pp. 381–82: “Do you realize”: GV/Aldridge, 3/nd/1955; “The only sad aspect”: GV/Aldridge, 3/nd/1955.

  p. 382: “that he had just”: US, 387; “if they had their way”: Isherwood Diaries, 478.

  p. 383: “I am at heart”: US, 1157–59.

  p. 383: “Too much social”: Ben Gross, “Are Sponsors Lacking in Courage?” Sunday News, 6/23/1957. WY.

  p. 385–86: “Dear Gorgeous”: Cyril Ritchard/GV, 6/28/1955, 7/17/1955. W; “I have been studying”: George Axelrod/GV, 7/24/1955. W.

  p. 388: “a noble failure”: GV/Friar, 8/nd/1954. P; “A gift for playwriting”: US, 1157–59.

  p. 389: “though by no means”: GV/Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays, Boston: 1956, 207.

  p. 390: “My decision, finally”: GV/Small Planet, 209.

  p. 391: “knew what death”: Stanton, 134.

  p. 392: “in working out”: Jerry Wald/GV, 3/23/1955. W; “he described how”: Isherwood Diaries, 518.

  p. 392: “is Christopher Isherwood”: GV/John Bowen, summer/nd/1955.

  p. 393: “I have finished”: GV/Louis Auchincloss, 9/28/1955.

  p. 396: “looked at the books … feeling that life … creative joy”: Isherwood Diaries, 533; “I am here doing”: GV/John Lehmann, 12/7/1955. P.

  pp. 397–98: “I think you were”: Paddy Chayevsky/GV, 2/24/1956. W.

  pp. 398–99: “They definitely want”: Sam Zimbalist/GV, 1/20/1956. W; “been saving for many”: GV/Manulis, 3/22/1956. W; “GO AHEAD WITH”: Manulis/GV, 4/10/1956. W.

  p. 400: “I very much enjoyed”: GV/Tom Driberg, 5/nd/1956. CC.

  p. 400: “The political world … come down”: GV/Driberg, 5/nd/1956. CC.

  p. 404: “He never could”: Dawn Powell, Diaries, 1931–1965, ed. Tim Page, NY: 1955, 361.

  p. 404: “I have lost”: GV/Edith Sitwell, summer/nd/1956. T.

  p. 405: “uninvited return”: GV/Woods S. Gray, 12/17/1956.

  pp. 406–7: “He was amused”: US, 799–800; “in a bathrobe”: M, 10–11; “for a February debut”: GV/Sitwell, summer/nd/1956. T.

  p. 409: “because it costs”: US, 1163–65.

  p. 413: “In principle,” Vidal agreed: GV/Fred Coe, 4/4/1957. W.

  p. 413: “I shall want to pull out”: GV/Harold Franklin, 5/3/1957. W.

  p. 416: “I shall be happy”: GV/Newton Steers, 4/17/1957. W; “raised high his”: M, 17.

  Chapter Twelve

  INTERVIEWS: Joanne Woodward, 2/8/1996; Paul Newman, 2/8/1996; Claire Bloom, 2/23/1996; Sam Lurie, 4/1/1996; Stan Kaminsky, 4/1/1996; Miles White, 3/25/1988; Elaine Dundy, 3/30/1996; Howard Austen, 1/17/1996, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Don Bachardy, 4/3/1996; John Bowen, 1/22/1996; Norman Mailer, 3/15/1996, 3/16/1996, 3/17/1996; Jason Epstein, 3/6/1997; Barbara [Andy] Dupee, 1/26/1995, 2/7/1995, 3/7/1995, 3/24/1997; Jack Bady, 1/7/1996; Eleanor Rovere, 5/30/1995; Barbara Epstein, 7/15/1995, 7/27/1995; Lyn Austin, 5/1/1998; Saul Bellow, 2/25/1998.

