xxvii, 20, 34–5, 41–9, 52–6,
accent, 85–6; wears dinner
59–61, 66, 69, 73–5, 79,
jacket, 104n; attends Pilates’
117–18, 163, 166–7, 175, 182,
gymnasium, 120;
193–4, 208, 233, 241n, 257–8,
photographed by Jared French,
277–8; with Jim Charlton, xv,
128; photographed on Fire
156–66, 183, 208, 210–11,
Island, 138–9; returns to Los
213–14, 216, 230, 248, 280n;
Angeles (1948), 149–50;
with Jack Hewit, xxix, 92–4,
bicycling, 150n; moves into
98–100, 103; with Bill Harris,
East Rustic Road with Caskey,
4–7, 9–20; with Carter Lodge,
167, 183; hospital visiting, 183,
12n; with Steve Conway,
200, 204–5, 219, 236, 239–40;
32–7, 41–2; with Vernon Old,
psychic sensitivity, 185–7 & n;
45, 50, 92, 106, 193; with
attends Benton Way Group
Auden, 58; friendship with
meeting, 197–8; gives up
Denny Fouts ends, 70; with
smoking, 211–12; resumes
John Cowan, 76; with Ian
smoking, 215n; detained in
Scott–Kilvert, 103–7 & n; with
raid on homosexual club,
Tony Hyndman, 114–15n,
216–17; Fechin portrait of,
145; difficulties with Caskey,
222; hypnotized by LeCron,
179–83, 197, 210, 220, 250n,
230–1; driving, 231; practises
278; considers leaving Caskey,
autosuggestion, 236; attitude to
192–3, 199–200; Caskey breaks
Jews, 262, 266; encounter with
with, 195, 282–3; with Don
psychotic neighbor, 264–5;
Coombs, 218–19, 221, 258,
leaves Los Angeles for Laguna
260–1; with Michael Leopold,
Beach, 273–5; painted by
220–2, 230, 258, 277; with
Sorel, 276; play–acts drowning,
Peter Darms, 242–3, 258, 282;
376
Index
with Brad Saunders, 258–9;
invited to contribute to
with Lennie Newman, 279–80
Tomorrow magazine, 241–2;
Spiritual ideas and practices: takes
reviewing, 247, 258, 275–6,
up Vedanta, xxvii, xxix;
282n
meditation, xxix; enjoys
Isherwood, Frank Bradshaw (C.I.’s
Vedanta Center ceremonies, 9,
father), viii, 238
14, 59, 81, 179; has doubts over Isherwood, Henry Bradshaw (C.I.’s monastic life, 27–8; consults
uncle): death, 90n
clairvoyants, 39, 51n; finally
Isherwood, Kathleen Bradshaw (M;
moves from Vedanta Center,
C.I.’s mother): C.I. writes on,
45–6; initiation by
viii ; C.I.’s relations with, x ;
Prabhavananda, 78, 209; makes
C.I. visits, 87–9, 185n; death,
japam, 171, 183
87; and ownership of
Travels: in South America with
Wyberslegh, 90n, 111; and
Caskey, xxxiv, 119, 123, 133,
C.I.’s relations with Ian
139, 141; hitchhiking with Bill
Scott–Kilvert, 104n; reaction
Harris, 13; hobo trip with
to C.I.’s sterility operation,
Vernon Old, 13; motor trip
111; and Richard’s jealousy of
with Caskey, 47; in China,
C.I., 144; The Condor and the
61, 82; to Mexico with Caskey,
Cows (British ed.) dedicated to,
78, 79; to England (1947),
194
80–117; in Portugal (1935–6),
Isherwood, Richard Graham
114n; return to New York
Bradshaw (C.I.’s brother): and
(1947), 117–19; in Berlin,
C.I.’s 1947 visit to Wyberslegh,
133–4n; in Amsterdam, 134n;
87–8, 112; appearance and
to France with Caskey, 141–3;
behavior, 87; meets Felix
in England with Caskey (1948),
Greene, 89; inherits
143–7; returns to New York
Wyberslegh through C.I., 90n,
with Caskey (1948), 149; to
111; and C.I.’s 1948 visit, 144,
New Mexico with Peggy
185n; jealousy of C.I., 144
Kiskadden, 247–54
Ivar Avenue, Hollywood see
Writings: autobiographical
Vedanta Center
memoir, vii ; diaries, vii, ix,
xii, xxiv, xxvi–xxvii, 3;
Jackson, Shirley: The Lottery, 223n,
considers giving up fiction,
225n
ix–x; translates Bhagavad Gita
Jacobs, William, 29, 32
with Swami, 8n, 9, 22; helps
James, Henry: C.I. admires, 52n;
Prabhavananda with translation
“The Author of Baltraffio”,
of Shankara, 72n; makes
52n; The Bostonians, 175n;
typescript of diaries, 72;
“Lady Barberina”, 52n; “The
translates Patanjali aphorisms,
Pupil”, 103n
179, 207, 210, 212, 258, 278;
Japan: surrenders (1945), 45
foreword to Rinser’s Die
Jarrico, Paul, 191
Stärkerer, 192; depiction of self
Jay see de Laval, Jay
in fiction, 200; writes foreword
Jeff (pseud.), 17, 40
to Vividishananda’s A Man of
Jennings, Isa, 123, 130
God, 207; occasional writings,
Jennings, Ollie, 123–4, 133, 138
210n; ideas for stories, 221n;
Job (ballet), 147
Index
377
John, Augustus, 91
50–1; accompanies C.I. when
Johnson, Celia, 144
made U.S. citizen, 78;
Jones, Jennifer, 154n
friendship with C.I., 81,
Jonson, Ben: The Alchemist, 91
153–4, 208, 230, 281; Kathleen
Journey to a War (C.I.; with Auden),
Isherwood’s idea of, 89; on
22n, 209
C.I.’s Peter Pan qualities, 101;
Judgement Day in Pittsburgh (film),
in New York, 135; disapproves
81, 91
of C.I.’s boyfriends, 154, 283;
Juenger, Ernst: On the Marble Cliffs,
attends Vernon Old’s marriage,
140n
170; disapproves of Ben Bok’s
Julius Caesar (film), 263
marriage, 173; dislikes
Jung, Carl Gustav, xi, xx
Huxley’s Ape and Essence,
Jurado, Arthur, 205
176n; C.I. travels to New
Mexico with, 247–56; idea of
Kahn, Gordon, 25
self, 249n; relations with
Kallman, Chester, 82, 117, 129, 142
Georgia O’Keeffe, 250; C.I.
