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A.A. see Alcoholics Anonymous Across the River and Into the Trees (Hemingway) 103–104, 107, 232, 262–263, 279, 347 “‘Addiction’ in American History Through Literature” (Forseth) 1–17 Addison, Joseph 279 “Adventures in Automobumming” (Lewis) 309 Agee, James 149–150, 152 AIDS and Its Metaphors (Sontag) 245 Alcohol and the Writer (Goodwin) 26–27, 294–295 “Alcohol and the Writer: Some Biographical and Critical Issues (Hemingway)” (Forseth) 83–116, 177 “Alcohol, Disease, and the Limitations of Artistic Representation” (Forseth) 203–223 “The Alcoholic Writer and the Modern Temper: Transcendence Downward” (Forseth) 243–259 “The Alcoholic Writer By Any Other Name” (Forseth) 289–304 Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) Berryman 188, 189, 191, 194–195, 196, 211 Crowley on 254, 257 Dardis on 28 Fingarette on 135 Forseth on 357, 360 founding 2, 22 Gilmore on 24, 25, 29 Gold on 216, 218, 300 Hyde on 194–195 Kurtz on xvii The Lost Weekend (film) 151 treatment model 91, 92, 110

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Alcoholics Anonymous (handbook) 63, 189, 211 “Alcoholite at the Altar: Sinclair Lewis, Drink, and the Literary Imagination” (Forseth) 35–81, 137–138, 239, 314 Alexander III of Macedon (Alexander the Great) 154, 156–161, 289 Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy (O’Brien) 153, 154–161, 162 Algren, Nelson The Man with the Golden Arm 11 Along with Youth: Hemingway, The Early Years (Griffin) 94–95, 111 AMA see American Medical Association “Ambivalent Sensibilities: Alcohol in History and Literature” (Forseth) 19–33 American Bar Association 109 American Cassandra (Kurth) 176–177 The American Disease (Musto) 23, 129–130 “The American Fear of Literature” (Lewis) 280 American Medical Association (AMA) 42, 74, 109 American Mercury 278 American Psychiatric Association 42, 93, 227 Anderson, Dwight 292 Anderson, Greg 46, 75 Anderson, Sherwood 265, 270, 281 “Four American Impressions” 270 Andreasan, Nancy C. 136 Andromache (Euripides) 157 Appointment in Samarra (O’Hara) 39, 248, 252 Archer, Isabel (character) 70, 294, 343 Archibald, Jean 76 Aristotle 94, 128, 177 Nichomachean Ethics 28, 121, 122 Poetics 118 Politics 28 Armor, David J. 40 Arnold, Matthew 94, 177, 197

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Arrowsmith (Lewis) 39, 225, 226, 229, 272, 346 Arrowsmith, Martin (character) 39, 229 The Arts of Intoxication (J. T. Crane) 7 As You Like It (Shakespeare) 336 Ashley, Lady (character) 256 The Atlantic 357 Atlas, James 136, 331 Auden, W. H. 86, 88, 107, 280, 321 Augustine, St. 217 Austen, Jane Emma 69, 343

Babbitt (Lewis) 39, 59, 60, 225, 229, 271, 272, 274, 281, 346 Babbitt, George (character) 39 The Bacchae (Euripides) 153, 154, 160 Bair, Deirdre 296 Baker, Carlos 94 Bancroft Library 166–167, 168, 175, 347 Barnes, Djuna 227, 273, 276 Nightwood 248, 252–253 Barnes, Jake (character) 105 Bayley, John 293 Beauvoir, Simone de 295–296 Beinecke Library 166, 168, 235 Being Geniuses Together (McAlmon) 227, 250 Bellow, Saul Gilmore on 24 “The Hell It Can’t” 321–325, 330, 331 Humboldt’s Gift 25 It All Adds Up 324 “The Next Chapter” 330 The Victim 25 Bentham, Jeremy 29, 218–219 Berkow, Robert The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 41–42 Berlin Diary (Shirer) 326–327

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Berryman, John addiction and creativity 137–138, 200 Alcoholics Anonymous 188, 189, 191, 194–195, 196, 211 archives 191, 211, 299 “Compline” 197 Delusions, Etc. 189, 199 The Dream Songs 187, 199, 209 “Epilogue” 194 on Fitzgerald 209 Gilmore on 24, 25 Haffenden on 37–38 In Memoriam 185 Love & Fame 199 Paris Review interview 190, 192 Recovery 25, 168, 185–201, 204, 209–213, 218, 223, 299 Schorer on 167–168 Third Alcoholic Treatment 191–192, 211–212, 299 on Thomas 298–299 Bible 243, 257, 342 The Big Money (Dos Passos) 315 Birnam, Don (character) 143, 144–150 Bischoff, Joan 355 Black, Stephen 130 Blackmur, Richard P. 325 Blake, William 196 Blocker, Jack S, 21 Bloom, Harold 133, 141 Bloom, Steven 127, 128 Bolton (Stowe character) 5 Boltwood, Claire (character) 180–181, 183, 266, 267, 308 Bonner, Marjorie 221 Boswell, James Life of Johnson 97 Brace, Donald 226 Brackett, Charles 151 Breasted, Charles 53–54, 75

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Brickell, Herschel 325 Brideshead Revisited (Waugh) 294 Brinnin, John Malcolm 271–272 Brooks, Cleanth 355 Broom (magazine) 278 Bucco, Martin 342 Buck, Pearl 348 Buddenbrooks (Mann) 189 Buffon, Comte de 263 Bukoski, Anthony 142 Bunyan, John The Pilgrim’s Progress 340 “The Burdens of Biography” (Schorer) 72–73, 165 Burke, Edmund Reflections on the Revolution in France 336 Burke, Kenneth 253, 300 Burlingame, Roger 47 Burroughs, William S. Naked Lunch 11