  ENDNOTES

  p. 418: “I am bogged down”: GV/Woods S. Gray, 7/31/1957.

  p. 418: “Paul, Joanne and I”: GV/Gray, 7/31/1957; “extraordinarily funny”: Isherwood Diaries, 721.

  p. 419: “quite a bitch”: Isherwood Diaries, 721; “I dread my return”: GV/Ned Bradford, 6/nd/1957. LB.

  p. 420: “probably the best T.V.”: Nicholas Wreden/GV, 5/nd/1955. W; “I should have”: GV/James Oliver Brown, 2/20/1957. W.

  p. 421: “I would not get”: GV/Brown, 2/10/1957. W; “The Edgar Box thing”: GV/Brown, 2/20/1957. W; “never been able”: GV/Brown, 2/10/1957. W.

  p. 424: “I have told Gore”: Nina Gore/Leonard Strauss, 10/15/1957. W.

  p. 424: “Gore needs to learn”: Nina Gore/Strauss, 10/15/1957. W.

  p. 428: “winter wonderland”: M, 319.

  p. 431: “I do agree”: GV/Alec Guinness, 1/7/1958. W; “As I am interested”: George Axelrod/GV, 11/29/1957. W.

  p. 432: “trying like hell”: Nina Gore/GV, 12/nd/1957. W.

  p. 440: “monstrous to give”: Sam Zimbalist/GV, 7/3/1956. W.

  p. 441: “As we drove together”: US, 1175–77; “Roman fever”: GV/Anaïs Nin, summer/nd/1958.

  p. 442: “When I was finished”: US, 1175–77.

  p. 443: “I am doing a fast”: GV/Paul Bowles, 5/nd/1958. D.

  p. 444: “Luckily, I was on the set”: US, 69; “This is not a going-away”: Zimbalist/GV, 5/24/1958. W.

  pp. 444–45: “The horses began”: Morgan Hudgens/GV, 5/31/1958. W; “our first big day”: Zimbalist/GV, 6/6/1958. W; “The new opening”: Zimbalist/GV, 7/24/1958. W; “I rewrote the script”: GV/Ann R. Stein, 3/18/1959. W.

  p. 446: “I was more upset”: GV/Christopher Isherwood, 11/nd/1958; “My career as a dramatist”: GV/Isherwood, 11/nd/1958; “I should love a British”: GV/Tom Driberg, spring/nd/1958. CC.

  p. 447: “No more movies”: GV/Bowles, 5/nd/1958. D; “I still have occasional”: GV/Nin, summer/nd/1958. UC; “No one will believe”: GV/Nin, 6/nd/1958. UC.

  pp. 449–50: “Look at that”: M, 336, Stanton, 279, US, 443–44; “to get a director”: Isherwood Diaries, 777.

  p. 450–51: “Gore regards me”: Isherwood Diaries, 777; “What news of Ken”: GV/Driberg, spring/nd/1958. CC; “a good deal of the Tynans”: GV/Driberg, nd/1958. CC; “I gave a party”: GV/Driberg, 12/nd/1958. CC.

  pp. 452–53: “I can’t say … something else”: F. W. Dupee/GV, 2/17/1958. W.

  Chapter Thirteen

  INTERVIEWS: Patsy Walsh, 6/4/1995; William Walsh, 6/4/1995; Lyn Austin, 5/1/1998; Louis Auchincloss, 10/21/1994; Elaine Dundy, 3/30/1996; Howard Austen, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Janet Caro, 5/2/1995; Joanne Woodward, 2/8/1996; Paul Newman, 2/8/1996; David Samples, 4/25/1996; Norman Mailer, 3/15/1996, 3/16/1996, 3/17/1996; Roy Thompson, 11/28/1995, 1/8/1996, 3/26/1996; George Plimpton, 2/9/1996; Arthur Schlesinger, 10/31/1996.

