Philip roth, p.116
Philip Roth,
p.116
Wylie, Andrew, 577, 594, 616, 622, 654, 660, 683, 690, 698–99
Kazin and, 621
Ross Miller’s biography and, 606–9, 724–25
Ross Miller’s birthday party (2006) and, 707
Nobel Prize and, 777n
“Notes for My Biographer” and, 756–57
as PR’s agent, 513–16, 530, 581–82, 591, 610, 634, 755
as PR’s executor, 626n, 732
PR’s last illness and, 798
publication of Leaving a Doll’s House and, 594, 600
Sylvia and, 649
Wylie, Philip, 85, 91–92
Yaddo, PR’s residencies, 261–62, 263–64, 265, 300, 321–24, 327, 352, 366
Warren, Connecticut, house and, 354, 356
Yagoda, Ben, 112
Yeats, William Butler, 84, 656, 773
Yentob, Alan, 20, 500
Yom Kippur War (1973), 373–74
“You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings” (Roth), 133, 150, 371
Youngman, Henny, 42
Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 96
Zelinka, Cora, 213
Zertal, Idith, 471–72, 474
Ziff: A Life (Lelchuk), 323, 679–80
Ziller, Eugene, 207
Ziprin, Nathan, 220
Zuckerman Bound (Roth), 471–72
Zuckerman sequence (Roth), 3, 428
see also Anatomy Lesson, The; Ghost Writer, The; Prague Orgy, The; Zuckerman Bound; Zuckerman Unbound
Zuckerman Unbound (Roth), 659
Bloom on, 448
Capote in early draft of, 318n, 320n
critical reception of, 449–50, 636
friends’ critiques of, 429
genesis of, 447–48
PR’s evolution and, 3
themes of, 448–49
Zurav, Anita, 49
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