Calvin, John 20–21 Camus, Albert 196 “Can You Go Home Again? Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Paris” (Forseth) 261–288 Capote, Truman 39, 85 Carleton College vi, xi, 360 Carlson, George 121 Carlyle, Thomas 19 Carpenter, Humphrey 283, 284 Geniuses Together 265 Carver, Raymond 300 “Wine” 289 Cass Timberlane (Lewis) 60, 63–64, 66–68, 70, 71, 281, 314, 345 Cather, Willa 305, 317 O, Pioneers 359

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Cathleen (O’Neill character) 127, 129 Cavett, Dick 73, 187, 210 Cerf, Bennett 75 Chafetz, Morris 45 Chapin, Joseph B. (character) 61 Chaplin, Dune 102 Cheever, John 24 Claude Lewis Collection 77 Cleitus 157 Cohen, Richard 44 Cohn, Robert (character) 250, 278 Coleman, Patrick 284 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 346 Collier’s Weekly 232 “Compline” (Berryman) 197 Compton, Charles 176 Compton, Ida Kay 166, 170, 175, 176 Conarroe, Joel John Berryman 198, 199 “The Concrete Universal” (Wimsatt) 204–205 Confessions of an English Opium Eater (De Quincey) 7 Connaughton, Michael 351 Conrad, Barnaby 76 Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness 133 Lord Jim 297 “Conspicuous Consumption” (Veblen) 350 the Consul (Lowry character) 25, 39, 150, 205 “Counterparts” (Joyce) 145 Cowley, Malcolm 206 “The Crack-Up” (Fitzgerald) 206, 251 Crane, Reverend Jonathan Townley The Arts of Intoxication 7 Crane, R. S. 297 Crane, Stephen 5, 269 George’s Mother 6, 7

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Maggie, A Girl of the Streets 7 “Opium’s Varied Dreams” 9–10 Crews, Frederick 164–165 Croce, Arlene 246 “Discussing the Undiscussable” 243–245, 259 Crowley, John W. 5, 151, 259, 292–293 The White Logic 243, 246–253, 254–258 Csencsitz, Cassandra Ellen viii, ix–xiii, 357–358, 358, 359–360, 364–365 Curanne Trueheart (Newlove) 111

Daggett, Milt (character) 183 The Daily Northwestern () 321 Daniel Deronda (George Eliot) 294, 343 Dante 104 The Divine Comedy 107 Dardis, Tom 23, 138 The Thirsty Muse 19, 28–29 Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Styron) 203, 220 Davis, Annie 111 Davis, H. G. 267, 284, 307–308 Davis, Jack L. 164 Davis, Kate 198 Day, Douglas Malcolm Lowry 73 de Kruif, Paul The Sweeping Wind 226 De Quincey, Thomas Confessions of an English Opium Eater 7 Dean, Paul 255 “The Death of Arrowsmith: An Obituary of Sinclair Lewis” (Lewis) 231 Delusions, Etc. (Berryman) 189, 199 Demosthenes 155 “Denial as Tragedy: The Dynamics of Addiction in The Iceman Cometh and Long Day’s Journey into Night” (Forseth) 117–142

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Deronda, Daniel (character) 294 Descartes, René 56 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) 93, 110, 227, 290 Dickinson, Emily 4 Dionysos: The Literature and Intoxication Triquarterly v, vii, xvi, xvii–xviii, 355–356 Dionysus xvi, 153, 154, 155–156, 157, 160, 292, 297 “Dionysus” (O’Brien) 162 “Discussing the Undiscussable” (Croce) 243–245, 259 Disease and Representation (Gilman) 119 The Disease Concept of Alcoholism (Jellinek) 88–89 Diver, Dick (character) 39, 205, 207–208, 209, 218, 251–252 The Divine Comedy (Dante) 107 Dodsworth (Lewis) 39, 237, 280, 317, 346, 349 Dodsworth, Sam (character) 39 Donahue, Kate 198 Donaldson, Scott 85, 100 Donne, John 128 Dorothy and Red (Sheean) 163, 174 Dorothy Thompson: A Legend in Her Time (Sanders) 75, 177 Dorothy Thompson Collection/Papers 169–170, 176, 177, 240, 285, 317 Dos Passos, John 305 The Big Money 315 Douglas, Ann Feminization of American Culture 255–256 Douglas, George H. 69 Douglass, Frederick 4 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 11 The Dream Songs (Berryman) 187, 199, 209 Dreiser, Theodore 141, 265, 269, 347 Sister Carrie 6, 11, 248 Drink (FitzGibbon) 110 Drinking in America: A History (Lender and Martin) 2, 19–20, 22–23, 29, 32

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Earnshaw, Steven The Pub in Literature: England’s Altered State vii Eclogues (Virgil) 337 Edel, Leon 59, 77, 165, 173, 176 The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (Anna Freud) 76, 121, 139, 291 “Elegy” (Gray) 107 Eliot, George 270, 293–294, 343 Daniel Deronda 294, 343 Middlemarch 270, 343 Eliot, T. S. 105, 107, 265, 271 The Waste Land 133, 323 Elkaim, Arlette 295 Ellmann, Richard 297 Elmer Gantry (Lewis) 39, 60, 237, 346 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 19, 125 Emma (Austen) 69, 343 English, Julian (character) 39, 252 Ephemerides (or Royal Diaries of Alexander) 158 Ephippus 160 “Epilogue” (Berryman) 194 Epstein, Joseph 126 Equivocal Spirits: Alcoholism and Drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature (Gilmore) 24–26, 125, 200–201, 293

