death of, 30n.37, 385
depression of, 218, 219
divided personality of, 7
emotional despair of, xxx
escapades of, 51, 57
eye problems of, 279, 286
fevers of, 340, 343, 360, 362, 371
fictional use of ZF’s letters by, xxviii, 6
final months of, 385
final years of, 269–383
Graham relationship with, xxxi, 236, 271, 381, 385
health of, 216, 231, 271, 276, 279, 286, 290, 295, 296–97, 340, 347, 371, 377
heart trouble of, 381, 382
jealousy of, 7
love and money as major themes of, 6
lung problems of, 170, 171, 218, 248, 280, 281, 282, 286, 287, 294–95, 302, 313, 319, 321, 325, 341, 342, 362
media and, xxvi, 220–21
money and, xxv, 77, 155–56, 180, 220, 271, 304, 315–16, 318, 320, 321, 327, 328–29, 333–38, 340, 351, 360, 361, 362, 364, 369, 373, 381
overcontrolling tendencies of, xxx–xxxi, 170–71
reminiscence letter by, 62–65
as Roaring Twenties emblem, xxiii, xxvi, 7, 51
screenwriting by, xxiv, xxx, 58, 68n.26, 112–13, 144, 189n.85, 235–36, 248–49, 252, 290, 300, 304, 307, 309, 311, 322, 326, 330, 330n.33, 333–34, 338, 340, 344, 347, 351–60, 366–67, 371, 373, 382
split personality of, 7
suicide attempt by, 220–21
tragic and heroic aspects of life of, 272, 386–87
work ethic of, xvi, xxiv
writing of The Last Tycoon by, 271, 368, 370–82, 385
writing problems of, xxx, 77, 342
ZF burial with, xxv, 386
ZF competition as writer with, xxix–xxx, 59, 60, 145–47, 163, 164–68
ZF creativity and, xiv, xvi
ZF enduring ties with, xxxi, 271
ZF engagement to, 4, 5, 16, 17, 18, 22, 37
ZF mental illness and, xv, xxix, 81, 172–75, 193, 315
ZF relationship with, xiii, xvi, xxiv, xxix–xxx, xxxi, 7, 51, 56, 77, 170–71, 171, 193, 271, 283, 386
ZF rivalry with, xxviii
ZF writing praised by, xxiv, 81
Fitzgerald, Edward (FSF’s father), 47n.54, 52, 99, 100, 101, 383, 385
Fitzgerald, Frances Scott (Scottie) (daughter)
appendectomy of, 270, 284n.14, 287–90, 291, 292, 294
birth of, 53, 67
education of, 129, 145, 179n.64, 180, 185, 216, 223, 235, 356. See also subhead at Vassar below
Ethel Walker School graduation and, 246, 249
on FSF alcoholism, xxix
FSF attachment to, 271, 367, 376, 382
FSF comments on, xxx–xxxi, 217, 253–54, 271, 305–6, 334, 338, 340, 346, 347, 349, 351, 352, 357, 360, 361, 362–63, 364, 376, 387
at FSF funeral, 385
FSF pride in, 331, 351, 385
on FSF tendency to overmanage, xxx–xxxi
on FSF view of money, xxv
garden of, 128, 139
money and, 298, 299, 300, 318, 321, 327, 328–29, 330, 351
Obers named guardians of, 219
parents’ arguments and, 114, 245
on parents’ burial together, xxv
parents’ concern for wellbeing of, 271
social life of, 138, 225, 231, 253–54, 311, 319–20, 330, 341, 349, 375, 380
at Vassar, xxx, xxxi, 249, 254–55, 259, 270, 272, 278, 283, 299, 300, 302, 305, 308, 315, 316, 321, 331, 334, 339n.43, 347, 350, 353, 357, 360, 362, 367–68, 383
visits to FSF by, 199, 254, 258, 259, 303–9
visits to ZF by, 108–9, 117, 142, 230, 231, 236, 259–65, 278, 285, 286, 291–96, 298–303, 317, 320, 322, 335, 344–50, 353, 355, 356, 358–61, 363, 381
writing of, 274, 292, 294, 296, 298, 299, 301, 307, 331, 338, 339, 343, 374, 378, 379