Kanin, Garson: Remembering Mr.
ceases close relations with,
Maugham, 37n
256–7
Katha Upanishad, 9
Kiskadden, William Sherrill (Bill):
Kathleen and Frank (C.I.), viii, x,
C.I. entertains, 50; friendship
xxi–xxii
with C.I., 81, 153, 230; in
Kaufman, Robert, 237n
New York, 135; C.I. witnesses
Kazan, Elia, 267
operation by, 178; supposed
Keate, Richard (Dick), 65–6
sadism, 179 & n
Kelley, Howard, 17–18, 50, 81,
Kiskadden, William Sherrill, Jr. (Bill
227–8
and Peggy’s son; “Bull”), 247,
Kennedy, Arthur, 31n
249, 252, 254–6
Kennedy, Bill, 192, 241–2, 245
Kittredge, Bob and Mary, 248–9,
Kennedy, Helen see Sudhira
255
Kennedy, (Sir) Ludovic, 272
Knight, Franklin, 7
Kennington, Eric, 94
Kolisch, Dr. Joseph, 23, 63, 272
Keohane, Jack (pseud.), 75
Korean War (1950–53), 240, 243
Kidd, David, 188
Kramer, Stanley, 205
King, Mackenzie, 116
Küsel, Otto, 134n
King-Page, Neville, 115
Kinsey, Alfred: Sexual Behavior in the
Lady from the Land of the Dead, The
Human Male, xv
(C.I.; TV script), ix
Kirstein, Lincoln: meets Caskey,
Laguna Beach: C.I. and Caskey
xvii; hostility to C.I., 69; in
settle in (Monterey Street),
New York, 119, 123, 129–30;
273–5
admires Nadelman sculptures,
Lamarr, Hedy, 242
132; art cult, 132–3; admires
Lamkin, Speed: advises C.I. on The
Burns’s The Gallery, 137; visits
World in the Evening,
Fire Island, 138
xxix–xxxii, 281, 283–4;
Kiskadden, Peggy (formerly Bok;
character, xxx, 232, 273, 283;
then Rodakiewicz): Steve
co–adapts C.I.’s Goodbye to
Conway not introduced to, 41;
Berlin for stage (as Sally
C.I. meets, 45; C.I. entertains,
Bowles), xxxi, 265–6, 273, 277,
378
Index
284; C.I. meets, 232; affair
“Coming to London”
with Bertrand Cambus, 260;
Letter, The (film), 37
cultivates C.I.’s friendship,
Lewis, David, 211
278, 281; accepts C.I.’s
Lewis, Hayden: relations with
withdrawal of Sally Bowles
Caskey, 34, 43; loses civilian
adaptation, 285; admires Alec
job with Navy, 43; and C.I.’s
Beesley, 285; The Easter Egg
relations with Caskey, 45, 48,
Hunt, 283; Tiger in the Garden,
52–3, 119n, 233; C.I. gives
232
Packard car to, 46n; on Caskey
Lang, Mrs. (Ian Scott–Kilvert’s
and Keohane, 75; relations
mother), 103–6n
with Rodney Owens, 76–7,
Langford, Sam, 95–6, 102
81, 149–50, 153, 167; and C.I.’s
LaPan, Dick, 50, 277
1947 departure for England,
Lathwood, Jo see Masselink, Jo
82; meets C.I. on return from
Laughton, Charles, 45, 195
England (1948), 149; improved
Laval, Jay de see de Laval, Jay
relations with C.I., 150, 153,
Law, Doc, 44n
167, 208, 238; meets Jim
Lawrence, D.H., 253, 255n; St.
Charlton, 163; at Vernon Old’s
Mawr, 254n
wedding, 170; visits C.I. in
Lawrence, Frieda, 253, 254n
Monterey Street house, 274
Lawrence, T.E.: The Mint, 175n;
Libman, Lillian: And Music at the
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 94
Close, 201n
LeCron, Leslie, 230–1, 235–8
Liliencron, Detlev von, 26n
Leddick, David: Naked Men:
Lions and Shadows (C.I.), vii–viii,
Pioneering Male Nudes
98, 103n, 108
1935–1955, 128[n]
Litvak, Anatole, 23
Ledebur, Count Friedrich, 242
Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film), 171n
Lehmann, Beatrix, 110, 111n, 148n
Lodge, Carter: and C.I.’s life at
Lehmann, John: C.I. visits on 1947
Vedanta Center, 7; at Beesleys,
trip to England, 83–4, 95–6,
11–12; entertains C.I., 11;
102, 113; edits New Writing,
disapproves of C.I.’s
100[n]; and Neville King–Page,
lovemaking, 12n; relations
115; on grounding of Queen
with C.I., 12n; at AJC Ranch,
Elizabeth, 116; C.I. and Caskey
21, 220; C.I. visits with Caskey,
stay with in London (1948),
47, 196; C.I. entertains, 50;
143, 148; entertains Gore Vidal
relations with Dick Foote,
and Tennessee Williams, 145,
196n; loathes Starcke, 197n
146[n]; Paul Almond meets,
Logan, Joshua, 225–6
194–5; The Ample Proposition,
London: C.I. visits (1947), 83–6,
83, 85
91–107, 113–16; C.I. visits with
Lehmann, Rosamond, 108, 113 & n
Caskey (1948), 143, 145–8
Leigh, Vivien, 153, 267
Long Beach Veterans Hospital, 236,
Leopold, Michael, 220–2, 230, 258,
239–40
277
Loos, Anita, 27n
Lerman, Leo, 126–7
Los Alamos, New Mexico, 250
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Los Angeles: conference on world
(film), 153
peace (1949), 189–90
“Letter from England, A” see
Los Angeles Times, The : C.I.
