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Mordecai: The Life & Times FULL INDEX For reasons of space, Barney Gilmore's comprehensive Full Index of Mordecai: The Life and Times had to be trimmed to a more limited names-only version in the book. Below is the entire index of the first edition of Mordecai, for those who are interested. — Charles Foran, October, 2010 Note to the reader: Throughout this index the abbreviation F is used to signify Florence Richler and the abbreviation M is used to signify Mordecai Richler. ABC (UK media company), 217, 223 Abel, Elie, 108 Abella, Irving, 597 Abley, Mark, 570–72, 621–22, 721 The Acrobats (M’s early novel). See also Wicked We Love; 141, 145, 148, 150–52, 155–56, 174, 179, 183–84, 188, 193, 195–96, 200, 213, 217, 219, 230, 238, 245, 252, 328, 411, 418, 676 early reviews of, 178–80 described, 180 reader complaints about, 189–90 M’s radio & TV adaptations of, 209–10 publication of, 166, 176–78 Adelphi (publishers), 646, 676, 686 The Adventures of Augie March (novel), 114, 221, 327 Advertisements for Myself (novel), 281 Agha, Eddy, 91 Aislin (cartoonist), 381, 386, 412–13, 521, 529, 559–60, 594, 621, 646 Albert, Ben (Ruth Rosenberg’s husband), 25 Albert, Lionel (M’s cousin), 135, 138, 150, 325, 671, 674 Albert, Ruth (“Rifka,” née Rosenberg, M’s aunt), 5, 17, 25, 29, 36, 41, 52, 99, 324, 455–56, 477, 674 Aleichem, Sholom, 334 Alfred A. Knopf (publishers). See also Knopf Canada; 140, 352, 378, 422, 445, 487, 506–7, 509, 511, 546, 568, 627, 634, 658 sold to Bertelsmann, 636 Algren, Nelson, 139, 148, 220 Alive (book), 445 Allan, Ted, 177, 182, 187, 194, 201, 203, 206, 209–12, 225–26, 228, 237, 239–40, 269, 276, 283, 301, 313, 321–22, 337–38, 354, 373, 433, 508, 594, 623 death of, 613–14 described, 149–50, 218 his love of the Richler family, 396–97 M’s fondness for and trust in, 205, 271, 289, 292, 362, 456, 464, 566, 631 M’s writing encouraged by, 128, 133, 149–59, 198–99, 318–19, 336–37, 345, 395–96, 399, 404, 414–15, 423, 432, 438, 623, 628–30 Allen, Ralph, 271 Page 1 of 46 INDEX Allen, Walter, 175, 193, 257 Allen, Woody, 508, 576, 648 Alligator Pie (children’s book), 516 Alter, Louis, 413 Amagansett, 257, 288, 290–91, 293, 305, 322, 691 Amagoalik, John, 431 American Graffiti (film), 429 Amiel, Barbara, 480, 599, 610, 624 Amis, Kingsley, 173, 194, 213, 221, 329, 354, 356–57, 600, 682 Amis, Martin, 600, 686 Amongst Women (novel), 564 Amussen, Bob, 165, 176 Andre Deutsch (publishing house). See also Deutsch, Andre; 178–79, 191, 201, 216, 244, 270, 272 Ansky, S., 102 An Answer from Limbo (book), 288–89 Antaeus (journal), 536 Antonioni, Michelangelo, 356 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (M’s novel). See also Duddy Kravitz (the character); the Duddy Kravitz trilogy; xiii, 253, 262, 270, 275–76, 285, 289–91, 295, 308, 311, 321, 328, 345, 372, 402, 438, 450, 463, 478, 484, 528, 598–99, 607, 653 adapted, 274 described, 235–36, 244–46 early praise for, 236, 238 early reviews of, 248–52 the film version of, 403–4, 429–30, 432–33, 438, 442, 446–48, 452, 494, 515 M begins work on, 230 M completes work on, 244–45 a