Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (61 page)

7.
Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 85; Mizener,
The Far Side of Paradise,
p. 34; Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
p. 44.

8.
Fitzgerald,
Notebooks,
p. 205; Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
p. 63; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
pp. 15–17.

9.
Quoted in Elizabeth Friskey, “Visiting the Golden Girl,”
Princeton Alumni Weekly,
75 (October 8, 1974), 10–11; Letter from Ginevra King Pirie to Arthur Mizener, December 4, 1947, Princeton.

10.
Letter from Ginevra King Pirie to Henry Dan Piper, May 12, 1946, Southern Illinois University; Letters from Ginevra King Pirie to Arthur Mizener, November 7, 1947 and January 14, 1958, Princeton; Telephone conversation with Richard Lehan, February 19, 1992, based on his interviews with Ginevra King Pirie and her sister Marjorie Beldon.

11.
Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 34; William Butler Yeats, “The Tower,”
Collected Poems,
Definitive Edition (New York, 1956), p. 195.

12.
Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
p. 184; Fitzgerald, “Basil and Cleopatra,”
Afternoon of an Author,
p. 59; Letter from Ginevra King Pirie to Henry Dan Piper, May 12, 1946, Southern Illinois University; Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby,
pp. 120, 9.

13.
Fitzgerald,
In His Own Time,
p. 171; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 482;
The Romantic Egoists: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,
ed. Matthew Bruccoli, Scottie Fitzgerald Smith and Joan Kerr (New York, 1974), p. 29.

14.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Handle With Care,”
The Crack-Up,
ed. Edmund Wilson (New York, 1945), p. 76; Edmund Wilson,
A Prelude
(New York, 1967), p. 148.

15.
Mizener,
The Far Side of Paradise;
Fitzgerald,
Ledger,
p. 170; Glenway Wescott, in Fitzgerald,
The Crack-Up,
p. 329.

Chapter Three: The Army and Zelda

1.
Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
p. 55; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
pp. 434, 471; Stephen Ambrose,
Eisenhower
(New York, 1983), p. 61.

2.
Fitzgerald, “Who’s Who—and Why,”
Afternoon of an Author,
p. 84; Quoted in
Living Authors,
ed. Stanley Kunitz (New York, 1931), p. 128.

3.
Quoted in Roger Burlingame,
Of Making Many Books
(New York, 1946), p. 48; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 31.

4.
Letter from Devereux Josephs to Henry Dan Piper, May 1, 1947, Southern Illinois University; Quoted in Mizener,
The Far Side of Paradise,
p. 84; Alonzo Myers, “Lieutenant F. Scott Fitzgerald, United States Army,”
Papers on Language and Literature,
1 (Spring 1965), 174, 171.

5.
Fitzgerald,
The Crack-Up,
pp. 85, 70; Quoted in James Drawbell,
An Autobiography
(New York, 1963), p. 176.

6.
Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 24 and Letter from Father Sigourney Fay to Fitzgerald, June 13, 1918, Princeton; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 20.

7.
Letter from Father Sigourney Fay to Fitzgerald, June 6, 1918, Princeton; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
pp. 29–30, 33.

8.
Fitzgerald,
Letters,
pp. 394–395. For other sources on Fay, see
The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers
(New York, 1917), pp. 56–57; the obituary in the
Baltimore Catholic Review,
January 18, 1919; “Monsignor Fay: In Memoriam,”
Catholic University Bulletin
(Washington, D.C., 1919), pp. 177–178; Barry,
Impressions and Opinions,
pp. 219, 245; Monsignor Edward Hawks,
William McGarvey and the Open Pulpit
(Philadelphia, 1935), pp. 101–102, 110, 117, 128–129, 132, 135, 138, 153, 161–163, 178; William Hayward,
The C.S.S.S.
[Companions of the Holy Savior]:
The Quest and Goal of the Founder, the Right Reverend William McGarvey
(Philadelphia, 1940), p. 327;
New Catholic Encyclopedia
(New York, 1967), 5:862;
Dictionary of American Catholic Biography
(Garden City, New York, 1984), pp. 178–179.