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Fadiman, Clifton 331 Fall of Valor (Jackson) 152 The Far Side of Paradise (Mizener) 221, 223 Farrell, James 252 Faulkner, William 26, 28, 348 Felman, Shoshana Writing and Madness 119 Feminization of American Culture (Douglas) 255–256 Ferris, Paul 298 Fingarette, Herbert Heavy Drinking 31, 135 Finnegans Wake (Joyce) 280 Fitzgerald, Ed That Place in Minnesota 185 Fitzgerald, F. Scott addiction and creativity 24 Berryman 196–197 “The Crack-Up” 206, 251 Crowley on 247, 251 Dardis on 28 Forseth on xi Goodwin on 26 The Great Gatsby 100, 207 and Hemingway 100–102, 104, 186, 251, 285 Jackson allusions 145 The Last Tycoon 186, 208 and Lewis 60, 229, 281, 340 Mizener on 221 quotes 243, 257, 347 Tender Is the Night 39, 204, 205–209, 213, 215, 218, 221–223, 247–248, 250, 251, 258 This Side of Paradise 13

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FitzGibbon, Constantine 296 Drink 110 Flaubert, Gustave 227, 274 Fleming, Robert F. 180, 240 Flyte, Sebastian (character) 294 Folwell, William Watts History of Minnesota 76 Ford, Ford Madox 278 Ford, Henry 305, 315 Forseth, Fritz v Forseth, Grace Anna Bahr vi, xi, 77, 109, 142, 354, 355, 360, 361–362 Forseth, Lilian (Daniels) v Forseth, Roger Daniels biography v–viii Csencsitz on ix–xiii, 359–360 Dionysos v, vii, xvii–xviii, 355–356 interview 357–358 photographs iv, 358 writings “‘Addiction’ in American History Through Literature” 1–17 “Alcohol and the Writer: Some Biographical and Critical Issues (Hemingway)” 83–116, 177 “Alcohol, Disease, and the Limitations of Artistic Representation” 203–223 “The Alcoholic Writer and the Modern Temper: Transcendence Downward” 243–259 “The Alcoholic Writer By Any Other Name” 289–304 “Alcoholite at the Altar: Sinclair Lewis, Drink, and the Literary Imagination” 35–81, 137–138, 239, 314 “Ambivalent Sensibilities: Alcohol in History and Literature” 19–33 “Can You Go Home Again? Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Paris” 261–288 “Denial as Tragedy: The Dynamics of Addiction in The

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Iceman Cometh and Long Day’s Journey into Night” 117–142 “The Function Of Imagery In The Lyric: Pope To Wordsworth” (dissertation) vi “Internal Exile: Carol Kennicott as Expatriate” 335–344 introduction to Dionysos second issue xvii–xviii introduction to last Dionysos 355–356 “Mark Schorer’s Sinclair Lewis Revisited” 163–177 “‘A Romance of Manners and Class’: Sinclair Lewis’s Free Air” 179–184 “Spirits and Spirituality: Notes on the Art of John Berryman’s Recovery” 185–201, 223 “Symposia as Ritual and Disease” 153–162 “That First Infirmity of Noble Mind: Sinclair Lewis, Fame—and Drink” 225–241 “Two Notes To A Low and Dishonest Decade: Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here and Saul Bellow’s ‘The Hell It Can’t’” 321–333 “Walden Pond and Tin Lizzie: Sinclair Lewis Records the Great Plains” 305–320 “‘Why Did They Make Such a Fuss?’: Don Birnam’s Emotional Barometer” 143–152 “You Can Go Home Again: Sinclair Lewis—Biography and Short Fiction” 345–353 Foucault, Michel 119 “Four American Impressions” (Anderson) 270 Frank, Waldo 283 Free Air (Lewis) 179–184, 266–268, 305, 307–309, 317 “The Freedom of John Berryman” (Davis) 198 Freud, Anna 23, 125, 130, 140, 291 The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense 76, 121, 139, 291 Freud, Sigmund 207, 250 An Outline of Psycho-Analysis 139–140 Friedman, Philip Allan 166, 168–169, 175 “The Function Of Imagery In The Lyric: Pope To Wordsworth” (dissertation) (Forseth) vi

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Gantry, Elmer (character) 39, 60, 237 Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s (Carpenter) 265 George Arents Research Library 166, 317–318 George’s Mother (Crane) 6, 7 Gill, Brendan Here at the New Yorker 85 Gilman, Sander Disease and Representation 119 Gilmore, Thomas B. addiction and creativity 23, 24–26, 28, 29, 200–201 on Berryman 299 Equivocal Spirits 24–26, 125, 200–201, 293 on Fingarette 31 on Gold 214–215 on Lowry 149 on O’Neill 29, 142 on Waugh 293, 294 Ginsburg, Judge Douglas H. 135 Glaser, Gabrielle “Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous” 357 Goebbels, Joseph 104, 263 Gold, Ivan Sams in a Dry Season 203, 204, 213–218, 300 Goldman, Arnold 122–123 Goodwin, Donald W. addiction and creativity 23, 26–28, 29 Alcohol and the Writer 26–27, 294–295 Journal of the American Medical Association 35–36 “Notes on an Epidemic” 26 on O’Neill 29 on Simenon 294 Gopher Prairie (fictional place) 69, 70, 306, 335–339, 341–342 Gorton, Bill (character) 105–106 Gosse, Sir Edmund 73

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Gray, Thomas “Elegy” 107 The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) 100, 207 Grecco, Stephen 123, 141 Greeley, Horace 344 Green Hills of Africa (Hemingway) 91, 103, 107, 279, 280 Grene, David 58 Grene, Marjorie 341 Greve, Edward 50, 76 Grey, Lord, of Fallodon 321 Griffin, Peter Along with Youth: Hemingway, The Early Years 94–95, 111 Gross, Barry 104, 278 Guthrie, Ramon 47, 48