Index
379
interviewed in, 49; quotes C.I.
suicide, 191–2; memorial
on Ethan Frome, 229n
volume, 210n; C.I. writes
Lubbock, Lys see Connolly, Lys
article on, 212, 215
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 254, 255n
Mann, Thomas: and Stefan Brecht,
Lupino, Ida, 31n
14n; makes no mention of
Lyme Hall, Cheshire (England),
Salka Viertel in letters, 71; C.I.
185n
visits, 77, 179; operation on
Lyndon, Andrew, 126–7, 131–2
lung, 77 & n; letter to Adorno
Lynes, George Platt, 65
on Klaus’s suicide attempt,
155; Caskey photographs, 189;
MacArthur, General Douglas, 273
reads C.I.’s article on Klaus,
Macaulay, (Dame) Rose, 113, 143
215; Dr. Faustus, 77; Letters,
McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 190, 209
170
McCarthy, Mary: The Oasis, 223n,
Mansfield, Katherine, 68, 282n
225n
March, Fredric, 67
McClendon, Carlos, 59n, 65–6,
Markova, (Dame) Alicia, 147
153, 184, 238
Marple Hall, Cheshire (England),
McCullers, Carson: The Member of
144, 185
the Wedding, 140n; Reflections in
Martinez, José (Pete), 5
a Golden Eye, 140n
Masefield, John: Multitude and
McDowall, Roddy, 17
Solitude, 275n
Mace, John, 81
Masselink, Ben: Jo meets, 44n; and
McGrath, Earle, 28 & [n]
Jim Charlton, 156n; friendship
Maclean, Donald, 100
with C.I., 195, 208, 230,
MacNeice, Louis, 83n
280–1; and Fechin, 222; and
Maddox, Tom (pseud.), 17
Korean War, 240n, 241;
Madge, Charles, 114n
marriage relations, 241n; helps
Magallanes, Nicholas, 50n
clear up C.I.’s apartment, 256;
Maher, Fern, xix, 24n
and C.I.’s break with Caskey,
Mailer, Norman, 228
282
Malaparte, Curzio: Kaputt, 140n
Masselink, Jo (formerly Lathwood):
Maltz, Albert: The Journey of Simon
meets Ben, 44n; and Jim
McKeever, 191
Charlton, 156n; friendship
Manchester (England), 89
with C.I., 195, 208, 230,
Mangeot, Olive, 91, 107–8, 110
280–1; and Fechin, 222; and
Mangeot, Sylvain, 91
Korean War, 240n; marriage
Mankiewicz, Joseph, 207n
relations, 241n; helps clear up
Mann, Erika, 155, 215
C.I.’s apartment, 256; and
Mann, Katia (Thomas’s wife):
C.I.’s break with Caskey, 282
defends unnamed friend of
Matta Echaurren, Roberto
Klaus, 168; Unwritten Memoirs,
Sebastián, xvi, 124
77n
Matty’s Cell House, New York, 58
Mann, Klaus: friendship with C.I.,
& n
153; recovers after suicide
Maugham, Robin: The Servant,
attempt, 155; relations with
225n
Harold Fairbanks, 155–6; visits
Maugham, William Somerset: denies
friend in jail, 168; co–writes
Larry in The Razor’s Edge
film outline with C.I., 170;
modelled on C.I., 22; in
380
Index
Hollywood, 37–8; meets
marriage, 66–7; at Chaplins’,
Swami, 38, 40; death, 40n;
234–5; at Sadler’s Wells Ballet
warns C.I. of police watch on
with C.I., 271
Denny Fouts, 40; The Narrow
Monkhouse, Mrs., 89–90
Corner, 223n; The Razor’s Edge,
Monkhouse, Allan, 89, 112
22n, 37 & n, 38 & n; Up at the
Monkhouse, Elizabeth (“Mitty”),
Villa, 28, 35 & n, 36n
90, 112
Mauldin, Bill, 269–70
Monkhouse, John, 89
Mauriber, Saul, 253
Monkhouse, Patrick, 90, 277
Maxine (Bernie Hamilton’s
Monkhouse, Rachel, 90, 112
girlfriend), 200
Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah,
Medley, Robert, 83n, 116
141 & n, 248, 249n, 255
Meeting by the River, A (C.I.; novel
Moore, George, 51n; A Drama in
and TV script), ix–x,
Muslin, 275n
xxv–xxvi, 170
Moraturi, Pancho, 13, 15
Memorial, The (C.I.), 203
Morgan, Frank, 177
Men, The (film), 205, 228, 230
Morris, Phyllis, 81 & n, 214
Menotti, Gian Carlo, 173
Mortimer, Raymond, 143
Merlo, Frank, 208, 267
Mosel, Fritz, 126
Merton, Thomas: The Seven–Storey
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 97
Mountain, 175–6n
Motley, Willard: Knock on Any Door,
Methuen (publishers), 119, 188, 196
xv & n, 140n; prose style,
Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer (MGM),
xxv–xxvii
73n, 150, 168, 173–4, 176–7,
Murphy, Audie, 268–70
191
Mussolini, Benito, 31
Mexico, 78, 88
My Guru and His Disciple (C.I.),
MGM see Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer
xxiv, xxvii
Minton, John, 143 & n
Miró, Joan, 47
Nadeau, Nicky, 81, 212n, 216
“Mr. Lancaster” (C.I.; section of
Nadelman, Elie, 132
Down There on a Visit ), 278
Naeve, Lowell: A Field of Broken
Mitchison, Naomi: The Blood of the
Stones, 275n
Martyrs, 225n
Naked and the Dead, The (film), 228
Mitford, Nancy: Love in a Cold
Nanny see Avis, Annie
Climate, 223n, 225n
Nantucket, Massachusetts, 125–7
Moffat, Ivan: works on films with
National Council of the Arts,
George Stevens, 66; imitates
Sciences and Professions,
C.I. describing Gregory Peck,
189–91
169; reports story of C.I.
