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Mewshaw, Pat (Mewshaw’s brother), 20, 65, 66
Mewshaw, Sean (Mewshaw’s son), 9, 13, 15, 45, 50, 52, 68, 69, 81, 83, 84, 85–86, 97, 109, 124, 134, 135, 136, 137, 142, 159, 161, 164, 174, 198, 204, 207, 219
Miami Open, 180
Million Little Pieces, A (Frey), 226
Moir, Alfred, 44
Mom (Mewshaw’s mother, Mary Helen Dunn), 20, 29–30, 31, 63–66, 67, 68, 81–91, 126, 198–200, 227
Money to Burn (Mewshaw), 142, 150
Montgomery, Alabama, 25
Montherlant, Henry de, 139
Moravia, Alberto, 11, 123
Moro, Aldo, 8, 14, 50, 57
Morris, Willie, 72
Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway), 6, 26
Munich, Germany, 26, 36–38
My Exaggerated Life (Conroy), 184, 256
My Losing Season (Conroy), 6, 221, 225–26, 229
My Reading Life (Conroy), 226
Nagorski, Andy, 259
Naples, Florida, 136–37, 177
National Defense (Fallows), 54
National Lampoon, 80
Naval Receiving Station, Washington, DC, 32
Newhouse, Nancy, 131–32
New Journalism, 131
New Life, A (Malamud), 155, 156
Newman, Paul, 75
Newsweek, 105, 117, 259
New Yorker, 76, 78, 123
New York Times, 123, 176, 180, 195, 235, 251
New York Times Magazine, 120
New York Times Sophisticated Traveler, 131–32
Nicholson, Jack, 150
Nobel Prizes, 11
O’Keefe, Michael, 186
Olympic Games, 96, 124–25
One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew (Love), 53
O’Neill, Eugene, 76
O’Neill, Marion, 191
Palestine, 69
Paris, France, 62, 64, 72, 188–89
Pat Conroy Cookbook, The: Recipes and Stories of My Life (Conroy), 224
Pat Conroy Literary Center, 242–43
PEN/Faulkner Reading Series, 171–73
People Magazine, 195
Perkins, Anthony, 13
Pileggi, Nick, 149–50, 151, 152, 153
Pima County, Arizona, 259
Plath, Sylvia, 251
Playboy International, 95, 102, 157, 158
Poe, Edgar Allan, 166
Pollack, Sidney, 73
Powell, Jody, 53–54
Presley, Elvis, 87
Pretty Poison (Black), 13
Price, Reynolds, 163
Prince of Tides, The (Conroy), 25, 69, 102–104, 123, 127, 129, 141, 143–44, 145, 196, 224–25, 232–33, 246, 247, 259
Prince of Tides, The [film] (Streisand), 70, 133, 138, 141, 155, 175, 176
pro tennis circuit, 56–57, 72, 105–108, 131, 174–75, 176, 180, 244
Prozac, 168–69, 174, 177
Pryor, Richard, 25
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino), 15
Raitt, Bonnie, 186
Random House, 100
Reading My Father (Styron), 76
Reagan, Ronald, 57
Red Brigades. See Italy
Redmont, Dennis, 107–108
Refiner’s Fire (Helprin), 78
Robbins, Harold, 126
ROME AND A VILLA (Clark), 51
Roth, Philip, 99
Royal Green Jackets (British Army), 62, 65
Russia Journal (Lee), 117
Salter, James, 163
San Francisco, California, 159, 162, 164, 166, 174, 180–87, 252
San Francisco Focus, 196
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 243
Scorsese, Martin, 219
Seltzer, Catherine, 233
Set This House on Fire (Styron), 73
Shad Treatment, The (Epps), 53
Sharif, Omar, 58
Shaw, Irwin, 99
Sheine, Bernie, 132
Sheldon, Sidney, 126
Shelter from the Storm (Mewshaw), 200
Short Circuit (Mewshaw), 56–57, 101–102, 105–108, 113, 117, 244
Shrake, Bud, 72
Simon & Schuster, 165
Simpson, Michael, 135, 136
Simpson, Natasha, 135, 136
Simpson, Nicole Brown, 189–90
Simpson, O.J., 189–90
Simpson, Victor and Daniela, 135–36
Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), 13
Smash (magazine), 102
Smith, Liz, 175
Sophie’s Choice (Styron), 70, 72, 127
Sophie’s Choice [film] (Pakula), 71
South of Broad (Conroy), 224
Spark, Muriel, 24
Sportsworld, 102
Stars Over the City (Karsch), 70
Steinbeck, John, 76
Steinberg, Edward and Marya, 25, 259
Steinem, Gloria, 175
Sterling, James, 79
Stern (magazine), 102, 105
Stewart, Donald, 95, 146, 157
Stewart, Luisa, 186
St. Francis School, Rome, Italy, 21, 46, 123
Stone, Sharon, 168
Stop-Time (Conroy), 10
Strand, Mark, 79
Streep, Meryl, 150, 152
Streisand, Barbara, 70, 138, 155, 156
St. Stephen’s School, Rome, Italy, 219
Styron, Alexandra, 76–77
Styron, Susannah, 70–71