Haddon, Charles (character) 61–63 Haffenden, John 37–38, 187 Hale, Susan (character) 233–235, 276–277 Hale, Timothy (character) 233–235, 276–277 Half a Loaf (Grace Hegger Lewis) 75, 233–236, 275–277 Hall, Donald 296 Hamilton, J. R. 155 Hamlet (Shakespeare) x, 12, 118 Harbaugh, Jim vii Harcourt, Alfred 180, 226, 232, 309 Harper, Frances E. W. Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story 4 Harriet, Aunt (Lewis character) 182 Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Scarlet Letter 21 A Hazard of New Fortunes (Howells) 6 Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation 185, 294, 357 “He Had a Brother” (Lewis) 61–63 “He Loved His Country” (Lewis) 350 Heart of Darkness (Conrad) 133 Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease

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(Fingarette) 31, 135 Hegger, Grace see Lewis, Grace Hegger “The Hell It Can’t” (Bellow) 321–325, 330, 331 Helzer, John 110 Hemingway, Clarence 111 Hemingway, Ernest Across the River and Into the Trees 103–104, 107, 232, 262–263, 279, 347 Crowley on 256–257 Dardis on 28 and Fitzgerald 100–102, 104, 186, 251, 285 Forseth on xi, 83–116 Goodwin on 26, 36 Green Hills of Africa 91, 103, 107, 279, 280 Griffin on 94–95 and Lewis 60, 100, 102–104, 112, 225, 229, 262–263, 279–280, 281, 347 Mailer on 111 Meyers on 94, 95–96, 97, 111, 112 Modernist style 265 A Moveable Feast 83, 100–102, 111, 186 Nobel Prize 348 Selected Letters 85, 86–87, 103 Shechner on 85–88 and Stein 284 The Sun Also Rises 98–99, 105–107, 247, 250, 251, 256–257, 278, 285 To Have and Have Not 102, 279 Hemingway, Gregory Papa 108 Hemingway, Mary 112 Hemingway, Patrick 96 Hemingway, Pauline 111 Hemingway, Ursula 95 Hemingway: A Biography (Meyers) 94, 95–96, 97, 111, 112 Hephaestion 158

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Here at the New Yorker (Gill) 85 Hergesheimer, Dorothy 265 Hergesheimer, Joseph 265, 306 Heyen, William 199 Hickman, Theodore (Hickey) (character) 118, 125–127 Hike and the Aeroplane (Lewis) 230, 306 A History of Alcoholism (Sournia) 290 History of Minnesota (Folwell) 76 Hitler, Adolf 326 Hobbes, Thomas 122, 125, 133, 142, 330 Homer Iliad 154 Hope, Harry (character) 124, 125, 133 Howells, William Dean 5, 6, 248, 257, 259, 269 A Hazard of New Fortunes 6 The Lady of the Aroostook 5 The Landlord at Lion’s Head 6, 247 A Modern Instance 5–6 Howland, Henry (character) 322–324, 330 Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow) 25 Hume, David 27 Hurst, Daniel L. 294 Hurst, Mary Jane 294 Hyde, Lewis “Transformation and the Labor of Gratitude” 194–195

The Iceman Cometh (O’Neill) 19, 29, 117, 119, 120, 124–127, 128, 133, 138 Iliad (Homer) 154 I’ll Quit Tomorrow (Johnson) 43–44 Illness as Metaphor (Sontag) 56–57, 245 Ilyich, Ivan (character) 28 In Memoriam (Berryman) 185 “Internal Exile: Carol Kennicott as Expatriate” (Forseth) 335–344 “Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous” (Glaser) 357

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It All Adds Up (Bellow) 324 It Can’t Happen Here (Lewis) 321, 322, 325–326, 327–330, 345, 349

Jackson, Charles Crowley on 257, 259 Fall of Valor 152 The Lost Weekend 143–152, 248, 252, 254–255, 359 A Second-Hand Life 152 James, Henry 70, 182, 264, 294, 343 James, William 132 The Principles of Psychology 3 The Varieties of Religious Experience 3 Jellinek, E. M. 91, 109, 110 The Disease Concept of Alcoholism 88–89 Jessup, Doremus (character) 327, 328–330 John Barleycorn (London) 7–9, 10, 11, 247, 249, 292–293 John Berryman (Linebarger) 199 John Berryman: An Introduction to the Poetry (Conarroe) 198, 199 Johnson, Adolf 311 Johnson, Kristina F. see Johnson, Tina Forseth Johnson, Samuel 107 Johnson, Tina Forseth 355, 363–364 Johnson, Vernon E. 110, 125 I’ll Quit Tomorrow 43–44 Johnstone, Rosemarie 356 Jones, Bill T. “Still/Here” 243–244 Jones, Sonya L. 199 Journal of the American Medical Association 26, 35–36 Joyce, James xi, 103, 228, 229, 269, 271, 279, 280 “Counterparts” 145 Dubliners 144, 145 Finnegans Wake 280 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 190

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Kafka, Franz 323, 331 Kandisky (Hemingway character) 103, 279 Kaufman, Michael T. 298 Kazin, Alfred 36 Kelcey, George (character) 7 Keller, Mark 90 Kennicott, Carol (character) 39, 63, 69–71, 261, 268–269, 306, 335–343 Kennicott, Will (character) 69–70, 268–269, 336, 339, 341, 342 Kert, Bernice 111 Killough, George Minnesota Diary (Lewis) 285, 317, 351 “Sinclair Lewis—Minnesota Rustic” 315–316, 317 “Sinclair Lewis’s ‘Minnesota Diary’” 281 King, Thomas R. 292 Kingsblood Royal (Lewis) 281, 314, 345–346 Knight, Joseph Pipe and Pouch: The Smoker’s Own Book of Poetry 12–13 Knightly, George (character) 69 Krutch, Joseph Wood 232, 247 Kurth, Peter 172–173, 177 American Cassandra 176–177 Kurtz (Conrad character) 133 Kurtz, Ernest Not-God: The History of Alcoholics Anonymous xvii, 23

