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by Churchwell, Sarah


  Fitzgerald, Zelda, xvi, xix, xxii, 1–2, 10–11, 11, 14, 18–19, 20, 25, 26–27, 28–29, 32, 45, 46, 49–50, 52, 57, 58–59, 62, 75, 76–77, 86, 87, 93, 104, 121, 123, 125, 165, 166–67, 168, 171, 179, 200, 209–10, 225, 240–41, 250, 253, 257, 263, 267, 268, 273–76, 278–79, 282, 283, 287, 307–8, 313–14, 314–17, 318–20, 320–21, 321–22, 323, 326, 333, 334, 335, 342–43, 364n

  “The Flapper” (Parker), 165

  Flappers and Philosophers (Fitzgerald), 268

  Fleischman, Max, 125–26

  Fleischmann Yeast Company, 125

  The ’49ers (musical revue), 164

  Fowler, Ludlow, 154, 282, 295, 308, 335

  France, xxii, 1, 2–3, 49–50, 173, 266–67, 273–74, 278–80, 306–8, 313

  Franklin, Benjamin, 304

  Freud, Sigmund, 14, 32

  Frisco, Joe, 170–73

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (Kazin), 343

  Fuller, Edward M., 133, 133–34

  Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 156

  Gatsby, Jay (character), xxiv, 25–26, 29, 41, 50, 67, 71–73, 73–74, 85–86, 92–93, 93–94, 97, 102, 103–4, 108–9, 112, 114–15, 128, 129, 130, 135–36, 140, 141, 142, 144, 149–50, 157–58, 161, 163–64, 172–73, 175–76, 177–78, 185–86, 186–87, 195–96, 197, 205, 206–9, 217, 218, 223, 225, 231–32, 233, 241–42, 255–56, 257, 264, 271–72, 281, 282, 284–85, 288, 289, 289–90, 303–4, 329, 334–35, 336–37, 356n

  Gatz, Henry C. (character), 37, 55, 303–4, 335

  Gautier, Théophile, 254

  Geist, Louise, 216, 271, 309–10

  The Genealogy of Morals (Nietzsche), 108

  Gerlach, Max (von), 128–29, 144

  Gershwin, George, 161, 162, 229

  Gibson, Jane “the Pig Woman,” 124, 137, 151–53, 162–64, 180–81, 190, 191–92, 199, 200, 205–6, 216, 217, 243, 270, 277, 310–11

  The Gilded Lily (1922), 200

  Gillen, Lester J., 254

  Gilman, Edward Robinson, 196, 197

  Goddard, Charles H., 71, 155

  Goddard, Charles W., 71

  Gold Coast, Long Island, 37, 43, 55

  Gould, Jay, 38, 133, 195

  Graham, Sheilah, 325–26, 333

  Gray, Gilda, 101–2

  Great Depression, 318

  Great Neck, New York, xvii, xxii, 54–55, 56–57, 62, 75, 86, 87, 102, 103, 109–10, 112, 117, 119, 170, 171, 252, 263, 266–67, 268

  Great Neck News, 196

  Greeley, Horace, 39

  green light (Gatsby), 40–41, 50, 175, 176, 207, 336–37

  Guggenheim, Harry, 92

  Hall, Edward W., xv–xvi, 12–13, 20, 113–14, 131, 138, 192, 290, 309. See also Hall–Mills double murder

  Hall, Frances Stevens, 20, 47, 54, 61–62, 152, 153, 190, 205, 216, 271, 309–12

  Hall–Mills double murder, xvi, xvii–xviii, xxiv–xxv, 12–13, 20–21, 21–22, 29–30, 46–47, 47–48, 53–54, 60–61, 79–80, 84–85, 94–95, 97–98, 98–99, 108, 113–14, 115, 124–25, 131–33, 137–38, 138–39, 151, 153, 162, 181, 182, 189, 190–91, 191–92, 192–93, 199–200, 205–6, 216–17, 239–41, 269, 270, 289–90, 290–92, 309–12, 343, 352

