Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (97 page)

Farrar, Margaret Petherbridge, 216, 217, 218, 263–64, 322–23, 423

Farrar, Straus and Company, 8, 212, 216–20, 252, 257, 275, 278, 301, 316, 323, 364, 390–92, 396, 423

Farrar & Rinehart, 216

fascism, 88, 123

Fast, Howard, 311

Faulkner, William, 452

Fauré, Gabriel, 37

Fearing, Kenneth, 109, 122

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 310–13, 319, 355, 360

Feeley, Helen, 197, 234, 319–20, 425, 433

Feeley, Jennifer, 234

Feeley, Paul, 195, 197, 202, 319–20

Fels, Anna, 202, 341

Fels, Harriet, 329, 433

Fels, William, 202, 329, 341

Feminine Mystique, The
(Friedan), 3, 197, 236, 256, 264–65, 369

feminist movement, 3, 245

Fergusson, Francis, 189

Ferris, Paul, 280

Field, Chauncy, 19

Field, Julia, 19

55 Short Stories from the New Yorker
, 245

Finckel, George, 195

“Fine Old Firm, A” (Jackson), 182–83, 205, 213

Finlandia
(Sibelius), 120

First Congregational Church, 190

Fisher, Barbara, 192, 195, 341

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 263, 391

Fitzgerald, Ella, 229, 462

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 272

Flanner, Janet, 162, 163, 229

“Flower Garden” (Jackson), 190, 204–6, 208, 213, 214, 399, 420

“Flying Home” (Ellison), 181

Fodor, Nandor, 406, 568

folk music, 152, 276

Folkways records, 246

Foresman, Scott, 126

“Fork, The” (Jackson), 422

Forsyte Saga, The
(Galsworthy), 61

Fort Benning, 140

Foster, Catherine Osgood “Kit,” 207, 208, 212, 301, 330, 391, 495

Foster, Jeannette H., 439–41

Foster, Tom, 212, 390, 391, 495

Fowlie, Wallace, 234, 263, 341, 342, 402

France, 20, 56, 109, 357, 402

Resistance in, 60, 181

Franco, Francisco, 112

Franklin, Sidney, 40

Fraser, James, 272

Frazer, James, 9, 58, 179, 221–22,
223
, 240, 269, 292, 296, 338, 340, 432, 464

Fredericks, Claude, 327, 329–30, 341, 525

Freer, Marjorie Mueller, 416–17

“Fresh Air Diary” (Jackson), 286–88, 307–8, 314

Fresh Air Fund, SJ as host for, 286–88, 313

Freud, Anna, 332

Freud, Sigmund, 9, 84, 88, 240, 250, 269, 353, 424, 464, 475

Friedan, Betty, 3, 198, 236, 256, 264–65, 303, 337, 369

Friede, Donald, 187

Friend, Miriam, 229–30

Fromm, Erich, 195, 3231

From Ritual to Romance
(Weston), 160

Front, The
(film), 81

Frost, Derland, 368

Frost, Robert, 320, 487

Fuld, William, 21

Fuller, Edmund, 325, 370, 398

Function of the Orgasm, The
(Reich), 293

Gaby, Alex, 151

“Gallows Pole,” 291

Galsworthy, John, 61

Gannett, Lewis, 371

Gannett newspapers, 45

Garbo, Greta, 40

“Garlic in Fiction” lecture (Jackson), 417, 447

Geiler von Keisersperg, Johannes,
260

Geisel, Theodor Seuss (Dr. Seuss), 475

Genesee River, 45, 53

Genesee Valley Club, 46

Gentleman’s Agreement
(Hobson), 131, 272

Geraghty, James, 276

German-American Bund, 146

Germany, Nazi, 40, 111, 114, 132, 140, 146, 182, 183

concentration camps of, 234, 235

military aggression of, 89, 109, 112, 163

“Ghosts of Loiret, The” (Jackson), 304

Gibbs, Wolcott, 209, 229

Gidding, Nelson, 426

“Gift, The” (Jackson), 184

Gilbert, W. S., 81, 245, 402

Gill, Brendan, 163, 228–29, 244, 280, 282, 372, 426, 451, 489, 495

Gillespie, Dizzy, 393

Gimbel’s, 141, 167

Girl Scouts, 36

Giroux, Robert, 391–92, 394, 396

Glanvill, Joseph, 106–7, 108, 187–88, 252, 257, 305

Glastenbury Mountain, 254

Glazer, Tom, 135, 496

Glenn, John, 317

Goddard College, 459

Goldberg, Seymour, 93, 94, 147, 151–53

Golden Bough, The
(Frazer), 58, 105, 221–22,
223
, 227, 233, 292, 293, 338, 339, 465, 510

