Source Notes
Letters
To Jack Conroy: Jack Conroy Papers, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections, Newberry Library, Chicago
To Father Harvey Egan: Powers family collection
To Sister Mariella Gable: Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict Archives, St. Joseph, Minnesota
To George Garrelts: Powers family collection
To Charlotte and Bill Kraft: Powers family collection
To Robert Lowelclass="underline" Robert Lowell Papers, MS Am 1905, Houghton Library, Harvard University
To John Marshalclass="underline" Mrs. John Marshall collection
To Ken McCormick: Powers family collection
To Michael Millgate: Michael Millgate collection
To “the Movement” (Doyle, Humphrey, O’Connell, Palmquist, Petters): Collections of the families
To Katherine Anne Porter: Special Collections, University of Maryland
To Betty Wahl Powers: Powers family collection
To Kerker Quinn and Charles Shattuck: University of Illinois Archives: Charles H. Shattuck Papers, 15/7/39; J. Kerker Quinn Papers, 15/7/30; George Scouffas Papers, 15/7/38
To Wahl and Strobeclass="underline" Powers family collection
To Evelyn Waugh: Alexander Waugh collection
Other
J. F. Powers’s and Betty Wahl Powers’s journals: Powers family collection
Milwaukee Journal questionnaire typescript: Powers family collection
Illustrations
Frontispiece: Drawing by Joseph O’Connell for Morte D’Urban: Powers family collection
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Photograph by J. F. Powers: Powers family collection
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Photograph by J. F. Powers: Powers family collection
Drawing by Jody O’Connelclass="underline" Powers family collection
Photograph by Russell Roe: Powers family collection
Photograph by Lee Hanley: Powers family collection
Humphrey family collection
Photograph by Lee Hanley: Powers family collection
J. F. Powers’s montage for writing Morte D’Urban: Powers family collection
Photograph by Donald Black: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Photograph by Herb Snitzer: Powers family collection
O’Connell family collection
Doyle family collection
Petters family collection
Saint John’s University Archives, Collegeville, Minnesota
Palmquist family collection
Acknowledgments
The greatest thanks for this book belong to the late Fr. Harvey Egan, who not only preserved over a half century’s worth of Jim’s letters, but also provided him with an exceptionally congenial correspondent. Great thanks, too, belong to those members of the Movement, Jim’s good friends, living and dead, who did the same: Leonard and Betty Doyle, Don and Mary Humphrey, Joe and Jody O’Connell, Dick and Mary Pluth Palmquist, Fred and Romy Petters. Beyond their number, I thank Jim’s other friends and correspondents, whose letters gave him such pleasure and who, in return, didn’t throw his letters away.
I am most thankful for the valuable assistance of one sort or another given to me by Daniel Aaron, Mike Aquilina, Rich Arpi, Robert Barros, Michael Bitzan, Pat Bitzan, the late Tom Brown, Christopher Carduff, Chris Cotton, Justin Doyle, Katherine Doyle, Kevin Doyle, Rosemary Hugo Fielding, Rachel Humphrey Fischer, Roland Fischer, Anita Fore, Susannah Humphrey, the late Sister Nancy Hynes, OSB, X. J. Kennedy, Elizabeth Knuth, Jim Kraft, Sister Mary Kraft, CSJ, Hilary Bracken McGhee, Mrs. John Marshall, Michael Millgate, Cassandra Nelson, Jody O’Connell, Mary Pluth Palmquist, Catherine Petters, James A. Powers, Julianne O’Connell Restani, Peggy Roske, David Scott, Susan Stepka, Bob Tholkes, John Thorn, Michael True, Nicole Luthman Turnbull, Alexander Waugh, and Sister Mariterese Woida, OSB.
I also thank my agent, Andrew Blauner, and editor, Sean McDonald.
Much more than thanks belongs to my sister Jane and my brothers, Boz and Hugh; to my sons, Hugh and Thomas Blaisdell; and to my particular friend, Bob Groves.
Index
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Aaron, Daniel; Writers on the Left
Abbey Press
Accent (magazine)
Adelphi College
Albany, New York
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Aldington, Richard
Alfrink, Card. Bernardus Johannes
Algonquin Hotel, New York
Algren, Nelson; Who Lost an American?
Allen, Walter
Alonzo, Russ
Alston, Walter
Alvin Theatre, Minneapolis
America (magazine)
America, SS
American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Forces Radio
American Indians
Ames, Elizabeth
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Anthony, St.
Anvil, The
Archer, Chub
Arden, Elizabeth
Ard na Fairrge; lack of central heating
Arlington Handicap
Armed Forces Radio
Army, United States
aspergillum
Atlantic Monthly
atomic bomb
Augustine, St.
Avon, Minnesota
Avon Commercial Club
Bader, A. L.
Baius, Michael
Bak, Bronislaw (Bruno)
Bak, Hedi (Hetty)
Baldwin, James
Bandas, Fr. Rudolph G.
Barcelona
Barkley, Alben W.
Barnett, George
Barrett, O’Connor
Bartholome, Mrs.
Bartholome, Bp. Peter W.
baseball
basketball
Baudelaire, Charles
BBC
Beardsley, Minnesota
Beaverbrook, Lord
Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot
bees
Belfast
Bellow, Saul; Seize the Day
Benedictines
Bennington College
Benvenisti, J. L.
Berlin, Irving
Berra, Yogi
Berryman, John
Best Sellers
Big Spunk Lake, Avon, Minnesota
bingo
birth control
Bitzan, Donald J.
Bitzan, Michael
Bitzan, Patricia Wahl
Blackfoot Indians