Gerald's style, one felt, was a more conscious creation. His methods were anything but subtle. Cole has always had great originality about finding new places, Murphy says, and at that time no one ever went near the Riviera in summer. Their behavior alienated a good many people that summer, but the Murphys stuck by them and worried deeply about them both. He said Id made a veronica. Hemingway adored Sara Murphy, but he seems to have had reservations about Gerald. Hemingway expressed his deep admiration for Fitzgerald, and Fitzgerald's flawed, self-defeating character, when he prefaced his chapters concerning Fitzgerald in A Moveable Feast with: His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. I was very well taken care of and I was never neglected. You cant expect anyone to like or stand a continual feeling of analysis, & subanalysis & criticismon the whole unfriendlysuch as we have felt for quite a while, she wrote. Fitzgerald drew largely upon his wife's intense and flamboyant personality in his writings, at times quoting direct passages from her letters and personal diaries in his work. The characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel represent the people of the 1920's who were surrounded by material items and a surface of artificial happiness. At the same time he conveyed in his best novels and short stories the sense of youthful awe and hope Americas promises created in many people. The three girls were strikingly beautiful, in entirely different ways: Olga, the youngest, had a serene, classic beauty; Mary Hoyt (Hoytie) was dramatic, dark, and intense; and Saras piquant looks and golden hair reflected the familys Scandinavian heritage. Fitzgeralds friendship with Hemingway was quite vigorous, as many of Fitzgeralds relationships would prove to be. -Marie Antoinette Through Lger, who was then executing the sets for the Milhaud ballet La Cration du Monde, Murphy had received a commission to create an American ballet that would serve as a curtain-raiser for the main event. He never showed any curiosity about Murphys painting, and appeared to consider it a mere diversion. Wiborg was General William Tecumseh Shermans favorite niece, and a great friend of Mrs. Patrick Campbellthe girls were exposed to London society, where their American directness and their unself-conscious talent for singing a wide repertoire of operatic arias and American folk songs in three-part harmony delighted the English. As the party was breaking up, Gerald went up to Scott (among the last to leave) and told him that he would not be welcome in their house for three weeksa term of banishment that was observed to the day. It was going to be blasting music and having car wrecks, and everything was going to be over the top and exaggerated., But at the premiere, Lanahan was surprised the characters were so moving, she says. On the night of December 20, 1940, he had his second heart attack, and the next day, December 21, while awaiting a visit from his doctor, Fitzgerald collapsed in Graham's apartment and died. That woman was Bobbie Lanahan, an artist, animator and filmmaker, and the daughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgeralds only child, Scottie. . None of them ever went in the water, you see. Their only child, Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald, was born on October 26, 1921. Patrick Murphy had taken over Mark W. Crosss modest Boston saddlery shop in the eighteen-eighties and built it into an elegant New York store, but he was far from being a typical successful merchant of the era. Dinner went on for hours, interspersed with music (Ansermet and Marcelle Meyer played a piano at one end of the room) and dancing by the ballerinas. What they wanted above all was a garden, and they found one on a hill just below the Antibes lighthouse, attached to the home of a French Army officer who had spent most of his professional life as a military attach in the Near East. They have never been back. . It wasnt parties that made it such a gay time, Sara says now. [13] Don Birnam, the protagonist of Steph and Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend, says to himself, referring to Gatsby, "There's no such thingas a flawless novel. Fitzgerald's great-granddaughter Blake Hazard is a musician. I believe you have to do things to life to make it tolerable. Scott and Zelda left Antibes in October to spend the winter in Paris, where Zelda sank deeper and deeper into the schizophrenia that culminated, the following April, in her mental breakdown. Such incidents were bad enough, but the Murphys were even more disturbed by the Fitzgeralds accelerating process of self-destruction. . A writer like F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose life can almost be said to have attracted more attention than his work, may have to wait a long time before his literary reputation finds its true level. The Murphys role in this