  ENDNOTES

  p. 464: “It is now your”: Louis Auchincloss/GV, nd/1962. W.

  p. 464: “DEAR GORE”: John F. Kennedy/Gore Vidal, 9/29/1956. W.

  p. 469: “I loved the way Dad”: Nina Gore/GV, nd/1960 W.

  p. 469: “On the morning when”: GV/unpub. ms nd. W.

  p. 471: “Is Gore writing”: M, 337.

  p. 471: “in a campaign”: M, 337; “I have always felt”: GV/Ray White, 9/1/1996. W.

  p. 473: “Never in my lifetime”: Lucien Price/GV, 5/17/1960. W.

  p. 474: “The morning after”: GV, “On Campaigning,” unpub. essay, 1960. W.

  p. 475: “Sell yourself”: Ruth Davis/GV, 10/16/1960. W.

  p. 478: “My husband always said … interested girl”: GV, “On Campaigning.” W; “from something you get”: GV, “On Campaigning.” W; “Tell your friend”: M, 343.

  p. 479: “into that vast … everything”: GV, “On Campaigning.” W; “as a reigning”: GV, “On Campaigning.” 1960. W; “easily the best”: William Gruver/GV, 7/16/1960. W.

  p. 480: “the play will be … Strachey”: Arthur Schlesinger/GV, 3/16/1960. W.

  p. 480: “Is this … all”: TS, 73; “would tell Jack”: M, 346; “last appeal … euphoric”: TS, 73–74. “This is the ship”: M, 346.

  p. 481: “Some days I do … heads”: GV/Christopher Isherwood, 9/nd/1960; “Jack, Jackie are doing”: GV/Elaine Dundy, fall/nd/1960.

  p. 482: “Needless to say … formidable”: GV/John Kennedy, 6/12/1960. W.

  pp. 486–87: “If you had not won … Taylor”: GV/John Kennedy, 11/14/1960. W.

  pp. 488–89: “Call and come”: Virgil Thomson/GV, 4/1/1960. W; “But if I do it”: GV/John Bowen, 10/nd/1960.

  p. 489: “All my life”: GV/Dundy, fall/nd/1960; “I fret about prose”: GV/Isherwood, nd/1960.

  pp. 493–94: “The boy taking … twice a week”: M, 375, 380.

  pp. 495–96: “Yes, it would be better”: M, 369; “Just talk to Eisenhower”: M, 361; “this was decadence”: M, 366.

  p. 499: “Don’t ever do”: M, 394.

  p. 499: “the mood … was different”: Arthur Schlesinger, diary, quoted in Anthony Haden-Guest, “The Vidal Capote Papers: A Tempest in Camelot,” New York, 6/11/1979, 55; “and some lady … racket”: John Kenneth Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years, Boston: 1969, 221–22.

  p. 500: “a great deal of … well”: Galbraith, 222; “we both behaved”: GV/Louis Auchincloss, nd/1965.

  p. 501: “the fight was hopeless”: Roger Stevens/GV, 3/17/1962. W.

  p. 504: “You do make me”: GV/Isherwood, 5/nd/1962.

  p. 505: “I have just come back”: GV/Ambassador Matsas, 7/18/1962. W.

  p. 505: “there are no facts”: GV/Isherwood, 5/nd/1962.

  p. 506: “Takes lots of pills”: GV/Dundy, 3/nd/1962.

  p. 507: “Week in Capri”: GV/Dundy, 3/nd/1962; “I am here for … nicely written”: GV/Isherwood, 5/nd/1962.

  pp. 508–9: “Take, say ten … in the world”: Jason Epstein/GV, 6/2/1961. W; “like most satirists”: GV/Jason Epstein, 6/nd/1961. C.

  p. 510: “Now, of course”: GV/New York Times Book Review, 8/1962; “so bored—but then”: GV/Alice Dows, 8/8/1962.

  p. 510: “stood alongside”: US, 749.

  p. 512: “HEAR YOU’RE LEAVING”: Nina Gore/GV, 1/2/1963. W.

