Thornton Wilder (126 page)

Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 198, 262, 278

Shanghai,
see
China

Sharpe, John C., 201

Shaw, George Bernard, 419, 612, 649

Shaw, Robert, 693

Sheldon, Edward “Ned,” 239, 353, 421, 427, 443, 447–48, 532, 544, 553, 578, 584, 585

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 584

Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock, 294

Sherrill, Gibbs, 294

Sherwood, Robert, 497, 504

Shikibu, Murasaki,
The Tale of Genji,
666

Shore, Dinah, 652

Shumlin, Herman, 469

Simonds, Bruce, 246, 329

Sinatra, Frank, 652

Sinclair, Upton, 313

Skin of Our Teeth, The
(TNW), 551

characters and plot of, 185, 439, 500–503, 513–14, 535, 542–43

evolution of, 428, 491, 492–94, 507, 509, 522, 523, 528, 529, 530–31, 543, 648

and
Finnegans Wake,
545–49, 555, 641, 642

production of, 529, 530–33, 540, 541–42, 544–45, 552, 554, 562, 636, 645, 648–49, 698

success of, 543, 545, 573, 574, 645

themes in, 503–5, 641, 642

and war, 492–93, 504–5, 528, 529, 542, 548, 574

Skirball, Jack, 535

Smith, Frederick James, 333

social revolutionary writers, 342–43

Sophocles, 476, 695

Sousa, John Philip, 7

South America, goodwill tour of, 507–8, 509, 510, 511–12, 519–20, 581, 598, 614

Spooner, John Coit, 12, 15, 16

Squirrel Island, Maine, 111–12

Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 253

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 316

Steichen, Edward, 663

Stein, Gertrude, 354, 389, 395–97, 410, 414, 418, 472, 484, 519–20, 529, 552, 599

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,
393

and creativity, 406, 578, 694

death of, 578, 609, 694

in Europe, 399, 400–401, 402, 403, 409–10, 412, 419, 429, 430, 467, 475, 477, 478, 481, 487, 525

Everybody's Autobiography,
393, 396, 430–31

Four in America,
405, 578, 591

The Geographical History of America,
405–7, 440

and Harris, 446, 454–55

Ida A Novel,
430

influence of, 407, 427, 430, 440, 441, 442, 468, 581, 601

The Making of Americans,
425, 440, 441

Narration,
405

papers archived at Yale, 454

and patriotism, 410

and repetition, 406, 440–41

on solitude, 506, 612

TNW's article about, 591

at University of Chicago, 393, 396, 398

and war, 419, 467, 478, 487

Steinbeck, John, 466

Sten, Anna, 384

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 88

Steward, Samuel, 433–38, 439, 523

Stewart, Rosalie, 383, 398–99, 476, 534

Stifter, Adalbert, 404

Stokowski, Leopold, 531

Stout, Rex, 497, 527, 552

Stowitts, Hubert Jay, 99

Strachey, Lytton, 207, 263

Strand, Paul, 389

Strobel, Mabel, 355

Sturges, Preston, 386

Sun Yat-sen, 52

 