Lacan, Jacques 119 The Lady of the Aroostook (Howells) 5 Lamont-Havers, Hale 356 The Landlord at Lion’s Head (Howells) 6, 247 Lardner, Ring 251, 270 The Last Tycoon (Fitzgerald) 186, 208 Lathrop, Alan 198 Lawford, Peter 44

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Leavis, F. R. 130–131 Lender, Mark Edward Drinking in America: A History 2, 19–20, 22–23, 29, 32 Leonard, Elmore “Quitting” 83 Leonard, Kenneth 110 “A Letter on Style” (Lewis) 264 Lewis, Claude 59, 75, 77, 237, 310 Sinclair Lewis and Mantrap: The Saskatchewan Trip 230 Lewis, Edwin J. 61, 236, 237 Lewis, Freeman 61 Lewis, Grace Hegger correspondence 50–52, 54, 63, 240, 241, 285 de Kruif on 226 Duluth Herald article 179–180 and Free Air 266, 307 Half a Loaf 75, 233–236, 275–277 Loeb on 278 With Love from Gracie 75, 184, 233, 236, 276 McAlmon on 273–274 Mencken on 227 in Paris 273–274, 275–277 Schorer on 170 on Sinclair Lewis 233–236, 275–277, 348 Lewis, John Paul 177 Lewis, Michael 54, 170 Lewis, R. W. B. 86 Lewis, Sinclair Anderson on 270, 272 archives 76, 77, 166–167, 170, 235, 241, 307, 312, 317, 346–347 biographical details 345 Breasted on 53–54 and Compton 170 correspondence 50–52, 54, 61, 63, 235–237, 265–266, 267–268, 284, 306, 307, 308–309, 310–311, 312–314,

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317–318 de Kruif on 226 death of 54–55, 345 and Fitzgerald 60, 229, 281, 340 Forseth on xi–xii, 38–39, 47–56, 59–71, 261–282, 305–320, 345–353 and Grace Hegger Lewis 50–52, 233–236, 275–277, 348 and Greve 76 and Hemingway 60, 100, 102–104, 112, 225, 229, 262–263, 279–280, 281, 347 Lingeman on 347–349 Loeb on 278 Manfred on 65–66 McAlmon on 273–275 Mencken on 225, 227, 232, 233, 265 and Minnesota 307–316, 347, 349–351 Modernism 265, 269 Nobel Prize 103, 174, 225, 229, 237, 264, 269, 275, 279, 280, 344, 345, 347, 348 and O’Neill 137 in Paris 227–229, 272–282 photograph 353 and Powers 312, 314, 348 Putnam on 228–229, 271, 275 Schorer on xviii, 32, 36, 47–52, 61, 63, 72–73, 75, 163–173, 175–176, 181, 226, 229–230, 262, 269–270, 273, 277, 283, 325, 346–347, 348 Sheean on 174 and Thompson 35, 48–49, 54–55, 75, 172–173, 276, 348 Wilson on 281–282 writings “Adventures in Automobumming” 309 “The American Fear of Literature” 280 Arrowsmith 39, 225, 226, 229, 272, 346 Babbitt 39, 59, 60, 225, 229, 271, 272, 274, 281, 346 Cass Timberlane 60, 63–64, 66–68, 70, 71, 281, 314, 345

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“The Death of Arrowsmith: An Obituary of Sinclair Lewis” 231 Dodsworth 39, 237, 280, 317, 346, 349 Elmer Gantry 39, 60, 237, 346 Free Air 179–184, 266–268, 305, 307–309, 317 “He Had a Brother” 61–63 “He Loved His Country” 350 Hike and the Aeroplane 230, 306 It Can’t Happen Here 321, 322, 325–326, 327–330, 345, 349 Kingsblood Royal 281, 314, 345–346 “A Letter on Style” 264 Main Street xv, 13, 38–39, 60, 63, 68–71, 180, 225, 226, 237, 264, 268–271, 278, 281, 306–307, 309, 310, 335–344, 346, 350 “Main Street Goes to War” 350 “Main Street’s Been Paved!” 71 The Man From Main Street 168, 264 The Man Who Knew Coolidge 237 Mantrap 230–231, 232–233, 237, 240 Minnesota Diary 285, 305, 311–312, 313, 316, 317, 351 “Minnesota, the Norse State” 310, 350 Our Mr. Wrenn 179 “Self-Conscious America” 278 short stories 349–351 “The Tamarack Lover” 350 “Things” 350 The Trail of the Hawk 179, 317 Lewis, Wells 235 Life of Johnson (Boswell) 97 Linebarger, J. M. John Berryman 199 Lingeman, Richard Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street 347–349 Lippman, John 292 Literary Guild 346

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Lock, Pam vii Loeb, Harold The Way It Was 278 London, Jack 4, 5, 6, 12, 36, 246, 292–293 Crowley on 249, 251, 256, 259 John Barleycorn 7–9, 10, 11, 247, 249, 292–293 Long Day’s Journey into Night (O’Neill) ix, 117, 119–121, 127–133, 138 Long, Huey 325, 327, 349 Lord Jim (Conrad) 297 Lorimer, George Horace 267, 307, 308, 309 The Lost Weekend (film) 143, 149, 150, 151, 152 The Lost Weekend (Jackson) 143–152, 248, 252, 254–255, 359 Love & Fame (Berryman) 199 Lowell, Amy 13 Lowell, James Russell 12 Lowry, Malcolm Gilmore on 25 Goodwin on 26 Tender Is the Night filmscript 205, 221 Under the Volcano 25, 39, 73, 149, 150, 205, 253–254 Loy, Mina 273 Lukas, J. Anthony “One Too Many for the Muse” 83, 84, 85 Lull, Dave 355, 362–363 Lundquist, James 36, 49 Lynn, Kenneth 256

