Index 9
Jersey Rain, 302
Jerusalem, 237
Jerusalem Prize, 199
Jewish Americans, 5, 39, 65, 132, 180, 211,
254, 269, 301, 312, 319, 372
Jill (character), 336
Jim Crow, 159
Jitney!, 348
“Job History,” 309
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, 348
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, 232, 371
John Dos Passos Prize, 307
John Henry Days, 26, 35, 138
Johns Hopkins University, 18, 225
School of Medicine, 313
Johnson, Avey (character), 24
Johnson, Bailey, 159
Johnson, Charles, 25, 32, 169
Johnson, Greg, 291
Johnson, Guy, 159
Johnson, O-Lan, 324
John Updike: The Critical Responses to the
“Rabbit” Saga, 337
John Updike’s Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered
Irony in Motion, 337
Jones, Fearless (character), 34, 75
Jones, Gayl, 23, 32, 63, 283
Jones, Suzanne W., 233
Jong, Erica, 51, 63
Joplin, Scott, 212
Jordan, June, 23, 33, 51
Joseph, Victor (character), 154
Joseph Jefferson Award, 270
journalism
investigative, 8
political, 33
Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973–1982
and The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft,
Art, The, 291
Joyce, James, 130, 198
Joy Luck Club, The, 67
Judaism, 269
Reformed, 10
Judy (character), 337
July, July, 296
June (character), 290
Jung, Carl Gustav, 212
Jury of Her Peers, A, 50
Just for Laughs, 146
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I
Diiie, 160
Justice Department, U.S., 275K
Kafka, Franz, 17
Kane, Leslie, 271
Karen Finley Live, 44
Karl (character), 211
Karr, Mary, 63
Kashpaw (character family), 225
Kashpaw, June (character), 225
Kaufman, Moisés, 39, 46
Kaysen, Susanna, 64
Keats, John, 264
Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic
Approach to American Indian Texts, 106,
116
Keillor, Garrison, 192, 308
Keller, Nora Okja, 64
Kellogg, John Harvey, 165, 370
Kenan, Randall, 26, 33, 233
Kennedy, Adam, 46
Kennedy, Adrienne, 36, 46
Kennedy, Erica, 64
Kennedy, John F., 198, 220
Kennedy, Ted, 289
Kennedy, X. J. ( Joseph Charles), 118, 126
Kent State University, 8
Kentucky, 243
Carlisle, 242
“Kentucky, 1833,” 219
Kenyon College, 211
Kenyon Review, 5
Kidnapped, 126
Kiley, Rat (character), 296
Killer Joe, 46
Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn
and the Fate of the Plains Indians, 116
Killing Floor, 59
Kiln People, 70
Kimmer, Saul (character), 324
Kindred, 168–173
King, Stephen, 16, 154
Kingf isher, The, 61
King Hedley II, 349
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 23, 160
King Lear, 52
Kingsolver, Barbara, 242–247
Kingsolver, Camille, 242