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, Nathanaeclass="underline" 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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Books by Christopher Isherwood
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
Copyright
LOST YEARS. Copyright © 2000 by Don Bachardy. Introduction, editorial apparatus, chronology and glossary copyright © 2000 by Katherine Bucknell. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
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