Macdonald, Dwight 356 MacLeish, Archibald 96 Maggie, A Girl of the Streets: A Story of New York (Crane) 7 Mailer, Norman 111 Main Street (Lewis) xv, 13, 38–39, 60, 63, 68–71, 180, 225, 226, 237, 264, 268–271, 278, 281, 306–307, 309, 310, 335–344, 346, 350 “Main Street Goes to War” (Lewis) 350

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“Main Street’s Been Paved!” (Lewis) 71 Malcolm Lowry (Day) 73 The Man From Main Street (Lewis, ed. Maule and Cane) 168, 264 The Man Who Knew Coolidge (Lewis) 237 The Man with the Golden Arm (Algren) 11 Mancini, Joseph 187 Manfred, Frederick 36, 65–66, 67, 77, 168, 175 Mann, Thomas Buddenbrooks 189 Mantrap (Lewis) 230–231, 232–233, 237, 240 Manual on Alcoholism (AMA) 42 Mariani, Paul 187, 193 Mark Schorer Collection/Papers 166–167, 175, 240, 285, 352 “Mark Schorer’s Sinclair Lewis Revisited” (Forseth) 163–177 Marlatt, Alan xvii–xviii Marquand, John 311 Marshland, Jinny (character) 63, 64, 67–68 Martens, Phoebe 355 Martin, James Kirby Drinking in America: A History 2, 19–20, 22–23, 29, 32 Mather, Increase 20 The Maze (Simpson) 199 McAlmon, Robert 265, 273–275, 276, 284 Being Geniuses Together 227, 250 McHarg, Lloyd (character) 237–238 McShea, Micky (character) 61–63 Meisel, Perry 329–330 Mello, Nancy K. 42–43 Mencken, H. L. 225, 227, 232, 233, 237, 265, 269, 276 Mendelson, Jack H. 42–43 The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (ed. Berkow) 41–42 Meyers, Jeffrey Hemingway: A Biography 94, 95–96, 97, 111, 112 on Wilson 285

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MHS see Minnesota Historical Society Middlemarch (George Eliot) 270, 343 Mill, John Stuart 70, 196 On Liberty 52 Milland, Ray 151 Miller, Perry 59, 75 Miller, Peter 43 Mills, Hilary 74 Milton, John 197 Minnesota Diary (Lewis) 285, 305, 311–312, 313, 316, 317, 351 Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) 307, 308, 309, 317 The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis (Parry) 349–351 “Minnesota, the Norse State” (Lewis) 310, 350 Mitty, Walter (character) 235 Mizener, Arthur 68–69, 174 The Far Side of Paradise 221, 223 A Modern Instance (Howells) 5–6 Modern Language Association (MLA) 297, 356 The Modern Temper 247, 249, 250, 253, 255 Monroe, Harriet 273 Monteiro, George 7 Mourning Becomes Electra (O’Neill) 137 A Moveable Feast (Hemingway) 83, 100–102, 111, 186 Murry, John Middleton 331 Musto, David 9 The American Disease 23, 129–130 My Wife and I (Stowe) 5

Naked Lunch (Burroughs) 11 Napier, James J. 266, 306 Nation, Carry 2 The Nation (magazine) 71, 347, 349 The Natural History of Alcoholism (Vaillant) 23 Neoptolemus (character) 59 135, 160, 298 The New Yorker (magazine) 85, 243, 245

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Newbold, Vivian 198 Newlove, Donald Curanne Trueheart 111 Those Drinking Days 111 “The Next Chapter” (Bellow) 330 Nichomachean Ethics (Aristotle) 28, 121, 122 Nightwood (Barnes) 248, 252–253 1984 (Orwell) 324 Norton, Charles Eliot 12 Not-God: The History of Alcoholics Anonymous (Kurtz) xvii, 23 “Notes on an Epidemic” (Goodwin) 26 Noyes, Mary 355

O, Pioneers (Cather) 359 Oates, Joyce Carol 24, 136, 259 Oberg, Arthur 188–189 O’Brien, John Maxwell Alexander the Great 153, 154–161, 162 “Dionysus” 162 O’Brien, Robert 45 Oedipus 118 O’Hara, John Appointment in Samarra 39, 248, 252 and Lewis 60 Ten North Frederick 61 Olson, Elder 297 Olympias, Queen 157 On Liberty (Mill) 52 “One Too Many for the Muse” (Lukas) 83, 84, 85 O’Neill, Eugene addiction and creativity 24, 26, 28, 29, 135, 137–138 Bloom on 141 Dardis on 28, 29 Forseth on 117–142 Gilmore on 24, 29 Goodwin on 26, 29

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The Iceman Cometh 19, 29, 117, 119, 120, 124–127, 128, 133, 138 Long Day’s Journey into Night ix, 117, 119–121, 127–133, 138 Mourning Becomes Electra 137 Nobel Prize 348 “Opium’s Varied Dreams” (Crane) 9–10 The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (Waugh) 294 O’Reilly, Edmund 4 Orwell, George 24, 324 Our Mr. Wrenn (Lewis) 179 An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (Sigmund Freud) 139–140

Papa (Gregory Hemingway) 108 “Papa” (Shechner) 85 Paris Review 190, 192 Paris Was Our Mistress (Putnam) 228–229, 271 Parritt (O’Neill character) 127 Parry, Sally E. The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis 349–351 Paul, St. 257, 342 Perkins, David 188, 189 Perkins, Francis 35, 54 Perkins, Maxwell 102, 206, 279 Pershing, General John J. 12 Phaedrus (Plato) xviii Philip II of Macedon 154–155, 156 Philoctetes 59, 195, 203, 212, 245 Philoctetes (Sophocles) 35, 57–58 “Philoctetes: The Wound and the Bow” (Wilson) 39, 77, 200, 203, 245 The Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan) 340 Pinfold, Gilbert (character) 294 Pipe and Pouch: The Smoker’s Own Book of Poetry (Knight) 12–13 Plato