Taft, William Howard, 16, 38–39, 58, 66, 87

Tal, Lucy, 433

Talma, Louise, 634, 639, 647, 652–53, 657, 668, 674, 679

Taos, TNW in, 388–90, 396, 658

Tappan, Arthur, 6, 94–95

Tappan, Lewis, 6, 94–95

Taylor, Bill, 163

Taylor, Deems, 447

Taylor, Elizabeth, 619

Taylor, H. C., 81

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 669–70, 673

Terence, 327, 334

Thacher, Sherman, 37, 56–57, 58, 65, 69, 73, 125, 216, 338

Thacher School, California, 37, 52, 56, 58, 64, 66–70, 144, 338

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 631

Theatre Arts Monthly,
240–41, 243

Theatre Guild, 472, 626, 649

Thimig, Helene, 463, 467

Thomas, Lewis, 698

Thompson, Dorothy, 508

Thompson, Francis, 515

Thoreau, Henry David, 343, 607, 608, 609, 610, 616, 617

Tiffany, Charles, 409

Time,
177, 228, 623

Tinker, Chauncey, 151, 176, 216, 303–4

Toklas, Alice B., 395–96, 430–31, 578, 589, 604

and Stein,
see
Stein, Gertrude

Tolstoy, Leo, 253, 663, 666

Toomer, Jean, 177, 207

Torrey, Frederick Cheever, 87–88

Toscanini, Arturo, 403

Townson, Andrew “Andy,” 274, 275–79

Townson, Marie, 279, 287, 298, 300, 301, 302

Traugott, Harry J., 564

Trego, Nina, 130, 135, 156–57, 292

Trolley, June and Leonard, 570, 580

Trudeau, Edward Livingston, 5

Truman, Harry S., 608

Tunney, Gene, 302–3, 313, 314, 317–18, 321–23, 325–26, 332, 333, 339, 343, 348, 353, 390, 691

Tunney, Polly Lauder, 318, 325, 326, 332, 348

Tyler, Marion, 121

 

Ulrich, Dorothy (Troubetzkoy), 426

UNESCO International Conference on the Artist in Contemporary Society, 620–21, 666

Universal Pictures, 535

University of Basel, 646

University of Chicago, 331, 332, 333–34, 339, 347, 360, 390, 397

ANW's work at, 617

Janet as Ph.D. candidate in, 415

lecture program in Germany, 592, 593

Stein's lectures at, 393, 396, 398

TNW's teaching at, 341, 345–46, 355, 365, 393, 412, 414–15, 420, 522–23, 599

Untermeyer, Louis, 312

Updike, John, 675

 

Valéry, Paul, 308–9, 429

Van Dusen, Henry Pitney, 321

Van Heusen, Jimmy, 652

Van Vechten, Carl, 578

Varney, Ellwood, Jr., 81

Vega Carpio, Lope Félix de, 213, 214, 549, 571, 593, 594, 595, 596, 605, 607, 622, 637, 647

Verdi, Giuseppe, 695

Verdi, William Francis, 301

Verhaeren, Émile, 27, 122

Verissimo, Erico, 519

Villegas, Micaela (Perichole), 305, 307, 311, 499

Voltaire, 404

 

Wager, Charles H. A., 96, 131, 142, 154–55, 183

academic career of, 118

encouragement from, 109, 110, 121, 136, 216, 269–70, 458

and TNW at Oberlin, 104, 114, 118, 122, 126, 132, 134

TNW's letters to, 144, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 156, 203, 263

Wagner, Charles L., 271, 299

Waldinger, Ernst, 497

Walker, Coleman, 284

Walpole, Horace, 213, 317, 679

Walpole, Hugh, 312, 314, 339–40

Walter, Bruno, 403

Waram, Percy, 471

Washburn, Alice F., 329

Waters, Ethel, 643

Watson, James D., 698

Weeks, Edward “Ted,” 295–96, 655

Weingartner, Felix, 403

Weissman, Herman, 558

We Live Again
(film), 384, 386

Welles, Orson, 395, 406, 452, 509, 531, 532, 553

Wells, H. G., 234, 413, 526

Wertheimer, Amy Weil, 248, 667

and friendship, 260–61, 270–72, 283, 289, 292, 299

TNW's letters to, 249, 252, 254, 256–59, 271–72, 280, 291–92, 366, 398, 400, 414, 420, 444, 543, 550, 563, 577, 589, 662, 666, 676, 681

Wescott, Glenway, 278, 298, 313, 319, 438, 591, 653

West, Rebecca, 233, 526

Wharton, Edith, 278, 319, 447

White, E. B., 663

Whitehead, Alfred North, 428

Whitman, Walt, 343, 410, 438, 439, 607, 608, 609, 615

Whitney, William Dwight, 189, 666

Wilcox, Wendell, 437, 523

Wilder, Amos Lincoln (grandfather), 2, 8, 39

Wilder, Amos Niven (brother):

