Janet Hobhouse, 4, 397–98, 463, 528

  Judy Hudson, 745–46

  Jackie Kennedy, 273–74

  Nicole Kidman, 684–86

  Louise, 401–4

  Margot (pseud.), 654–55, 667, 671

  Pat McEnerney, 100, 429

  Arizona McGill, 99-100

  Mona (pseud.), 746–47

  Betty Powell, 81–82, 88–89, 90, 92

  PR’s jealousy, 654

  Susan Rogers, 6, 603, 667–69, 675, 687–89

  sexual advances to Felicity, 500–503, 551, 794

  Ann Sides, 78–79

  Emma Smallwood, 462–63, 494–95, 527, 532n

  Sylvia (pseud.), 646–50, 665–66, 726

  Judith Thurman, 463-64

  Lucy Warner, 219–20, 225

  Kaysie Wimberley (pseud.), 722–24, 744

  see also Larsen, Inga; Mudge, Ann; relationship with Claire Bloom above; relationship with Maggie above; Sproul, Barbara

  Rome sojourn (1959–60), 183–85, 186–93

  Schloss as copyeditor for, 453–54

  self-perceptions of, 3–5

  sexuality and:

  addiction, 417

  Claire Bloom and, 412, 417, 462

  Brigit and, 705

  college years, 77–79, 81–82, 92

  goodness vs. rebellion and, 5, 26, 416–17

  Kafka and, 425–26

  Inga Larsen and, 415–17, 542, 565

  late-life waning of interest, 744–46

  Maggie and, 120–21, 130–31

  male friendships and, 56, 62, 255–56, 323, 403, 631, 720

  masturbation, 24, 255–56, 285, 289, 309, 312, 417

  medication-induced impotence, 457–58, 464

  Ross Miller’s biography and, 608–9

  The Professor of Desire and, 425

  sexual revolution and, 670–71

  Barbara Sproul and, 308, 356

  teaching and, 340–41

  young adulthood, 67–68

  see also romantic/sexual relationships above; sexuality in PR’s fiction

  solitude and, 621–23

  Southeast Asia trip (1969), 331–32

  teaching:

  Bard College, 655–59

  CUNY, 511–13

  Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 201–2

  Princeton, 235

  University of Chicago, 122–23, 136

  University of Pennsylvania, 271, 286, 338–43

  technology and, 585–86, 688, 723, 751–52, 785

  translations of works, 659–61

  travel:

  Europe trip (1958), 135–36, 141, 145, 146–47, 149–50

  Europe trip with Ann Mudge (1968), 305–7, 474

  Europe trip with Barbara Sproul (1972), 359–61

  Israel, 4, 244, 471–74, 503–4

  Prague (1972–75, 1990), 359–60, 380–83, 399–400, 523

  typewriters of, 26, 123, 161, 402, 626n

  University of Chicago years, 93–102, 132–36

  colleagues, 123–24

  dating, 99–100, 131, 140–41

  decision to attend, 89–90

  friendships, 93–95, 124–26

  Maxine Groffsky and, 121–22

  housing, 93

  influences and, 108

  leave of absence (1958), 149

  literature studies, 95–97

  M.A. degree, 100–101

  The New Republic movie review job, 129–30, 133

  New York trip, 142

  post-discharge job search, 111–12

  publishing, 134

  relationship with Maxine Groffsky, 101–2

  relationship with Maggie, 115, 119–21, 126–27, 130–32, 140, 141, 144–45

  teaching, 122–23, 136

  writing, 97–99, 123, 129

  University of Pennsylvania teaching, 271, 286, 338–43

  Vietnam War opposition, 283–85, 614

  West Seventy-seventh Street apartment, 510–11, 568, 622

  Woodstock stay (1969), 328–31

  writing process:

  American Pastoral, 586–89, 593

  The Anatomy Lesson, 463

  The Breast, 352

  The Counterlife, 475

  Deception, 527–28

  early uncertainty, 180–81

  Everyman, 701

  Exit Ghost, 726

  The Facts, 508–9

  Flaubert and, 229

  The Ghost Writer, 387, 428, 438–39

  Goodbye, Columbus, 136–37, 139, 202

  The Great American Novel, 351–52

  The Human Stain, 600, 650–51, 653–54

  I Married a Communist, 600, 604–5

  Letting Go, 181, 188, 200, 202, 204, 216

  My Life as a Man, 330–31

  Nemesis, 745–48

  Operation Shylock, 543

  Our Gang, 337

  Patrimony, 527

  The Plot Against America, 674–75

  Portnoy’s Complaint, 285–90, 300

  The Professor of Desire, 424

  research and, 4–5, 53, 244, 588–91, 641, 701, 722

  Sabbath’s Theater, 559, 562, 583, 585–86

  trust in confusion, 475, 543

  When She Was Good, 262–63, 276

  Yaddo and, 264, 352

  Yaddo residencies, 261–62, 263–64, 265, 300, 321–24, 327, 352, 366

  Works:

