Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (65 page)

2.
Thelma Nason, “Afternoon (and Evening) of an Author,”
Johns Hopkins Magazine,
21 (February 1970), 10;
As Ever, Scott Fitz,
p. 220; Christopher Sykes,
Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor
(New York, 1972), p. 488; Fitzgerald,
Notebooks,
pp. 77–78.

3.
Arthur Mizener, notes on his conversation with Edmund Wilson, Princeton; Henry Dan Piper, Interview with Zelda Fitzgerald, Montgomery, Alabama, March 13 and 14, 1947; Henry Dan Piper, Interview with Nora Flynn; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 565.

4.
Buttitta,
The Lost Summer,
Preface and p. 17; Interview with Tony Buttitta, New York, March 15, 1992.

5.
Quoted in Donaldson,
Fool for Love,
p. 131; Laura Guthrie Hearne, “Summer with Scott Fitzgerald,” pp. 161–165, 232.

6.
Letter from Beatrice Dance to Laura Guthrie, August 7, 1935, Princeton; Letter from Laura Guthrie to Beatrice Dance, August 17, 1935, Princeton; Letter from Beatrice Dance to Laura Guthrie, October 25, 1935, Princeton.

7.
Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
pp. 419, 421, 427; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
pp. 549, 550; Letter from Fitzgerald to Beatrice Dance, November 6, 1940, Princeton.

8.
Fitzgerald,
Notebooks,
pp. 78–79; Fitzgerald,
Great Gatsby,
pp. 180–181.

9.
As Ever, Scott Fitz,
p. 224; Fitzgerald,
Notebooks,
p. 260;
As Ever, Scott Fitz,
pp. 228–229; Henry Dan Piper, Interview with Nora Flynn;
As Ever, Scott Fitz,
p. 239.

10.
Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 508; Edwin Peeples, “Twilight of a God: A Brief, Beery Encounter with F. Scott Fitzgerald,”
Mademoiselle,
78 (November 1973), 171; Graham,
The Real Scott Fitzgerald,
p. 106.

11.
Thomas Mann,
Letters to Caroline Newton
(Princeton, 1971), p. 67; Fitzgerald,
Notebooks,
p. 311; Fitzgerald, “Sleeping and Waking,”
Crack-Up,
p. 65.

12.
George Orwell, “Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali” (1941),
Decline of the English Murder
(London, 1953), p. 20; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 429; Fitzgerald,
Crack-Up,
p. 69;
Letters of John Keats,
ed. Robert Gittings (Oxford, 1970), p. 43.

13.
Fitzgerald,
Crack-Up,
pp. 72, 80, 75; Wilson,
Letters on Literature and Politics,
p. 44; Fitzgerald,
Crack-Up,
pp. 79, 71; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 79.

14.
Fitzgerald,
Crack-Up,
p. 327; Frances Fitzgerald Lanahan, Introduction to
Six Tales of the Jazz Age,
p. 7; Mark Schorer,
The World We Imagine
(New York, 1968), p. 364.

15.
Fitzgerald,
Crack-Up,
p. 75; Quoted in James West, “Fitzgerald and
Esquire,” The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
ed. Jackson Bryer (Madison, Wisconsin, 1982), pp. 154–155; Robert Lowell, “Night Sweat,”
For the Union Dead
(New York, 1964), p. 68.

16.
Advertisement for Highland Hospital, Fitzgerald papers, Princeton; Adolf Meyer, Preface to Robert Carroll’s
What Price Alcohol?
(New York, 1941), p. ix; Sherry Honea, “Reminiscing,”
Highland Highlights
(Spring 1980), pp. 15, 16. See also Carroll’s obituary in the
New York Times,
June 27, 1949, p. 27.

17.
Quoted in Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur,
p. 483; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 431; Quoted in Milford,
Zelda,
p. 373; Quoted in Koula Hartnett,
Zelda Fitzgerald and the Failure of the American Dream for Women
(New York, 1990), p. 183.

18.
Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 446; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 471.

19.
Dear Scott/Dear Max,
p. 219; Interview with Tony Buttitta; Quoted in Mizener,
Far Side of Paradise,
p. 312.

20.
Fitzgerald,
Notebooks,
pp. 309, 318; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 562; Fitzgerald,
Short Stories,
p. 218; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 561.