  Chapter Fourteen

  INTERVIEWS: Theresa Baxter, 3/29/1997; Barbara Epstein, 7/15/1995, 7/26/1995; Richard Poirier, 7/1/1996; Howard Austen, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Sam Lurie, 4/1/1996; Stan Kaminsky, 4/1/1996; Mickey Knox, 3/30/1996; George Armstrong, 9/5/1994; Claire Bloom, 2/23/1996; Larry Turman, 3/6/1998; Jason Epstein, 3/6/1997; Barbara Dupee, 1/26/1995, 2/7/1995, 3/7/1995; Herman Gollob, 2/18/1999; Norman Mailer, 3/15/1996, 3/16/1996, 3/17/1996; Eleanor Rovere, 5/30/1995; Alain/Marjorie Bernheim, 4/2/1996; Milton Gendel, 11/25/1997.

  ENDNOTES

  p. 515: “a duodenal ulcer”: GV/Alice Dows, 2/nd/1963. W; “The vulture has”: GV/Fred Dupee, 3/nd/1963. C; “I hope your liver”: Dupee/GV, 3/6/1963. W; “Blanche nearly rode”: GV/Dupee, 3/nd/1963. C.

  p. 516: “Energy is”: William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; “I can not express”: Nina Kay Gore/GV, 11/27/1962. W; “Things were rather”: Thomas Gore/GV, 5/27/1963. W.

  p. 517: “I know that you”: Roy Thompson/GV, 5/14/1963. W; “It is a blessing”: Thomas Gore/GV, 5/27/1963. W; “There’s room for you”: M, 73.

  pp. 519–20: “Sorry to hear”: Harold Hayes/GV, 2/18/1963. WF; “conceivably to the highest”: Hayes/GV, 3/12/1963. W; “Did you read the piece”: GV/Louis Auchincloss, 3/nd/1963.

  p. 520: “which has stirred up”: Auchincloss/GV, 3/12/1963. W; “a courier from”: GV/Hayes, 3/nd/1963. WF; “came to town”: GV/Richard Rovere, nd/1963. W; “The London papers”: GV/Hayes. 3/nd/1963. W.

  pp. 523–24: “What did you do”: GV/Dupee, 3/7/1963. C; “I like [your essay”: GV/Dupee, 3/nd/1963. W; “cannot be taken seriously”: US, 342.

  p. 525: “have an ulcer”: GV/John Bowen, 1/nd/1963; “In a way I’m”: GV/Dupee, 3/7/1963. C.

  p. 526: “He has gained weight”: GV/Auchincloss, 3/nd/1963; “in that euphoric state”: GV/Dupee, 3/nd/1963. C.

  pp. 527–28: “splendid company”: GV/Tom Driberg, 7/1/1963. CC; “a hacking cough … hell”: GV/Dupee, 4/5/1963. C; “We will arrive”: Sam Lurie/GV, 4/10/1963. W; “Dear Maureen O’Hara”: GV/Lurie, 4/nd/1963.

  p. 531: “This was the hottest”: US, 1215.

  p. 532: “is splendid just now”: GV/Dupee, 4/16/1963, C; “All in all a quiet”: GV/Dows, 4/24/1963. W; “Please come”: Elaine Dundy/GV, 5/nd/1963. W; “pleasantly bloating”: GV/Driberg, 7/1/1963. CC.

  p. 533: “I begin to think”: GV/Dows, 6/20/1963. W.

  p. 534: “He is quite”: GV/Dows, 7/18/1963. W; “I listen to him”: GV/Ned Bradford, 7/nd/1963. LB; “miss the country”: GV/Dows, 6/20/1963. W.

  p. 535: “Even at twelve … television”: SH, 83–85.

  pp. 536–37: “I do like”: Isherwood Diaries, 884; “playing the role”: Isherwood Diaries, 884.

  pp. 537–38: “If your party … awfully wrong”: GV/Driberg, 7/1/1963. CC.

  p. 538: “SHOOTING COMPLETED”: Larry Turman and Stuart Millar/GV, 11/11/1963. W.

  p. 540: “feeling slightly bored”: Howard Austen/GV, 9/22/1963. W; “I can’t tell much”: GV/Bradford, 7/nd/1963. LB; “JULIAN READ BY”: Bradford/GV, 10/nd/1963. W.

  p. 541: “I flew back”: GV/Auchincloss, 1/10/1964.