musical version of, 501–2, 512–15 A.P. Watt & Son (literary agents), 321 Aquin, Hubert, 369, 371 Arafat, Yasser, 583 Arcand, Adrien, 34, 45, 51–52 Arcand, Denys, 633 Arkin, Alan, 515–16 Asch, Sholem, 48 Asper, Izzy, 669 Astbury, Dr. A.K., 67–68 Athill, Diana, 174, 177, 179, 182, 195, 200, 206, 215–16, 242, 257, 264, 272, 290–91, 297–98, 322, 344, 355, 506, 599 described, 178 as M’s advisor/editor, 152–54, 164, 166–67, 177, 193, 206, 230, 236, 253, 258–59, 263, 269, 285, 308, 318, 351, 412, 415, 484 Atkinson, Peter, 666 Atlantic Press (publishers), 238, 250, 438 Attlee, Clement, 82 Aubin, Benoît, 594, 698 Page 2 of 46 INDEX Auden, W.H., 85, 137, 374, 389, 534, 568, 684 Auf der Maur, Nick, 381, 434, 476, 529, 543, 560 celebrated, 646, 648 terminal illness of, 625–26, 630 Auschwitz, 72, 374, 388 An Awfully Big Adventure (novel), 564 Ayckbourn, Alan, 173 Aylen, John, 416, 529, 622, 626, 630, 694 Ba’al Shem Tov, 204 Babel, Isaac, 204, 305–7, 334, 374, 397, 413, 424, 427, 493, 543, 576, 602, 658 Babel, Nathalie, 306 Bacall, Lauren, 448 Back to Ibiza (M’s memoir), 469–70, 478, 503 Bacon, Francis (English painter), 332 Baden-Soellingen, 302 Bailey, David, 228 Bainbridge, Beryl, 322, 508, 564, 682 Baker, George, 179 Baker, Russell, 508 Bald, Diane, 658, 689 Baldwin, James, 114–15, 136, 182, 327 Ballard, J.G., 510 Balsam, Philip, 517 Balzac, Honoré de, 119, 245 Bancroft, Anne, 353 Bancroft Public School, Montreal, 16 Bantey, Ed, 572 “Barney,” as a character in M’s other novels, 180, 541 Barney Like the Player Piano (M’s drafts). See Barney’s Version Barney’s Version (M’s novel), 631, 648–49, 653, 668, 713 described, 628–30, 641–43 early responses to, 632–37, 646 film of, 700 film script of, 645, 650–52, 662, 669, 699 gestation of begun, 582, 584–85, 599–600 gestation resumed, 607–9, 617, 619, 623 a hit in Italy, 671, 676–77, 685–86, 701 nearly completed, 626–27 radio script of, 686 Baron Byng High School (Montreal), 30, 36, 41, 48, 71, 73–74, 83–84, 87, 91, 357, 396, 667, 696 described, 66–69, 88–89, 96, 106, 255 graduates of, 94, 150–51, 155, 417, 429, 434–35, 542, 670 Basuk, Jack, 94–95 Bates, Alan, 240, 304 Bauch, Hubie, 529, 718, 721 Page 3 of 46 INDEX BBC radio, 173, 179, 187, 194, 527, 565, 599, 610, 625 BBC television, 158, 191, 204, 296, 306–7, 380, 428, 442, 582–83, 588, 592, 634–35 Bear (novel), 449 Beatty, Warren, 576 Beauchamp, Lord, 73 Beauchamp, Mme, 92 Beautiful Losers (novel), 268 Beauty’s Deli, 69 Beaverbrook, Lord, 216 Beckett, Samuel, 115 Beerbohm, Max, 142 The Beggar Maid (novel), 493, 525 Bélanger, Michel, 571 Béliveau, Jean, 371, 701 Belling the Cat (M’s book), 595, 598, 648–49 Bellow, Saul, 114–15, 204, 221, 287, 305, 307, 314, 335–36, 386, 392, 397, 478, 507, 605, 648, 658, 681 M’s appreciation of, 327–28 The Bells of Hell (M’s TV drama), 427–28, 470 Ben-Gurion, David, 90, 93 Benjamin, Walter, 113 Bennett, Allan, 297 Bennett, Avie, 524–25, 605, 621, 653, 658, 672, 685, 694 Bennett, Beverly, 524 “Benny, Bella, and the War in Europe” (M’s story), 211–12, 236, 238–39, 376 Benson, Thom, 428 Berger, Maxie, 46–47, 93, 413 Bergman, Ingrid, 121 Berkeley, Michael, 