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Zelda

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by Nancy Milford


  Ellingson case, 139

  Ervine, St. John, 83

  Esquire, 2.18, 299, 301, 313, 332

  Faulkner, William, 204

  Sanctuary, 193

  Fitzgerald, Edward, 25–26, 185

  Fitzgerald, Mrs. Edward, 268

  Zelda, letters from and to, 38, 39

  Fitzgerald, Frances Scott (Scottie), see Lanahan, Mrs. Samuel J.

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott Key):

  on American literature, 75

  army life, 24–25, 31, 32, 35

  Biggs, Judge John, Jr., as literary executor, 368, 380

  Bishop, John Peale, on, 90

  Callaghan, Morley, on, 154

  Campbell, C. Lawton, on, 61, 68, 82, 104–05

  childhood, 27

  Conrad, Joseph, admired by, 110–11

  death and funeral, 350

  Dos Passos, John, on, 133

  drinking, 27, 28, 56, 58, 70, 74, 75, 80, 81, 82, 87, 98, 100, 113, 119, 122, 133, 135, 138, 141, 152, 163, 170–72, 201, 222, 250, 251, 258, 260, 261, 266, 268, 269, 271, 272, 305, 312, 317, 318, 327

  and Duncan, Isadora, 117

  on Europe, 83–84

  fears, 72

  and Graham, Sheilah, 314, 316, 317, 318, 324, 329, 347, 348–49

  Beloved Infidel, 315, 316, 327

  as Kathleen in The Last Tycoon, 353

  health, 311, 327, 329, 332, 348, 349

  tuberculosis, worries about, 183, 190, 252, 305, 332

  Hearne, Mrs. Laura Guthrie, on, 306, 307

  and Hemingway, Ernest, 113, 114, 115, 116, 122, 153–54, 181, 211, 287

  Hemingway, Ernest, on, 114, 115

  on Hemingway, Ernest, 113–14, 225, 347

  Hemingway, Hadley, on, 114, 115

  on his family, 25, 26

  in Hollywood, 127–30, 193, 195–96, 197–202, 205–06, 207, 313, 315–16, 318, 325, 328–29, 332, 333–34, 337, 341, 342–50

  Infidelity, 333

  Three Comrades, 324

  homosexuality, worries about, 153–54, 211

  Jozan, Edouard, on, 108–09 Jozan and Zelda, 109–10, 111–12, 114, 115, 175, 216, 222, 239–40, 349

  and King, Ginevra, 28, 29, 55

  and Lardner, Ring, 95–96, 103

  lectures and speeches, 69, 80

  letters: Bishop, John Peale, 113, 115

  Carroll, Dr. Robert S., 316, 317, 318–19, 325, 332, 333, 334, 337, 338

  Egorova, Madame Lubov, 166

  Eliot, T.S., 116

  Forel, Dr. Oscar, 162–63, 169, 170–72, 185–86, 201, 208–09

  Fowler, Ludlow, 56

  Hearne, Mrs. Laura Guthrie, 307

  Hemingway, Ernest, 139, 155–56

  Meyer, Dr. Adolf, 270–71, 272

  Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 308

  Murphy, Sara, 155

  Ober, Harold, 150

  Perkins, Maxwell, 54, 87, 94, 112, 113, 115–16, 143, 150, 154, 159, 170, 176, 208, 224–25, 225–26, 287, 305, 313

  Rennie, Dr. Thomas, 261–62, 265, 282–83

  Sayre, Judge Anthony D., 42, 179, 180

  Sayre, Mrs. Anthony D., 41, 164, 179, 180, 321, 326, 343

  Scottie, 26, 311, 315–16, 322–23, 323–24, 329, 331, 343–44, 546–47, 349

  Smith, Rosalind, 326

  Squires, Dr. Mildred, 213, 215–16, 222, 253–54, 257

  Stein, Gertrude, 116

  Wilson, Edmund, 31, 32, 54, 83–84, 87, 88–89, 102, 116

  Zelda, see Fitzgerald, Mrs. F. Scott, letters, Scott

  on love, 56

  love affairs, 305, 306–07

  see also Graham, Sheilah; King, Ginevra, above; Moran, Lois, below

  McKaig, Alexander, on, 67–68, 70, 74, 75–76, 77, 78–79, 80–81

  MacLeish, Mrs. Archibald, on, 120–21

  Marx read by, 258

  Mencken, H. L., on, 98

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, on, 79

  Mizener, Arthur, biography (The Far Side of Paradise), 26, 27, 183, 314

  and money, 42, 58, 79, 94, 103, 208, 214, 219, 226, 267, 313, 329, 332, 334, 341, 342