Golden Gate Park Conservatory, 15

Gold Rush, 14

Golffing, Francis, 341

Goodbye, Columbus
(Roth), 424

Good Housekeeping
, 278, 300, 314–15, 316, 375, 395, 422, 430

SJ stories in, 262, 269–70, 307

“Good Samaritans, The” (Parsell), 94

gospel music, 124

Gospels, 340

“Got a Letter from Jimmy” (Jackson), 254–55, 294

Gould, Joe, 135–36

Graham, Martha, 195

Grapes of Wrath, The
(Steinbeck), 118, 160, 396

“Grattan Murders, The,” 165

Gray, James, 465

Great Britain, 109

Great Days, The
(Dos Passos), 399

Greek mythology and drama, 338–39, 340, 465

Green, Charlie, 125

Greenberg, Clement, 195

Greene, Elizabeth, 251–52, 448

Greene, Nathanael, 15

Green-Wood Cemetery, 18

Grillot de Givry, Émile, 106,
260

Grimm’s fairy tales, 30

Group, The
(McCarthy), 112–13

Group Theatre, 105

Guerre, Martin, 256

Guggenheim Fellowships, 292

Guthrie, Woody, 152

“Had We but World Enough” (Jackson), 126–27

Hall, Radclyffe, 63

Halsman, Philippe, 70–72,
71
,
466

Hamburger, Philip, 178, 229, 495

Hammett, Dashiell, 144

Hamsun, Knut, 186

Hancock, Harry, 451

“Hangman Tree,” 291

Hangsaman
(Jackson), 211, 276, 277, 278, 291–97, 300–303, 336, 440

autobiographical elements in, 291, 293–95

characters and plot of, 43–44, 48, 55–56, 62–64, 67, 92, 97, 156, 198, 291–96, 297, 322, 350, 512–13

critical response to, 300–302, 304–5, 313

disappointing sales of, 303, 390

myth and ritual context of, 293, 296

promotion of, 301

publication of, 297, 300

title of, 291

writing of, 296, 297

Harap, Louis, 143, 146, 148–49, 158, 183, 244, 435

correspondence of SJ and, 170, 172, 182, 188

Hardwick, Elizabeth, 293

Hardy, Thomas, 92, 279

Harlem Renaissance, 159–60

Harlequin (cat), 430,
431

Harlequin (commedia dell’arte), 30, 40, 50–52, 61, 66

Harper & Brothers, 269

Harper’s
, 307

Harris, James (“daemon lover” figure), 52, 64, 248, 253, 255–58, 283, 299, 351, 542

Harris, Julie, 425

Harrison, Jane Ellen, 179, 296, 338–40,
339

Hartmann, Erich, 218,
219
,
356

Harvard University, 123, 232, 315, 460

Law School of, 15

Hattenhauer, Daryl, 414

Haunted People
(Carrington and Fodor), 406

Haunting, The
(film), 425–26, 473

Haunting of Hill House, The
(Jackson), 3, 6, 113, 266, 304, 322, 375–76, 400, 449

characters and plot of, 5, 164, 165, 335–36, 348, 404–6, 409–19, 494

critical response to, 423–24

film version of, 418, 422, 425–26, 473

first lines of, 409–10, 447

inspiration for, 14, 401–6

supernatural elements of, 107, 424, 446

writing of, 17, 19, 408–9, 414–15, 417, 419–20, 423

Hauser, Gayelord, 216

Hawaiian Pineapple Company, 22

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, ix, 3, 17, 36, 196, 205, 253, 397, 424, 446

