Michael Lennon - Norman Mailer - a double life

NM’s advances from, 622

NM’s contract with, 588

Raney, William, 94, 97, 101, 102, 103, 104, 107

Rasputin, Grigory Efimovich, 734, 741

Ray, Aldo, 240

Raymond, Dwayne, 725–26, 730, 755

Reagan, Ronald, 405, 608, 644

NM on, 406–7

Realist, 356

Rebel Without a Cause (Lindner), 164

Rector of Justin, The (Auchincloss), 163

Red and the Black, The (Stendhal), 102, 119, 543

Red Badge of Courage, The (film), 531

Reed, John, 704

Regency, Alvin Luther (char.), 586–87

Reich, Wilhelm, 164, 167, 175, 214, 219, 382, 433

Reid, Benjamin, 566

Reik, Theodore, 167, 337

Reilly, William, 286

Rembar, Billie, 285

Rembar, Cy, 17, 94, 106, 108, 113, 115, 118, 122, 139, 142, 153, 159, 173, 186, 195, 275, 287, 332, 345, 378

as Abbott’s literary lawyer, 543

and Adele’s stabbing, 285

NM’s idolizing of, 20–21

“Remember the War” rally, 448–49

Report of Court Proceedings in the Case of the Anti-Soviet “Bloc of Right” and Trotskyites, 112–13

Republican National Convention:

of 1964, 343–44

of 1968, 404–5

of 1972, 454, 455

of 1992, 653

Rhodes, Richard, 250

Ribicoff, Abraham, 407–8

Rich, Frank, 409

Richardson, Jack, 380, 409

Richardson, John, in Portrait of Picasso controversy, 665, 674–75, 686

Ricks, Christopher, 579, 581, 586

“Right Shoe on Left Foot” (Mailer), 46, 48

Right Stuff, The (Wolfe), 529

Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 94, 152, 160

Rinehart, Stanley, 42, 56, 94, 101, 106, 184, 197

Deer Park disliked by, 152, 156, 159, 160, 170–71, 172, 173

Rinehart and Co., 2, 39, 41, 93, 94, 102, 103, 105, 107, 109, 110, 130, 134, 160, 170

Deer Park canceled by, 178–79, 181–82

Deer Park manuscript submitted to, 151

“Ringside” (unproduced film), 698–99

Rivera, Geraldo, 533

Roberts, David, 37

Rockefeller, David, 280

Rockefeller, Nelson, 405

Rodman, Selden, 294, 445–46

Rojack, Deborah (char.), 338, 339, 340, 342

Rojack, Stephen Richards (char.), 88–89, 92, 253, 310, 329–30, 332, 334, 340–42, 575, 580

as NM’s alter ego, 338

Rolling Stone, 476–77, 738

Harlot’s Ghost excerpts in, 652

Rollyson, Carl, 58, 521

Romney, George, 343

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 189

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 55, 82, 295, 704

Roscoe, Lee, 380, 401

Rose, Charlie, 696, 699, 753

Rosenbaum, Ron, 711–12, 726–27

Rosenberg, Conrad, 283, 284, 286

Ross, Lillian, 109, 140, 145, 150, 195, 243, 531, 706

Rossellini, Isabella, 621

Rosset, Barney, 346, 401, 486

Rosten, Norman, 57, 93–94, 129, 144, 442

Rosthal, Elke, 713

Rosy Crucifixion, The (Mailer; screenplay), 591, 618

Rosy Crucifixion, The (Miller), 498

Roth (char.), 87–89

Roth, Philip, 260, 326, 529, 731

on NM’s eulogy for Plimpton, 730–31

Rothe, Shari, 401, 486

Rothenberg, David, 557

Rovere, Richard, 270

Rowbotham, Robert, 549, 571

Roxas, Susan, 558, 559

Rubin, Jerry, 382, 413, 428, 453, 455

Rubin, William, 675, 685

Ruby, Jack, 334

Rudd, Mark, 400

Ruderman, Peter, 26

Rudge, Olga, 430

Rushdie, Salman, 636–38

Rush to Judgment (Lane), 370, 377

Russell, Dick, 654

Russia, 598–99, 665–71, 676, 683

German invasion of, 32

Russian Revolution, 128

Ruta (char.), 256, 338

Rycroft, Charles, 164

Sabatini, Rafael, 19

Sacks, Leah, 8

Sade, Marquis de, 4, 277, 697

Said, Edward, 637

St. Ann’s School, 520

St. George and the Godfather (Mailer), 455–56, 457

Sais, Matthew, 749

Sais, Mattie James, 748

Sais, Salina, 749

Salammbô (Flaubert), 575

Salinger, J. D., 38, 249, 260, 270, 326, 359

Salinger, Pierre, 307

Sam Jaffe Agency, 106

Sánchez, Steve “Chavo,” 134, 146, 151

Saroyan, William, 35

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 102, 203, 264, 313, 398, 565

