with, 55, 63, 67

  PR’s reunions with, 623

  Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher

  on The Anatomy Lesson, 467–68

  on The Breast, 361–62

  on The Counterlife, 483, 485

  on Deception, 531

  on The Ghost Writer, 441–42

  on The Great American Novel, 377

  Limelight and After and, 412

  on Portnoy’s Complaint, 311

  PR’s hostility toward, 441, 480

  Lelchuk, Alan, 327–28, 337, 378, 772n, 792

  American Pastoral and, 586

  The Anatomy Lesson and, 374, 679

  The Breast and, 363

  fiction by, 322, 366, 678

  Howe’s attack on PR and, 373–74, 376

  Norman Mailer and, 366–69

  The Professor of Desire and, 678-79

  PR’s friendship with, 321–24, 357, 678–80

  Leonard, John, 362, 426–27, 442, 540

  Lerner, Eileen, 40

  Lerner, Max, 242

  Let Freedom Ring (Roth and Brand), 49, 759–60

  Lethem, Jonathan, 352n, 730, 806

  “Letter to His Father” (Kafka), 30, 286, 519n

  Letting Go (Roth), 251, 257, 263, 282, 289, 514, 659n, 750

  advance for, 514–15

  cover design, 236

  critical reception of, 226–27, 231–32, 234–35

  on goodness, 164, 232–34

  influences on, 3, 108

  Maggie and, 233

  Maggie in, 233, 390

  Anna Markfield and, 177–78

  Nemesis and, 750

  publication of, 195, 198, 225

  Sandy Roth’s adoptions and, 158

  royalties from, 198, 249, 269–70

  Solotaroff in, 231, 736

  University of Chicago faculty years and, 123–24, 126

  “Whacking Off ” and, 289

  writing process, 181, 188, 200, 202, 204, 216

  Levi, Primo, 486–87, 489, 574, 672

  Levinson, Barry, 784

  Levitas, Michael, 479

  Lévy, Bernard-Henri, 696

  Lewinsky, Monica, 645, 651, 656, 663, 721

  Lewis, Sinclair, 66, 208, 548

  Lewis, Theodore, 223–24

  Li’l Abner, 60, 62

  Lichtenstein, Cynthia, 149–50

  Lichtenstein, Gene, 134, 142, 145, 149, 150, 154

  Liebowitz, Sidney, 564

  Lie Down in Darkness (Styron), 235n

  Liehm, Antonín (Tony), 361, 377, 380

  Life Studies (Lowell), 190

  Limelight and After (Bloom), 407, 408, 411–12, 436–37, 451, 707

  Lindbergh, Charles, 674–75, 690, 691, 692, 693

  Linn-Baker, Mark, 462

  Literární noviny (Literary Journal), 361

  Literary History of England (Baugh), 83, 84, 85, 146

  Littell, Jonathan, 742

  Littlefield, Annette, 77

  “Loan, The” (Malamud), 478

  Lodge, David, 670

  Logan, Joshua, 155

  Lolita (Nabakov), 149, 339

  Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The (Moore), 177, 235n

  Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe), 67, 235n

  Looking Backward (Bellamy), 60

  Lord of the Flies (Golding), 202, 235n

  “Lost Young Intellectual, The” (Howe), 70, 370, 371–72

  Love and Garbage (Klíma), 381, 524

  Love Machine, The (Susann), 318

  Love Medicine (Erdrich), 538

  “Love Trouble Is My Business” (Geng), 438

  Lowell, Robert, 190, 194, 266, 306

  Lowenstein, Robert (Doc), 50–51, 53–54, 604–5, 615, 616n, 617, 624–25, 706

  Lucy, Susan, 770

  Ludwig, Jack, 632

  Lui, Luye, 785

  Lukacs, Georg, 711

  Lurie, Alison, 265, 273, 278, 287–88, 294, 318

  Bellow and, 275-76

  critiques of PR’s work by, 262–63, 268–69, 290n, 429

  dissident assistance and, 384

  PR in fiction of, 680

  on PR’s East Eighty-first Street apartment, 309

  PR’s friendship with, 262–63

  PR’s London studio and, 427

  PR’s Yaddo Artist Medal and, 781

  Lyons, Leonard, 321

  Maas, Jane Brown, 77–78, 443, 760

  Macauley, Red, 86

  MacBird!, 285

  MacDonald, Betsy, 470

  MacDonald, Dwight, 191, 207, 346

  MacGraw, Ali, 320

  MacKenzie, Rachel, 150, 153–54, 167, 168, 439

  MacLeish, Rod, 244

  Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 82, 235n, 339, 402, 542, 612, 656, 749