Neddermeyer, Heinz: refused entry
misbehaving at Chaplins’,
to England, xi, xxi; relations
199n, 233; at Chaplins’ with
with C.I., xxx, 148; arrest and
Caskey and Natasha, 235; at
imprisonment, 98, 114n; in
Salka Viertel’s to hear Yma
Portugal with C.I., 114n
Sumac perform, 242; sees
Negri, Pola, 234
Sadler’s Wells Ballet with C.I.,
Neumann, Elisabeth (later Viertel),
271
148
Moffat, Natasha (née Sorokine):
Newman, Lennie: cooks at Jay de
Caskey corrects, xvi, 235;
Laval’s restaurant, 67, 171, 177;
Index
381
described, 67; at C.I. party,
Oliver, Maria Rosa, 137
170; relations with Caskey,
O’Neill, Patty (pseud.): marriage to
171, 193, 197, 246; tried in
Vernon Old, 170–1, 181
court with Caskey, 209; visits
Ophuls, Max, 153
C.I. and Caskey, 233, 238; C.I.
Orwell, George: Homage to
has sex with, 279–80
Catalonia, 275n; Nineteen
New Mexico, 247–54
Eighty–four, 225n
New World Writing, 284
Osborne, John: Look Back in Anger,
New Writing (magazine), 100[n]
60n
New York, 117–25, 128–38
Ouspenskaya, Maria, 39
Nin, Anaïs: C.I. meets, 245–6;
Owens, Rodney: relations with
Children of the Albatross, 245
Hayden Lewis, 76–7, 81,
No Way Out (film), 207n
149–50, 153, 167; in business,
Norment, Caroline, xxxi, 121n,
77; friendship with C.I., 81,
125, 239
150, 153, 167, 170, 208, 233,
Novak, Alvin, xviii–xix, 197–8
238; at C.I.’s 1947 departure for
“Nowaks, The” (C.I.; story in
England, 82; meets C.I. on
Goodbye to Berlin ), 100
return, 149; meets Jim
Charlton, 163; Radebaugh’s
Obey, André: Noé, 74[n]
infatuation with, 171; spends
Obin, Philomé, 125
Christmas and New Year
Ocampo, Victoria, 134, 136, 175n
(1950–51) with C.I., 274
O’Casey, Sean: Juno and the Paycock,
189
Paris, 142
O’Donnell, Lawrence: “Vintage
Pascal, Natalia, 50
Season”, 176n
Pastoral Symphony (film), 84n
O’Hara, John, 82n
Patanjali: How to Know God
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 247, 249–53,
(translated aphorisms), 179,
254n
183, 207, 210, 212, 258, 278
Old, Vernon (pseud.): and C.I.’s
Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved
relations with Bill Harris, 6;
Country, 175–6n
and Marcel Rodd, 8; practical
“Paul” (C.I.; section of Down There
jokes on, 10; travels with C.I.,
on a Visit ), 7n, 142
13; excites C.I., 20; C.I. dines
Pearn, Agnes Marie (Inez; Stephen
with, 31; lives in Hollywood
Spender’s first wife), 114n
with C.I., 38; friendship with
Pears, Peter, 92, 95, 106, 144,
C.I., 45, 50, 92 & [n], 106,
212–15
153; approves C.I.’s relations
Peck, Gregory, 152, 168–9, 177,
with Caskey, 46; C.I.
187–8
entertains, 50; affair with Anita
Pell, Donald (pseud.), 258, 260,
Pitoëff, 50; C.I.’s mythic
268, 271
image of, 60–1, 159; takes C.I.