392, 499, 599 Berle, Milton, 258 Berlin, Isaiah, 173 Berton, Pierre, 413, 436 The Best of Modern Humour (M’s anthology), 507–8, 521 Beth Ora Synagogue, 261, 263 Bethune, Norman, 149, 177, 210, 396 Bevan, Aneurin, 208, 491 Bevan, Nye, 491 Beverly Wilshire Hotel, 447, 452 “Beyond all the Blessings and Hymns” (M’s story), 156 Bialik, Chaim Nachman, 82 Bier, David, 156 biographies, the author’s understandings of, xii Birney, Earle, 315 Bissonnette, Lise, 571, 573, 580 Black, Conrad, 476, 529, 557, 562, 566, 587–88, 595, 599, 610, 623–26, 630, 646, 650, 655, 669, 701 Blair, Frederick, 50 Page 4 of 46 INDEX Blair, Tony, 630 Blais, Marie-Claire, 371 Blake, Hector “Toe,” 46–47, 65, 492 Bloom, Claire, 508 Bloom, Harold, 510 Bloomfield, George, 645 Blow-up (film), 356 The Blue Max (film script), 320, 325 Bogarde, Dirk, 173, 301 the Booker Prize, 386, 392, 397–98, 402, 492–93, 563–65, 606, 634, 652, 681 the Book of Job, M’s introduction to, 654 The Book of Secrets (novel), 606 the Book-of-the-Month Club (BOMC), 155, 425, 439–40, 443, 449, 462, 472, 479–81, 504, 507, 509, 521, 525, 541, 544, 550 Borzoi Books (Knopf imprint), 352 Bouchard, Lucien, 615 Boudreau, Cathy. See also Hananda; 151, 154, 179, 190, 193, 195–96, 202, 206, 215–18, 225, 228, 236, 241, 251, 334, 604–5, 629, 643 accompanies M to England, 158–61, 166–69, 172 her anger at M’s betrayal, 242, 246–47 describes life in England with M, 170–71 learns that M wants a divorce, 229–31 looses her child with M, 207 marries M, 181–83, 185–88 remarries, 272, 390 summers with F and Stanley in Roquebrune, 214, 224–25, 229 treated well by Lily, 172–73, 175, 266 Boudreau, Tess. See Taconis, Tess Bourassa, Robert, 379, 433–34, 461, 529, 559 Bourne, Nina, 378, 456, 658 Bowen, Elizabeth, 137, 382 Bowering, George, 493 Bowser and Blue (comedy duo), 575, 594 Box, Betty, 244, 249, 280, 296–97 Bradbury, Malcolm, 682 Bragg, Mervyn, 635 Braine, John, 213, 330 Broadsides: Reviews and Opinions (M’s essays), 562–63 Bronfman, Charles, 364, 461, 481, 490 Bronfman, Saidye, 433 Bronfman, Sam. See also Samuel Bronfman Centre; 23, 86, 98, 364, 391, 414–15, 423, 471, 490–91, 542, 632 Bronfman Dynasty (book), 480–81, 534–35, 547 the Bronfman family, 97, 391, 413, 548 Brooks, Mel, 353 Brown, Jerry, 89 Brown, Tina, 584 Page 5 of 46 INDEX Bryden, Ron, 295, 307, 311 Buchan, John (Lord Tweedsmuir), 73, 82, 357, 369 Buchwald, Art, 137, 508 Budman, Michael, 658, 689 Burgess, Anthony, 350, 403 Burgess, Dr. (obstetrician), 4 Burnard, Bonnie, 636 Burnett, David, 115, 135–36 Burning Water (novel), 493 Burroughs, William, 114, 136 Burton, Richard, 173, 325 Byatt, A.S., 564–65 Caesar, Sid, 258 Café Tournon, 114, 137 Calasso, Roberto, 645–46 Calder, Liz, 607 Callaghan, Morley, 105, 113, 201, 273, 387, 439, 550 Callil, Carmen, 511–12, 533, 546, 563, 568, 593, 607, 653 Cambridge University, 138–39, 154, 174, 291 Camille Laurin, 462 Campbell, Kim, 595 Camus, Albert, 113, 117 Canada, M’s criticisms of, 279 The Canada Council (granting agency), 175, 224, 267, 329, 333, 360, 362, 449, 531 Canada Made Me (book), 255–56, 271, 332 “Canadian Conundrums” (M’s address at U.