Lewis, Hayden (1919–c.1994) . Lewis was born in Alabama; his family came from Caledonia, a rural community near a tiny town called Pineapple, and they later moved to Fairhope, not far away, where Lewis eventually retired. As a young man he worked in Chicago, and attended the University of Chicago with a younger brother. Then, during the war, he went to Florida and worked for the navy in a civilian capacity until he and Caskey moved on together to California. After spending several decades building up his successful ceramics business with Rodney Owens, Lewis returned to Alabama where he married a Florida native, Mildred MacKinnon, whom he met at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education. He appears frequently in D 1.
Litvak, Anatole (1902–1974) . Russian-born film director. He made his first film in Russia, then worked in Germany, France, and England from the late 1920s before going on to Hollywood in 1937. His films in English include Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939), All This and Heaven Too (1940), Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), The Snake Pit (1948), Decision Before Dawn (1952), and Anastasia (1956). During the war, Litvak co-directed propaganda films with Frank Capra.
Lodge, Carter (d. 1995) . American friend of John van Druten. Lodge was van Druten’s lover in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He lived mostly in the Coachella Valley at the AJC Ranch, which he and van Druten purchased in the early 1940s with Auriol Lee, the British actress and director. Lodge managed the ranch, where they grew corn and tomatoes, and handled his own and van Druten’s financial affairs very successfully. Isherwood also writes about him in D 1.
Logan, Joshua (1908–1988) . American stage and film director, producer, and playwright; educated at Princeton. In the 1930s he went to see Stanislavsky in Moscow before beginning his career as a producer in London. Usually working with others, Logan wrote, directed, or produced some of the most successful ever Broadway musicals and plays, including Annie Get Your Gun (1946) and South Pacific (1949). In Hollywood he made musicals into films, and directed Bus Stop (1956), Picnic (1956), and Sayonara (1957), among others.
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Luhan, Mabel Dodge (1879–1962) . American writer, patron, salon hostess; married four times. Her four volumes of memoirs, begun in 1924 and published during the 1930s, were admired by D. H. Lawrence, who was both attracted and repelled by her. Born in Buffalo, New York, to great wealth, she was sent to Europe in 1901 to recover from a nervous breakdown; there she lived in a Medici villa in Florence, wore Renaissance dress, had lovers, befriended Gertrude Stein, and entertained lavishly. In 1912 she returned to New York where she set up her salon at 23 Fifth Avenue and had an affair with the radical journalist John Reed. Next she moved to Taos, New Mexico, where she met Tony Luhan, a Pueblo Indian whom she married in 1923. The Indian way of life became her religion, and she believed that she and her husband were messiahs by whose leadership white civilization would be redeemed. She brought others to Taos to celebrate her new life, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Leopold Stokowski, John Collier, and Lawrence. During the 1920s and 1930s she worked for land reform, self-determination, and medical benefits for the Indians.
Lynes, George Platt (1907–1955) . American photographer; educated at The Berkshire School, where he met Lincoln Kirstein, and, briefly, at Yale. Lynes first photographed Isherwood and W. H. Auden during their brief visit to New York in 1938. In the 1940s, he encouraged Bill Caskey in his efforts to become a professional photographer, and later, in 1953, Lynes befriended and photographed Don Bachardy. He appears in D 1. Lynes made his living from advertising and fashion photography as well as portraits (his work appeared in Town and Country, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue), but he is also known for his photographs of the ballet, male nudes, and surrealistic still lifes; he did many portraits of film stars and writers.
Macaulay, Rose (1881–1958) . British novelist, essayist, and travel writer; educated at Somerville College, Oxford. She was the daughter of a Cambridge don and published her first novel in 1906. In all she wrote twenty-three novels; the last and perhaps best, The Towers of Trebizond (1956), became a bestseller in the U.S. Macaulay also produced various works of nonfiction, including a biography of Milton and a book about the writings of E. M. Forster, and she wrote numerous articles for periodicals.
Mace, John. Los Angeles lawyer. He and Isherwood had a number of mutual friends and sometimes attended the same parties in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1954, Isherwood asked Mace to represent him when Curtis Harrington sued Isherwood for punching Harrington in the face at a party given by Iris Tree.
The case was settled out of court and Isherwood paid Harrington $350.
MacNeice, Louis (1907–1963) . Poet, born in Belfast. MacNeice was an undergraduate at Oxford with W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender, and he collaborated with Auden on Letters from Iceland (1937). He worked as a university lecturer in classics and later for the BBC as a writer and producer, while publishing numerous volumes of verse, verse translation, autobiography, and plays for radio and stage.
Madge, Charles (1912–1996) . South African-born sociologist and poet; educated at Winchester and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He became a Glossary
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communist in the early 1930s, worked as a journalist and was a founder in 1937
of Mass Observation. His first marriage, to the poet Kathleen Raine, ended in 1939, and he then began an affair with Stephen Spender’s first wife, Inez Pearn, whom he later married. He published only two volumes of poetry, but continued his social and economic research through the war and, in 1950, became a professor of sociology at Birmingham University.
Maher, Fern (b. 1917) . American social worker. Educated at UCLA where she became close friends with David Sachs. She lived for some years in the Benton Way house. In 1948 she married Ken O’Brien, a photographer who was an occasional resident at Benton Way, and after some time abroad in North Africa, they eventually settled in Venice, California.
Mailer, Norman (b. 1923) . American novelist; born and raised in New Jersey and Brooklyn and educated at Harvard. Mailer was in the army and fought in the Pacific during World War II; he became famous with the publication of his first novel, The Naked and the Dead (1948), about an American infantry platoon invading a Japanese-held island. Subsequent books include The Deer Park (1955) about Hollywood, An American Dream (1965), Why are We in Vietnam? (1967), Of a Fire on the Moon (1970) about the lunar landings, The Executioner’s Song (1979) about the execution of a convicted murderer, two books about Marilyn Monroe, and Oswald’s Tale (1995) about Lee Harvey Oswald. He won a Pulitzer Prize for The Armies of the Night (1968), describing the first peace march on the Pentagon––in which he was a participant––during the Vietnam era.
Mangeot, André, Olive, Sylvain and Fowke. Belgian violinist and his English wife and two sons. Isherwood met the Mangeots in 1925 and worked for a year as part-time secretary to André Mangeot’s string quartet which was organized from the family home in Chelsea. The Mangeots’ warm and chaotic household offered an irresistible contrast to the cool formality of Isherwood’s own, and Olive, energetic but easygoing, was an attractive rival to Kathleen in the role of mother. Isherwood brought all his friends to meet Olive when he was in London. She is the original of “Madame Cheuret” in Lions and Shadows and Isherwood drew on different parts of her personality for the characters
“Margaret Lanwin” and “Mary Scriven” in The Memorial. She had an affair with Edward Upward and through his influence became a communist. Later she separated from her husband and for a time lived in Cheltenham with Jean Ross and her daughter.
Mann, Erika (1905–1969) . German actress and author; eldest daughter of Thomas Mann. Isherwood first met Erika Mann through her brother Klaus in the spring of 1935 in Amsterdam; she had fled Germany in March 1933. Her touring revue, The Peppermill (for which she wrote most of the satirical, anti-Nazi material), earned her the status of official enemy of the Reich, and she asked Isherwood to marry her and provide her with a British passport. He felt he could not, but contacted W. H. Auden who agreed, and the two met and married in England in June 1935. In September 1936 Erika emigrated to America with Klaus and unsuccessfully tried to reopen The Peppermill in New York. As the war approached, she lectured widely in the USA and wrote anti-332