9.
Fitzgerald, “The Ice Palace,”
Flappers and Philosophers
(New York, 1920), pp. 48–49; Robert Edward Francillon,
Zelda’s Fortune
(Boston, 1874), p. 30; Zelda Fitzgerald,
Save Me the Waltz,
in
The Collected Writings,
ed. Matthew Bruccoli, Introduction by Mary Gordon (New York, 1991), p. 9.

10.
Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
pp. 170–172; Virginia Foster Durr,
Outside the Magic Circle
(Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1985), p. 64; Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, Montgomery, Alabama, January 15, 1992; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
pp. 94–95.

11.
Quoted in Laura Hearne, “A Summer with F. Scott Fitzgerald,”
Esquire,
62 (December 1964), 258; Quoted in Nancy Milford,
Zelda
(1970; New York, 1974), p. 64.

12.
Quoted in Scott Donaldson,
Fool for Love: A Biography of Scott Fitzgerald
(1983; New York, 1989), pp. 71, 66.

13.
Fitzgerald, “My Lost City,”
The Crack-Up,
pp. 24–25.

14.
Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 44; Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
p. 196; Quoted in Turnbull,
Scott Fitzgerald,
p. 210.

15.
Quoted in Donaldson,
Fool for Love,
p. 65; Fitzgerald, “My Lost City,”
Crack-Up,
p. 26.

16.
Donald Ogden Stewart,
By a Stroke of Luck!: An Autobiography
(New York, 1975), pp. 86–87; Fitzgerald,
Notebooks,
p. 153;
Dear Scott/Dear Max,
p. 21.

17.
Edmund Wilson, “Thoughts on Being Bibliographed” (1944),
Classics and Commercials
(1950; New York, 1962), p. 110; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 345.

18.
Edmund Wilson,
Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912–1972,
ed. Elena Wilson (New York, 1977), pp. 45–46.

19.
Quoted in James Mellow,
Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
(Boston, 1984), p. 82.

20.
Quoted in Turnbull,
Scott Fitzgerald,
p. 108; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
pp. 50, 53.

21.
Quoted in Turnbull,
Scott Fitzgerald,
p. 111; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 559; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 47.

Chapter Four:
This Side of Paradise
and Marriage

1.
Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
pp. 282, 104; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 30; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 396.

2.
Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
p. 138; Letter from Sally Taylor Abeles to Jeffrey Meyers, June 3, 1992.

3.
Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
pp. 58, 175; Fitzgerald,
In His Own Time,
pp. 244–245.

4.
Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 79; Franklin P. Adams, “The Conning Tower,”
New York Tribune,
July 14, 1920, p. 8; Fitzgerald,
In His Own Time,
pp. 310, 305, 311.

5.
Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 49; John Peale Bishop, “The Missing All” (1937),
Collected Essays,
ed. Edmund Wilson (New York, 1948), p. 76.

6.
Edmund Wilson, “The Literary Spotlight: F. Scott Fitzgerald,”
Bookman
(New York), 55 (March 1922), 21–22; Quoted in Mizener,
Far Side of Paradise,
p. 132.

7.
Dear Scott/Dear Max,
p. 245; Fitzgerald, “Early Success,”
Crack-Up,
p. 88.

8.
H. L. Mencken, “Taking Stock,”
Smart Set,
67 (March 1922), 139; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 58; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 482.

9.
Quoted in Henry Bragdon,
Woodrow Wilson: The Academic Years
(Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 272; John Davies, “Scott Fitzgerald & Princeton,”
Princeton Alumni Weekly,
66 (February 8, 1966), 8.

10.
Morley Callaghan,
That Summer in Paris
(1963; London, 1979), p. 251;
Dear Scott/Dear Max,
p. 42.

11.
Catherine Drinker Bowen, “Harold Ober, Literary Agent,”
Atlantic Monthly,
206 (July 1960), 35, 38;
As Ever, Scott Fitz,
p. xvi.