ZF art show possibility and, 354
ZF comments on, 67, 69, 72, 108–9, 113, 134, 136, 140, 151, 152, 207, 225, 238, 240–41, 296, 298, 299, 302–3, 308, 333, 339, 348, 350, 362, 366
with ZF in Asheville, 231, 239, 270, 291–96, 298, 299, 301–2
with ZF in Montgomery, 115, 123, 125, 126, 128, 131, 132, 133, 139, 143, 348, 349, 350
ZF mental breakdowns and, xxix, 77, 107, 176, 197, 198, 200, 221
ZF pride in, 226, 228, 250, 270, 278, 291, 294, 296, 299, 302, 324, 350
on ZF’s mental problems, xxix
mentioned, xxii, xxvi–xxvii, 63, 78, 83, 88, 90, 93, 97, 99, 112, 116, 118–20, 124, 127, 128, 133, 135, 137, 144, 150, 153, 160, 165, 168, 169, 172, 182, 191, 195, 202, 206, 213, 214, 215, 220, 229, 234, 237, 239, 246, 253, 255, 257, 260, 261, 276, 280, 283, 287, 297, 299, 304, 313, 314, 316, 319, 325, 329, 342, 346, 365, 367, 375, 382, 387
Fitzgerald, Mary (Mollie) (FSF’s mother), 4, 12, 13, 17n.11, 19, 47n.54, 51, 119, 120, 127, 130, 133, 137, 138, 140, 141, 144, 182, 219, 220, 224, 228, 229, 383
Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre
ability to forgive of, xxx
ballet aspirations of, xxviii, xxix, 57, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 69, 70, 71, 77, 81, 96, 113, 117, 165, 325
creativity of, xxviii
daughter, Scottie, and. See Fitzgerald, Frances Scott
death and burial of, xxiv, xxv, 386
drinking of, 58, 68, 90, 314
early married years of, xxvii
engagement of, 4, 5, 16, 17, 18, 22, 37
erratic behavior of, 58, 60–61
escapades of, 25, 51, 57–58, 65
first breakdown of, xxviii, 61, 77–112
FSF’s Cuban fiasco and, 269, 270, 279, 281, 282, 283, 286
FSF’s drinking and, xv, 71, 270
FSF’s importance to, xiii, xxxi, 78, 271
at Highland Hospital, 217–335
love of parties of, 4
lucid periods of, xxx
marital attitude of, xvi
marital conflicts of, xvi, xxviii, xxix–xxx, 7, 51, 56, 77–78, 171
mental illness of, xiii, xiv–xv, xvi, xxiii, xxviii–xxix, xxx, 61, 64, 72, 77–112, 136, 145–69, 177–216, 217–335, 385–86
money and, 155–56, 180, 230, 271, 298–99, 300, 306, 310, 319, 320, 321, 323–24, 325, 327, 333–37, 345, 352, 357, 358, 359, 363, 365, 372, 374, 376, 378, 380
New York City/Vassar visit by, 254–57, 258
on own grave, 286
paintings by, xxx, 141, 177, 181, 183, 192, 194n.99, 195, 232, 233, 242, 276, 284, 302, 303–4, 305, 306, 310, 318, 319, 320, 324–25, 326, 327, 328, 339–40, 352, 353, 354, 357, 363, 365, 366
physical health problems of, 77, 91, 99, 113, 137, 141, 145, 153, 168
pregnancy of, 51
professional dance debut of, 60
release from hospital campaign of, 249, 270, 308–11, 313, 315–21, 323, 328, 329, 332–33, 336, 337, 339, 353n.51, 365
religious mania of, xxx, 217, 221, 222, 237, 375, 377, 378, 380
reminscence letters by, 65–73, 212–13, 214–15, 226–27, 355
review of The Beautiful and Damned by, xxvii–xxviii, 53–54
Roaring Twenties and, xxvi, 9, 51
second breakdown of, 145–69
split personality of, 7–8
suicide attempt of, 61
temperament of, 193
Tender Is the Night reassurances by, 185–86, 187–89, 190–92, 195–96, 201
third breakdown of, 177–216
