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Lardner, Ring. The Best of Ring Lardner. London: Dent, 1984.
———. What of It? New York: Scribner, 1925.
Lerner, Michael A. Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Lewis, Alfred Allan. Man of the World: Herbert Bayard Swope: A Charmed Life of Pulitzer Prizes, Poker and Politics. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1978.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Achieving of The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920–1925. 1979. Reprint London: Associated University Press, 1981.
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MacElhone, Harry, Andrew MacElhone, and Duncan MacElhone. Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails. London: Souvenir, 2006.
March, Joseph Moncure, and Art Spiegelman. The Wild Party: The Lost Classic. New York: Pantheon, 1994.
Meade, Marion. Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties. Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.
———. Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? New York: Villard, 1988.
Mellow, James R. Invented Lives: F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald. 1984. London: Condor/Souvenir, 1985.
———. Invented Lives: F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald. 1984. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Mencken, H. L. The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States. New York: Knopf, 1919.
———. The Diary of H. L. Mencken. Charles A. Fecher, ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Meyers, Jeffrey. Edmund Wilson: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
———. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography. 1994. New York: Cooper Square, 2000.
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Miller, Nathan. New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America. Boston: Da Capo, 2004.
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Moore, Lucy. Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties. 2008. London: Atlantic, 2009.
Morris, Jan. Manhattan ’45. London: Faber and Faber, 2011.
Morris, Lloyd. Incredible New York: High Life and Low Life from 1850 to 1950. 1951. Reprint New York: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
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North, Michael. Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Noyes Hart, Frances. The Bellamy Trial. 1928. Reprint Kingswood, Surrey: Windmill, 1930.
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———. Before I Forget. New York: Doran, 1937.
———. We Were Interrupted. New York: Doubleday, 1947.
Ring, Frances Kroll. Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald. San Francisco: Donald S. Ellis, 1985.
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Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Gossip. 1985. Reprint Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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———. Parties: Scenes from Contemporary New York Life. 1930. Reprint Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
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———. The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period. London: Macmillan, 1975.
———. Wilson’s Night Thoughts. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961.
———. Discordant Encounters: Plays and Dialogs. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1926.
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ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
American magazine: 151
Author’s collection: 49, 58, 76, 191
© Bettmann/Corbis: 206 (top)
Burton Rascoe Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania: 237, 300
Daily News: 312 (top)
Duke University: 53 (top)
The Estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald: 75, 97, 127 128, 160, 162, 163, 166, 225, 261 (bottom), 331
Franklin Township Public Library Historical Collections: 139 (middle)
Gordon Bryant, Metropolitan magazine: 11
Gordon Bryant, Shadowland magazine: 10
Great Neck Library: 91
Life magazine: 193
Louisville Courier-Journal: 29 (top)
Photo by Nickolas Muray, © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives. Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale University): 31
New Republic: 318
The New York Times: 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 33, 35 (bottom), 39, 40, 43, 46, 48, 50, 53 (bottom), 62, 63, 71, 74, 79, 81, 86, 90, 93, 96, 99, 100, 102, 103, 105, 108, 109, 115, 116, 119, 123, 125 (bottom), 133, 144, 149, 154, 155 (top), 158, 161, 162, 164, 168, 170, 173, 174, 176, 178 (top), 182, 185, 187, 188 (top), 190, 194, 201, 202, 203, 205, 206 (bottom), 209 (bottom), 210, 212 (bottom), 214, 217, 223, 224 (top), 230, 231, 234, 235, 238, 239, 241, 244, 246, 250, 254, 256, 261 (top), 264, 265, 269, 271, 273, 276, 277, 278, 280, 282, 287, 290, 295, 302, 305 (top), 309, 312 (bottom), 322, 327, 329, 336
The New Yorker: 305 (bottom)
New York Tribune: 54, 59, 60, 118, 125 (top), 139 (top), 155 (bottom) 178 (bottom), 192
New York World: 27, 29 (bottom), 36, 61, 80, 84, 94, 98, 113, 130, 137, 163, 180, 188 (bottom), 199, 211, 216, 243
Paramount Pictures: 212
Courtesy of the Queens Borough Public Library, Archives, World’s Fair Collection © Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority: 51
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries (Hall-Mills Murder Case Photograph Album): 311
Saturday Evening Post: 191
University of South Carolina Libraries (Columbia, SC), Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald: 166
INDEX
abortions, 165–66
“Absolution” (Fitzgerald), 38, 173–74, 307
accidents and accidentals, 35–35, 39, 48–50, 52, 55, 104, 105, 177, 223, 233, 238, 242, 254–55, 285, 304
Adams, Franklin Pierce, 154
Adams, James Truslow, 344
advertising, 52–53, 105
Advertising and Selling, 100
Algonquin Round Table, 154, 158–59, 164, 187
All the Sad Young Men (Fitzgerald), 101, 307
American Dream, 344
“American Fiction” (Woolf), 16
American magazine, 25, 80
Anderson, Frank, 140
Anderson, Sherwood, 43–44, 45, 46
Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” 103
Aristotle, 256
Armstrong, Mary, 180
ash heaps, 51, 52–53, 169, 232
Babbitt (Lewis), 247–49
“Babylon Revisited” (Fitzgerald), 308, 317
Bahmer, Nicholas, 53–54, 95, 99
Bahmer, Pearl, 53–54, 85, 95, 99, 190, 200
Baker, Jordan (character), xxiv, 24, 104, 140–41, 150, 186, 208, 232, 241, 257, 280, 327–28
Bankhead, Tallulah, 158–59, 187
Barnhardt, Elise, 47–48, 216
Barthelmess, Richard, 178, 179
bathtub gin, 14, 127–28
Bauchle, George Young, 129
BBC (British Broadcasting Company), 100
Beal, Peggy, 139–40
The Beautiful and Damned (Fitzgerald), 9, 18, 26–27, 39, 65, 67, 77, 104, 116, 144, 150, 166, 198, 214, 236–38, 268, 278, 316
Becker, Charles, 135, 136
Beekman (prosecutor), 79, 94–95
Benét, William Rose, 297
Berlin, Irving, 35, 251
Berryman, John, 342
Biggs, John, 330, 335
“Biography as Fiction” (Cournos), 190
Bishop, John Peale, 19, 33–34, 59, 219, 305, 321
Black Sox World Series scandal of 1919, 89–90, 136
Blair, Mary, 31, 40, 62, 74, 269
Bly, Nellie, 196–97
boarding house in Morningside Heights, 64–65
Boni & Liveright, 40
“A Bookman’s Day Book” (Rascoe), 62
The Book of Daniel Drew (White), 196
books, power of, 140
bootleggers and bootlegging, 15, 72, 120–21, 121–22, 123–24, 126, 194, 195, 210, 226
Boyd, Ernest, 81, 228–29, 247, 263–64, 265
broadcasting, 17, 100
Bronx, 64–65
Brooks, Van Wyck, 226–28, 246
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), 108
Broun, Heywood, 159, 177, 183
Bruccoli, Matthew J., 167, 171, 299, 361n, 364n