  “An Actor’s Life for Me,” 257–58

  “Beyond the Last Rope,” 44

  The Big Money (unfinished), 449n

  Bucknellian parodies, 85–88, 167

  Buried Again (play), 258–59

  “Cambodia: A Modest Proposal,” 332

  “Channel X: Two Plays on the Race

  Conflict,” 266–67

  The Cherry Orchard adaptation, 445–46

  “Civilization and Its Discontents,” 290

  Coffin in Egypt, A (unproduced teleplay), 181–83, 230

  “Contest for Aaron Gold, The,” 98–99, 125, 154

  “Conversion of the Jews, The,” 109–10, 111, 128–29, 135, 186

  “Coronation on Channel Two,” 130

  “Courting Disaster,” 121, 123

  “Day It Snowed, The,” 97–98

  “Defender of the Faith,” 104, 150–52, 166–70

  Distracted and Unblessed (unfinished), 181

  Dr. Huvelle: A Biographical Sketch, 627–28

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

  “Epstein,” 143–44, 150, 166, 344

  “Expect the Vandals,” 134–35, 154

  “Fence, The,” 80

  The Fishwife (play), 258, 259

  The Go-Between (unfinished), 136, 148, 177, 180–81

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

  The Humbling, 669n, 713n, 740–43, 746, 783–84, 788n

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

  “Imagining Jews,” 430, 476–78

  Indignation, 53, 72, 78, 79, 174, 733–35, 744, 784

  “Iowa: A Very Far Country Indeed,” 198

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

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

  Journey into the Whirlwind pilot script, 461

  “The Kind of Person I Am,” 150

  Let Freedom Ring!, 49, 759–60

  Library of America editions, 173, 364n, 470n, 683, 696–98, 708–10, 713, 763, 767

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

  The Nice Jewish Boy, or A Masochistic Extravaganza, 285–87

  The Nice Jewish Boy (play), 268–69

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

  “Notes for My Biographer,” 748, 755–57

  “Notes on a Slander-Monger,” 733

  “Novotny’s Pain,” 110, 111, 216, 439

  “On the Air,” 335–36

  “Open Letter to Wikipedia,” 766–68

  “Philosophy, or Something Like That,” 80

  “Positive Thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue,” 129

  “The President Addresses the Nation,” 350

  “The Psychoanalytic Special,” 257

  Reading Myself and Others, 396, 403

  “Re-Reading Saul Bellow,” 635–38

  Romans et nouvelles 1959–1977, 793

  Romanzi 1959–1986, 793–94

  Shop Talk (collection), 635–36, 672

  “Some New Jewish Stereotypes,” 221–22

  Time Away, 263, 272

  “Whacking Off,” 289, 341

  “Why to Stay Single, Though Harried,” 157

  Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960–2013, 767, 793

  Writers from the Other Europe (ed.), 4, 385–87, 388, 495, 524, 729

  “Writing about Jews,” 223–24

  “Writing American Fiction,” 204–9, 232, 336, 347, 367, 611

  “You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings,” 133, 150, 371

  see also American Pastoral; American Trilogy; Anatomy Lesson, The; Breast, The; Counterlife, The; Deception; Dying Animal, The; Everyman; Exit Ghost; Facts, The; Ghost Writer, The; Goodbye, Columbus; Great American Novel, The; Human Stain, The; I Married a Communist; Indignation; Letting Go; My Life as a Man; Nemesis; Operation Shylock; Our Gang; Patrimony; Plot Against America, The; Portnoy’s Complaint; Prague Orgy, The; Professor of Desire, The; Sabbath’s Theater; When She Was Good; Zuckerman Bound; Zuckerman Unbound

