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
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