Satanic Verse, The (Rushdie), Islamic outrage over, 636–37

Saturday Review, 229, 378, 433

Save Me the Waltz (Zelda Fitzgerald), 716

Saving Private Ryan (film), 703

Scarboro Hotel, 9–10, 17, 24, 33, 34, 40, 42

Scarr, Paul (char.), 57

Schaap, Dick, 373

“Schedule Breaker, The” (Mailer), 45

Scherer, Adelaide, 106

Scheuer, James, 419

Schiff, Dorothy, 459

Schiller, Larry, 458, 467, 530, 668, 706, 711, 712, 760

as character in Executioner’s Song, 533–35, 540

Executioner’s Song and, 503–6, 508, 509–12, 528–29, 533

Executioner’s Song miniseries produced and directed by, 567–68, 570

Faith of Graffiti and, 473–74

Hanssen spy case and, 718–19, 721

Marilyn as project of, 458, 462, 464–65

in meeting at NM’s Stockbridge home, 464–65

at 1975 Ali-Frazier fight, 492

NM on, 512

NM’s disagreement on Marilyn with, 465–66, 470

Oswald’s Tale and, 665–71, 677–79

publishing career of, 470, 678

in Russia, 598, 665–71

and Time cover story on Marilyn, 466–67, 469–70

Schiller, Stephanie, 506

Schlesinger, Alexandra, 500, 624

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 32, 147, 268, 269, 270, 276, 459, 500, 601, 624, 650

Schneebaum, Toby, 169, 174, 175

Schneider, Hyman (Chaim) Jehuda, 7, 9, 15, 260

grocery store of, 8–9

as rabbi, 7

Schneider, Ida Kamrass, 7–8

death of, 14

Schneider, Jennie, 7

Schneider, Joe, 15

Schneider, Lena, 8

Schneider, Morris, 8

Schneider, Rebecca, see Shapiro, Rebecca “Beck”

Schneider, Rose, 7, 9

Schneider family:

hotel business of, 9–11, 14, 16, 42, 50

in Long Branch, 8, 16, 22

Schorer, Mark, 38

Schwab, Bunny, 24

Schwartz, Delmore, 147

Schwarz-Bart, André, 446, 576

Schweitzer, Mitchell D., 289

Scorpio Rising (film), 375

Scovil, Jack, 473, 588–90, 592, 593

Scranton, William, 343

Scribner’s, 132, 179

Scully, Vincent, 337

SCUM Manifesto (Solanas), 436–37

Seaver, Edwin, 57, 58, 74

Second Sex (Beauvoir), 130, 433

Sedgwick, Edie, 376

Seiler, Michael, 689

Seize the Day (Bellow), 248

Selby, John, 94, 151

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 720–21, 727–29, 745

Serpentine (Thompson), 529

Set This House on Fire (Styron), 250, 326

Settle, Mary Lee, 609

Sexual Politics (Millett), 432, 433, 436, 437

Sexual Revolution, The (Reich), 175

Sexus (Miller), 496, 497, 591

“Shadow of the Crime, The” (Mailer), 292

Shaffer, Ellen, 279

Shainberg, Larry, 717–18

Shakespeare, William, 579

Shapiro, Louis, 9–10

Shapiro, Nachum Melech, 13

Shapiro, Rebecca “Beck,” 7, 9–10, 34, 50, 216

Sharkovksy, Aleksandr, 665, 668, 669

Shattuck, Roger, 350, 685

Shatz, Leslie, 621

Shaw, George Bernard, 162, 653, 723

Shaw, Irwin, 62, 348

Shaw, Joe, 380

Shawcross, Hartley, 119

Sheed, Wilfrid, 461

Sheehy, Gail, 513

Sheltering Sky, The (Bowles), 137

Short, Bobby, 459

Shostakovich, Dmitri, 115

Shultz, George, 608, 610

Siegel, Lee, 753

“Siege of Chicago, The” (Mailer), 407–9

see also Miami and the Siege of Chicago

Signet Society, 26