Perkins, Lynn, 49–50
to snake show, 152n; marriage
Perlin, Bernard (Bernie), 123
to Patty O’Neill, 170–1 & [n],
Philipps, Cristina, 108–9
181; on wishing to serve C.I.,
Philipps, Wogan, 108–10
181; and C.I.’s psychic
Picasso, Pablo: Denny Fouts sells
experience in Sequoia, 185n;
painting, 46n
leaves C.I., 193
Pilates, Joseph, 120 & n
382
Index
Pitoëff, Anita, 50
48–9, 107, 235
Pitoëff, Ludmilla, 50
Pringle, Aileen, 195
Pits, The (on State Beach), 63–4
Pritchett, (Sir) V.S., 113
Players Restaurant, Hollywood, 39
Proust, Marcel, xx, 21, 26;
Plomer, William, 83 & n, 86, 94n,
Remembrance of Things Past, 21,
101–2, 113, 144
51; “Seascape” (from Within a
Poitier, Sidney, 207n
Budding Grove ), 67
Pole, Rupert, 245–6
Provincetown, Massachusetts, 127
Pollock, Peter, 100
Porter, Cole, 58[n], 69, 153n, 215
Quakers see Friends, Society of
Porter, Katherine Anne, 68–9
Queen Elizabeth (ship), 89, 116, 149
Portugal, 114n
Power, Tyrone, 39n
Radebaugh, Roy (Richard
Prabha (Phoebe Nixon; later
Cromwell), 170–1
Pravrajika Prabhaprana), 209
Rainey, Ford, 207–8, 229
Prabhavananda, Swami: C.I. writes
Rains, Claude, 31n
book on, viii, xxiv, xxvii;
Ramakrishna: C.I.’s biography of,
C.I.’s relations with, ix, 7, 9,
xxii, xxvii; birthday
182, 201n, 278; C.I. introduces
celebrations, 23, 179; C.I.
Caskey to, xvii; and C.I.’s
follows, 186
proposed biography of
Ramakrishna and His Disciples (C.I.),
Ramakrishna, xxii; effect on
xxii
C.I., xxix; translates Bhagavad
Random House (publishers), 119,
Gita with C.I., 8n, 9, 22;
188, 196, 276
returns to Vedanta Center, 14;
Rapper, Irving, 31n, 208
lumbago, 18; Time magazine
Rassine, Alexis, 84n, 96, 115, 143,
article on, 22; C.I. talks to
148, 271
about leaving, 27; and C.I.’s
Rattigan, (Sir) Terence: The Winslow
gonorrhea, 36; Maugham
Boy, 102
meets, 38, 40; scorn for
Ravagli, Angelo, 253, 254n
Tyrone Power, 39n; and C.I.’s
Rawlings, Margaret, 113n
leaving Vedanta Center, 45;
Razor’s Edge, The (film), 37, 38n
translates Shankara’s The
Red Badge of Courage, The (film),
Crest–Jewel of Discrimination,
268–70
72n; initiates C.I., 78; C.I.
Reed, John, 255n
visits, 81, 183; blesses C.I. on
Reinhardt, Gottfried: and C.I.’s
trip to England, 81; Kathleen
meeting Wolfgang, 28; C.I.
Isherwood’s view of, 89; C.I.
works with on films, 146,
attends birthday lunch, 173;
150–3, 168, 177; C.I. attends
translates Patanjali, 179, 183,
party, 221
207; believes Caskey a bad
Reinhardt, Wolfgang: C.I. dines
influence on C.I., 181; visits
with, 28; C.I. works with,
Trabuco, 191; and Sister’s
34–5, 36n
death, 197; leaves for India,
Reis, Irving, 91[n]
209; undergoes operation, 237, Reis, Meta, 91 & [n]
239; van Druten on, 247;
Renaldo, Tito: friendship with C.I.,
meets Alan Watts, 277
153 & n, 217; meets Swami,
Prater Violet (C.I.), xiii, xxv, xxx, 4,
188; leaves Trabuco, 217
Index
383
Repton Letters, The (C.I.; ed. George
Santa Barbara, California, 10, 13,
Ramsden), xxxi n
197
Richardson, (Sir) Ralph, 91
Santa Monica, California, 6, 9,
Richardson, Tony, 150, 175n
13–14, 198
Rickles, Don, 235[n]
Santa Paula (ship), 139
Rimbaud, Arthur: A Season in Hell,
Sarada (Folling), 209
182
Saroyan, William, 267
Rinser, Luise: Die Stärkeren, 192
Sartre, Jean-Paul, xvi, 66; No Exit,
Rio de Janeiro, 141 & n
175–6n
Robertson, David, 212
Saunders, Brad: affair with Jay de
Robeson, Paul, 17
Laval, 172, 177; described,
Robinsons department store, 15
172; serves in Korean War,
Robson-Scott, William, 83n, 98
241; relations with C.I., 258–9;
Rod see Owens, Rodney
attachment to Jim Charlton,
Rodd, Marcel, 8
259
Roder, Hellmut, 126 & n
Savage, Very Revd H.E., Dean of
Roditi, Edouard, xix
Lichfield, 30n
Rodman, Selden, 125
Scheuer, Philip K., 49
Roerick, Bill, 121
Schindler, Mr. and Mrs. (Haverford
Rolfe, Frederick William (Baron
refugees), 121
Corvo), xx
Schlee, George, 130–1
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: death,
Schoenberg, Arnold: Pierrot lunaire,
30–1
264
Rose Garden Apartments,
School of Tragedy, The (C.I.) see
Hollywood, 38
World in the Evening, The
Ross, Alan, 83n
Scobie, W.I., xi n
Ross, Jean, 108, 110
Scott-Kilvert, Derek, 103n
Ross, Lillian, 270–1
Scott-Kilvert, Elizabeth, 106
Roth, Sanford (Sandy), 74
Scott-Kilvert, Ian, 103–7 & n, 113
Rueda, Victor, 212n
Scott Moncrieff, C.K., 66[n]
Rügen Island (Germany), 138
Search, The (film), 149, 174
Russell, John, 38n
Searle, Ronald, 97n
Russia see Soviet Russia
Sequoia National Park, California,
185n, 243
Sachs, David, xix, n197
Shakespeare, William: Othello, 17
Sachs, Maurice: Le Sabbat, 175n
Shankara: The Crest–Jewel of
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, 271
Discrimination, 72n
St. Edmund’s school, Hindhead,
Shaw, George Bernard: Androcles and
Surrey, 57 & n
the Lion, 18
Salka see Viertel, Salka
Shearer, Moira, 271
Sally Bowles (proposed stage
Shepherd, Amos, 212n
adaptation by Lamkin and
Shivananda, Swami, 207
Field), 265–6, 273, 277, 284–5
“Shore, The” (C.I.; earlier
Samuels, Lesser: C.I. works with,
“California Story”), 74
81, 91, 167, 195, 198, 206–7,
Sinatra, Frank, 66
229–30; friendship with C.I.,
Single Man, A (C.I.), xii, xxv–xxvi,
153
44n, 167n, 217
Sansom, William, 83n
Sintra (Portugal), 114n
384
Index
Siodmak, Robert, 168, 187n
Stern, Josef Luitpold, 121
Sister Lalita (Carrie Mead Wykoff;
Stern, Tania Kurella, 117–18,
“Sister”), 9, 197, 209
122–3, 137, 176
Sleeping Beauty, The (ballet), 272
Steuermann, Eduard, 264
Sloane, Everett, 205
Steve (studio messenger boy) see
Smedley, Agnes, 209
Conway, Steve
Smith, Dodie see Beesley, Dodie
Stevens, George, 66
Smith
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 61, 276;
Snow, Edgar, 195
Weir of Hermiston, 89n
Sorel, Paul (born Paul Dibble), 273,
Stieglitz, Alfred, 251 & n
277
Stockport, Cheshire (England): C.I.
