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Sin Whisper
, 371

Sioux City, Iowa, 421

Sir
, 68

Siskel, Gene, 466

“1601” (Twain), 393

Sixtus V, 62

Skinner, Harriet Noyes, 324

Slate, Jeremy, 515–17, 521

Smart Aleck
, 242

Smith, Eleazer (
Smith
v.
California
), 426

Smith, Joseph, 301, 311

Smith, Lillian, 101

Social Destiny of Man, The
, 303

Sodomy, 419, 436.
See also
Oral sex; specific acts

Songs, irreverent, 54

Southern, Terry, 121, 381

Soviet Union.
See
Russians

Spanish Civil War, 48

Spectorsky, A. C., 494

Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 77

Spelts, Cathryn, 372

Spelvin, Georgina, 534

Spiegel, Inc., 6

Spinoza, Baruch, 108

Spock, Benjamin, 228

Sputnik, 176

Stag
, 80

Stage Studio, 268

Steinborn, Henry, 67, 68–69

Steinmetz High School (Chicago), 32

Stereopticans, 58

Stewart, Potter, 397, 413, 418, 427, 428, 437, 445

Story of O
, 121

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 306

Strange Fruit
, 101

Stranger in a Strange Land
, 295

Strippers, 46

Stritch, Samuel Cardinal, 72

Stromboli, 75

Stuart, Lyle, 103

Studio, 45, 268

Studs Lonigan Trilogy, The
, 101

Sturman, Reuben, 377

Sublimation, 187

Suicide, 57

Summerfield, Arthur, 9, 109, 110

Sumner, John, 98

Sunshine & Health
, 1–2, 9, 45, 46, 68, 110, 275, 544, 545

Sunshine Park, 544–46

“Superimposition,” 116

Supreme Court, 36, 51, 61, 63, 64, 101, 106, 108–10, 114, 365, 371. 387, 389–401 403. 406, 410–14, 415–47, 471, 533

“Surrogate wives,” 193

Swarthmore College, 120

Sweden, 190

Sweeter Than Life
, 426

Swing, The (L.A. bar), 360

Swing clubs, 513

Symons, Arthur, 95

Synanon, 194

Syracuse, N.Y., 312

 

Talese, Gay, 521–46

Talese, Mrs. Gay, 528, 542–43

Tan
, 67

Tavern-on-the-Green, 503

Terminal Island, 446, 516

Texas, 400, 427

Theater, 56

Theodore, Sondra, 503

Thevis, Michael, 377

Thompson, Gordon, 405, 406

Thompson, James R., 486, 491

Thoreau, Henry, 304

Thurber, James, 82

Thurmond, Strom, 371

“Tie a Yellow Ribbon,” 467

Tillier, Claude, 100

Tilton, Elizabeth, 306

Time
, 84, 128–29, 471, 473

Titanic
, 151

Titian, 50

Titter
, 45

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 379

“Tonight” show.
See
Carson, Johnny

Topanga Canyon, 275–76, 281.
See also
Sandstone Retreat

Toronto, Canada, 245

Torquemada, Tomas de, 59

Totenberg, Nina, 427–28

Towner, James W., 319–20, 322, 324, 328

Toynbee, Arnold, 379

Trilling, Lionel, 431

Trocchi, Alexander, 121

Tropic of Cancer
, 119, 123

True
, 74

True Grit
, 515

Truk, 173, 174–75

Truth Seeker, The
, 59, 60, 61

Tucker, Sophie, 23

Turner, Lana, 278

Tuttle, Allan, 436–41, 442

Twain, Mark, 393

Twin Oaks community, 330, 331

Two Worlds Monthly
, 96

Two Years Before the Mast
, 21

Tynan, Kenneth, 426, 430

 

U-2 incident, 124–25, 178

Ulysses
, 10, 96, 97, 400

Under the Hill
, 123

United Auto Workers (UAW), 246–47

Updike, John, 414

“Up in Michigan,” 82

Utica, N.Y., 312

 

Vaginas, 506, 507–9; artificial, 230

Valenti, Jack, 420

Vargas, Alberto, 22, 31

Vassar College, 356

Vatican.
See
Popes

Venereal disease, 36, 55

Venice, Calif., 135, 359

“Venus and Tannhauser,” 106

Vibrators, 192, 230, 266, 510

Victoria, Queen, 56

Victorian Studio, 270

Vidal, Gore, 232

Vietnam War, 125, 188, 227, 228, 229

Viking Press, 232

Village Voice, The
, 259

V.I.P.
, 493

Viva
, 530

Vogue
, 275, 501

Volstead Act, 65

Von Braun, Wernher, 175, 176

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 414

Von Rosen, George, 45, 46–47, 49, 66, 68, 74, 384

Voyeurism, 376

 