  p. 542: “I have finished”: GV/Auchincloss, 1/10/1964.

  pp. 542–43: “the book is a delight”: Auchincloss/GV, nd/1964. W; “B-of-M Club”: GV/Auchincloss, 3/nd/1964; “I’m so happy”: GV/Dwye Evans, 1/nd/1964. Heinemann archives.

  p. 545: “I have been possessed”: GV/Auchincloss, 3/nd/1964. W; “So this is the year”: GV/Richard Poirier, 3/nd/1964.

  p. 546: “A rather lousy”: GV/Poirier, 3/nd/1964; “and in the dark days”: GV/Charles W. Mixer, 7/22/1964. W; “able to read”: GV/Caldwell Titcomb, 4/13/1964. W.

  p. 547: “Edgewater is not”: GV/Dupee, 1/18/1964. C.

  p. 548: “Who present that”: US, 980.

  p. 552: “Are you, on top of”: Buckley/GV, 4/16/1962. W.

  p. 553–54: “was utterly unrelated”: Buckley deposition, 3/27/1972, 142; “Evidently the entire”: Buckley/Jayne Meadows, 3/30/1959. W.

  p. 554: “Your reporter wrote”: Buckley/Orvil E. Dreyfoos, New York Times, 10/23/1961.

  p. 555: “For the record”: GV/Terry, 7/nd/1964.

  p. 558: “If you can come up with”: GV/Jerome Kilty, 1/31/1965. W.

  p. 559: “I cannot tell yet”: GV/Auchincloss, 8/nd/1965.

  p. 559: “It doesn’t seem”: GV/Gene Vidal, 4/nd/1965. W; “charming but gray”: GV/Vidal, 4/nd/1965. W.

  pp. 560–61: “He is now an only”: GV/Rovere, 2/15/1965. W; “I am so completely”: GV/Dupee, 9/1/1965. C; “It was Guermantes”: GV/Nini Auchincloss, 3/3/1965; “I don’t know whether”: GV/Dupee, 3/8/1965. C.

  p. 561: “Paris was too much”: GV/Dupee, 6/10/1965. C; “Princess Margaret arrives”: GV/Auchincloss, 8/nd/1965; “turned out to be”: GV/Auchincloss, 9/nd/1965.

  p. 562: “a vast undertaking”: GV/Rovere, 2/16/1965. W; “is a cheery man”: GV/Dupee, 2/12/1965. C; “Boats … are hideously”: GV/Dupee, 2/12/1965. C; “4 films in a year”: GV/Dupee, 11/nd/1965. C.

  p. 562: “Being 40 has not”: GV/Dupee, 11/nd/1965. C.

  Chapter Fifteen

  INTERVIEWS: Herman Gollob, 2/18/1999; Richard Poirier, 7/1/1996; Howard Austen, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Louis Auchincloss, 10/21/1994; Barbara Epstein, 7/15/1995, 7/26/1995; Joanne Woodward, 2/8/1996; Paul Newman, 2/8/1996; Antonia Fraser, 1/26/1996; Owen Laster, 2/29/1996, 3/5/1996, 3/22/1996; William F. Buckley [by letter in response to questions], 10/23/1996; Louis Auchincloss, 10/21/1994.

  ENDNOTES

  pp. 564–65: “Rome in August”: GV/Louis Auchincloss, 8/nd/1965; “wreathed in friendship … intelligent”: GV/Fred Dupee, 3/8/1965. C; “I found him positively”: GV/Nini Auchincloss, 3/3/1965; “I thought you said … dinner”: GV/Dupee, 3/14/1966. C.

  pp. 565–66: “Villon music … performance”: GV/Dupee, 7/26/1965. C; “died of a thrombosis”: GV/Gene Vidal, 7/24/1965. W.

  p. 568: “a fine if jumbled”: TS, 7; “Howard is fixing”: GV/Nina Auchincloss, 5/nd/1966; “The new place”: GV/Vidal, 6/nd/1966. W; “We’re in the new”: GV/Dupee, 6/3/1966. C.