Three Comrades appraisal by, 251
tragic and heroic aspects of life of, 272, 386–87
treatments for, xxviii–xix
vocational identity needs of, xxiv–xxv, xxviii, xxix, 78, 80, 146, 181, 328, 339, 365
work ethic of, xvi
writing by, xxiii–xxiv, xxx, 40, 59, 326, 329, 335, 339, 340, 352, 365, 375, 377
writing in competition with FSF by, xxix–xxx, 59, 60, 145–47, 163, 164–68
Flappers and Philosophers (F. S. Fitzgerald), 51
Flaubert, Gustave, 379
Florida, 128, 133, 239, 243–45, 256, 271, 276, 344–46
Flowers, Miss (S
cottie’s friend), 265
Flynn, Nora and Lefty, 293n.16
“Foie Gras” (Z. Fitzgerald), 119
Forain, Jean-Louis, 152
Forel, Oscar, 61, 82, 86, 92–93, 96–98, 100, 105, 136, 177, 181, 331
Forum and Century (magazine), 191n.89, 192, 326
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 367
Fowler, Ludlow, 47n.54, 55, 65–66, 183
France, 56, 68, 88, 249, 334, 354, 358. See also Paris; Riviera
Francesca, Mrs. (spiritualist), 31
Fraser, Brenda, 314
Freaks (film), 154
Freeman (Sayre servant), 113, 115, 118, 127, 130, 132, 134, 136, 147, 161
Galsworthy, John, 52
“Ganymede’s Rubbers” (Z. Fitzgerald), 133
Garden of Allah (hotel), 235–36, 245
Garland, Judy, 371
Gellhorn, Martha, 367
Geneva (Switzerland), 78, 101, 105
Genoa (Italy), 69–70
George White’s Scandals (show), 51
Georgia, 66, 244, 275
Georgia Tech, 30, 35–36, 37n.43
Germany, 52
Gershwin, George, 189n.82
Gingrich, Arnold, 312n.25
“Girl the Prince Liked, The” (Z. Fitzgerald), 204
“Girl with Talent, The” (Z. Fitzgerald), 204
Gogol, Nikolay, 340
Golden Treasury, The (Palgrave ed.), 191
Goldwyn, Samuel, 54
Gone With the Wind (film), 272n.1, 275
Gordon, Ian, 153
Graham, Sheilah, xxxi, 236, 245, 271, 381n.58, 385
Grant, Cary, 183n.70
Gray, Thomas, 26
Great Depression, xxiv, 112, 152n.41, 188n.79
Great Gatsby, The (F. S. Fitzgerald), xxiv, xxvi, 7, 53, 55–56, 191n.91, 331, 370, 371, 373, 379
Fitzgeralds’ tombstone epitaph from, 386
Great Neck (Long Island), 53–54, 68
Greco, El, 149
Greece, 183, 263
Gregory, Horace, 192n.95
Grit (F. S. Fitzgerald scenario), 68n.26
Gros, Doctor, 69
Grove Park Inn, 220, 231, 238, 298, 317
Guess Who’s Here (musical), 339n.43
Hale, Ed, 20
Hallelujah! (film), 64n.8
Hamilton, Marice (Mrs. Pierpont Morgan
Hamilton), 69
Hamman, Louis, 209, 289–90
“Handle with Care” (F. S. Fitzgerald), 6, 218, 219
Handley, Bob, 67
Hardwicke, Cedric, 312n.23
Harlan, Mrs. (ZF’s friend), 335
Harper & Brothers, xxvii
Harris, Sam H., 54
Hart, Livye, 16n.9, 28, 32, 365, 377, 383
Hartnett, Koula Svokos, xiv
Harvard Summer School, 346–47, 349, 356
Harvard University, 375
Havana. See Cuba
Hay, Mary, 68, 159
Hayden, Mr. and Mrs. Edwine, 39
Hayes, Helen, 62n.2, 309
“Head and Shoulders” (F. S. Fitzgerald), 42, 43n.49
Hemingway, Ernest, 60, 62–64, 69, 71, 87, 137, 156, 186n.77, 192, 197, 367, 374–75
description of FSF by, 56–57
Hemingway, Pauline, 367
Hendersonville (N.C.), 216, 218, 285
Henry, O., 40
Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic (Baltimore, Md.), 145–69, 177–78, 181
Hergesheimer, Joseph, 67
Hicks, Kate, 66