  and Moran, Lois, 129–30, 131–32, 181, 211, 222

  Murphy, Gerald, on, 117–18, 121, 123, 291

  and Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 106–07, 111, 117, 118, 119, 123, 142, 154–55, 157, 190

  on Murphy, Sara, 346–47

  and Nathan, George Jean, 71, 78

  newspaper and magazine publicity, 77, 96, 97, 100, 256

  at Princeton, 27–31

  Ruth, Leon, on, 69

  Sayre, Judge Anthony D., disapproval of, 35

  on Sayre, Judge Anthony D., 211

  Sayre, Mrs. Anthony D., conflict with, 321

  Sayre, Mrs. Anthony D., on, 40, 43, 62

  on Sayre, Mrs. Anthony D., 211, 253–54

  and Scottie, 214, 315, 353, 344, 346

  her education, interest in, 137, 286, 333

  Seldes, Gilbert, on, 97

  Taylor, Cecelia, on, 136–37

  on theater, 27

  Thurber, James, on, 292

  Turnbull, Andrew, biography (Scott Fitzgerald), 314

  Turn bull, Mrs. Bayard, on, 258–59

  Van Vechten, Carl, on, 98–99, 314

  Van Vechten, Carl, photographs by, 313–14

  West, Rebecca, on, 99

  and Wilson, Edmund, 28

  Wilson, Edmund, on, 25, 88, 133, 291, 350–51

  on Wilson, Edmund, 69

  women, attitude toward, 29–31, 77, 347

  writing, 29, 39, 57–58, 219, 302

  “Absolution,” 196, 352

  “Auction—Model 1934” (with Zelda), 296, 298, 299, 300–01

  “Babes in the Woods,” 30, 49

  “Babylon Revisited,” 344

  The Beautiful and Damned (early title, The Flight of the Rocket), 35, 70, 76, 81, 83, 87, 88, 89–90, 90–91, 92, 94, 98, 102, 183, 234, 238, 278

  as a boy, 27

  “The Camels Back.” 79

  “The Changing Beauty of Park Avenue” (with Zelda), 132

  in College Humor, 150, 152

  in Collier’s, 333

  The Coward, 27

  The Crack-Up, 299, 301–02, SIS

  “Crazy Sunday,” 352, 372

  “The Cruise of the Rolling Junk,” 72

  The Debutante, 29–30, 55

  “The Diamond As Big As the Ritz,” 352

  Doctor Diver’s Holiday; The Drunkard’s Holiday, see Tender Is the Night below

  “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” 301

  The Education of a Personage, see This Side of Paradise below

  in Esquire, 301, 313, 332

  Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!, 28

  Flappers and Philosophers, 75

  The Flight of the Rocket, see The Beautiful and Damned above

  Gabriel’s Trombone, see The Vegetable below

  “The Girl with Talent” (with Zelda), 150

  Gold-hatted Gatsby, see The Great Gatsby below

  The Great Gatsby (early titles, Trimalchio in West Egg; Gold-hatted Gatsby; The High-bouncing Lover), 84, 102, 110. 112, 113, 115, 116, 181, 234, 352

  “Head and Shoulders,” 58, 59

  The High-bouncing Lover, see The Great Gatsby above

  “The Ice Palace,” 81

  “Jacob’s Ladder,” 129–30

  “The Jelly Bean,” xiv, 35, 71, 81

  The Last Tycoon (early title, The Love of the Last Tycoon), 315, 333, 348, 351, 352, 353

  Ledger, 34, 37, 45, 50, 58, 78, 84, 87, 96, 98, 102, 103, 110, 111, 112, 125, 132, 140, 142, 192, 214, 260, 296, 303, 308

