Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (60 page)

“On Editing Scott Fitzgerald’s Papers” [poem],
New Yorker,
18 (May 16, 1942), 17; reprinted as “Dedication” to
The Crack-Up.
New York, 1945. Pp. 7–9, and in
Night Thoughts.
1953; New York, 1961. Pp. 119–122.

“Thoughts on Being Bibliographed,”
Princeton University Library Chronicle,
5 (February 1944), 51–54; reprinted in
Classics and Commercials.
New York, 1950. Pp. 105–120.

Introduction to John Peale Bishop’s
Collected Essays.
New York, 1948. Pp. vii–xiii; reprinted in
The Bit Between My Teeth.
New York, 1965. Pp. 6–15.

“A Weekend at Ellerslie.”
The Shores of Light.
New York, 1952. Pp. 373–383.

“Christian Gauss as a Teacher of Literature.”
The Shores of Light.
New York, 1952. Pp. 3–26.

“Sheilah Graham and Scott Fitzgerald,”
New Yorker,
34 (January 24, 1959), 115–124; reprinted in
The Bit Between My Teeth.
New York, 1965. Pp. 16–27.

“That Summer in Paris,”
New Yorker,
39 (February 23, 1963), 139–142, 145–148; reprinted in
The Bit Between My Teeth.
New York, 1965. Pp. 515–525.

A Prelude.
New York, 1967. Pp. 47, 68–69, 93, 106, 116–117, 148, 180.

The Twenties.
Ed. Leon Edel. New York, 1975.

Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912–1972.
Ed. Elena Wilson. New York, 1977.

The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940–1971.
Ed. Simon Karlinsky. New York, 1979. Pp. 17, 114–115, 157n, 200n.

The Thirties.
Ed. Leon Edel. New York, 1980.

The Forties.
Ed. Leon Edel. New York, 1983.

The Fifties.
Ed. Leon Edel. New York, 1986.

III. Scottie Fitzgerald on Her Father

Fitzgerald, Frances Scott. “A Short Retort,”
Mademoiselle,
July 1939, p. 41.

        
. “Princeton and F. Scott Fitzgerald,”
Nassau Literary Magazine,
100 (1942), 45; reprinted as: “Princeton & My Father,”
Princeton Alumni Weekly,
56 (March 9, 1956), 8–9.

Lanahan, Frances Scott. “Fitzgerald as He Really Was,” Washington
Post & Times-Herald,
April 27, 1958, p. E7.

Lanahan, Frances Fitzgerald. Introduction to Scott Fitzgerald’s
Six Tales of the Jazz Age.
New York, 1960. Pp. 5–11.

        
. “My Father’s Letters: Advice Without Consent,”
Esquire,
64 (October 1965), 95–97; reprinted as: Introduction to Scott Fitzgerald’s
Letters to His Daughter.
New York, 1965. Pp. ix–xvi.

        
. “Scott, Ernest, Arnold and Whoever,”
Esquire,
67 (March 1967), 159 (letter).

Lanahan, Frances Scott Fitzgerald.
When I Was 16.
Ed. Mary Brannum. New York, 1967. Pp. 200–216; reprinted as: “When I Was Sixteen,”
Good Housekeeping,
167 (October 1968), 100–101.

Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald. Foreword to
As Ever, Scott Fitz.
Philadelphia, 1972. Pp. xi–xvi.

Smith, Frances Fitzgerald. “Où sont Les Soleils d’Antan? Françoise ‘Fijeralde’?”
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest M. Hemingway in Paris.
Ed. Matthew Bruccoli and C. E. Frazer Clark. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1972. N.p.

Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald. “Christmas as Big as the Ritz,”
Washington Post,
December 23, 1973,
Potomac
Magazine, pp. 7–8.

        
. Introduction to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s
The Romantic Egoists.
New York, 1974. Pp. ix–x.

Smith, Frances Scott Fitzgerald. “Mia is the Daisy Father Had in Mind,”
People,
1 (March 4, 1974), 34.

Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald. Foreword to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s
Bits of Paradise.
1974; New York, 1976. Pp. xi–xvii.

Smith, Frances Scott Fitzgerald, “Notes About My Now-Famous Father,”
Family Circle,
84 (May 1974), 118, 120.

Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald. [Foreword to]
Zelda,
exhibition catalogue. Montgomery: Museum of Fine Arts, 1974, N.p; reprinted as [Foreword] to
The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald.
New York, 1991. Pp. ix–x.

        
. “The Colonial Ancestors of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.” In Matthew Bruccoli’s
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur.
New York, 1981. Pp. 496–509.

See also
In Memoriam: Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith, 1921–1986.
Privately printed, n.p., n.d.

Notes

Chapter One: St. Paul and the Newman School

1.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Notebooks,
ed. Matthew Bruccoli (New York, 1978), pp. 267–268; Grace Flandrau, “The Untamable Twin,”
The Taming of the Frontier,
ed. Duncan Aikman (New York, 1925), p. 149; Matthew Josephson,
The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861–1901
(New York, 1934), p. 236.

2.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise
(1920; New York, 1948), pp. 219, 273; F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Absolution,”
Short Stories,
ed. Matthew Bruccoli (New York, 1989), p. 264; F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
(1925; New York, 1953), p. 169. For works on Hill, see William Cunningham, “Hill, James Jerome,”
Dictionary of American Biography,
ed. Dumas Malone (New York, 1932), 9:36–41, and Albro Martin,
James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest
(Oxford, 1976).

3.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Letters,
ed. Andrew Turnbull (1963; London, 1968), p. 522; Sheilah Graham,
The Real Scott Fitzgerald
(New York, 1976), p. 34; Andrew Turnbull,
Scott Fitzgerald
(1962; London, 1970), p. 34.

4.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Tender Is the Night
(1934; New York, 1962), p. 203; F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Author’s House,”
Afternoon of an Author,
Introduction and notes by Arthur Mizener (New York, 1957), p. 184; Letter from Dr. M. R. Ramsey to James Hill of Boston, February 11, 1964, Firestone Library, Princeton University.

5.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Ledger: A Facsimile,
Introduction by Matthew Bruccoli (Washington, D.C., 1972), p. 157; F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
ed. Matthew Bruccoli and Margaret Duggan (New York, 1980), p. 4; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 469.

6.
Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 554; F. Scott Fitzgerald, “An Author’s Mother” (1936),
The Price Was High: The Last Uncollected Stories,
ed. Matthew Bruccoli (London, 1979), pp. 736–737;
Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence,
ed. John Kuehl and Jackson Bryer (London, 1971), p. 135; F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Death of My Father,”
Princeton University Library Chronicle,
12 (Summer 1951), 187–188. An earlier draft of this important essay was published in
The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
ed. John Kuehl (New York, 1965), pp. 177–182, and a later version was fictionalized in
Tender Is the Night,
pp. 203–204.

7.
Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 5; F. Scott Fitzgerald,
In His Own Time,
ed. Matthew Bruccoli and Jackson Bryer (1971; New York, 1974), p. 296; Arthur Miller,
Death of a Salesman
(New York, 1949), p. 56.

Robert Lowell’s father, who was fired from Lever Brothers as Edward had been sacked from Procter & Gamble, was also plagued by failure but managed to live well on his navy pension and wife’s money. See Robert Lowell, “Commander Lowell,”
Life Studies
(New York, 1959), p. 71:

With seamanlike celerity

Father left the Navy,

and deeded Mother his property.

He was soon fired. Year after year,

he still hummed “Anchors aweigh” in the tub—

whenever he left a job,

he bought a smarter car.

Father’s last employer

was Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Investment Advisors,

himself his only client.

8.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “That Kind of Party,”
The Basil and Josephine Stories,
ed. with an introduction by Jackson Bryer and John Kuehl (New York, 1973), p. 1; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 19; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 398; Quoted in Matthew Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
(New York, 1981), p. 375.

9.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Scandal Detectives,”
Taps at Reveille
(1935; New York, 1988), p. 7; Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
p. 14.

10.
Shane Leslie, “Some Memories of Scott Fitzgerald,”
Times Literary Supplement,
October 31, 1958, p. 632; Graham,
Real Scott Fitzgerald,
p. 36; Fitzgerald, “Who’s Who—and Why,”
Afternoon of an Author,
p. 83.