  Roth, Rebecca (Betty) (PR’s aunt), 13

  Roth, Samuel, 348

  Roth, Sanford (Sandy) (PR’s brother)

  art career, 555

  art studies, 61–62

  birth of, 18

  childhood of:

  books, 27

  Bradley Beach vacations, 43–44

  gentile community and, 20

  Hebrew school, 32

  high school (Weequahic High), 51

  relationship with father, 35–36

  relationship with mother, 22, 28–29, 35, 36

  relationship with PR, 34–35

  typewriter anecdote, 26

  cover design and, 197

  death of, 738–40

  father’s death and, 519–20

  Mickey Finkel and, 61

  Goodbye, Columbus publication and, 170

  health issues, 705, 709

  hypochondria of, 36

  on I Married a Communist, 605

  on Maggie’s death, 299

  marriage of, 157–59, 164

  Ross Miller’s biography and, 706n, 725, 732

  in The Plot Against America, 675, 693

  Portnoy’s Complaint and, 671

  PR’s divorce negotiations with Maggie and, 248

  PR’s emotional collapse and, 554–56

  PR’s health issues and, 487, 517–18

  PR’s marriage to Claire Bloom and, 535

  PR’s marriage to Maggie and, 165

  PR’s National Book Award and, 191

  PR’s National Medal of Arts award and, 645

  PR’s psychoanalysis and, 227

  PR’s Pulitzer Prize and, 617

  PR’s separation from Maggie and, 226–27

  publication of Leaving a Doll’s House

  and, 594, 624

  on racism, 47

  on Herman Roth’s career, 57

  sexual revolution and, 671

  Thanksgiving at Warren, Connecticut, house and, 357

  Roth, Sender (PR’s grandfather), 10–13, 16, 70, 313

  Roth, Trudy Schanker, 157–59, 191, 226, 357n, 554–55, 671

  Roth@80 conference, 771–74

  “Roth Doctrine,” 204–9

  Rothko, Mark, 240

  Rothstein, Edward, 450, 636

  Rubinstein, Danny, 315n

  Ruddick, Bruce, 178–79, 184, 709

  Rudenstine, Neil, 653

  Rudin, Max, 696, 701, 708–10

  Runyon, Damon, 107–8

  Rushdie, Salman, 514, 522, 769, 802n

  Sabbath’s Theater (Roth)