Buchanan, Daisy (character), 24, 26, 29, 67, 73, 77, 78, 114–15, 140, 141, 149, 157, 175–76, 177–78, 178–80, 186, 206–9, 217, 218, 231–32, 233, 241–42, 255–56, 264, 271–72, 282, 288, 303, 308
Buchanan, Tom (character), 25, 26, 37, 39, 65–66, 67, 68, 85–86, 113, 114–15, 115–16, 132, 138–39, 141, 155, 186, 206–8, 231–32, 241, 242, 272, 281–82, 303, 328–29
Buck, Gene, 86, 170–73, 188
Buck, Helen, 86, 170–73, 188, 265, 317
Buckley, Charles, 130–31
Burgess, Frederick “Bunny,” 273, 279, 280
Burgess, Olive Moore, 279
Capone, Al, 194
Carberry, Phillip, 254–55
Carpender, Henry, 181, 310–12
Carraway, Nick (character), 7–8, 22, 24, 26, 37–38, 40–41, 43, 55, 56, 66, 67–68, 73–74, 85, 104, 108–9, 111–12, 113, 114–15, 119, 138–39, 140–41, 141–42, 163–64, 177–78, 185–86, 198–99, 205, 206–7, 208–9, 215, 217, 218, 232–33, 241, 242, 256–57, 271–72, 280–81, 284, 288, 289–90, 295, 302–3, 327, 328–329, 334–35, 356n
Cather, Willa, 165–66
celebrities and celebrity culture, 26–27, 45, 54–55, 101, 102, 109–110, 112, 158, 170, 207
Cerenner, Salome, 311
Chambers, Robert W., 268, 286, 300, 301
Charleston (dance), 102, 359n
Chicago Tribune, 89
Chicago White Sox, 90
Civet, Doc (character), 208
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 243
cocktails and cocktail parties, xxiii, 14, 88–89, 112, 120, 127–28, 212
Cody, Dan (character), 195–96, 199, 303
Collier’s, 159
Collins, Seward, 62, 74
Colum, Mary, 215–16
Conrad, Joseph, 118, 145, 171–72, 173, 174, 215, 216, 253
Consolidated Stock Exchange, 133
Cournos, John, 189–90
Cowley, Malcolm, 341–42, 343–44, 356n
The Crack-Up and Other Essays (Wilson, ed.), 322, 324, 341
The Crime in the Whistler Room (Wilson), 125–26, 286
Croirier, Bobbé, 275
Cronk, Dr., 60
Crowninshield, Frank, 57
Cugat, Francis, 296
Cummings, Edith, 141
Cummings, E. E., 17, 44
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Fitzgerald), 159
“The Da
nce” (Fitzgerald), 102
Dance, Beatrice, 329–30
Davies, Reine, 244–46
“The Delegate from Great Neck” (Wilson), 226–27
DeMille, Cecil B., 39, 83
Dial magazine, 168–70
“The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” (Fitzgerald), 226
“Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar” (Fitzgerald), 203–5, 367n
Dietz, Howard, 93
The Disenchanted (Schulberg), 343
Dos Passos, John, 43–46, 57, 58–59, 62, 74, 176, 189, 263, 269, 279
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 108, 300
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 230
Drawbell, James, 63–64, 357n
Dreiser, Theodore, 120
Drew, Daniel, 195–96
Duncan, Isadora, 307
Dwan, Allan, 102–3
Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, 201–2, 217
“Echoes of the Jazz Age” (Fitzgerald), xvi–xvii, 34
Eckleburg, T. J., 52–53, 169, 232, 241, 255
Eighteenth Amendment, 123
Einstein, Albert, 174–75
El Fey nightclub, 156–57
Eliot, T. S., xvi, 64, 84, 130, 168–70, 214, 219, 305
Ellingson, Dorothy, 277
Elwell, Joseph Browne, 270
Empson, William, 130
Engalitcheff, Vladimir “Val,” 86–87, 166–67, 283
The Epic of America (Adams), 344
Esquire, 322
essays. See publications of Fitzgerald
Etiquette (Post), 24–25
“Eulogy on the Flapper” (Z. Fitzgerald), 26–27
The Far Side of Paradise (Mizener), 343
fashions, 23–25
Fay, Larry, 129, 155–57
Felton, Rebecca, 201, 202, 203
Ferber, Edna, 94
Fitzgerald, F. Scott , xv, xvi, xix, xx–xxi, xxii, xxiv–xxv, 1–2, 8, 10, 10, 18–19, 25, 27, 28, 33–34, 45, 46, 52–53, 64, 75–76, 76–77, 78, 86, 87, 109–10, 116, 118, 123, 129, 135, 136, 143, 144, 177, 187, 226, 227, 228, 229, 236, 237, 250, 254, 256, 257, 267–68, 282, 283, 285, 286–87, 295, 297, 306, 308, 312–13, 313–14, 315, 316–17, 318–20, 322, 323, 325–26, 329, 330–33, 334–35, 341, 343, 345, 361n, 362n See also publications of Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald, Scottie, 1, 9, 76, 257, 273, 317, 318, 323, 324, 333, 334, 343
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