Sorokine, Natasha see Moffat,
visits (1947), 86–7, 89, 111;
Natasha
Caskey photographs viaduct at,
South America: C.I. and Caskey
144
travel in, xxxiv, 119, 123, 133,
Stokowski, Leopold, 254n
139
Stonewall riot (New York, 1962),
South Pacific (stage musical), 224–6
xii
Soviet Russia: and Los Angeles
Strang, Les (pseud.), 166
conference on world peace,
Strasberg, Lee, 167
189–90
Strasberg, Paula, 167, 183–4, 272
Speaight, Robert, 144
Stravinsky, Igor: in C.I.’s circle,
Spender, Humphrey, 138
xvii; likes Caskey, 42; on C.I.’s
Spender, Natasha (Lady; née Litvin),
capacity for friendships, 94;
91
C.I. lunches and sups with,
Spender, (Sir) Stephen: meets
198, 200–1, 222, 230; C.I.’s
Caskey, xvii; C.I. stays with in
attitude to, 201–3;
London, 91–2; and Tony
avariciousness, 202; visits
Hyndman, 113, 114–15n;
Sequoia with C.I., 243 & n;
marriage (first) to Inez Pearn,
The Flood, 264[n]; The Rake’s
114n; affair with Helmuth
Progress, 202, 243
Roder, 126n; in USA, 134,
Stravinsky, Vera: in C.I.’s circle,
138–9, 168, 194, 195; bisexual
xvii, 198, 200–2, 222, 230; visits
posture, 169–70; depicted in A
Sequoia with C.I., 243
Meeting by the River, 170; asks
Streetcar Named Desire, A (film), 267
C.I. for obituary article on
Streeter, Mitchell (pseud.), 258–9
Dylan Thomas, 233; “The
Sudhira (Helen Kennedy): enlists in
Burning Cactus”, 126n; World
navy, 9; C.I. entertains, 50;
Within World, 275n, 277
attends C.I. in hospital, 62–3
Stafford, Jean, 135, 137
Sumac, Yma, 242
Stagg, Bob, 65, 122n, 123
Sutherland, Graham, 148
Starcke, Walter, 81, 123n, 197n,
Swami see Prabhavananda, Swami
284
Swanson, Gloria, 216
Starkey, Walter see Starcke, Walter
Sykes, Gerald: The Nice American,
Steffens, Lincoln: Autobiography,
275n
175n
Symonds (Isherwood family lawyer),
Steffens, Pete, 175n
111
Stern, James, 117–18, 122–3, 137,
Szczesny, Berthold, 133–5 & n,
176 & n
136–9
Index
385
Tallchief, Maria, 50n
Valley Theatre, 74; friendship
Tamara (van Druten’s housekeeper),
with C.I., 81, 208; reports
21
C.I.’s misbehavior at Chaplins’,
Taos, New Mexico, 253, 255n
199n; drives back from
Tauch, Ed, 123–4, 139
Trabuco with C.I., 207; and
Taxman, Barry, 258, 260–3
C.I.’s sense of guilt, 227; adapts
Taylor, Frank: C.I. meets, 134, 136;
and plays in Ethan Frome, 229;
described, 169; film–making,
attends Yma Sumac
169–70; depicted in The World
performance at Salka Viertel’s,
in the Evening, 170; entertains,
242; attends Sadler’s Wells
195; friendship with C.I., 208,
Ballet with C.I., 271; and
263–4, 281; on Dylan Thomas’s
C.I.’s Anglia car, 276
visit to Chaplin, 233; visits
Trilling, Diana, 48
Hartfords with C.I., 246;
Trotti, Lamarr, 38n
accompanies C.I. to John
Trottiscliffe, Kent (England)), 148
Huston film set, 268
Truman, Harry S., 172, 240
Taylor, Harold, 135, 137
Turville-Petre, Francis, 134n
Taylor, Nan, 134, 136, 169, 195,
Twentieth Century-Fox Film
208, 263
Corporation, 191
Tepoztlán, Mexico, 78
Tyrrell, G.N.M.: Science and Psychical
Than, Joseph, 31n
Phenomena, 51n
Theatre Arts (magazine), 74
Thomas, Dylan: C.I. entertains in
United States of America: C.I.