  p. 569: “Not since Tolstoi … do it for me”: GV/Ray White, 9/1/1966. W; “I have never had … over the wall”: GV/Nina Auchincloss, nd/1966.

  p. 572: “The fierceness”: Barbara Epstein/GV, 10/5/1966. W; “The thought of”: GV/Gene Vidal, 6/nd/1966. W.

  pp. 573–74: “were written over”: GV/White, 8/11/1966. W; “Just when I”: GV/Nina Auchincloss, 6/nd/1965.

  pp. 574–75: “Clay is not”: GV/Auchincloss, 5/nd/1967; “My own impression”: GV/Auchincloss, 5/nd/1967.

  p. 576: “I struggled”: GV/Dupee, spring/nd/1967. C; “very good, indeed”: Epstein/GV, 4/nd/1967. W.

  p. 577: “co-devising and … attractive”: Kenneth Tynan/GV, 12/9/1966. W.

  p. 580: “AM AT YOUR FEET”: Joanne Woodward/GV, 6/4/1956. W; “is pretty enough”: Dupee/GV, 7/6/1967. W.

  p. 582: “the only real diversion”: GV/Dupee, 5/28/1967.

  p. 583: “Greece was depressing”: GV/Vidal, 5/nd/1967. W.

  p. 584: “it is really very”: GV/Dupee, 7/11/1967. C; “I think the book”: GV/Ned Bradford, 7/15/1967. LB; “I AM HONORED”: Christopher Isherwood/GV, 8/12/1967. W.

  pp. 584–85: “In my opinion it’s … ballet”: Isherwood/GV, 8/21/1967. W; “then by slow degrees”: GV/Dupee, 7/11/1967. C; “Still a good deal”: GV/Vidal, 8/nd/1967. W.

  pp. 585–86: “I have never in my life”: GV/Dupee, 5/28/1967. C; “I’m now happily”: GV/Nina Auchincloss, 8/nd/1967.

  pp. 586–87: “I am becoming restless”: GV/Gene Vidal, 8/nd/1967. W; “a terrible place”: GV/Gene Vidal, 9/nd/1967. W.

  pp. 587–88: “I felt novels were finished”: GV/Gene Vidal, 9/nd/1967. W; “So it goes”: GV/Dupee, 9/16/1967. C; “Old Gore leading”: GV/Dupee, 9/10/1967. C.

  p. 588: “from one millionaire”: Bradford/GV, nd/1967. W.

  p. 589: “I’m trying to make up”: GV/Bradford, 7/15/1967. LB; “It may well be”: GV/Bradford, 7/15/1967. LB.

  p. 593: “My entire life”: GV/Jerry/Hazel Morrass, 3/26/1968. W; “to look muscle-bound”: GV/Gene Vidal, 4/nd/1968. W.

  p. 595: “I assume you are”: GV/Dupee, 5/2/1968. C.

  p. 598: “Vidal was achieving much”: John Kenneth Galbraith, A Life in Our Times, Boston: 1981, 504.

  p. 599: “Fuck you, you Jew”: James T. Paterson, Grand Expectations, The United States, 1945–1974. The Oxford History of the United States. NY, 1996, 696.

  p. 601: “PLEASE INFORM GORE VIDAL”: Buckley/GV, 2/nd/1962, “On Experiencing Gore Vidal,” Smiling Through the Apocalypse, Esquire’s History of the Sixties, NY: 1987, 541.

  Chapter Sixteen

  INTERVIEWS: William F. Buckley [by letter in response to questions], 10/23/1996; Ed Weisl, 10/10/1996; Richard Poirier, 7/1/1996; Lois Wallace, 9/4/1996; Barbara Dupee, 1/26/1995, 2/2/1995; Howard Austen, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Alain/Madeline Bernheim, 4/2/1996; Sally Vidal, 3/28/1996; Martin Manulis, 4/1/1996; Norman Mailer, 3/15/1996, 3/16/1996, 3/17/1996; Dick Cavett, 11/13/1996; George Armstrong, 9/5/1944.