Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives (160 page)

Auster, Daniel
758
,
761
,
763
–4,
765

Auster, Lydia (née Davis; later Cote)
757
,
758
,
760
–62
,
766
,
768

Auster, Paul Benjamin
757
–60
,
761
–5,
766
–8

Auster, Siri (née Hustvedt)
758
,
759
,
760
,
761
,
762
–5
,
766
,
767
–8

Auster, Sophie
763

Autry, Gene
290

Avallone, Michael Angelo, Jr
599
–601

Ayer, A. J.
591

Ayres, Ruby M.
161
,
521

Ayrton, William
259

B

Bacall, Lauren
393

Bachardy, Don
456

Backscheider, Paula
6
,
11

Badel, Alan
533

Baer, Max
741

Bage, Robert
32
–34
,
52

Bagehot, Walter
59
,
436

Bagley, Desmond
584

Bagnold, Enid Algerine (later Lady Jones)
358
–9

Bagnold, Ralph
359

Bail, Murray
738

Bailey, Blake
517
,
624
,
625

Bainbridge, Beryl Margaret
656
,
663
–6

Baird, Dorothea
159

Baker, Ida (‘Lesley Moore’)
349

Baker, Jane Cooney
567
,
568

Baker, P.
408

Baker, William
174

Baldwin, David
601
,
602

Baldwin, James Arthur
601
–3
,
615

Baldwin, Stanley
317

Bales, J.
157

Ballantyne, James
55
,
143

Ballantyne, Jane (‘Jeanie’) Dickson (née Grant)
145

Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
143
–5
,
195

Ballard, J. G. (James Graham)
97
,
342
,
604
,
605
,
640
–42
,
729

Ballard, Mary
641

Balzac, Honoré de
284
,
401
,
466
,
469
,
781

Barber, Lynn
663
,
666

Barber, M.
466

Barclay, Revd Charles W.
245
–6

Barclay, Florence Louisa (née Charlesworth)
245
–7

Bardot, Brigitte
620

Barker, J. R. V.
123

Barker, Paul
705

Barnacle, Nora
320
,
321

Barnes, Djuna Chappell
367
–8

Barnes, Elizabeth (née Chappell)
367

Barnes, Jonathan
748
,
749

Barnes, Julian Patrick
225
,
582
–3,
748
–53
,
779
,
797

Barnes, Pat (née Kavanagh)
582
,
583
,
750
,
751
–2

Barnes, ‘Wald’
367

Barnhardt, Wilton
791

Barrie, David
232

Barrie, Sir James Matthew
156
,
160
,
186
,
232
–5
,
314
,
419

Barrie, Mary (née Ansell)
233

Barrymore, John
342

Barth, John Simmons
642
–4
,
651

Barth, Karl
676

Barthelme, Donald
644
,
651
–3

Barthelme, Donald, Sr
651

Barthes, Roland
537
,
642
–3

Basu, Sayoni
353

Bates, Kathy
774

Batista, Fulgencio
631

Battestin, Martin and Ruth
18

Baudelaire, Charles
98
,
99
,
100

Baum, Benjamin
212

Baum, F. J.
213

Baum, Lyman Frank
211
–13

Baum, Maud (née Gage)
212

Baum, Vicki (Hedwig Baum; later Prels, later Lert)
340
–42

Bauman family
211
,
212

Bayley, John
410
,
552

Beach, Greta
305

Beach, Rex Ellingwood
304
–5

Beach, Sylvia
322

Bean, Sean
480

Beardsley, Aubrey
229
,
230
,
265

Beauchamp, Sir Harold
348
,
349

Beauchamp, Mrs
349

Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Lord
358
,
444

Bechet, Sidney
602

Beckett, Frank
473

Beckett, Samuel Barclay
322
,
473
–6
,
632
,
683
,
728
,
766

Beckett, Suzanne (née Deschevaux-Dumesnil)
475

Beckford, William
60

Beckman, L. H.
245

Bedford, Sybille
385

Bedford-Jones, Henry James O’Brien
338
–40

Beer, Thomas
283

Beerbohm, Max
196
,
292

Beeton, Mrs
224

Behn, Aphra (‘Aphora’; née Eaffrey Johnson)
3
–6
,
85

Behn, Hans
4

Beichman, A.
531

Belafonte, Harry
444

Belford, B.
190
,
251

Bell, Clive
326

Bell, Dr Joseph
224

Bell, Quentin
325

Bellow, Saul (born Solomon Belov)
426
,
525
–9
,
556
,
593
,
614
,
693

Belov, Abram
525

Belov, Liza
525

Benchley, Peter
585
,
586
,
773

Benchley, Robert
330

Benfey, Christopher
283

Benjamin, Walter
461
,
793
,
795
,
797

Bennett, Alan
389

Bennett, Arnold (Enoch Arnold Bennett)
228
,
265
–7
,
341
,
378
,
500

Bennett, Dorothy (previously Cheston)
266
,
267

Bennett, Joan (Frankau)
228

Bennett, Victoria
266

Benny, Jack
589

Benson, Gale
671

Bentham, Jeremy
746

Bentley, George
204

Bentley, Phyllis Eleanor
377
–9

Bentley, Richard
89
,
90
,
108
,
109
,
112

Berch, Victor A.
340

Bergen, Candice
533

Berger, John Peter
617
–19
,
707

Bergman, Ingmar
626

Berlin, Isaiah
410
,
591

Besant, Walter
174

Betjeman, Sir John
389
,
451

Beveridge, Lord
240

Bhutto dynasty
770
,
772

Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett
181
–2
,
516

Bierce, Marcus Aurelius
181

Bigland, E.
176
,
205

Birkin, A.
235

Biswell, A.
537

Bixby, Horace
171

Black, Clementina
244

Blackwood, John
127
,
128

Blackwood, William
219

Blair, Richard
432

Blair, Walter
525

Blake, William
762

Bloom, Allan
528
–9

Bloom, Claire
694
–5

Blotner, Joseph
403
,
404

Blyton, Enid
376

Bobrowski, Tadeusz
218

Boccaccio, Giovanni
643

Boetticher, Budd
608

Bogarde, Dirk
161

Bogart, Humphrey
347
,
381
,
393

Bonner, Robert
104
,
149
–50

Bonnet, Jacques
x

Bonnie and Clyde
606

Bono
771

Boone, Richard
608

Booth, Martin
225

Boothby, Guy
327
,
328

Borges, Jorge Luis
517
,
644
,
737

Bosanquet, Theodora
186

Boswell, James
15
,
19
,
22
,
27
,
30
,
38
,
710

Boucicault, Nina
234

Bourne, George
125

Bowden, George
349

Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (later Cameron)
408
–11

Bowen, Marjorie
451

Bowen, Z.
644

Bower, Bertha (née Muzzy; later Clayton, later Sinclair)
278
–9

Bower, Clayton J.
278
,
279

Bowker, Gordon
503
,
504
,
506

Bowra, Maurice
410
,
471

Boyd, B.
415

Boyd, Colin
717

Boyle, A.
275

Bracegirdle, Anne
4

Bradbury, Sir Malcolm Stanley
667
–9
,
713
,
779