Styron, William and Rose, 4, 70–77, 99, 125, 127, 162, 163, 259
Sunday Telegraph, 98
Sympathy for the Devil (Mewshaw), 232
Talese, Nan and Gay, 6, 97, 104, 147, 149, 153, 166, 175, 221, 226, 247, 253–54
Tan, Amy, 186
Tarantino, Quentin, 15
Texas, 21, 53
Thurman, Uma, 15
Time, 100
Toll, The (Mewshaw), 104
Trevanian, 126
Trillin, Calvin, 186
True Crime (Mewshaw), 158, 165
Twain, Mark, 25
UC Berkeley, 222
UC Santa Barbara, 44
University for Foreigners, Perugia, Italy, 53
University of Arizona, 107, 243
University of Maryland, 32, 33
University of Oxford, 53, 79
University of South Carolina, 74
Center for the Arts, 233
University of Texas, 8, 72–73, 156
University of Virginia (UVA), 53, 71, 84, 160, 161, 163, 164–66
Uris, Leon, 126
USA Today, 142
US Military Academy, 96
US Open, 57, 108
UVA. See University of Virginia
Variety, 146
Vidal, Gore, 4, 11, 13, 17, 73, 76, 79, 96–101, 102, 117–18, 127, 146–47, 157, 197, 227, 232
Vietnam War, 40, 54–55
Virginia Festival of the Book, 222
Vogue, 95
Volcansek, Mary, 84
Vonnegut, Kurt, 13
Vreeland, Diana, 95
Vreeland, Freckie, 95
Walker, Jerry Jeff, 73
Waking Slow (Mewshaw), 34
Wallach, Eli, 96
Wall Street Journal, 79
Walter Reed Hospital, 32
Warren, Robert Penn, 4
Washington City Paper (now Deadspin), 225
Washington Post, 10, 67, 102, 105, 123, 166, 225, 230
Water Is Wide, The (Conroy), 25–26, 40, 73–74
Watts, Heather, 175
Waugh, Evelyn, 79
Way of the Warrior, The (Styron), 76
Weld, Tuesday, 13
West Point, 96
Wevill, David, 72
Will, George, 79
Williams, Tennessee, 76, 98
Williwaw (Vidal), 96
Wimbledon, 62, 102, 106
Winship Cancer Institute. See Emory University
Winter’s Tale (Helprin), 78, 79, 80, 120
Wiseguy (Pileggi), 150
Wittliff, William, 72
Wolfe, Thomas, 102
Women’
s Tennis Association, 175
Woodward, Joanne, 75
Wootten, Morgan, 21
World War II, 32, 96, 104, 238
Yale School of Drama, 13
Yardley, Jonathan, 10, 21
Year of the Gun (Mewshaw), 51, 113, 123, 125–29, 131, 168, 195
Year of the Gun [film] (Frankenheimer), 168
© Sean Mewshaw
MICHAEL MEWSHAW’s five-decade career includes award-winning fiction, nonfiction, literary criticism, and investigative journalism. He is the author of the nonfiction works Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal and Between Terror and Tourism; the novel Year of the Gun; and the memoir Do I Owe You Something? He has published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous international outlets. He spends much of his time in Key West, Florida.
Pat and Lenore Conroy, Joan and Polly Geller, Linda and Marc Mewshaw, Emily and Greg Fleischer (foreground). Rome, the day we met, September 1981.
Mike Mewshaw, Pat and Lenore Conroy, Linda holding Marc Mewshaw, Sean Mewshaw (foreground). Christmas Rome, 1981.
Mike Mewshaw and Pat Conroy. Rome, December 1981.
Susannah and Pat Conroy. Fripp Island, South Carolina, Summer 1983.
Marc and Sean Mewshaw, Pat Conroy. Fripp Island, South Carolina, 1983.
Pat Conroy and Mike. New York City, summer 1985.
Pat Conroy and Linda Mewshaw. New York City, summer 1985.
Bob Kirby, Lenore and Pat Conroy, Linda, Mike, Sean and Marc Mewshaw, Susannah Conroy, Emily Fleischer Conroy. Naples, Florida, 1988.
Linda Mewshaw and Pat Conroy. Charlottesville, Virginia, Halloween 1989.
Marc Mewshaw and Pat Conroy. Charlottesville, Virginia, Halloween 1989.
Lenore and Pat Conroy, Linda and Mike Mewshaw, Susannah Conroy. Fripp Island, South Carolina, January 1990.
Pat and Lenore Conroy, Sean and Marc Mewshaw, in front of the Conroys’ house. San Francisco, March 1991.
Susannah Conroy and Linda Mewshaw in front of Roman painting of Lenore and Susannah as a baby. Atlanta, Georgia, December 2009.
Lenore and Susannah Conroy. Atlanta, Georgia, 2009.
Susannah Conroy and Marc Mewshaw. Rome restaurant, 2015.
Mike Mewshaw at Pat Conroy’s grave. St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 2017.