Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (100 page)

North Bennington, Vt., 1, 2, 50, 162, 166, 189, 199–204, 213, 221, 234, 238–39,
249
, 266–69, 272–73, 299, 312–13

Hyman homes in, 199–200,
200
, 268–69, 273,
305
, 319–21, 326–30,
327
, 344

village community of, 379–80, 445

North Bennington Village School, 200, 419

Northwestern University, 243

Norwalk Hospital, 289, 290

“Notes for a Young Writer” lecture (Jackson), 215, 252, 483

Nowak, Alison, 251, 378

Nowak, Laura, 166, 208, 251, 378, 433, 439, 473

Nowak, Lionel, 195, 202

Nurse, Rebecca, 436

Oakland, Calif., 15, 18, 19

Oberlin College, 432

O’Connor, Flannery, 212, 391, 492, 496

Odyssey
(Homer), 338

“Of Lydia” (Goldberg), 94

O’Hara, John, 149, 151

Old Bennington, Vt., 190, 402, 460

Olitski, Jules, 195

“One Is a Wanderer” (Thurber), 151

“On the House” (Jackson), 177

On the Road
(Kerouac), 399

Operation Ivy
(film), 382–84

Orenstein, Frank, 81, 113, 168, 183, 459, 496

“orgone box,” 293

Orr, Kip, 235–36

Osburn, Sarah, 357–58

Othello
(Shakespeare), 262

Other Kingdom, The
(Rousset), 234

Ouija board, 21, 112

Our Town
(Wilder), 272

Ovid, 339

Oxford University, 80

Oz books (Baum), 30, 81, 168, 250, 362, 429, 430, 468, 483

Palestine, 76

Palmer, Michael, 68–69, 92, 93, 134, 135, 155

Palm Tree Island
(Strang), 429

Panama Canal, 11, 114

Pano, Peter, 200

Pantheon, 90

Paris, 56, 60, 92, 100, 102, 105, 109, 135, 214

liberation of, 182

Nazi-occupied, 181–82

Parker, Dorothy, 61

Parker, Eleanor, 353

Parris, Samuel, 357

Parsell, Alfred, 93–94, 134

Partisan Review
, 86, 87, 136, 165, 178, 321

Parton, Margaret, 325

Pasteur, Louis, 317

Peale, Norman Vincent, 323

Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 141, 146

Peden, William, 398

Pen and Brush, 277

“Perfect Day for Bananafish, A” (Salinger), 245

“Persephone” (Jackson), 542

Petit Trianon, 29, 405

Pettingell, Phoebe, 73, 74, 196

on Hyman, 239, 298, 340, 467

marriage of Hyman and, 340, 496

Peyton Place
(Metalious), 202

Phillips, Wendell, 144, 186

Phillips, William, 86

Phrygia, ancient, 292

Picasso, Pablo, 50

Pictorial Key to the Tarot, The
(Waite),
292

“Pillar of Salt” (Jackson), 255, 265, 271, 280, 481

Pindyck, Frances, 144, 152, 161, 171–72, 189, 209, 210

“Pine Tree, The” (Jackson), 33

Piney Brown (cat), 430,
431

piracy, 357

Plath, Sylvia, 5, 8, 67

Plato, 185

Playboy
, 455

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
(Kerr), 307

Podhoretz, Norman, 329

Poe, Edgar Allan, 3, 17, 81, 237, 244, 397, 424, 452

Poetry and Criticism
(Hyman), 462

Pooh Perplex, The
(Crews), 475

Poore, Charles, 398

Poorhouse Fair, The
(Updike), 424

Pope, Betty, 422, 423

Popular Front, 60, 88

Porcellian Club, 315

Portable Darwin
(Hyman), 473

Porter, Katherine Anne, 279, 320, 453

“Portrait of the Artist, with Freudian Imagery” (Jackson), 139

“Possibility of Evil, The” (Jackson), 185, 237, 497, 498–99

Pound, Ezra, 61

Powell, Dawn, 136

Power of Positive Thinking, The
(Peale), 323

Powers, J. F., 293

Powers, Jimmy, 200

Powers, Larry, 201–2, 251, 346, 471, 538

Powers, Michael, 201

Powers Market, 200–202, 251, 470, 471

Prescott, Orville, 323, 353, 424, 451

Presley, Elvis, 362–63

Prince, Morton, 321–22, 335

Pritchett, V. S., 228

Prize Stories of 1949
, 245

“Professor Sea Gull” (Mitchell), 135–36

Prokofiev, Sergei, 92

Promised End, The
(Hyman), 473–74

Promontory, Utah, 14