birth of, 1, 11

in California, 25–28, 37, 49, 55, 56, 58, 64, 69–70

and Charlotte's illness, 515, 518, 521, 696

childhood of, 1–2, 17–18, 22–28, 32–35

Croix de Guerre awarded to, 157

death of, 701

and farmwork, 24, 65, 80–82, 93

health problems of, 376–78, 513

and his father, 29, 47, 52, 65, 99, 229, 235, 250, 368, 415

and his mother, 138

in Hong Kong, 19, 22–25

honorary degrees to, 617, 646

in Maine, 111, 616

marriage to Catharine, 377–78, 380, 399, 411, 412

memories of, 14, 15, 26–27, 29

and the ministry, 250, 255, 273, 291

and money matters, 26–27, 79, 420

in New Haven, 229, 230

at Oberlin, 73, 75, 77, 78, 83, 94, 96, 123, 147

at Oxford, 174, 195, 205, 216, 218–19, 223

personality of, 65, 70, 73–74, 93

poetry of, 34, 139, 218–19, 250, 291, 367, 376, 484, 515–16, 687

and religion, 13, 115, 192, 376

retirement of, 663

schooling of, 23, 37, 47, 69–70

and tennis, 33, 35, 70, 99, 105, 112, 179, 223

and TNW's work, 394, 600–601

at University of Brussels, 179, 192

at University of Chicago, 617

wife and family of, 418, 429, 484, 518, 554

and World War I, 83–84, 115–16, 117–18, 122–23, 127–28, 136–37, 144, 150, 154, 157, 159, 164, 166–67, 169, 172, 235, 376

at Yale, 84, 89, 92, 98, 144, 147, 174, 178, 179, 223, 239, 250, 376

Wilder, Amos Parker (father):

advice to children from, 32–36, 48, 126, 143, 168, 194–95, 201, 207, 209, 228–29, 236, 250, 297, 328

aging of, 346, 364, 369, 410

birth of, 2

in California, 80–81

children of, 1, 14, 23–24, 29, 37, 368, 513–14

control wielded by, 38, 49, 56, 65–67, 73–74, 75, 80–83, 89, 92, 93, 98, 99, 104–5, 111, 116, 125–26, 134–35, 140, 141, 146, 159, 164, 173, 179, 188, 195, 200–202, 229, 235–36, 239, 260, 364, 367–68

death of, 415–16, 701

early years of, 3, 8–10, 68

farmwork for sons of, 24, 35, 65, 74, 80–82, 93, 100, 105, 106, 110, 129, 134, 140, 179

health problems of, 57–58, 61, 65–66, 67, 76, 78–79, 82, 84, 98, 188, 235, 328, 364, 378, 387, 398, 410–11, 412

in Hong Kong, 18–25, 29–30, 31

and Isabella, 6, 7–8, 25, 29, 50–51, 140, 188, 229, 230, 274

and money matters, 9, 20–21, 26–27, 51, 55–57, 58, 69, 79, 119, 190, 195–96, 200, 226–27, 236, 260, 297, 326, 328, 364–65, 420

moralizing letters from, 33–35, 45, 48, 73, 99, 108, 187–89, 216, 303, 364, 368, 378, 516

as newspaperman, 10, 12–14, 15–16, 51, 57, 323, 329, 415

as public speaker, 7, 10, 12–13, 16, 31, 61, 76, 121, 138, 172, 188, 217, 234

and religion, 13, 48

in Shanghai,
see
China

and Six O-Clock Club, 12

as teetotaler, 3, 15, 22–23, 30, 36, 38, 55, 75, 76, 95

vacations taken by, 80, 82, 111, 208, 275

and World War I, 116, 118, 128, 164, 165, 166, 168

at Yale, 8–9, 10, 146, 178, 239

and Yale-in-China, 82, 98, 116, 121, 138, 150, 188

Wilder, Amos Tappan (nephew), 484, 665, 702

Wilder, Catharine Dix “Dixie” (niece), 418, 666, 678, 693

Wilder, Catharine Kerlin (ANW's wife), 377–78, 380, 399, 411, 412, 418, 429, 484, 616, 701

Wilder, Charlotte Elizabeth (sister):

awards and honors to, 411, 484–85

birth of, 1, 11

in Boston, 219, 234, 250–51