Highland Hospital (Asheville, N.C.), xxiv, 30n.37, 217–335, 385–86
Hitchcock, Alfred, 343n.44
Hitchcock, Tommy, 199
Hitler, Adolf, 368
Hoffmann, E. T. A., 144
Hollywood, xxxi, 58, 63, 112–13, 118, 122, 128, 192, 235–36, 245, 254, 269, 284n.14, 290, 309, 311, 334n.38, 341, 371, 385
Horton, Edward Everett, 245
Hotel Central Park Manor, 277
Hotel de Russie, 68
Hotel Exchange, 25n.23
Hotel Irving, 255
“House, The” (Z. Fitzgerald), 204
Houston (Texas), 114
Howard, Sidney, 54, 68
“How to Live on $36,000 a Year” (F. S. Fitzgerald), 54
“How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year” (F. S. Fitzgerald), 54
Hoyt, Nancy, 71, 87
Hubbard, Ann, 265
Hugo, Victor, 192
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (film), 312
Hunter, Esther and Glen, 68
Hurley, Jim, 226
I’ll Take Romance (film), 238–39
Inferno (Dante), 191
Infidelity (film), 249
Inglis, May, 19n.16
In Our Time (Hemingway), 56
“In Provocation” (Z. Fitzgerald), 125
“In the Darkest Hour” (F. S. Fitzgerald), 210n.129
Italy, 27. See also Rome
James, Henry, 191n.91
Jean West (store), 317, 320–21, 333, 336
Jim Bob (ZF’s friend), 223
Joe (Sayre servant), 337, 349
Johns Hopkins University Hospital, 231
Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, 145–69, 177–78, 181
Johnson, Charlie, 24
Jonson, Ben, 201
Josephus, Flavius, 126
Journal of a Crime (film), 190n.86
Joyce, James, 59, 63, 102
Jozan, Edouard, 55, 68, 165
Juan-les-Pins (France), 62, 69, 201
Julia (Sayre servant), 113, 115, 118, 127, 130, 134–36, 138, 147, 150, 161
Julia, Virginia, 121
Jung, Carl, 98
Kalman, Oscar, 67n.23
Kalman, Xandra, 67n.22
Kant, Immanuel, 107
Katzenjammer Kids (comic strip), 182
Kaufman, George S., 189n.82
Key, Francis Scott, 183n.72
Key West (Fla.), 161
Killan, Mrs. (ZF’s golfing companion), 184–85
King, Ginevra, 7, 184
Knight, Dick, 70
Kroll, Frances, 381n.58
Lackin, Doctor, 67
Lanahan, Eleanor (Fitzgerald granddaughter), 194n.99
La Paix (Fitzgerald home), 169–77, 179n.65, 197, 201–2, 208–9, 344, 352
Larchmont (N.Y.), 279
Lardner, Ring, 54, 68, 129, 171, 199, 201
Last Time I Saw Paris, The (film), 330n.33
Last Tycoon, The (F. S. Fitzgerald), xxv, 271, 368, 370, 371, 372, 373, 375–76, 377, 379, 380, 381, 382, 385
Laughton, Charles, 312n.23
Laurel, Kay, 201
Lausanne (Switzerland), 78, 84, 105
Lawrence, D. H., 102
Lawrence, W. E., 13
Ledger (F. S. Fitzgerald), 3, 53, 57, 198
Le Gallienne, Eva, 68
Léger, Fernand, 56
LeGrand, Bill, 24
Le Grand, Jerry, 265
Leslie, Shane, 67
Les Mysterieuse (social club), 27, 28
Lewis, Sinclair, 374
“Lipstick” (F. S. Fitzgerald screenplay), 58
Liszt, Franz, 82
Little Eva (proposed film), 371
Locke, William. J., 71
London (England), 52, 67
Loos, Anita, 69
Lorimer, George Horace, 182n.68
Los Angeles (Calif.), 129, 338
Love, Bessie, 129
Lovett, Adele, 194
Lucienne (ballerina), 72n.44, 172
Lukas, Paul, 186
MacArthur, Charles, 62–63, 69, 182n.67
Mackenzie, Compton, 29n.31
Mackie, William, 65n.10
MacLeish, Ada, 69, 80
MacLeish, Archibald, 56, 69, 189n.84
Madame Curie (proposed film), 249, 274n.3
Mademoiselle (governess). See Mlle. B.