21.
Hearne, “Summer with Scott Fitzgerald,” p. 260; Fitzgerald,
Notebooks,
p. 89; Tomkins,
Living Well is the Best Revenge,
p. 130; Hemingway,
Selected Letters,
p. 407.

22.
Hearne, “Summer with Scott Fitzgerald,” p. 260; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 331; Fitzgerald,
In His Own Time,
p. 297; Hemingway,
A Farewell to Arms,
p. 249; Hemingway,
Selected Letters,
pp. 437–438, 408.

23.
Berg,
Max Perkins,
p. 305; Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,”
Short Stories,
p. 72 (this sentence appeared in the third paragraph of “The Rich Boy”); Item 204.8, Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Mass.; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
pp. 331, 296.

24.
Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 369; Fitzgerald,
Tender Is the Night,
pp. 46, 51; Hemingway, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,”
Short Stories,
pp. 8, 32; Fitzgerald,
Afternoon of an Author,
p. 179.

25.
Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 451; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 561; Interview with Annabel’s daughter Courtney Sprague Vaughan, Monte Sereno, California, June 25, 1992; Patricia Sprague Reneau and Courtney Sprague Vaughan,
Remembered and Honored: Clifton A. F. “Ziggy” Sprague, U.S.N., 1896–1955
(Santa Cruz: privately printed, 1992), p. 69n.

26.
Letter from Mok’s friend Henry Senber to Jeffrey Meyers, July 16, 1992; Letter from Dr. Paul Mok to Jeffrey Meyers, May 23, 1992; Interview with Tony Buttitta. See also Mok’s obituary in the
New York Times,
February 3, 1961, p. 25.

27.
Fitzgerald, Interview with Michel Mok,
In His Own Time,
pp. 294–295, 299.

28.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,
Selected Letters,
ed. Gordon Bigelow and Lauri Monti (Gainesville, Florida, 1983), pp. 309, 125–126;
As Ever, Scott Fitz,
p. 282.

29.
Letter from Fitzgerald to Cecilia Taylor, June 11, 1935, Princeton; letter from Scottie Fitzgerald Lanahan to Arthur Mizener, March 10, 1950, Princeton; Letter from Scottie Lanahan to Mizener, March 18, 1948, Princeton.

30.
Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 28; Quoted in Mizener,
Far Side of Paradise,
p. 74; Scottie Fitzgerald Lanahan, Introduction to Fitzgerald’s
Letters to His Daughter,
pp. xii–xiii; Interview with Margaret McPherson.

31.
Interview with Fanny Myers Brennan; Hemingway,
Selected Letters,
p. 412;
Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends,
ed. Linda Miller (New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1991), p. 151; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
pp. 446–447.

Chapter Twelve: The Garden of Allah and Sheilah Graham

1.
Fitzgerald,
The Vegetable,
p. 117;
As Ever, Scott Fitz,
p. 216; Fred Zinnemann,
A Life in the Movies
(New York, 1992), p. 46.

2.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Last Tycoon,
[ed. Edmund Wilson] (1941; New York, 1986), p. 163; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 31;
As Ever, Scott Fitz,
p. 330; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 624.

3.
Dear Scott/Dear Max,
pp. 238, 241; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 570; Anthony Powell, “Hollywood Canteen: A Memoir of Scott Fitzgerald in 1937,”
Fitzgerald-Hemingway Annual,
3 (1971), 75; Letter from Anthony Powell to Jeffrey Meyers, November 12, 1991. For Powell’s favorable critical judgments, see “Fitzgerald,”
Miscellaneous Verdicts
(London, 1990), pp. 211–223. See also pp. 235–237.

4.
Letter from Charles Warren to Fitzgerald, October 12, 1934, Princeton; Powell, “Hollywood Canteen,” p. 75; Interview with Ring Lardner, Jr.; Ring Lardner, Jr., in the BBC documentary on Fitzgerald, script and video courtesy of Ian Hamilton and Jill Evans.

5.
Henry Dan Piper, Interview with John O’Hara, Princeton, February 6, 1950, courtesy of Professor Piper; Anita Loos,
Kiss Hollywood Good-by
(1974; New York, 1975), p. 124;
Dear Scott/Dear Max,
p. 177; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 477.

6.
Zinnemann,
A Life in the Movies,
p. 44; Powell,
Miscellaneous Verdicts,
p. 213; Jay Martin,
Nathanael West: The Art of His Life
(New York, 1970), p. 205; Raymond Chandler,
Selected Letters,
ed. Frank MacShane (London, 1981), p. 237.