Providence Journal
, 424

P.S. 99, 75

psychoanalysis, 332, 353, 470–71

Pulitzer Prize, 82, 396

Punafore (Or the Class That Loved Its Jailer)
, 81

Puritanism, 225

“Purloined Letter, The” (Poe), 237

Pursuit of the Prodigal
(Auchincloss), 424

Pynchon, Thomas, 490

Quebec City, 493

Quist, Harlin, 475

race records, 124–25

racism, 27, 123–24, 125, 132–33, 174, 204–5

Raglan, Lord, 179

Rahv, Philip, 86, 136

Rainbarrel restaurant, 372, 437

Raising Demons
(Jackson), 35–36, 168, 310, 317, 325, 364–71, 390–91

critical response to, 368, 369–71

humor in, 365–66, 448

jacket art for, 390

original title of, 362

publication of, 304

Ralston, William C., 26

Rampersad, Arnold, 160, 179, 181, 204

Random House, 212, 276

Landmark young-adult history and biography series of, 355, 395

Rascal
(North), 324

Reader’s Digest
, 323, 424

Redbook
, 471

Reed, John, 101

Reich, Wilhelm, 293

“Renegade, The” (Jackson), 234–35, 236, 247

Reporter
, 428

Republican Party, 18, 202, 229, 460

Reynal and Hitchcock, 276

“Rhetoric of Hitler’s ‘Battle,’ The” (Burke), 115, 180

rhythm-and-blues, 363

Richardson, H. S., 271

Road Through the Wall, The
(Jackson), 3, 37, 96, 212–20, 239, 241, 303, 325, 390

bigotry depicted in, 27, 131, 213

characters and plot of, 29–30, 32–33, 52, 175, 212–15, 261, 267, 350, 385

critical response to, 217, 219–20, 301

publication of, 218–19, 266

writing of, 29

Roanoke Times
, 352

Robinson, Edward G., 57

Robinson, Jackie, 366, 432, 462

Rochester, N.Y., 12–13, 34, 41, 43–69,
47
,
65
, 69, 92–94, 97, 102, 113–14, 128, 153–54, 266, 296, 493

Rochester, University of, 45, 46, 48, 53–58, 62, 66–68, 96, 100, 105, 291, 294, 433

River Campus, 53–54, 57

Rush Rhees Library, 53, 187

sororities at, 54

Stephen Foster Hall, 55, 56

women’s college, 53–54

Rochester Country Club, 46

“Rock, The” (Jackson), 351

rock and roll, 363

Roemer, Marjorie, 198, 298

Roethke, Theodore, 189, 195

Rogers, W. G., 243, 258, 301

Roman Catholic Church, 287, 398, 459

Rome, 90

Rongerik Island, 383

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 40

Rosenberg, Harold, 178, 465

Rosenfeld, Isaac, 178, 179

Rosenthal, Berenice, 76–77

Ross, Calif., 19–20

Ross, Gwynne, 142

Ross, Harold, 150, 162, 226, 228, 233

Roth, Henry, 72

Roth, Philip, 424, 463

Rousset, David, 234

Royalton Hotel, 372

Russia, 72, 146

Nazi invasion of, 89

Russian Revolution, 101

Ryder
(Barnes), 100

Sacramento, Calif., 14, 19

Saducismus Triumphatus
(Glanvill), 106–7, 108, 187–88, 252

“Sailor off the Bremen” (Shaw), 140

St. Regis Hotel, 451

St. Vincent’s Hospital, 345

Saki, 258

Salem Village, Mass., 357–61, 405, 436, 449

Salem witch trials, 106, 236, 355, 357–61, 436

Salinger, J. D., 176, 209, 228, 245, 272, 276, 302, 345, 399

Samuel C. Bugbee and Son, 15–16

San Anselmo, Calif., 25

Sand, George, 50

Sandburg, Carl, 61, 111

San Francisco, Calif., 11, 13–18, 20, 21–22,
25
, 117–20, 131, 273

Ashbury Heights, 25–26

Golden Gate Park, 15, 25

Nob Hill, 15–18

population of, 14–15

Richmond district, 25

San Francisco Chronicle
, 16, 325

San Francisco earthquake of 1906, 26

San Mateo Junior College, 39

Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 337

Saroyan, William, 102

Saturday Evening Post
, 70–71, 420, 466,
466
, 481–82, 497–98

Saturday Review
, 301, 369, 398, 451, 465, 487

Saugatuck, Conn., Indian Hill Road house in, 269, 270, 273, 274, 279–80, 287, 319