Los Angeles, 232–3; Portrait of
emigrates to, xi, 72; relaxes
the Artist as a Young Dog,
censorship laws, xii; C.I.’s
175–6n
increasing commitment to,
Time magazine, 9, 22–3; reviews
xxx–xxxi, 19n; C.I. acquires
Prater Violet, 48–9
citizenship, 77–8, 209; C.I.’s
Titian: “The Man with the Glove”,
homesickness for in England,
198
84
Todd, Thelma, 28–9
Up at the Villa (unfinished film),
Tomorrow (magazine), 241, 247,
34–6 & n, 46
258, 276–7
Upward, Christopher, 100–2
Tompkins, Willy (pseud.), 35, 48,
Upward, Edward: and C.I.’s
280
historical training, xii; literary
Toni (Brian Howard’s lover), 95–6
theories, xii–xiv; Marxism,
Tooker, George, 127–8
xiii–xiv, xxvii; influence on
Totheroh, Dan: Moor Born (play),
C.I.’s prose, xxvii; moral effect
32, 33n
on C.I., xxix–xxx; C.I. meets
Trabuco: Franklin Knight at, 7;
in England, 100–1, 107;
proposed Vedanta monastery at,
marriage, 101; and C.I.’s World
28; official opening, 188, 207;
in the Evening, 190; In the
C.I. visits, 191, 246; van
Thirties, 101; Journey to the
Druten gives money for organ,
Border, xxvii; “Sketch for a
247
Marxist Interpretation of
Tree, Iris: C.I. sups with, 28;
Literature”, xiii n
Caskey meets, 45–6; as mother
Upward, Hilda, 100–1, 107
of Ivan Moffat, 66; runs High
Upward, Kathy, 100–1
386
Index
Vacant Room, The (screenplay),
Vedanta Society: acquires Trabuco,
229–30
188, 207
Vallentin, Antonina: H.G. Wells –
Vedanta and the West (magazine), 18
Prophet of Our Day, 258, 275n
Vedanta and the Western World
van Druten, John: and C.I.’s life at
(C.I.), 8
Vedanta Center, 7; at Beesleys,
Verlaine, Paul, 182
11; hears of C.I.’s lovemaking
Vidal, Gore: meets Caskey, xv, xvii;
with Bill Harris, 12n; lectures,
C.I. meets in Paris, 142–3; in
18; at AJC Ranch, 21, 214,
England, 145–6; quarrels with
220, 271; friendship with C.I.,
Caskey, 146; The City and the
31, 39, 50, 81, 153, 208; on
Pillar, xv, 140n, 145;
Roosevelt, 31; C.I. entertains,
Palimpsest: A Memoir, 146[n];
50; C.I. sees in New York,
The Season of Comfort, 225n;
123; absent from AJC ranch,
Williwaw, 140n, 225n
196; and Dick Foote, 196n;
Viertel family: in C.I.’s circle, xvii
and Starcke, 197n; Britten and
Viertel, Berthold: and C.I.’s fading
Pears meet, 214; at Trabuco,
interest in Germans, xxx; and
246; beliefs, 247; suffers from
Peter’s account of meeting C.I.
“senile polio”, 272; decides to
in London, 83n; in New York,
adapt C.I.’s Goodbye to Berlin as
119, 123; C.I. meets in
play, 282, 284; I Am a Camera,
London, 148; character, 148;
xxxi–xxxii, 78, 123n, 282; The
marries Elisabeth Neumann,
Mermaids Singing, 123n
148; successful career and later
van Leyden, Ernst and Karen, 81,
death, 149
207, 272
Viertel, Elisabeth see Neumann,
Van Meegeren, Han, 170, 254n
Elisabeth
van Petten, Bill, 156n
Viertel, Peter: on The Friendship
Van Trees, Don, 170
bar, 44n; C.I. entertains, 50;
Van Vechten, Carl, 253
“den” in home, 74; in
Vaughan, Keith, 83n, 96, 102, 143
London, 83 & n; The Canyon,
& n; Journal and Drawings, 143n
44n
Vedanta: C.I.’s involvement with,
Viertel, Salka: Steve Conway not
ix, xxvii, xxix, 72
introduced to, 41; C.I.
Vedanta Center (Ivar Avenue,
entertains, 50; C.I. and Caskey
Hollywood): C.I. attempts
occupy garage apartment,
celibacy at, xvii; C.I. leaves, 4,
70–1, 73–4; entertaining and
6–7, 13, 15, 27, 39, 45–6; and
“salon,” 71, 174, 221; and
Marcel Rodd, 8; ceremonies
C.I.’s departure for England
at, 9, 14, 59n, 81, 179;
(1947), 81–2; entertains Garbo,
bathroom facilities, 12; Time
131; C.I.’s friendship with,
magazine article on, 22;
153, 208; and Vernon Old’s
Maugham visits, 40; C.I. first
wedding, 171[n]; and C.I.’s
moves to, 72; Swami’s birthday
attempted reconciliation with
lunch at, 173; C.I. resumes
Chaplin, 199n; meets Mailer
visits to, 181, 277; C.I. gives
with C.I., 228; Yma Sumac
reading at, 239–40
performs at home, 242; The
Vedanta for Modern Man (anthology),
Kindness of Strangers, 71n
18
Viertel, Tommy, 50
Index
387
Viertel, Virginia (formerly Schulberg;
223–4n
Peter’s first wife; “Jigee”), 83
Wiley, Grace, 152n
& n
Williams, Dr., 46, 61
Vivekananda, Swami: puja, 9, 81
Williams, Emlyn, 102, 233
Vividishananda, Swami: A Man of
Williams, Molly, 233
God, 207
Williams, Sophia, 238–9
Williams, Tennessee (Thomas Lanier
Waldeck, Countess (G.R. Waldeck),
Williams): meets Caskey, xvii;
135, 137; Athene Palace
in England, 145–6 & [n]; in
Bucharest, 137 & [n]
Los Angeles, 208, 267;
Waley, Arthur, 143
relations with Frank Merlo,
Walker, Alan, 173
208, 267; The Glass Menagerie,
Wallace, Roger (pseud.), 208–9
208; The Roman Spring of Mrs.