rapidly changing scene was difficult to define. The headwaiter was summoned again. They put down an outdoor terrace of gray and white marble tiles, taking great care to preserve a huge silver linden tree, under which they later served almost all their meals. In letters written in the 1940s, J. D. Salinger expressed admiration of Fitzgerald's work, and his biographer Ian Hamilton wrote that Salinger even saw himself for some time as "Fitzgerald's successor." Fitzgerald's letters have also been published in various editions such as Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, ed. A champion of America's great writers and timeless works, Library of America guides readers in finding and exploring the exceptional writing that reflects the nation's history and culture. She was killed in a fire at Highland Hospital. Los Angeles, Review: A reimagined Secret Garden fails to flower anew at the Ahmanson Theatre, Hunger Games star Jena Malone says someone I had worked with sexually assaulted her, Travis Barkers finger injury delays Blink-182 tour: One of those freak accidents, Mixed media artist Pamela Smith Hudson was told to stay in one lane. She refused, KISS announces the absolute final shows of their End of the Road farewell tour, Review: The gorgeous new movie Pacifiction will hypnotize you. She was married twice. I just couldnt take seriously the idea that he was really going to write about ussomehow I couldnt believe that anything would come of questions like that. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s, the period is read more, More than any other author, F. Scott Fitzgerald can be said to have captured the rollicking, tumultuous decade known as the Roaring Twenties, from its wild parties, dancing and illegal drinking to its post-war prosperity and its new freedoms for women. seemed the only pleasant human thing that had happened in a world where I felt prematurely passed by and forgotten. They attended his funeral a few months later. The Beautiful and the Damned, starring Keira Knightley as Zelda and Leonardo DiCaprio as Scott, is going into production as of 2010. 00:12. They maintain the Fitzgerald estate. We four communicate by our presence rather than by any other means, Murphy wrote to the Fitzgeralds in 1925. $77.12 + $22.04 shipping. The French, who were fascinated by anything American, used to love to hear the Murphys sing Negro folk songs and spirituals, which Gerald had been collecting for years; long before, he had discovered in an old magazine in the Boston Public Library the texts of many songs sung by Southern Negroes during the Civil War, and he and Sara had compiled a large repertoire of these, which they sang in two-part harmony, Gerald singing tenor and Sara alto. The villa itself was a sort of chalet, small and unpretentious, but the garden was extraordinary. For example, "Absolution" was intended as an earlier chapter in The Great Gatsby. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. At the most gorgeous paradise for swimmers on the Mediterranean, Fitzgerald wrote, no one swam any more, save for a short hangover dip at noon. The first example of wealth corrupting morals is in the indifference to infidelity between the married Tom Buchanan and . From 1939 until his death, Fitzgerald mocked himself as a Hollywood hack through the character of Pat Hobby in a sequence of 17 short stories, later collected as "The Pat Hobby Stories.". In fact, the character of Daisy as much represents his inability to cultivate his relationship with King as it does the ever-present fact of Zelda. 1920 Bernice Bobs Her Hair A scathing satire on the cruel gatekeeping of privileged young American women, Bernice Bobs Her Hair centres on a young woman who cuts her hair to make herself more popular amongst men. Ive been collecting them since I was a child, Picasso said. In 1923, he was exhibited at the Salon des Indpendants, and his work caused a stir among the Paris artists, some of whom saw it as an original contribution; Lger, in fact, announced that Murphy was the only American painter in Paris, meaning the only one who had shown a really American response to the new postwar French painting. Literacy advocate helped to create the Vermont Reads Institute, Proud New Yorker also had roots in Vermont and New Jersey, Jack-of-all-trades created mini-lobster boat to fish on Lake Champlain, Marvelous, creative cook managed several large restaurants and went out of his way to help others, Vermonters Are Going Back to the Movies Under the Stars, Oldies but Goodies: Classic Movie Recommendations for Kids and Teens. Click to enlarge. After wed finished, he recalls, Mrs. . Anybody who was interested in the Diaghilev ballet company became a member automatically, Murphy says. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.". Because of this lifestyle, as well as the bills from Zelda's medical care when they came, Fitzgerald was constantly in financial trouble and often required loans from his literary agent, Harold Ober, and his editor at Scribner's, Maxwell Perkins. While at a country club, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre (19001948), the "golden girl", in Fitzgerald's words, of Montgomery, Alabama youth society. He was on the verge of being transferred to the Handley-Page unit in England when the armistice was signed. But that was a one-time thing, she says. In 1994 the book was reissued under the original title The Love of the Last Tycoon, which is now agreed to have been Fitzgerald's preferred title. On the night of December 20, 1940, Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham attended the premiere of "This Thing Called Love" starring Melvyn Douglas and Rosalind Russell. I reject categorically any resemblance to us or to anyone we knew at any time. Gerald, on the other hand, was fascinated to discover (he had not noticed it the first time) how Fitzgerald had used everything he noted or was told about by me during the years that the two couples spent together in Paris and on the Rivierathe years from 1924 to 1929. . Fitzgerald is most remembered for authoring The Great Gatsby (1925), a dispassionate portrayal of the extravagance and corruption that consumed America in the 1920s, before the Great Depression. Dec. death of, ", bls death was not until yesterday. Most of their American friends were married couples with children, who, like them, had come to live in Paris primarily because, as Gertrude Stein put it, Paris was where the twentieth century was. Of all of us over there in the twenties, Gerald and Sara sometimes seemed to be the only real expatriates, MacLeish said recently. The last years of Fitzgerald and his relation with Ms. Graham was the theme of the movie Beloved Infidel (1959). Once, on the terrace at the Villa America, Murphy held up a hand and said portentously, I hear a pulsing motor at the door. God, how that sort of remark dates you! snapped Fitzgerald, completely missing the deliberate archaism. Warmer storms could cause problems, How strong is Dominions defamation case against Fox News? Scotts work was practically at a standstill. He is named after Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the "Star-Spangled Banner" and is a distant relative. She ended up designing her whole course of study at Sarah Lawrence around F. Scott Fitzgerald. The marriage was unshakable, says Dos Passos. But as he and Sara descended a flight of stairs she pointed to a picture on the wall at the foot of the stairway and said, I think I see it. The colors, mostly muted browns and reds, were unlike anything they had ever known him to use before. The Great Gatsby, considered his masterpiece, was published in 1925. Although he reportedly found movie work degrading, Fitzgerald was once again in dire financial straits, and, like Hemingway, spent the second half of the 1930s in Hollywood, working on commercial short stories, scripts for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (including some unfilmed work on Gone with the Wind), and his fifth and final novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon. In fact, I consider it a rather wonderful childhood, she said. Our idea was to find a place worthy of the event. Later in their stay, when Sara remonstrated with them for their dangerous habit of coming back late from parties and then, on Zeldas initiative, diving into the sea from thirty-five-foot rocks, fully clothed in evening dress, Zelda turned her wide, penetrating eyes on her and said innocently, But, Sarashe pronounced it Say-radidnt you know? "I'm the other way. But the summer of 1929, back at the Villa America, was one of the happiest the Murphys had spent, full of gaiety and good friends. (His own explanation is that he realized by then that I was not going to be first rate, and I couldnt stand second-rate painting. His total productioneight paintingswas exhibited in a one-man show by the Bernheim Jeune gallery in Paris in 1936, and in 1960 five of the pictures were sent on a tour of American museums in a show assembled by the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, which now has three of them in its permanent collection.) He met his future wife, Zelda, in Alabama. [23], The Great Gatsby August 1991 978-0521402309, The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western December 1993 978-0521402316, This Side of Paradise January 1996 978-0521402347, Flappers and Philosophers December 1999 978-0521402361, Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby April 2000 978-0521402378, Tales of the Jazz Age August 2002 978-0521402385, My Lost City: Personal Essays, 19201940 October 2005 978-0521402392, All The Sad Young Men January 2007 978-0521402408, The Beautiful and Damned June 2008 978-0521883665, The Lost Decade: Short Stories from Esquire, 19361941 September 2008 978-0521885300, The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories October 2009 978-0521769730, Spires and Gargoyles: Early Writings, 19091919 March 2010 978-0521765923. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896 to an Irish-Catholic family, Fitzgerald was named after a famous distant cousin, Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner.". We were all sitting at a big table on the terracethe MacLeishes and the Hemingways and a few othersand when a beautiful young girl with a much older man sat down at the next table, Scott turned his chair all the way around to stare at them, and stayed that way until the girl became so irritated that the headwaiter was summoned. Of all Stravinskys scores, the one for this powerful work, based on the simple, somewhat savage ritual of a Russian peasant wedding, was Diaghilevs favorite. . Lanahan has poured her creative energy into visual storytelling. He suggested that I test my nerve in the bull ring with the yearlings. Heres what to know, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, Yet more rain expected to hit California in March. Gerald had no interest at all in poetry until I introduced him to Gerard Manley Hopkins, and that set him off; he used to pin a Hopkins poem to his shaving mirror every morning, and to this day he can recite a good many of them. Have them turn their backs and do it again. So we did the whole thing over without accompaniment, and Satie said Never sing them any other way and left., For the Murphys and their friends, though, America had not yet caught up with the new century; the center of the world just then was Paris. In return, he gave me back Wordsworth, whom I had long abandoned and thought dreadfully dull. You dont really know anything at all about people. Scott practically turned green. Have one to sell? Putting into a tiny Italian harbor one day, they were surrounded by a group of swimmers shouting Mare nostrum! . Some critics have seen the book as a thinly-veiled autobiographical novel recounting Fitzgerald's problems with his wife, the corrosive effects of wealth and a decadent lifestyle, his own egoism and self-confidence, and his continuing alcoholism. Also, at times a chill would descend. His affection for Sara was close to being an infatuation; he would sit gazing at her across the dinner table for long periods, and say, Sara, look at me. (Zelda, whose jealousies were notable, was never jealous of Sara, though.) On March 10, 1948, a . F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, 1920's This Side of Paradise, was an instant hit and bestseller. After a year and a half in Switzerland, Patrick was thought to be cured, and the Murphys returned to the Villa America. Fitzgerald died of a massive heart attack. He completed four novels and more than 150 short stories. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. All of them dealt with a single personAbraham Lincoln. Inside, the dcor was a trifle severe (black satin furniture and white walls), but the house was always full of Saras flowers from the garden, freshly picked and arranged every dayoleanders, tulips, roses, mimosa, heliotrope, jasmine, camellias. Life itself has stepped in now and blundered, scarred and destroyed. The musical shows their lives from when they first met, through Fitzgerald's career, their lives together (the good and bad), to both of their deaths. A champion of Americas great writers and timeless works, Library of America guides readers in finding and exploring the exceptional writing that reflects the nations history and culture. For Gerald, he sometimes evinced an absolute and uncritical admiration. He was resting a bit before going back to writing his novel. But the work, he says, was never congenial and often seemed like sleepwalking. Fitzgerald suffered two heart attacks in late 1940. He had smashed three of them this way before Gerald stopped him. He was a member of the University Cottage Club, which still displays Fitzgerald's desk and writing materials in its library. She said in a recent interview that being the daughter of one of Americas most celebrated authors opened many doors for her but also had its drawbacks. Scott and Zelda had announced that they were fleeing the hectic life of social Long Island, and in June they had settled in Saint-Raphal, where they planned to live on practically nothing a year. When they came over to visit the Murphys at the Htel du Cap, it was evident that the quiet life had so far eluded them. That spring, the Murphys rented a house that had belonged to Gounod, and still remained in his family, on a hill in Saint-Cloud, overlooking Paris. The forty-odd people who were there constituted a kind of summit meeting of the modern movement in Paris: Picasso, Darius Milhaud, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Ansermet (who conducted Les Noces), Germaine Tailleferre, Marcelle Meyer, Diaghilev, Natalia Goncharova and