Waggish Tales of the Czechs
, 102

Walker, Frank, 48

Wallace, DeWitt, 370

Wallace, George C., 270

Wallingford, Conn., 317

Walsenburg, Colo., 330

Ward, Pat, 104

Warm Springs, Ga., 422–24

Warren, Earl, 108, 365, 371, 389, 401

Washington, D.C., 98, 367, 371.
See also
Supreme Court; specific persons

Watch and Ward Society, 64

Watergate, 361, 365, 416

Watts, Alan, 224

Wayne, John, 515

WBAI, 247

Webber, Diane, 1–3, 8, 11, 14–16, 19–24, 25–27, 68, 71, 87, 126, 242, 275, 407, 421, 536–38

Webber, John, 538

Webber, Joseph, 275

Webster, Daniel, 300

Wedding Night, The
, 58

Well of Loneliness, The
, 99

West Roxbury, Mass., 303–4

Whisper
, 68

White, Byron, 407, 418, 428, 433, 440, 442, 445

White Fish, Mont., 517

White Thighs
, 121

Whitman, Walt, 57, 321

Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt, 258

Whittaker, Charles E., 109

Whittier, Calif., 245, 363–64

Whittier College, 364

Wichita, Kans., 533

Wickersham Gallery (NYC), 347, 509–10

Wife-swapping.
See
Mate-swapping

Williams, Chili, 46

Williamson, Barbara Cramer (Mrs. John Williamson), 147–49, 153–56, 157–63, 181, 195–201, 203ff., 212, 213–15, 225–26, 280, 282, 286, 287, 289, 333, 336–37, 343, 345–46, 349, 354, 514, 517, 520, 538, 541–42; family background, 141–43; jobs, 141–46; meets John Bullaro, 137–39; meets John Williamson, 183–85

Williamson, Claud (John’s father), 166–67, 171

Williamson, Constance, 166–67, 168

Williamson, John (husband of Barbara), 153ff., 158–63, 165–81, 183–86, 194–201, 203–5ff., 211–13, 215, 217–18, 219, 221–22, 224ff., 276, 277–8lff., 282, 283–84, 286ff., 295–96, 331–35ff., 343, 345, 349, 354, 420, 514, 517, 518, 519, 520, 538, 539–42

Williamson, Lilo Goetz, 173–81

Williamson, Marion.
See
McElligott, Marion Williamson

Williamson, Rolf (John’s son), 175, 177

Wilson, Edmund, 101

Winchell, Walter, 103

Wink
, 45, 68

With Open Mouth
, 121

Without a Stitch
, 365

Wolfe, Thomas, 515

Wolfgang, Marvin E., 373

Woman Who Was Pope, The
, 98

Wood, Clement, 98

Woodhull, Victoria, 322

Woodland Hills, Calif., 132ff., 339, 340–42.
See also
Bullaro, John

Woolsey, John M., 97, 99

Worden, Harriet, 327

World War I, 95, 122

World War II, 33, 50, 76–78, 101, 119, 120, 169, 190, 383

Wright, Francis, 301

Wylie, Philip, 224

 

Yale Divinity School, 306

Yaney, Ralph D., 519

Yap, 173–74

Yippies, 227

Young, Brigham, 301

Young, Loretta, 39

Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), 56

Youth, 126, 130.
See also
Adolescents

 

Zitter, Martin, 522

Zola, Éntile, 96

About the Author

G
AY
T
ALESE
is a bestselling author who has written eleven books and has contributed to the
New York Times, Esquire, The New Yorker
, and
Harper’s
, among other national publications. He lives in New York City.

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Books by Gay Talese

A WRITER’S LIFE
(2006)

THE GAY TALESE READER
(2003)

THE BRIDGE (REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION
, 2003)

THE LITERATURE OF REALITY (WITH BARBARA LOUNSBERRY
, 1996)

UNTO THE SONS
(1992)

THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE
(1980)

HONOR THY FATHER
(1971)

FAME AND OBSCURITY
(1970)

THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER
(1969)

THE OVERREACHERS
(1965)

THE BRIDGE
(1964)

NEW YORK—A SERENDIPITER’S JOURNEY
(1961)

Portions of this book have appeared in
Esquire
magazine. Copyright © 1975, 1979 by Esquire, Inc.

THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE
. Copyright © 1980, 2009 by Gay Talese. Foreword copyright © 2009 by Katie Roiphe. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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