  Letters, 314

  “Looking Back Eight Years” (with Zelda), 132–33

  The Love of the Last Tycoon, see The Last Tycoon above

  “A Luckless Santa Claus,” 79

  “May Day,” 61, 352

  in Metropolitan Magazine, 81, 87

  “A Millionaire’s Girl” (with Zelda), 150, 225

  “My Lost City,” 301

  in Nassau Literary Magazine, 28, 29

  in The
New Yorker, 118–19

  “The Offshore Pirate,” 100, 196

  “One Hundred False Starts,” 267

  “One Trip Abroad,” 172–73

  “Our Own Movie Queen” (with Zelda), 102

  “The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw,” 30–31

  “The Rich Boy,” 352

  The Romantic Egoist, see This Side of Paradise below

  in the Saturday Evening Post, 58, 150, 214, 216, 267

  in Scribner’s Magazine, 281, 284

  “The Sensible Thing,” 56, 202

  “Sentiment—and the Use of Rouge,” 31

  “Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number

  —” (with Zelda), 296, 298, 299–300

  “Sleeping and Waking,” 301

  in The Smart Set, 49, 58

  “A Snobbish Story,” 172

  “Southern Girl” (with Zelda), 152

  Tales of the Jazz Age, 94, 102

  Taps at Reveille, 298

  Tender Is the Night (early titles, Doctor Diver’s Holiday; The Drunkard’s Holiday), 139–10, 152, 153, 172, 190, 217–19, 224, 234, 260, 261, 266, 267, 268. 281, 284–85, 286–87, 292, 293–94, 298, 349

  This Side of Paradise (early titles. The Romantic Egoist; The Education of a Personage), 31–33, 44, 54, 55, 57, 58, 61, 62, 66, 67, 100, 216, 234

  “Thoughtbook” (diary), 26

  Trimalchio in West Egg, see The Great Gatsby above

  The Vegetable (early title, Gabriel’s Trombone), 92, 102, 103

  views on, 267, 275, 347

  with Zelda, 102, 132–33, 150, 152, 223, 296, 298, 299–301

  Zelda as heroine, 44, 55, 77, 83, 88, 89, 90, 92, 100, 114–15, 152, 169, 238, 284, 349

  Zelda on, 57, 89, 90, 196, 286, 293–94, 352–53

  Zelda’s diaries and letters used, 35, 44, 55, 58, 71, 76, 81, 89, 102, 177–78, 284–85

  and Zelda:

  courtship, 32, 33–36, 40–44, 45, 48–49, 52, 55–61

  divorce, possibility of, 275

  failure to have more children, 154, 163

  marriage, 62, 174, 175–76

  meeting, 24–25

  Zelda on, 24, 34, 351, 373

  on Zelda, 35, 60, 73–74, 77, 89, 101, 210–11

  on Zelda’s writing, 216, 217, 220, 221, 222, 255–56, 261, 272–73, 274, 275, 342

  Fitzgerald, Mrs. F. Scott (Zelda Sayre):

  abortion, 88

  Biggs, Judge John, Jr., on, 291

  birth, 7

  Bishop, John Peale, on, 47

  breakdown: Craig House (Beacon, N.Y.), 256–57, 288–96

  Highland Hospital (Asheville, N.C.), 308–38, 371, 374. 382–83

  Malmaison Hospital (near Paris), 158

  nervousness and early signs, 50, 95–94, 117–18, 124–25, 152, 157–58

  own account of her life, 248–52

  Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic (Baltimore, Md.), 209–22, 225, 241, 247–57, 283–84, 286–88

  Prangins (Les Rives de Prangins, near Geneva), 160–91

  Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital (near Baltimore), 261, 276, 296–308, 318

  suicide attempts, 111, 156, 304, 318

  Valmont clinic (Switz.), 159–60, 168

  Callaghan, Morley, on, 149

  Campbell, C. Lawton, on, 61, 68, 78, 81, 82, 104–05

  childhood, 7–8, 9–12

  on herself as a child, 8, 12

  clothes, attitude toward, 12–13, 66, 67, 93, 137

  Cowley, Malcolm, on, 264, 281–82

  dance, interest in, 11, 14, 22, 24, 46, 81, 99, 120, 135–36, 138, 141, 142–43, 147, 149, 150, 155, 156–57, 158, 159, 193, 320

