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227 Abraham, Belle, 60n20 Abraham, Enoch Hamilton, 165 Abraham, Pauline Margaret. See Styron, Pauline Margaret Abraham Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 62n22 Aldridge, John W., 121, 133, 133n15 All the King’s Men (film), 91, 91n4 All the King’s Men (Warren), 62n24 Allen, Marge, 146 “Almost a Rhodes Scholar” (W. Styron), 44n5 American Academy of Arts and Letters, xiv, xv, xxi, xxii, 122–24, 137–39, 157, 162 American Book Award, xxii American Book Publishers Council, 119 American Scholar, 61, 63, 118 An American Tragedy (Dreiser), 94 American Vanguard, 59n18, 170 Andrea Doria, 153, 153n20 Appleton-Century-Crofts, 78n13 Archive (Duke University), 10n13, 15, 16–17, 17n24, 19, 21n31, 42, 78, 169 Arndt, Jacob, 163 Arsenic and Old Lace, 11, 11n15 Aswell, Edward C., 54–57, 55n15, 171 Atheneum, 78n13 Atlantic Harvest, 62, 62n22 Atlantic Monthly, 59, 59n18, 62n22 Auden, W. H., 122 Austin, Warren, 143n8 “Autumn” (W. Styron), 41n3, 42, 58, 185–97 Balanchine, George, 148n14 Baldwin, James, 86n2 Balzac, Honoré de, 15 Barber, Samuel, 146, 148n14 Benét, William Rose, 93, 93n7 Bible, 25–26, 47, 47n8, 113, 113n27 Blackburn, William: and Brice, 58n17; Conrad as scholarly focus of, 61n21, 156–57; as Duke faculty member, xxv, 17n24, 40, 40n1, 169; in Europe, 156–57; and Haydn, 41–42n3, 55–56; and music, 20, 42; and New York City visits with Styron, 55, 88; and One and Twenty anthology of student writings, 17n24, 41n3; and Rhodes Scholarship application by Styron, 46–47; and Styron’s decision not to pursue graduate degree, 48; and Styron’s writings, 17, 40, 41, 41n3, 61, 68–69, 169 Blalock, Mr., 72 “Blankenship” (W. Styron), 157n25 Bobbs-Merrill, 42n3, 101, 103, 105, 108, 111, 111n25, 123 Bogart, Humphrey, 146, 146n12 Bottom, Barbara, 63, 63n25 Bottom, Cdr. and Mrs. Raymond B., 63n25 Bowman, Bill, 52, 52–53, 52n9, 63, 71 Branscomb, Harvie, 46, 46n7 Braxton, Elliott M., 146, 148n14 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 42, 43, 170 Brice, Ashbel, 58, 58n17, 61, 66, 67, 71, 73, 76, 78 Index 228 / index Brierre, Annie, 135n19 Britain. See England; London Brooklyn, N.Y. See Flatbush section of Brooklyn; New York City Brooks, Van Wyck, 112, 122 Brossard, Chandler, 133n15 Brown, C. K., 4 Browning, General Sir Frederick, 128 Browning, Robert, 159 Burgunder, Mrs., xiv, xv, 152–53 Burgunder, Rose. See Styron, Rose Burgunder Buxton, Elizabeth. See Styron, Elizabeth Buxton Buxton, Helen, 32, 32n8, 142 Buxton, Russell, xxiv Calisher, Hortense, 133n15 Camp Barrett, Va., 36, 36n12 Camp Butner, N.C., 8, 8n9 Camp Lejeune, N.C., xxv–xxvi, 12, 27, 29, 31–34, 114–18, 169 Campbell, Alexander, 164 The Caine Mutiny (Wouk), 121 Capote, Truman, 133, 133n15, 146n12 Captain’s Beach (de Lima), 85n1, 93, 93n6, 95 Carlisle, Mike, xvii Carlyle, Thomas, 26 Carson, John (son), 18, 19, 20, 21 Carson, John H. (father), 19, 19n30, 21 “A Case of the Great Pox” (W. Styron), 24 Cather, Willa, 171 Cerf, Bennett, xvii, 120 Chandler, “Doc,” 13 Chaplin, Charlie, 102 Chowning, Randolph, 15, 15n21 “Christchurch” (W. Styron), 52n9, 86 Christchurch school: location of, 19n29; Peyton at, 7n7, 9n11; Styron at, xxiv, 4, 94n8, 98, 168; in Styron’s fiction, 52n9, 77, 84, 86, 169 Christmas holidays, 27, 29, 60, 62, 62n22, 73, 91, 107, 140–43, 157 Civil War, 97, 164, 165, 166 Clark, Frances Selby, 165 Clark, Captain John, 164 Clark, Rev. John, 164–65 Clark, Marianna, 164 Clark, William, 160 Clift, Montgomery, 121 Coffin, Rev. William Sloane, xvii Cole, Lois, 57 Columbia University, 121 Communism, 80, 112–13 The Confessions of Nat Turner (W. Styron), xxii, xxvi–xxvii, 130–34, 145, 160, 160n3 Conrad, Joseph, 61, 61n21, 156–57 Cornell University Press, 170 Cousins, Norman, 132, 132n14 Cowley, Malcolm, 51, 121, 122 Crawford, Broderick, 91n4 Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (Marx), 26n2 Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 19 Crow, Edith Abraham: and engagement ring requested by Styron, 148, 150, 151; home of, 12n17; money for Styron from, 12, 20, 27; visits by Styron to, 34, 43, 61, 72 Crown Publishers, 41, 41–42n3, 56, 61, 63, 65, 101, 102, 171 Cummings, E. E., 120 Daniels, Josephus, 165 Darkness Visible (W. Styron), xxii Davidson College: copy of handwritten letter from, 2; cutting classes by Styron at, 4; dramatic society at, 11; finances of Styron at, 1, 3, 6, 7; fraternity initiation at, 1–4; grades of Styron at, xxiv, 4–6, 7, 129; publications of, 3n1, 5n3, 169; roommates of Styron at, 5, 5n2; ROTC at, 5–6; as setting in Styron’s writing, 154; Styron...

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