  acclaim for, 3

  American Pastoral and, 586, 587–88

  attitudes toward women in, 502, 655–56

  Bard College teaching and, 656

  Claire Bloom and, 570n, 577–78

  Joanna Rostropowicz Clark and, 388, 584

  critical reception of, 584–85, 611, 663, 710, 729, 737

  on goodness, 174

  Francine du Plessix Gray and, 570n

  Kitaj and, 494

  Inga Larsen and, 415–16, 565–66, 573, 592

  loss in, 583–84

  misanthropy in, 582–83

  Jirí Mucha and, 383n

  National Book Award for, 516, 591

  92nd Street Y reading, 781–82

  PR’s Miller Theater tribute and, 731

  PR’s romantic/sexual relationships and, 629n

  PR’s sexual advances to Felicity and, 502

  publication of, 571

  reading guide for, 697

  research for, 800

  Schloss as copyeditor for, 453–54

  Solotaroff on, 566

  Marty Weich and, 54

  writing process, 559, 562, 583, 585–86

  Sable, Edward, 47–48

  Sahl, Mort, 310

  “Sailing to Byzantium” (Yeats), 84

  “Saint Marie” (Erdrich), 538

  Saks, Gene, 269

  Sale, Roger, 396

  Salinger, J. D., 80, 97–99, 148, 205, 360, 466, 738

  “Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass” (Schulz), 386

  Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), 522

  Saudková, Vera, 382–83

  Saul Bellow’s Heart (Bellow), 699–700

  Savage, Naomi, 236, 300

  Savigneau, Josyane, 660, 670

  Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 651

  Schamus, James, 784

  Schiff, Stephen, 530–31

  Schindler’s List, 190

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 641, 674, 691–92

  Schley Street Synagogue, 32, 42–43

  Schloss, Roslyn, 453–54, 697, 722, 751

  Schneider, Herman, 240, 266, 320, 402–4, 607, 609, 706

  Schneider, Nina, 240, 266, 309, 355, 402–3, 607, 609, 706

  Schneller, Stanley, 797

  Scholem, Gershom, 2, 314–15

  Schopenhauer, Arthur, 73

  Schulz, Andrea, 747

  Schulz, Bruno, 385–86, 388

  Schulz, Kathryn, 769

  Schwartz, Alexandra, 778

  Schwartz, Delmore, 633

  Scott, A. O., 3, 670, 685n, 770

  Scott, Hazel, 47–48

  Scott, Walter, 27

  Scottoline, Lisa, 338–40

  Seagull, The (Chekhov), 230, 269

  Seberg, Jean, 387

  Second Happiest Day, The (Marquand), 155

  Seize the Day (Bellow), 107, 128, 207

  Self-Consciousness (Updike), 284, 737

  Seligman, Arthur, 293

  Seligson, David, 221, 299

  Sereny, Gitta, 511, 731

  Servadio, Gaia, 486–87, 489, 499, 518, 644, 805

  Set This House on Fire (Styron), 186, 194, 207

  Seven Thousand Days in Siberia (Stajner), 452

  Sex: An Oral History (Maurer), 725

  sexuality in PR’s fiction

  American Pastoral, 614

  The Breast, 362–64

  The Counterlife, 483–84

  Deception, 527–28

  The Dying Animal, 670–71, 783

  “Epstein,” 143, 150

  Everyman, 712

  “Goodbye, Columbus,” 148, 221

  The Human Stain, 664–65

  The Humbling, 741–42, 783–84

  Indignation, 734–35

  Kepesh novels, 670

  The Professor of Desire, 425–26

  Stern on, 676

  see also Portnoy’s Complaint and Sabbath’s Theater

  “Shadow in the Garden, The” (Atlas), 634

  Shadowlands, 494n

  Shakespeare, William, 27, 83, 255, 343, 432, 444, 513, 543, 550, 563, 663, 694, 772

  Shake This Town, (Williams), 187

  Shaw, Irwin, 147, 155, 334

  Shaw, Peter, 369

  Shawn, Wallace, 800

  Shawn, William, 75, 111, 151

  Shechner, Mark, 370–71, 376, 427–28

  Sheed, Wilfrid, 282, 285

  Shirer, William L., 27

  Shop Talk (collection) (Roth)

  Bellow interview meant for, 635–36

  critical reception of, 672

  Shop Talk (draft title) (Roth), 428–29

  see also Ghost Writer, The

  Shrinking (Lelchuk), 679

  Sidon, Karol, 381

  Siegel, Lee, 671

  Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, 74, 76

  Silver, Howard, 623–24, 797

  Silver, Ron, 590

  Silvers, Bob, 709

  Avishai and, 490–91

  at Black and White Ball, 278

  Maggie and, 145, 192, 260

  Ann Mudge and, 260

  PR’s friendship with, 142, 154, 284, 361

  PR’s National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and, 220

  PR’s theater reviews and, 266

  Vietnam War and, 284–85

  Sinatra, Frank, 49, 273, 500, 575

  Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 221, 318, 386, 396

  Sinyavsky, Andrey, 657–58

  Sirica, Joseph, 347

  Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut), 333n

  Sleeping with Bad Boys (Denham), 217

  Smallwood, Emma (pseud.), 462–63, 494–95, 527, 532n

  Smith, C. Willard, 75–76, 86, 202, 443–44

  Smith, Dinitia, 594, 606n, 640–41, 644

  Smith, Gerald L. K., 692

  Smith, John W., 589–90

  Smith, Maggie, 432

  Smith, Peter J., 596

  Smith, Zadie, 802

  Smithen, Charles, 517, 553

  Sobaroff, Steve, 626n

  Sobel, Richard, 48

  Solano, Estele, 800

  Solotaroff, Ted, 149, 152, 155, 165, 179–80, 184, 188, 210, 213, 223, 226, 245, 247, 317, 321, 331, 582, 614, 650, 699, 725, 786n, 802

  on The Breast, 362

  Commentary editorship, 206–7, 289

  on The Counterlife, 484

  critiques of PR’s work by, 135, 429

  death of, 736

  on “Epstein,” 143–44

  on “Expect the Vandals,” 135

  on Goodbye, Columbus, 139

  on Israel symposium, 243

  Kazin and, 621

  in Letting Go, 231, 736

  New American Review editorship, 289, 336

  Ross Miller’s biography and, 725

  on “On the Air,” 336

  Portnoy’s Complaint and, 289

  on Sabbath’s Theater, 566

  Thanksgiving at Warren, Connecticut, house and, 357

  University of Chicago faculty years, 124–26

  on Wilt, 96

  “Writing American Fiction” and, 206, 207

  writing aspirations of, 125–26

  Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 339, 385