  Murphy, Gerald, on, 141–42

  on dance, 141, 175, 226, 227, 241–42, 250, 252

  death, 382–83

  diving incident, 66, 97

  Dos Passos, John, on, 93–94, 133

  drinking, 16, 51, 74, 75, 80, 87, 98, 100, 125, 133, 135

  and Egorova, Madame Lubov, 140, 141, 147–8, 158, 165–66, 169

  Egorova on, 166

  on Egorova, 168, 250, 252

  and father, 8, 11, 17, 18, 20, 33 views on, 174, 197

  Faulkner read by, 204

  flowers, importance of, 231–32, 241, 242, 293, 331, 369, 381

  on Flynn, Nora, 380

  as a girl, 12–16, 18, 19–23

  flirtatiousness and popularity with men, 19–20, 20–21, 22, 33, 36, 38–39, 43–44, 44–45, 47, 48, 49–50, 51–52

  social convention, reaction to, 10, 17, 18, 21

  health, 121, 125

  asthma, 198, 210, 376

  colitis, 113, 118, 121

  eczema, 169, 176, 177, 178, 179, 198, 208, 210

  eyesight, 194, 198, 213

  Hearne, Mrs. Laurie Guthrie, on, 334–35

  Hemingway, Ernest, dislike of, 116–17, 122, 148–9, 211, 225–26

  Hemingway, Ernest, on, 114, 115

  Hemingway, Hadley, on, 114, 115, 116, 117,

  Joyce read by, 187

  and Jozan, Edouard, 108, 109–10, 111–12, 114, 175, 216, 222, 226, 239–40, 349, 355, 364, 366

  Jozan, Edouard, on, 108–09

  Kalman, Mrs. C. O., on, 92–93

  on Knight, Richard, 249

  and Lardner, Ring, 95–96, 103

  letters: Addison, Mrs. Eleanor Browder, 140

  Bishop, John Peale, 257–58

  Fitzgerald, Mrs. Edward, 38, 39

  Forel, Dr. Oscar, 185

  Fowler, Ludlow, 70, 74, 85

  mother, 47, 164, 382

  Murphy, Sara, 135

  Nathan, George Jean, 71

  Ober, Anne, 371, 373, 375–76

  Ober, Harold, 350, 370

  Perkins, Maxwell, 262, 264, 269

  Rennie, Dr. Thomas, 292–93

  Scott, 37, 38, 39–40, 41–42, 42–43, 44, 47–48, 49, 50–51, 55, 56, 57, 58–60, 61–62, 76, 163–64, 164–65, 166–67, 167–69, 169–70, 173–74, 176–77, 178, 181–83, 183–85, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 195–96, 196–97, 197–98, 199, 200–01, 202, 205–06, 212, 214, 215, 216, 220, 221–22, 224, 241, 252–53, 254–55, 259–60, 287–88, 288–89, 290, 293–94, 294–95, 296–97, 303, 304–05, 307, 314, 322, 324, 325, 326, 327–28, 329–30, 330–31, 332–33, 335, 336, 337–38, 341–42, 344, 345, 347, 348, 354

  Scottie, 127, 128, 129, 130, 180, 213–14, 331, 369–70, 372, 373–74, 382

  Smith, Mrs. Newman, 351

  Turnbull, Mrs. Bayard, 352, 354

  Van Vechten, Carl, 133–34

  Wilson, Edmund, 107–08, 350–51, 352–53, 372

  on love, 56

  McKaig, Alexander, on, 67–68, 70, 74, 75, 77, 78–79, 80–81

  on MacKenzie’s Flasher’s Mead, 48

  MacLeish, Mrs. Archibald, on, 120— 21

  on men, 44

  Mencken, H.L., on, 98

  and money, 98, 334

  on Montgomery, life in, 54

  and mother, 8, 11, 20, 47, 162, 174, 342, 345, 368, 375, 377

  mother on, 40, 43, 62

  Murphy, Gerald, on, 107, 110, 120, 121, 123, 124, 141–42, 154–55, 188, 189, 290

  and Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 106–07, 111, 117, 118, 119, 123, 142, 154–55, 157, 190