Walter, Bruno, 155
Stone, 275n; A Streetcar Named
Warner Brothers (film corporation):
Desire, 267
C.I. works for, 23–5, 28, 34–5;
Willingham, Calder: End as a Man,
strike, 26–7; C.I. leaves, 27,
xv & n, 176n; Geraldine
46; and film of The Glass
Bradshaw, 275n
Menagerie, 208
Wilson, Edmund: The Wound and
Warner, Jack, 24, 27
the Bow, 51n
Warren, Robert Penn, 195
Windham, Donald, 127; The Dog
Watson, Peter, 179
Star, 275n
Watson–Gandy, Anthony Blethwyn
Winter, Ella, 175n, 242
(Tony), 173 & n, 222n
Winter, Keith, 31n, 39
Watts, Alan, 277–8
Wolfe, Thomas: Of Time and the
Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited,
River, 160n
51n; The Loved One, 175n
Woman in White, The (film), 23–4,
We Were Strangers (film), 154n
28–9, 34
Webb, Jack, 205
Wood, Christopher (Chris): and
Webster, David, 146–7
Denny Fouts party, 13; C.I.
Webster, John: The White Devil,
visits, 47, 258; C.I. entertains,
113
50; friendship with C.I., 81,
Wescott, Glenway, 187
153, 163–4, 208; in New York,
West, Nathanael: Miss Lonelyhearts,
133; visits Fire Island, 138–9;
275n
sees C.I. and Caskey off to
West, Rebecca: The Thinking Reed,
South America, 139; Britten
140n
and Pears visit, 214
Whales, James, 211–12
Woolf, Virginia, 68
White, J. Alan, 101
Woolley, Monty, 58[n]
Whitman, Walt: influence on C.I.,
World in the Evening, The (earlier
xxiii; and travel, 13;
The School of Tragedy ; C.I.): on
homosexual wrestling, 57n, 59,
emigration and pacifism, xiii;
60n; and idea of The American
homosexuality in, xiv–xv; Jim
Boy, 159, 161, 164, 248
Charlton depicted in, xv,
Widmark, Richard, 207n
122n, 159, 174; writing and
Wilde, Oscar: Lady Windermere’s
synopsis, xxv, 121–2 & n, 190,
Fan, 243 & [n]
195, 227, 236–8, 244–5n, 278,
Wilder, Thornton: The Ides of March,
280–1; Lamkin advises C.I. on,
388
Index
xxix, 281, 283–4; German
(England): C.I. visits (1947),
refugees removed from,
87–8, 90n, 111–12; C.I. revisits
xxx–xxxi, 284; kite incident in,
(1948), 143–4, 147, 185n
11; Hellmut Roder in, 126n;
psychic experience described
Yeats, William Butler: “Parnell’s
in, 164–5; Frank Taylor
Funeral”, 84 & [n]; “Solomon
depicted in, 170; bar-room
and the Witch”, 106 & [n]
ducking scene in, 174; guilt in,
Yogi (Walter Brown), 33
182; C.I.’s depiction of self in,
Yogini (Mrs. Walter Brown), 33
200; names in, 212n; narration
Yorke, Adelaide (“Dig”), 143
problem, 217, 226; Brookses’
Yorke, Henry (“Henry Green”),
house portrayed in, 231;
83n, 143; Back, 140n; Doting,
Caroline Norment character in,
275n; Living, 275n; Loving,
239; Dodie Smith advises C.I.
275n; Nothing, 275n
on, 244–5 & n; sent to
publishers, 284
Zeiler, Dr., 35–6
Worsley, Cuthbert, 115n, 146
Zeininger, Russ, 208, 212n, 220,
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 157, 160–1n,
229, 230, 258
165
Zinnemann, Fred, 174, 205, 219,
Wright, Teresa, 205, 228
223n, 228, 230
Wyberslegh Hall, Cheshire
Zinnemann, Renée, 219, 230
About the Author
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was the author of more than 20 books. His best-known work, Goodbye to Berlin, was developed into the musical Cabaret, which later won eight Academy Awards in the film version starring Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray.
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NOVELS
All the Conspirators
The Memorial
Mr. Norris Changes Trains
Goodbye to Berlin
Prater Violet
The World in the Evening
Down There on a Visit
A Single Man
A Meeting by the River
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Lions and Shadows
Kathleen and Frank
Christopher and His Kind
My Guru and His Disciple
October (with Don Bachardy)
BIOGRAPHY
Ramakrishna and His Disciples
PLAYS (with W. H. Auden)
The Dog Beneath the Skin
The Ascent of F6
On the Frontier
TRAVEL
Journey to a War (with W. H. Auden)
The Condor and the Cows
COLLECTIONS
Exhumations
Where Joy Resides
DIARIES
Volume One 1939–1960
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Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Textual Note
Acknowledgements
Lost Years January 1, 1945-May 9, 1951
August 26, 1971.
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
Chronology
Glossary
Index
About the Author
Other Books by Christopher Isherwood
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