  Madwoman of Chaillot, The (Giraudoux), 81, 760

  Magic Barrel, The (Malamud), 108, 197, 205

  Mailer, Beverly, 278

  Mailer, Norman, 191, 239, 355, 390, 608, 770, 775, 782

  at Black and White Ball, 278

  Capote on, 318

  death of Plimpton and, 719

  Alice Denham and, 217

  Hemingway and, 334

  Lelchuk and, 366–69

  PR and Maggie’s party for, 144

  PR on, 332, 368–69

  publicity and, 466-67

  Pulitzer Prize, 442

  Vietnam War opposition and, 285

  Andrew Wylie and, 514

  Maitlis, Emily, 805

  Makepeace Experiment, The (Sinyavsky), 657–58

  Making It (Podhoretz), 273

  Malamud, Bernard, 197, 415, 471, 676

  on baseball, 351, 758

  Capote on, 318

  childhood of, 27

  Commentary and, 133

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux and, 396

  The Ghost Writer and, 321, 330, 428, 640

  Goodbye, Columbus and, 139

  humor and, 206n

  “Imagining Jews” and, 475–78

  as inspiration to PR, 107–8

  National Book Award and, 205

  PR’s commemoration of, 479–80

  PR’s competition with, 139, 356

  PR’s recommendation of, 235n

  PR’s teaching and, 202

  on When She Was Good, 281

  “Writing American Fiction” on, 205–8

  Malone, Vincent J., 247, 250–51

  Malone Dies (Beckett), 339

  Maltzman, Ann, 15

  Mandelstam, Osip, 385

  Manea, Cella, 497, 554, 622, 632, 645

  Manea, Norman, 592, 620, 754

  background of, 496

  Bellow and, 632, 635–36

  Ross Miller’s biography and, 725

  move to America, 496–98

  PR’s burial place and, 800

  PR’s emotional collapse and, 554

  PR’s marriage to Claire Bloom and, 535

  PR’s National Medal of Arts award and, 645

  PR’s visits to Bard College course, 654–58

  Writers from the Other Europe and, 495–96

  Manera, Livia, 770–71

  Manfred, Freya, 652–53

  Mangione, Jerre, 271–72, 342

  Manhattan Transfer (Dos Passos), 97

  Mann, Thomas, 75, 107, 202, 235, 638, 758

  Mannes, Marya, 312

  Mansion, The (Faulkner), 188

  Mantle, Mickey, 786n

  Marcus, Charles, 52n

  Marcus, Dorene, 35, 36, 554, 738–39, 798

  Mario and the Magician (Mann), 75, 202

  Markfield, Anna, 177–78

  Markfield, Wallace, 133, 177–78

  Marlowe, Christopher, 83

  Marquand, John, Jr., 155

  Martin, Mildred, 90, 122, 135, 173, 264, 428, 463, 505, 508, 543, 608

  on Deception, 541

  Patrimony and, 541–42

  PR’s Bucknell College honorary degree and, 443

  PR’s Bucknell graduation and, 89

  PR’s Bucknellian parodies and, 86-88

  PR’s Europe trip and, 146-47

  PR’s 40th birthday party and, 377

  PR’s seminar with, 83–85

  sexism and, 72

  Martinson, Glenn “Red” (Maggie’s father), 116–17, 265, 803

  Martyred, The (Kim), 200

  Marx, Harpo, 324, 343

  Marx Brothers, 310, 546, 765

  Maschler, Tom, 331, 346, 361, 392

  Masin, Seymour “Swede,” 41n, 588, 615–16, 768

  Massey, Raymond, 434

  Maurer, Bob, 75–76, 80, 86, 88–89, 96, 98, 101, 103, 108, 111–12, 122–23, 130, 134–35, 140–41, 144, 148, 150, 160, 167, 195, 215–16, 377, 443

  Maurer, Charlotte, 75–76, 80, 88, 96, 98, 101, 103, 108, 111–12, 122–23, 130, 134–35, 140–41, 144, 148, 150, 160, 167, 195, 215–16, 322, 377, 443, 569