  on Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 324

  Murphy, Sara, on, 110, 123, 124, 142

  on Murphy, Sara, 380

  and Nathan, George Jean, 71, 78

  newspaper and magazine publicity, 15, 51, 86, 96, 97, 100, 125, 265–64

  on New York, life in, 66, 237, 238

  on Norris’s McTeague, 60

  painting and drawing, 113, 137, 194, 212, 260, 281, 293, 303, 320, 326, 335–36, 369, 376, 378, 381

  comments and criticism, 290–91

  exhibitions, 283, 289–91, 293, 369

  Parker, Dorothy, on, 67, 68, 290–91

  philosophy of life, 92

  Piper, Henry Dan, on, 379–80

  Ray, Landon, on, 314, 374

  Ruth, Leon, on, 69

  and Scott:

  courtship, 32, 33–36, 40–44, 45, 48- 49, 52, 5
5–61

  divorce, possibility of, 275

  failure to have more children, 154, 163

  marriage, 62, 174, 175–76

  meeting, 24–25

  Scott on, 35, 60, 73–74, 77, 89, 101, 210–11

  on Scott, 24, 34, 351, 373

  and Scottie, 84, 101, 123, 125–26, 143, 163, 169, 180, 185, 207, 265, 286, 296, 317. 322, 324, 329–30, 345, 346, 350, 352, 370, 371

  on Scott’s writing, 196, 352–53

  The Beautiful and Damned, 89, 90, 91

  The Last Tycoon, 353

  Tender Is the Night, 286, 293–94

  This Side of Paradise, 57

  in Scott’s writing as heroine, 77, 100, 114–15

  The Beautiful and Damned (Gloria), 83, 88, 89, 90, 92, 238

  Tender Is the Night (Nicole), 152, 169, 284, 349

  This Side of Paradise (Rosalind), 44, 55, 100

  Seldes, Gilbert, on, 97

  and Stubbs, Francis, 38

  swimming, love of, 16–17, 53–54, 69, 84, 107, 125

  Taylor, Cecilia, on, 136–37

  Turnbull, Andrew, on, 258, 371

  Van Vechten, Carl, on, 98–99

  on Van Vechten, Carl, 249

  West, Rebecca, on, 99

  Wilson, Edmund, on, 25, 133

  women, views on, 21, 92, 93

  writing, 58, 100, 102, 132, 193–94, 195, 196, 199–200, 205, 212, 213, 215, 261, 265, 274, 295–96, 298–99, 302

  “Auction—Model 1934” (with Scott), 296, 298, 299, 300–01

  “The Big Top,” 367

  Caesar’s Things, 103, 234, 354–66, 372, 379–80

  “The Changing Beauty of Park Avenue” (with Scott), 132

  in College Humor, 149–50, 152, 176, 298

  “A Couple of Nuts,” 194–95, 223

  diaries, 38, 55, 71

  diaries and letters used by Scott, 35, 44, 55, 58, 71, 76, 81, 89, 102, 177–78, 284–85

  in Esquire, 298, 299

  “Eulogy on the Flapper,” 91–92

  “The Girl with Talent” (with Scott), 150

  “Looking Back Eight Years” (with Scott), 132–33

  in Metropolitan Magazine, 91–92

  “A Millionaire’s Girl” (with Scott), 150, 223

  “Miss Ella” (or “Miss Bessie”), 202–05, 213

  in The New Yorker, 118–19

  notebook, 319–21

  “Our Own Movie Queen” (with Scott), 102

  on own writing, 149, 196, 354

  “Over the Top with Pershing,” 20

  Perkins, Maxwell, on, 176

  in Saturday Evening Post, 150

  Save Me the Waltz, 17, 66, 68–69, 106, 107, 109–10, 112, 141, 215, 215, 216, 225–46, 259, 262–63, 264, 320, 355

  Scandalabra, 266, 276, 277–80

  Scott on, 216, 217, 220, 221, 222, 255–56, 261, 272–73, 274, 275, 342

  with Scott, 102, 132–33, 150, 152, 223, 296, 298, 299–301

 

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