7.
Maurice Zolotow,
Billy Wilder
(New York, 1977), p. 72. Nunnally Johnson,
Letters,
ed. Doris Johnson and Ellen Leventhal (New York, 1981), pp. 80, 249.

8.
Interview with Joseph Mankiewicz, Bedford, New York, March 15, 1992; Quoted in Aaron Latham,
Crazy Sundays
(1971; New York, 1972), pp. 120–121; Fitzgerald,
The Beautiful and Damned,
p. 265. Paramore died in a freak accident in 1956: “He was sitting in a car which had been raised in a garage on one of those elevators which they use when making repairs. The contrivance fell and killed him” (Edmund Wilson,
The Twenties,
ed. Leon Edel, New York, 1975, p. 31).

9.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Three Comrades,
ed. Matthew Bruccoli (New York, 1978), p. 51; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
pp. 583–584; Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby,
p. 118; Fitzgerald,
Three Comrades,
p. 249. See also Gore Vidal, “Scott’s Case” (1980),
The Second American Revolution
(New York, 1982), pp. 3–23.

10.
Fitzgerald,
Notebooks,
p. 163;
Dear Scott/Dear Max,
p. 255; Jacques Bontemps and Richard Overstreet, “Measure for Measure: Interview with Joseph Mankiewicz,”
Cahiers du Cinema in English,
18 (February 1967), 31; Meyers, Interview with Joseph Mankiewicz. Mr. Mankiewicz wittily inscribed my copy of
Three Comrades:
“For Jeffrey Meyers—from the ‘despoiler’ of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Screenplay, Joseph Mankiewicz, Bedford, 1992.”

11.
Interview with Budd Schulberg; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
pp. 489, 516.

12.
Fitzgerald,
In His Own Time,
p. 129; Fitzgerald,
The Last Tycoon,
p. 30; Salka Viertel,
The Kindness of Strangers
(New York, 1969), p. 223.

13.
Interview with Margaret McPherson; Letters from Scottie Fitzgerald Lanahan to Mizener, January 21, 1964 and March 22, 1948, Princeton; Quoted in Mizener,
Far Side of Paradise,
p. 314; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 495.

14.
See Jeffrey Meyers, “Scott Fitzgerald and the English,”
London Magazine,
32 (October–November 1992), 31–44, and Jeffrey Meyers, “Scott Fitzgerald and the Jews,”
Forward
(New York), February 12, 1993, pp. 9–10; reprinted in
Midstream,
39 (January 1993), 31–35.

15.
Fitzgerald, “Crazy Sunday,”
Stories,
ed. Cowley, p. 410. See Sheilah Graham:
Beloved Infidel
(1958),
The Rest of the Story
(1964),
College of One
(1967),
The Garden of Allah
(1970),
A State of Heat
(1972),
The Real Scott Fitzgerald
(1976) and
Hollywood Revisited
(1984). Her last, all-too-familiar word on Fitzgerald was “The Room Where Scott Died,”
New York Times Magazine,
July 26, 1987, pp. 20–21.

16.
Lord Chamberlain’s Office, Buckingham Palace, to Jeffrey Meyers, December 18, 1992; Maureen, Marchioness of Donegall, to Jeffrey Meyers, December 14, 1992.

17.
Interview with Ring Lardner, Jr.; Sheilah Graham, in the BBC documentary on Fitzgerald;
Dear Scott/Dear Max,
p. 265.

18.
Quoted in Milford,
Zelda,
p. 413; Interviews with Frances Kroll Ring, Budd Schulberg and Joseph Mankiewicz.

19.
Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank,
Beloved Infidel
(1958; New York, 1959), pp. 132, 152, 160, 162–163.

20.
Graham,
A State of Heat,
p. 143; Graham,
The Real Scott Fitzgerald,
p. 120; Fitzgerald, “Last Kiss,”
Short Stories,
p. 761.

21.
Sheilah Graham,
College of One
(New York, 1967), p. 57; Quoted in Latham,
Crazy Sundays,
p. 185; Henry Dan Piper; Interview with Arnold Gingrich, Chicago, March 29, 1944, courtesy of Professor Piper; and Latham,
Crazy Sundays,
p. 130.