  Maurer, Harry, 725

  May, Karl, 381

  Mayer, Peter, 308, 588

  McCarthy, Brian, 708, 710

  McCarthy, Cormac, 730

  McCarthy, Mary, 262, 345

  McCarthyism, 69, 75–76, 137, 169, 379, 443, 604–5, 640

  McColl, Pat, 77

  McCrindle, Joe, 142, 150

  McCrum, Robert, 781

  McEnerney, Pat, 100, 429

  McGill, Arizona, 99–100

  McGrath, Charles (Chip), 769, 785, 794

  McGregor, Ewan, 784

  McGuane, Thomas, 591

  Meetz, Kathy, 565, 572, 626–27, 646, 647, 649–50

  Megged, Aharon, 243

  Megged, Mattityahu, 243

  Melville, Herman, 266, 378, 591–92, 708

  Menand, Louis, 613

  Mendelsohn, Daniel, 711

  Meravi, S. T., 549

  Merkin, Daphne, 595–96, 769–70

  Messiah of Stockholm, The (Ozick), 386

  Metamorphosis, The (Kafka), 284n, 286, 362, 363, 364

  #MeToo movement, 794–95

  Meyer, Nicholas, 685, 782

  Michaels, Leonard, 333n, 358

  Michener, James, 244

  Midpoint (Updike), 334–35

  Miles, Jack, 430–31, 457, 521, 582, 600–601, 626n, 631, 678, 707, 740, 749, 757

  Miller, Arthur, 60, 229, 357, 384, 481, 631, 708

  Miller, Burt (Maggie’s ex-husband) (pseud.), 116–19, 195, 210–12, 214, 263, 296–97, 299-300, 803–4

  Miller, Helen (pseud.) (Maggie’s daughter), 217–18, 242, 263, 671

  early life of, 118–19

  Carter Hunter and, 298

  later life of, 802–4

  mother’s death and, 298–300

  mother’s divorce negotiations and, 248–49, 250, 296–97

  on mother’s mental state, 295, 297

  PR’s attraction to, 216, 225, 237–38, 587

  PR’s distancing from, 270–71, 294, 671

  PR’s relationship with Maggie and, 210–16, 264–65, 270

  PR’s separation from Maggie and, 225, 230–31

  PR’s support for, 246–47, 248, 264–65, 344–45

  psychoanalysis, 237

  Miller, Henry, 391, 608

  Miller, Jonathan, 306, 437

  Miller, Kermit, 481

  Miller, Rachel, 306

  Miller, Ronald (pseud.) (Maggie’s son), 115–19, 210–14, 230, 248, 263, 298–99, 802–4