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Phaedrus xviii Symposium xiii, xviii Plimpton, George 300 Poe, Edgar Allan 4, 26, 145, 215 Poetics (Aristotle) 118 Polich, J. Michael 40 Politics (Aristotle) 28 Politics (magazine) 356 “Politics of American Freedom” (Schlesinger) 328 Pope, Alexander 279 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce) 190 Pound, Ezra 265, 271 Powers, Marcella 170, 312, 314, 348 The Prelude (Wordsworth) 190 The Principles of Psychology (James) 3 Proust, Marcel 117 The Pub in Literature: England’s Altered State (Earnshaw) vii Putnam, Samuel 269 Paris Was Our Mistress 228–229, 271 When Main Street came to Montparnasse 275

Quinn, Patrick M. 331 “Quitting” (Leonard) 83

Recovery (Berryman) 25, 168, 185–201, 204, 209–213, 218, 223, 299 Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke) 336 Relapse Prevention (Marlatt and Gordon) xviii Reynolds, David S. 4 Reynolds, Michael S. 285 Richards, I. A. 19 Richardson, Hadley 94, 95, 111 Richardson, James 111 Rieff, Philip 118 Rohmer, Sax 11 “‘A Romance of Manners and Class’: Sinclair Lewis’s Free Air”

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(Forseth) 179–184 Room, Robin xvii Roosevelt, Theodore 12 Rorabaugh, W. J. 2, 32 Rosenthal, Debra J. 4 Ross, Ishbel 283 Rourke, Constance 68 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 336 Ruark, Robert 252 Rush, Dr. Benjamin 22

St. Cloud State University, Minnesota 77, 166, 170, 240, 241, 312, 351 “Salute to an Old Landmark: Sinclair Lewis” (Wilson) 281–282 Sams in a Dry Season (Gold) 203, 204, 213–218, 300 Sams, Jason (character) 203, 204, 214, 215–218, 300 Sanders, Marion K. Dorothy Thompson: A Legend in Her Time 75, 177 Sartre, Jean-Paul 295–296 Saturday Evening Post 266, 307, 308, 309, 317 The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) 21 Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. “Politics of American Freedom” 328 Schorer, Mark archives 166–170, 175, 240, 285, 346–347, 352 “The Burdens of Biography” 72–73, 165 Davis on 164 on Lewis xviii, 32, 36, 47–52, 61, 63, 72–73, 75, 163–173, 175–176, 181, 226, 229–230, 262, 269–270, 273, 277, 283, 325, 346–347, 348 on The Lost Weekend 152 on “Minnesota Diary” 311–312 Sheean on 163 Sinclair Lewis: An American Life xviii, 32, 36, 72, 163–166, 167, 170–173, 175, 184, 229–230, 262, 283, 311, 346–347 and Thompson 163, 166, 168–170, 172–173, 176–177, 325

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Schwartz, Delmore 325 Scribner’s Magazine 206 A Second-Hand Life (Jackson) 152 Selected Letters (Hemingway) 85, 86–87, 103 “Self-Conscious America” (Lewis) 278 Set This House on Fire (Styron) 73 Severance, Alan (character) 186, 187, 192–196, 198, 210, 212–213, 218 Shakespeare, William As You Like It 336 Hamlet x, 12, 118 imagery 60 language 130 Shechner, Mark on Hemingway 85–88 “Papa” 85 Sheean, Vincent 49, 75, 163, 172 Dorothy and Red 163, 174 Sherwin, Vida (character) 336, 338 Shirer, William Berlin Diary 326–327 Simenon, Georges 26, 27, 294 Simpson, Don 292 Simpson, Eileen The Maze 199 Simpson, Louis 199 Sinclair Lewis: An American Life (Schorer) xviii, 32, 36, 72, 163–166, 167, 170–173, 175, 184, 229–230, 262, 283, 311, 346–347 Sinclair Lewis and Mantrap: The Saskatchewan Trip (Claude Lewis) 230 Sinclair Lewis Archive, St. Cloud State University 166, 170, 241, 312 Sinclair Lewis Collection, Macalester College 76 Sinclair Lewis Letters Collection (MHS) 317 “Sinclair Lewis—Minnesota Rustic” (Killough) 315–316, 317

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Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street (Lingeman) 347–349 Sinclair Lewis Society 351 The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter 164, 349, 351 “Sinclair Lewis’s ‘Minnesota Diary’” (Killough) 281 Sister Carrie (Dreiser) 6, 11, 248 Slade, Larry (character) 118, 125, 126, 127 Smith, Harrison 152, 168 The Social History of Alcohol Review 23 Socrates xiii Sontag, Susan 119, 259 AIDS and Its Metaphors 245 Illness as Metaphor 56–57, 245 Sophocles Philoctetes 35, 57–58 Soule, John B. L. 344 Sournia, Jean-Charles A History of Alcoholism 290 Southern Review 355 Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story (Harper) 4 “Spirits and Spirituality: Notes on the Art of John Berryman’s Recovery” (Forseth) 185–201, 223 Spurgeon, Caroline 60 Stambul, Harriet B. 40 Stearns, Harold 277–278 Stein, Gertrude xi, 228, 229, 264, 265, 269, 270, 271, 272, 280, 283, 284 Steinbeck, John 26, 174, 348 Stevens, Betty 49–50 Stevenson, Robert Louis 11 Stewart, Justice Potter 40 “Still/Here” (Jones) 243–244 Stowe, Harriet Beecher 5–6, 9 My Wife and I 5 We and Our Neighbors 5 Styron, William 73–74 Darkness Visible 203, 220