Larionov, Tristan Tzara, Blaise Cendrars, and Scofield Thayer, the editor of the Dial. F. Scott Fitzgerald, in full Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California), American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby (1925). According to Monty Woolley, the actor, who was a class ahead of Gerald at Yale, The relation between the brothers was something that always seemed comical to me. He worked slowly, taking months to complete a picture. Murphy was obliged to assume responsibility for the firm. I think he got it just right, she says. Gerald worked out the story line and painted a stunning curtain, which was a parody of the Hearst newspapers of the day, with an ocean liner standing on end beside the Woolworth Building; across the top ran a gigantic headline reading, UNKNOWN BANKER BUYS ATLANTIC. Cole Porters score was a witty parody of the piano music played in silent-movie theatres. If many critics still regard it as a failure, they now tend to see it as a noble failure, a flawed masterpiece, and if they still complain that the disintegration of Dick Diver, its psychiatrist hero, is never satisfactorily resolved, most of them concede that Diver is one of those rare heroes in American fiction about whom the reader really cares, and that the account of his disintegration, ambiguous though it may be, is so harrowing that it makes the glittering perfection of plot in a novel like The Great Gatsby seem almost too neat. With his stunning southern wife, Zelda, he headed for Paris and a mythic career of drinking from hip flasks, dancing until dawn, and jumping into outdoor fountains to end the party. I came down, thinking I would just see her to her final rest, and then became hooked and loved it here and have been here ever since, she said. She was sweet enough that you could see why Gatsby loved her. Mar 24, 2015. He moved in with Sheilah Graham, who lived in Hollywood on North Hayworth Ave., one block east of Fitzgerald's apartment on North Laurel Ave. Fitzgerald had two flights of stairs to get to his apartment; Graham's was a ground floor apartment. Scott rented the "La Paix" estate in the suburb of Towson, Maryland to work on his latest book, the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist who falls in love with and marries Nicole Warren, one of his patients. Fitzgerald made several excursions to Europe, notably Paris and the French Riviera, and became friends with many members of the American expatriate community in Paris, notably Ernest Hemingway. It will be great to see you both again, because we are very fond of you both, Murphy wrote. Working at an advertising firm and writing short stories, he was unable to convince Zelda that he would be able to support her, leading her to break off the engagement. Saras warning was prophetic, although she did not suspect at the time how very close to ruin the Fitzgeralds lives had veered. Eliot, he was considered a member of the " Lost Generation ," the 1920s expatriate community in post-war Paris. His father's inability to earn a reliable income caused the family to move around during . One of the things that kept Murphy going during these years was the necessity of coping with a family economic crisis. When Zelda wrote and sent to Scribner's her own fictional version of their lives in Europe, Save Me the Waltz, Fitzgerald was angry and was able to make some changes prior to the novel's publication, and convince her doctors to keep her from writing any more about what he called his "material," which included their relationship. But if there is, this is it." The novel was published on March 26, 1920, and became one of the most popular books of the year. But the world was changing, and the Riviera had lost its innocence. The standard biographies of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald are Arthur Mizener's The Far Side of Paradise (1951, 1965) and Matthew Bruccoli's Some Sort of Epic Grandeur (1981). The book went through many versions, the first of which was to be a story of matricide. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Murphy had converted a gardeners cottage into a studio, where he worked a good part of every day. Thanks for reading. You had the feeling, Murphy says, that the bluenoses were in the saddle over here, and that a government that could pass the Eighteenth Amendment could, and probably would, do a lot of other things to make life in the States as stuffy and bigoted as possible. Perhaps more important, according to Sara, was the desire to escape from the pressure of two very powerful familiesmine especially. In any case, they had enough money to live comfortably in Europe, where the rate of exchange was highly favorable to Americans; Saras father had recently divided his fortune into equal shares, and the income from Saras portion came to seven thousand dollars a year. (Although Gatsby's economic failure to immediately wed Daisy in 1917, with an eventual return in financial triumph, does closely mirror Fitzgerald's own experiences with his future wife. On December 21, 1940, Scott Fitzgerald dropped dead after eating a chocolate bar and reading the Princeton Alumni Weekly magazine. Widely recognized as one of the wars most brilliant commanders, Hancock served at the Battles of Williamsburg, Antietam and Chancellorsville read more, The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. No one really got drunk, no one went home much before dawn, and no one, in all probability, has ever forgotten the party. At the same time, Gerald always felt a tacit competitiveness on Hemingways part, which weighed on their relationship. . . Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. It would make her mad and upset, which I understand. Zelda made mention of this in a 1922 mock review in the New York Tribune, saying that "[i]t seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and also scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. The family is still deeply ingrained in their patriarch's life. Ad Choices, The couple who inspired F. Scott Fitzgeralds Tender Is the Night.. I was very unhappy there, he says. Segonzac, one of the judges for the 1924 Indpendants, argued strongly against hanging Murphys Boatdeck: Cunarder, a twelve-by-eighteen-foot canvas showing the stacks and ventilators of an ocean liner; he dismissed it as peinture de btiment. He was overruled, and Murphy was photographed for the newspapers standing in front of his gigantic picture, wearing a bowler and a cryptic expression. The novel did not sell well upon publication, but like the earlier Gatsby, the book's reputation has since risen significantly. He designed the Weatherbird along the lines of the American clipper ships, which he considered the most beautiful vessels ever launched. Ms. Frances Lanahan worked to overturn the Archdiocese of Baltimore ruling that Fitzgerald died a non practicing Catholic, so that he could be at rest at the Roman Catholic cemetery where his father's family was laid. When Zelda wrote and sent to Scribner's her own fictional version of their lives in Europe, Save Me the Waltz, Fitzgerald was angry and was able to make some changes prior to the novel's publication, and convince her doctors to keep her from writing any more about what he called his "material," which included their relationship. I needed to catch up. The case persisted through several courts and ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decision incensed abolitionists, gave momentum read more, Elected in 1960 as the 35th president of the United States, 43-year-old John F. Kennedy became one of the youngest U.S. presidents, as well as the first Roman Catholic. Their paternal grandfather was Norwegian. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was born on 24 September 1896 to a salesman father and an Irish-Catholic mother who was the heir to a successful Minnesota grocery store. A musical about the lives Fitzgerald and wife Zelda Fitzgerald was composed by Frank Wildhorn entitled Waiting for the Moon, formerly known as Zelda, followed by Scott & Zelda: The Other Side Of Paradise,. Fitzgerald never replied, but some years later, in a long letter, he tried to tell Sara a little of what her friendship meant to him: In my theory, utterly opposite to Ernests, about fiction, i.e. To a lesser degree, he did the same thing with his heroine, Nicole Diver, who has some of the physical characteristics and mannerisms of Sara Murphy, Geralds wife, but is in all other respects Zelda Fitzgerald. sincere attempt to preserve a true fragment rather than a portrait by Mr. Sargent. The Fitzgeralds and the Murphys had seen a great deal of one another in Paris in the winter of 1925-26, during which Sara and Gerald had assumed, more or less unwittingly, the role of friendly guardians. Fitzgerald died of a heart attack when he . The nations total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and gross national product (GNP) expanded read more, During the Tulsa Race Massacre, which occurred over 18 hours from May 31 to June 1, 1921, a white mob attacked residents, homes and businesses in the predominantly Black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Fitzgerald was portrayed by the actor Malcolm Gets in the 1994 film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. Gerald had an arrangement with the drummer in Jimmy Durantes band to send them, in monthly shipments, the latest jazz records. The Htel du Cap was filled to capacity, and the little Garoupe beach now had a row of bathhouses for its clientele. Sara Murphy, the eldest of three daughters of a Cincinnati ink manufacturer named Frank B. Wiborg, had spent a large part of her childhood in Europe with her mother and sisters. F Scott FITZGERALD / NOVELS Comprising THIS SIDE OF PARADISE 2010. 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