  Miller, Ross, 542, 649, 705, 757, 787, 802

  biography of PR, 605–9, 698, 706–8, 709, 724–26, 731–33

  birthday party (2006), 707–8

  The Counterlife and, 481–82, 731

  divorce of, 565, 605

  Barbara Epstein and, 333–34, 706–7, 709

  on Exit Ghost, 727–28

  The Human Stain and, 651

  Library of America edition and, 697–98, 708–10, 713, 732, 793

  PR’s emotional collapse and, 556

  PR’s friendship with, 481–82, 554, 593, 609, 629, 631–32, 707–8

  PR’s health issues and, 673, 688

  PR’s interviews with, 394n, 415n, 651, 687

  PR’s marriage to Claire Bloom and, 535

  PR’s Miller Theater tribute and, 731

  PR’s National Medal of Arts award and, 645

  publication of Leaving a Doll’s House and, 594

  Shop Talk and, 635–36

  Miller, Wentworth, 685n

  Millhouse, 348

  Mills, C. Wright, 137

  Miłosz, Czesław, 316, 385

  Mindel, Joseph, 208

  Minton, Dick, 76, 84, 87

  Mirrors (Warner), 761–62

  Mishkenot Sha’ananim Newsletter, 471

  Miss America pageant, 130, 590–91

  “Missing: My Father” (Adam Bellow), 700

  Mitchell, Herb, 116, 176, 195

  Mitchell, Julian, 245, 474–75, 527

  Mizener, Arthur, 232

  Mlynar, Zdenek, 380

  Moby-Dick (Melville), 378, 591, 733

  “Modest Proposal, A” (Swift), 337–38

  Moe, Henry Allan, 323

  Mogerley, Gordon, 72

  Molloy (Beckett), 339

  Monoson, Peter, 517

  Monroe, Marilyn, 708

  Monson, Lori, 519, 593, 684, 722

  Montaigne, Michel de, 100

  Moore, Brian, 177, 235n, 450

  Moore, Jackie, 177

  Moore, Lorrie, 663

  Morahan, Christopher, 470n

  Morath, Inge, 229, 787

  Morgenthau, Henry, 37

  Morris, Wright, 203

  Morrison, Toni, 629, 729, 778

  Moses, Jeffrey, 631, 797

  Mo Yan, 730

  Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Bellow), 354

  Mrs. Bridge (Connell), 235n

  Mrs. Portnoy’s Retort (Questel), 317

  Mucha, Jirí, 383

  Mudge, Ann, 308, 533

  early relationship with PR, 260–62

  estrangement from PR, 272–73

  Europe trip (1969), 305–7, 474, 527, 608

  later life of, 760–61

  Martha’s Vineyard visits, 276–78, 283

  Ross Miller’s biography and, 608

  My Life as a Man and, 393, 760

  PR’s apartment and, 266, 271

  PR’s breakup with, 307, 324–25

  PR’s hospitalization and, 293

  PR’s last illness and, 798

  steady relationship with PR, 274–75

  suicide attempt, 326–27

  Vietnam War and, 283

  Philip Wylie and, 85n

  Muir, Edwin, 363n

  Muir, Willa, 363n

  Munro, Alice, 753, 777

  Murdock, Russ, 799, 806

  Murphy, Dennis, 596–97

  Murphy, Joe, 511

  Musil, Robert, 638

  Musser, Mal, 87–89

  Myles, Eileen, 769

  My Life as a Man (Roth), 443, 587

  critical reception of, 390–91

  Anne Frank and, 428–29

  Kleinschmidt and, 288, 291–92

  Leaving a Doll’s House on, 755–56

  Maggie and, 121, 150, 162, 163, 230, 252–53, 330–31, 389–90

  as metafiction, 389

  Mudge in, 393, 760

  PR’s attitudes toward women and, 390, 392–94

  PR’s childhood and, 25

  on PR’s mother, 288

  on Sandy Roth’s marriage, 158–59

  on Lucy Warner, 219n, 229

  writing process, 330–31, 475

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 149, 278, 326, 339, 363n

  Nadel, Ira, 754–55, 782

  Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer), 144

  “Name-Day Party, The” (Chekhov adaptation), 413–14

  Namedropping (Elman), 545

  Natural, The (Malamud), 351, 758

  Nemesis (Roth), 770, 772

  chance in, 750–51

  critical reception of, 748–49

  on goodness, 174

  model for “Bucky” Cantor, 41n

  Stuart Lehman and, 55

  narrator of, 749–50

  Betty Powell and, 82

  PR’s funeral and, 800

  research for, 747

  sales, 751

  Weequahic and, 53

  writing process, 745–48

  Neo-Aristotelians, 95–96, 107

  Newark, New Jersey

  gentile communities in, 20

  Goodbye, Columbus on, 171

  historical pain and, 379, 589–90

  Jewish immigrants in, 13–14

  Philip Roth Day, 1–2, 579, 703, 706

  Philip Roth Lecture, 802

  PR’s early writing on, 107

  PR’s Newark Public Library bequest, 801–2

  see also Roth, Philip Milton (PR), childhood of

  New Criticism, 95

  New Deal, 37

  Newhouse, Alana, 777

  New Yorker, The

  Arendt and, 183

  “The Conversion of the Jews” and, 111, 128

  “Defender of the Faith” publication, 150–51, 166–68, 169, 170

  “Eli, the Fanatic” and, 153–54

  fact-checking job offer to PR, 111–12

  Geng and, 438, 512, 618

  The Ghost Writer publication, 438, 439, 442n

  Goodbye, Columbus and, 148, 150

  I Married a Communist excerpt in, 638n

  influence on PR’s style, 76, 98

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

  Charlotte Maurer and, 75, 76, 98

  “Novotny’s Pain” publication, 216, 438

  PR’s essay on Bellow in, 636–38

  PR’s National Book Award and, 189

  Nice Jewish Boy, or A Masochistic Extravaganza, The (unfinished) (Roth), 285–87

  Nice Jewish Boy, The (unpublished play) (Roth), 268–69

  Nichols, Mike, 190, 437

  Night (O’Brien), 433

  Night (Wiesel), 168

  9/11, 672–73

  1957: The Taming of the Id (unpublished play) (Roth), 229–30, 263, 268