Saxon, Charles,
458

“Scapegoat” (Jackson), 510

Scarlet Letter, The
(Hawthorne), 224, 380

Schapiro, Meyer, 136

Schenkar, Joan, 196

Scher, Louis, 273–74, 277, 298, 300, 362

schizophrenia, 337

Schorer, Mark, 243, 244

Schryver, Elliot, 300

Schwartz, Delmore, 136, 393

science fiction, 384

Scott, W. T., 301

Seide, Marilyn, 194, 328

“Select Clientele” (Shaw), 132

Seminars on American Culture, 366

Senate, U.S., 358

Army-McCarthy hearings in, 370

Serling, Rod, 245

Seven Bookhunters, 273, 362

“Seven Types of Ambiguity” (Jackson), 209

Sexton, Anne, 5, 487

Sex Variant Women in Literature
(Foster), 439–50

Shakespeare, William, 185, 196, 213, 242, 338, 340

Shapiro, Florence, 88, 101, 122, 132, 142, 153, 171, 495

Shaw, Irwin, 132, 140, 149–51, 175

Shawn, William, 138, 162, 163, 289–90, 366, 495

Ship of Fools
(Porter), 453

Short Stories from the New Yorker
, 144

Sibelius, Jan, 120, 135

Silliphant, Stirling, 231

Simon, John, 463

Simple Cooking for the Epicure
, 437

Sinclair, Upton, 136

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 446, 463, 496

Siodmak, Robert, 314

Skin of Our Teeth, The
(Wilder), 272

“Slight Rebellion off Madison” (Salinger), 228

Smith, Bessie, 124, 125

Smith, Betty, 144

Smith, Corlies “Cork,” 490

Smith, Janna Malamud, 156, 201, 234

Smith, Lillian, 245

Smith, Pamela, 291

Smith, William Jay, 416

Smith College, 190, 337

“Smoking Room, The” (Jackson), 112

Snowdon, Walter, 229

Soldier Leaving
(Jackson), 183

Sontag, Susan, 384, 391

“Sorority Girl” (Mirken), 122, 123

Sound and the Fury, The
(Faulkner), 452

Sound of Music, The
(film), 353

South Africa, 245

South Dakota, Black Hills of, 116

Soviet Union, 87

nuclear arsenal of, 6

repression of religion and art in, 100

Sputnik launched by, 384, 398

U.S. relations with, 439, 468

space race, 384

Spanish Civil War, 60, 86, 92, 112

Special Delivery: A Useful Book for Brand-New Mothers
(Jackson), 158, 420–22, 430

Spectator
, 352

Spectre
, 121–26, 139, 147, 495

Spillane, Mickey, 80

spiritualism, 20–21, 23, 31

Spock, Benjamin, 164

Stafford, Jean, 209–10, 228, 277, 302, 391

Stalin, Joseph, 87, 88, 100, 232, 311

Stalingrad, Battle of, 163

Stalinism, 136

Standards
(Hyman), 463

Stanford, Jane, 16, 18

Stanford, Leland, 14, 16, 18

Stanford, Leland, Jr., 18

Stanford Hospital, 20

Stanford University, 18

Stanwyck, Barbara, 80

Statler, Alfred, 454,
454

Stecher Lithograph Company, 13

Stecher-Traung Lithograph Company, 45–46

Steegmuller, Francis, 495

Steele, Max, 452

Steinbeck, John, 100, 160, 187, 396, 474, 490

Stern, Suzanne, 194–95, 198, 298, 329

Stevens, Wallace, 243

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 352

“Still Life with Teapot and Students” (Jackson), 297, 314

Stockbridge, Mass., 392

Story
, 65, 209

Strange Fruit
(Smith), 245

Stratford-upon-Avon, 425

Straus, Roger, 214–16, 219–20, 257, 278, 301, 345, 364, 390–92, 395–96, 420

on SJ, 2, 3, 219, 322, 336, 371, 495

Street, James, 161

Streisand, Barbra, 80

Strobel, Marion, 46

Style, Elizabeth, 187–88

Sudetenland, 109

Suffield Writer-Reader Conference, 264, 408, 416–18, 430, 436, 438, 483

Sullivan, Arthur, 81, 245

“Summer People, The” (Jackson), 268, 269, 278

Sundial, The
(Jackson), 3, 17, 384–99,
386
, 409, 444, 468

characters and plot of, 350, 380–81, 385–89, 392–94, 397, 398, 412

cover jacket for, 394

critical response to, 397–99

humor in, 335, 381, 387, 388, 397