Mademoiselle (magazine), 331n.34
Malibu (Calif.), 245
Malmaison clinic (France), 61, 72, 82n.2, 83, 85
; Marcus Aurelius, 28
Marlborough: His Life and Times (Churchill), 340
Marlowe, Christopher, 201
Marquet, Albert, 152
Martin, Townsend, 65n.10, 66–67
Marx, Karl, 196, 207, 351
Marx Brothers, 235
Maryland Hunt Cup Race, 352
Masseria-Maranzano gang war, 162n.55
Massie, Joel, 33
Matisse, Henri, 152
Matisse, Pierre, 303
Maxwell, Elsa, 119
Mayer, Louis B., 189n.85
McAlmon, Robert, 88
McCarthy, Mary, 382
McKaig, Alexander, 65n.10, 67
McKinney, Mrs. Reuben, 38, 114, 121, 314, 339, 343, 365
McTeague (Norris), 44
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius), 28
Melanctha (Stein), 379
Melinda (Sayre housekeeper), 265, 337, 349
Mencken, H. L., 65n.11, 67, 130, 188
Menjou, Adolph, 190
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), xxx, 42, 112, 144, 189n.85, 235, 272n.1, 322
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 280
Meyer, Adolf, 145, 160–62, 170–71, 176, 197, 331
Milford, Nancy, xiii, xiv–xv, 26n.25, 42n.48, 59, 70n.37
Mill, John Stuart, 351
Miller, Raquel, 69
“Millionaire’s Girl, The” (Z. Fitzgerald), 204
Miserables, Les (Hugo), 192
“Miss Bessie” (Z. Fitzgerald), 204
“Miss Ella” (Z. Fitzgerald), 135n.31
“Miss Ellie” (Z. Fitzgerald), 204n.115
“Missing All, The” (Bishop), 235n.136
Mitchell, Ginevra King, 7, 184
Mitchell, Harry, 382
Mitchell, William Hamilton, 184n.73
Mizener, Arthur, 7
Mlle. B. (Scottie’s governess), 113, 118, 120, 123, 125, 127, 131–32, 134, 138, 140, 142, 151, 153, 156
Modern French Painters (Gordon), 153
Modern Library (publisher), 331, 340, 341
Monte Carlo (Monaco), 68, 71
Montgomery (Ala.), xxv–xxvi, 3–8, 18–19, 22, 25, 33, 41n.46, 42n.48, 46, 51, 58, 101, 112–40, 145–46, 156–57, 194, 236, 245, 249, 252–53, 264, 270, 298, 302, 306, 309–10, 313, 321, 328, 333, 335, 337, 339, 344, 347–50, 355, 362, 365, 370, 372
Montgomery Advertiser, 351n.50
Montgomery Little Theatre, 344n.45
Monticello (Jefferson home), 240
Moore, Colleen, 311
Moore, Grace, 69, 210, 238n.137, 239
Moran, Lois, 58–59, 63, 70
Morand, Paul, 70
Motter, Bill, 68
Mt. Vernon (Washington home), 240
Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway), 56–57
Murdock, Harry M., 198n.102, 200, 215
Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 103, 182, 192, 206, 223, 257, 370
at FSF funeral, 385
FSF letter to, 217–18
motto of, 56
Scottie Vassar tuition loan by, 315n.31, 316
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