12.
Fitzgerald, “Early Success,”
Crack-Up,
p. 89; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 515.

13.
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Beautiful and Damned
(1922; New York, 1950), p. 19; James Branch Cabell,
Between Friends: Letters of James Branch Cabell and Others,
ed. Padraic Colum and Margaret Freeman Cabell (New York, 1972), p. 254.

14.
Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise,
p. 88; Fitzgerald, “Princeton,”
Afternoon of an Author,
p. 79; Fitzgerald, “My Lost City,”
Crack-Up,
pp. 28–29.

15.
Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 479 (her behavior inspired the “Zelda Fitzgerald Emotional Maturity Award” in Woody Allen’s
Manhattan
); Zelda Fitzgerald,
Save Me the Waltz,
p. 94; Quoted in
Ingenue Among the Lions: Letters of Emily Clark to Joseph Hergesheimer,
ed. Gerald Langford (Austin, 1965), p. 120; Carl Van Vechten,
Letters,
ed. Bruce Kellner (New Haven, 1987), p. 96.

16.
Carmel Myers, “Scott and Zelda,”
Park East
(New York), 2 (May 1951), 18; Fitzgerald,
Tender Is the Night,
p. 274; Letter from Zelda Fitzgerald to Henry Dan Piper, n.d., Southern Illinois University.

17.
Quoted in Malcolm Cowley,
A Second Flowering
(New York, 1973), p. 30.

18.
Drawbell,
Autobiography,
p. 173; Quoted in Mizener,
Far Side of Paradise,
p. 93.

19.
Ernest Hemingway, “Cat in the Rain,”
Short Stories
(New York, 1938), p. 170; Fitzgerald,
In His Own Time,
p. 262; Zelda Fitzgerald, “Eulogy on the Flapper,”
Collected Writings,
p. 391.

20.
Quoted in Milford,
Zelda,
p. 103; Turnbull,
Scott Fitzgerald,
pp. 119–120; Milford,
Zelda,
p. 107; Turnbull,
Scott Fitzgerald,
p. 122; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 351.

McKaig, with all his perception, ended up as tragically as Zelda. On January 7, 1936, Bishop wrote Wilson that McKaig had become “hopelessly and completely insane. It sounds like paresis. He is unable to receive any communication and only sporadically and uncertainly recognizes visitors” (quoted in Mellow,
Invented Lives,
p. 443).

21.
William Rothenstein,
Men and Memories
(1913; New York, 1934), 2:164; Quoted in Mizener,
Far Side of Paradise,
p. 145; Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 399; Fitzgerald,
In His Own Time,
pp. 125–126.

22.
Wilson,
Letters on Literature and Politics,
p. 63; Letter from John Dowling to the Vatican, June 3, 1921, Princeton; Fitzgerald,
Ledger,
p. 175.

23.
Fitzgerald,
Letters,
p. 346; Quoted in Piper,
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
p. vii.

24.
Zelda Fitzgerald, “The Girl the Prince Liked,”
Collected Writings,
p. 311; Fitzgerald,
Ledger,
p. 176 (see also
The Great Gatsby,
p. 17); Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,
The Romantic Egoists,
p. 87; Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby,
p. 10.

25.
Fitzgerald,
Notebooks,
p. 244; Fitzgerald,
Correspondence,
p. 247.

26.
Frances Fitzgerald Lanahan, “Introduction” to
Six Tales of the Jazz Age
(New York, 1960), p. 5; Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,
Romantic Egoists,
p. 96; Cyril Connolly,
Previous Convictions
(London, 1963), p. 302; Fitzgerald,
In His Own Time,
p. 253.

27.
Buttitta,
The Lost Summer,
p. 31; Quoted in Laura Hearne, “A Summer with Scott Fitzgerald,” p. 258; Fitzgerald, “One Hundred False Starts,”
Afternoon of an Author,
p. 132.

28.
Letter from Burton Rascoe to George Jean Nathan, April 3, 1920, Princeton; Letter from Charles Norris to Fitzgerald, c. 1921, Princeton.