11.
Quoted in Turnbull,
Scott Fitzgerald,
p. 50; Fitzgerald,
In His Own Time,
p. 234.

12.
Fitzgerald, “One Hundred False Starts,”
Afternoon of an Author,
p. 134; Fitzgerald,
Ledger,
pp. 155, 157, 158; B. F. Wilson, “Notes on Personalities IV—F. Scott Fitzgerald,”
Smart Set,
73 (April 1924), 31.

13.
Interview with Frances Kroll Ring, Beverly Hills, California, December 21, 1991; Tony Buttitta,
The Lost Summer: A Personal Memoir of F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1972; New York, 1987), pp. 41, 112–113.

14.
Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
pp. 113–114; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 41. In “Crazy Sunday,” Fitzgerald describes Miles Calman as “artist from the top of his curiously shaped head to his niggerish feet” (Fitzgerald,
Short Stories,
p. 704).

15.
Fitzgerald, “The Freshest Boy,”
Taps at Reveille,
p. 25; Fitzgerald,
The Romantic Egoist
(an early version of
This Side of Paradise
), quoted in Turnbull,
Scott Fitzgerald,
p. 41; Quoted in Arthur Mizener,
The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
revised edition (Boston, 1965), pp. 23–24.

16.
Letter from Charles “Sap” Donahoe to Arthur Mizener, January 10, 1948, Princeton; Fitzgerald, “The Freshest Boy,”
Taps at Reveille,
pp. 26, 30, 46; Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby,
pp. 176–177.

17.
Joseph G. H. Barry,
Impressions and Opinions
(New York, 1931), p. 245; Margaret Chanler,
Autumn in the Valley
(Boston, 1936), p. 80; Henry Dan Piper,
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Critical Portrait
(New York, 1965), p. 47.

18.
Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
p. 24. In
The Great Gatsby,
Jordan Baker’s aunt is named Mrs.
Sigourney
Howard and Daisy’s maiden name is Fay.

Three years after Fay’s death, five of his sermons and fifteen of his conventional religious poems, which explain his conversion to Catholicism, were published, with an anonymous biographical Foreword and an Introduction by Cardinal Gibbons, as
The Bride of the Lamb and Other Essays
(New York, 1922). For more on Fay, see Rev. R. C. Nevius, “A Note on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Monsignor Sigourney Fay and His Early Career as an Episcopalian,”
Fitzgerald–Hemingway Annual,
3 (1971), 105–113.

19.
Letters from Shane Leslie to Fitzgerald, September 8, 1918 and January 23, 1919, Princeton; Fitzgerald,
In Our Own Time,
p. 134. For more on Leslie, see his lively autobiography,
Long Shadows
(London, 1966).

Chapter Two: Princeton

1.
Quoted in Scott Donaldson,
Archibald MacLeish: An American Life
(Boston, 1992), p. 52; Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
p. 36; Fitzgerald, “Who’s Who—and Why,”
Afternoon of an Author,
p. 84.

2.
Fitzgerald, “Princeton,”
Afternoon of an Author,
p. 72; F. Scott Fitzgerald,
As Ever, Scott Fitz: Letters Between F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Literary Agent, Harold Ober, 1919–1940,
ed. Matthew Bruccoli and Jennifer Atkinson (Philadelphia, 1972), p. 357.

3.
Fitzgerald, “Princeton,”
Afternoon of an Author,
p. 75; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 104. See also Alfred Noyes, “Princeton Days,”
Two Worlds for Memory
(Philadelphia, 1953), pp. 98–103.

4.
Quoted in Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur,
p. 68; Letter from an unidentified English professor to Arthur Mizener, January 28, 1951, Princeton; Christian Gauss, “Edmund Wilson: The Campus and the
Nassau Lit.,” Princeton University Library Chronicle,
5 (February 1944), 49.

5.
Gauss,
Princeton University Library Chronicle,
p. 50; Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
p. 50; Quoted in Robert White,
John Peale Bishop
(New York, 1966), p. 25.

6.
Fitzgerald,
In His Own Time,
p. 269; Letter from Cornelius Van Ness to Henry Dan Piper, May 25, 1947, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Letter from Whitney Landon to Jeffrey Meyers, January 12, 1992.