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Set This House on Fire 73 The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway) 98–99, 105–107, 247, 250, 251, 256–257, 278, 285 The Sweeping Wind (de Kruif) 226 “Symposia as Ritual and Disease” (Forseth) 153–162 Symposium (Plato) xiii, xviii Syracuse University 166, 169, 170, 177, 240, 285 Szasz, Thomas 91–92, 93

“The Tamarack Lover” (Lewis) 350 Tarn, Sir William 157 Taylor, Margaret 297 Teachout, Terry “Victim Art” 259 Ten North Frederick (O’Hara) 61 Tender Is the Night (film) 205, 221 Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald) 39, 204, 205–209, 213, 215, 218, 221–223, 247–248, 250, 251, 258 Terre Haute Express 344 Thackeray, William Makepeace 343 “That First Infirmity of Noble Mind: Sinclair Lewis, Fame—and Drink” (Forseth) 225–241 That Place in Minnesota (Ed Fitzgerald) 185 Theopompus of Chios 155 “Things” (Lewis) 350 Third Alcoholic Treatment (Berryman) 191–192, 211–212, 299 The Thirsty Muse (Dardis) 19, 28–29 This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald) 13 Thomas, Caitlin 297–298 Thomas, Dylan 110, 296–299 Thomas Aquinas, St. 107, 337 Thompson, Dorothy archives 169–170, 176, 177, 240, 285, 317 correspondence 54–55, 166, 168–170, 176–177, 285, 310 and Friedman 168 and Lewis 35, 48–49, 54–55, 75, 172–173, 276, 348

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Manfred on 65–66 and Schorer 163, 166, 168–170, 172–173, 176–177, 325 Sheean on 163 Thoreau, Henry David 230, 305, 316 Walden 230, 315, 316 Those Drinking Days (Newlove) 111 Timberlane, Cass (character) 64, 67–68 Time magazine 314, 315, 345 Tindall, William York 258 To Have and Have Not (Hemingway) 102, 279 Todd, J. E. 91 Tolstoy, Leo 28 The Trail of the Hawk (Lewis) 179, 317 “Transformation and the Labor of Gratitude” (Hyde) 194–195 Traynor v. Turnage case 31, 134 Trotksy, Leon 324, 331 Twain, Mark 4–5 The Twenties (Wilson) 37, 250 Twenty-Four Hours a Day (A.A. book) 196 “Two Notes To A Low and Dishonest Decade: Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here and Saul Bellow’s ‘The Hell It Can’t’” (Forseth) 321–333 Tyrone, Mary (character) ix, 121, 122–123, 128, 130–132 Tyrone family (characters) ix, 118, 120–123, 128–132

Ulysses (Joyce) 258 Under the Volcano (Lowry) 25, 39, 73, 149, 150, 205, 253–254 Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (Dryden) 46–47 Utrillo, Maurice 145

Vaillant, George E. The Natural History of Alcoholism 23 Valborg, Erik (character) 338, 339, 340 Van Doren, Carl 347 Van Doren, Mark 168, 175 Van Vechten, Carl 283 The Varieties of Religious Experience (James) 3

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Veblen, Thorstein “Conspicuous Consumption” 350 The Victim (Bellow) 25 “Victim Art” (Teachout) 259 Virgil Eclogues 337 The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Wister) 5 Voltaire 336

Wakefield, Dan xvii Walden (Thoreau) 230, 315, 316 “Walden Pond and Tin Lizzie: Sinclair Lewis Records the Great Plains” (Forseth) 305–320 Wall Street Journal 292 Warner, Nicholas O. 4, 5 Warren, Dale 48, 172 Warren, Nicole (character) 207, 208, 251 Warren, Robert Penn 355 Book World 213 Washingtonian Temperance Society 2 The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) 133, 323 Watkins, Ann 47 Waugh, Evelyn 24, 25, 293–294 Brideshead Revisited 294 The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold 294 The Way It Was (Loeb) 278 We and Our Neighbors (Stowe) 5 Webb, Beatrice xviii, 23 Webber, George (character) 237–238 Wedge, George 142, 200 Weeks, Ted 176 Wellek, René 263 Wharton, Edith 117, 278, 317 When Main Street came to Montparnasse (Putnam) 275 The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction (Crowley) 243, 246–253, 254–258

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Whitman, Walt xi, 4 “‘Why Did They Make Such a Fuss?’: Don Birnam’s Emotional Barometer” (Forseth) 143–152 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler 12–13 Wilde, Oscar 11 Wilder, Billy 151 Wilson, Edmund 36–37, 58, 152, 269, 283, 285 “Philoctetes: The Wound and the Bow” 39, 77, 200, 203, 245 “Salute to an Old Landmark: Sinclair Lewis” 281–282 The Twenties 37, 250 The Wound and the Bow 245 Wimsatt, W. K. “The Concrete Universal” 204–205 Windrip, Senator “Buzz” (character) 327, 328 “Wine” (Carver) 289 Wister, Owen 6 The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains 5 With Love from Gracie (Grace Hegger Lewis) 75, 184, 233, 236, 276 Wolfe, Thomas 279 You Can’t Go Home Again 237–238 Wolner, Theresa 75 Women’s Christian Temperance Union 12 Woodward, W. E. 75 Wordsworth, William The Prelude 190 World Health Organization 42 The Wound and the Bow (Wilson) 245 Writing and Madness (Felman) 119 Wylie, Philip 152

Yeats, W. B. 86, 107, 298 “You Can Go Home Again: Sinclair Lewis—Biography and Short Fiction” (Forseth) 345–353 You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe) 237–238 Young, Philip 99–100

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