Haydn, Hiram, 212

Hayward, Leland, 210

Hebrew language, 76, 97

Hellman, Lillian, 136

Hemingway, Ernest, 149

Henderson the Rain King
(Bellow), 424

Henrietta (friend of Hyman’s), 83–84

“Henrietta” (Jackson), 184

Here at the New Yorker
(Gill), 280, 282

“Here I Am, Washing Dishes Again” (Jackson), 265, 538

Herrington, H. W., 92, 233

Herrmann, Jimmy, 405–6

Herrmann, Mrs., 405

Herzog
(Bellow), 397, 446, 463–64

Hibernian Savings and Loan Society, 16

Hicks, Granville, 87

Highsmith, Patricia, 131

Hill, Elizabeth, 187

Hill and Wang, 232

Hillsborough, Calif., 27–29

Hiroshima, atomic bombing of, 235, 382

Hitler, Adolf, 86, 115, 140, 146

Hobbit, The
(Tolkien), 168

Hochman, Sandra, 196, 496

Hokinson, Helen, 272

Holden, Florence, 378–80

Hollywood, Calif., 332

Holmes, Burton, 100

Holocaust, 234

“Home” (Jackson), 480

“Homecoming” (Jackson), 184, 266

homosexuality, 203, 238, 302, 360

Honolulu, Hawaii, 22, 140

Hopkins, Mark, 14

Hot Discography
, 293

Hothouse
(Kachka), 216

House and Garden
, 172

House Committee on Un-American Activities, 6, 235, 360

“Housewife” (Sexton), 5

Houston Post
, 368

Howe, Julia Ward, 15

Hughes, Langston, 87, 160

Humez, Jean McMahon, 340–41

Huntington, Collis, 14, 18

hydrogen bomb tests, 382–84

radioactive fallout from, 383–84, 406

Hyman, Arthur, 74, 75–76, 148, 318, 459

Hyman, Barry Edgar (son), 24,
356
, 373

birth of, 164, 316–17

childhood and adolescence of, 201–2, 251, 304, 317–18,
324
, 328, 362,
363
, 368–69, 371, 377, 393, 418–19, 459, 468, 478, 494

education of, 419

musical career of, 317

relationship of SJ and, 317, 318, 377, 457–58

on SJ, 268, 371, 493

Hyman, Bunny, 318

Hyman, Corinne Biggs, 459–60, 462, 470, 495

Hyman, Harry, 79

Hyman, Joanne Leslie “Jannie” (daughter), 23, 31, 33, 249, 270,
356

asthmatic condition of, 290–91

birth of, 164, 199, 206, 207–8

childhood and adolescence of, 166–70, 206–8, 222–23, 234, 262, 275, 290–91, 304, 309, 317–18, 320,
324
, 328, 362,
363
, 364–65, 377, 379, 392, 439, 449, 456, 460, 494–96

education of, 318, 458–59, 468, 474

on SJ, 24, 166, 208, 234, 467–68

Hyman, Laurence Jackson “Laurie” (son), 23, 78, 249, 270,
356
,
486

biking accident of, 272, 288–91, 306–7, 313, 379

birth of, 135, 164, 170, 171, 173, 178, 206

carpentry of, 327, 328, 363

childhood and adolescence of, 8, 73, 165–71,
169
, 178, 182, 199, 201, 202, 206–8, 222–23, 246, 268, 272, 276, 288–91, 304, 306–10, 313,
314
, 317–18, 320,
324
, 327–28, 363–65,
363
, 373, 392–93, 436, 438–39

education of, 246, 268, 318, 391, 423

marriage and fatherhood of, 458–62, 495

on SJ, 15

trumpet-playing of, 168, 364, 392, 460

Hyman, Louis, 72

Hyman, Louisa “Lulu” Marshak, 72–76, 78–80, 130, 135, 371, 438–39, 459–60, 494

Hyman, Miles (grandson), 460, 461–62

Hyman, Moises “Moe,” 72–76, 77–80, 81, 83, 88, 129–30, 135, 278–79, 289

death of, 438–39

Hyman, Sarah Geraldine “Sally” (daughter), 20, 215, 270,
356

birth of, 164, 249, 250, 251, 262, 274, 350

character and personality of, 250–52, 309, 377–79, 448–49

childhood and adolescence of, 76, 156, 165–71, 250–52,
250
, 261–62, 275, 304, 309, 317–18,
324
, 328, 362,
363
, 364, 368, 371, 377–80, 392, 423, 430, 439, 448–49, 478, 496

early reading of, 362, 448–49

education of, 318, 378–80, 430, 461, 468, 474

emotional problems and attempted suicide of, 252, 474

on SJ, 165, 198, 276, 286, 438, 468, 494

writing talent of, 252, 474–75, 483

Hyman, Stanley Edgar (husband), 58, 70–90,
85
,
180
, 221, 230,
238
, 261

atheism of, 76, 85, 107, 114, 180, 339

bar mitzvah of, 75–76, 81

birth of, 73, 514

book reviews of, 463–64

character and personality of, 4, 8, 84, 265, 280

childhood and adolescence of, 72–84,
75
,
78
, 289, 317, 339, 392

collections of, 79, 152, 158, 310, 320, 327, 377

Communist attraction of, 85–89, 100, 101, 496

correspondence of SJ and, 7–8, 39, 44, 90, 100–105, 115–20, 131, 141, 148, 154, 156, 257, 299, 407–8

death of, 4, 163, 341, 366, 496

dental problems of, 436

devotion to students of, 342

early jobs of, 89, 102, 127, 135, 137, 138