  Hamborszky, Paul, 192

  Harding, Warren G., 238, 263

  Harlem cabarets, 108, 123, 229

  Harmonium (Stevens), 188

  Harriman, E. H., 37

  Harris, Sam, 118, 170

  Hastings, S. J., 245

  Hay, Mary, 178–80

  Hayes, Clifford, 84–85, 94, 98–99

  Hearst, William Randolph, 80, 246, 309, 310

  Hecht, Ben, 91, 180

  Held, John, Jr., 118

  Hemingway, Ernest, 306, 307, 322–23, 324, 331, 371n

  Hill, James J., 37–38

  Hirsch, Hazel, 244–46

  Hirsch, Wally, 244–46

  Hitchcock, Thomas, Jr., 36, 39, 265

  Hitler, Adolf, 202–3

  Hollywood, California, 312, 324–25

  Hose, Sam, 201

  Howard, Leslie, 273

  “How to Live on Practically Nothing A Year” (Fitzgerald), 275

  “How to Waste Material—A Note on My Generation” (Fitzgerald), 253

  Hurst, Fannie, 118

  “The Invasion of the Sanctuary” (Fitzgerald), 268

  “Jacob’s Ladder” (Fitzgerald), 277

  James, Henry, 229

  jazz and Jazz Age, 9, 16–17, 34–35, 63, 83, 89, 123, 159–60, 208, 247–49, 256

  Johnson, Samuel, xxv

  Jordan (car model), 105

  Joyce, James, xvi, 82, 103, 116, 118, 168, 214. See also Ulysses

  Jozan, Edouard, xxii, 278–79

  Kalmans, Alexandra and C. O. “Kaly,” 76, 189, 265, 266, 314, 364n

  Kaye, Ella (character), 197

  Kazin, Alfred, 343

  Keable, Robert, 113–14

  Kearny, Pat, 19

  Keats, John, 150, 218, 278, 283, 287

  Kerr, Robert C., 196, 197

  Kessler, Mannie, 210–11

  Key, Francis Scott, 182–83

  King, Ginevra, 141–42, 332

  Knopf, Alfred, 188

  Ku Klux Klan, 131–33, 343

  Ladies’ Home Journal, 123

  Lardner, Ellis, 57, 86

  Lardner, Ring, 57, 58, 86, 89, 96, 112, 154, 160, 164, 171, 172, 189, 191, 245, 250, 251–52, 265, 268, 320, 324

  The Last Tycoon (Fitzgerald), 325, 330–33, 341

  Leopold and Loeb, 276–77, 307

  “Les Enfants Terribles” cartoon, 59

  Levy, Ariel, 129

  Lewis, Sinclair, 76, 247–49

  “A Lexicon of Prohibition” (Wilson), 110–11

  Life, 237

  Life in Letters (Bruccoli, ed.), 299, 364n

  Liveright, Horace, 81, 82–83, 168–70, 187

  Long, Dr., 60–61, 79–80

  Long, Lois, 121, 166

  Long Island, 37, 43, 50, 55–59, 57, 230–31

  Loos, Anita, 267

  “The Love Nest” (Lardner), 172

  MacArthur, Charlie, 165

  Mackay, Clarence H., 35, 250, 254, 265

  Mackay, Ellin, 250–51

  Man’s Hope outline, xxiii–xxiv, 36, 65, 71–72, 70, 117, 141, 149, 178–80, 290, 330–31

  Manslaughter (1922), 39, 83, 204

  Marinoff, Fania, 218–19

  Marshall, Marguerite Mooers, 28, 114

  Martin, Townsend, 19

  McAlmon, Robert, 299

  McCarthy, Mary, 324

  McGee, Fuller, 135–36, 285

  McGee, William F., 133

  McGluke, Luke, 245

  McIntyre, O. O., 96, 120

  McKaig, Alec, 11, 19–20, 77, 166–67

  Meadows, Alberta, 242

  Mencken, H. L., xxv, 10, 16, 19, 57, 78, 117, 149, 183, 187, 265, 278, 298

  Metropolitan magazine, 203–4

  Michaelis (character), 241–42, 255–56, 281, 302

  Milford, Nancy, 166, 200, 373n

  Mills, Charlotte, 47, 80, 80, 131, 190–91, 200, 230, 240, 271, 312

  Mills, Eleanor Reinhardt, xv–xvi, 12–13, 20, 21, 47–48, 54, 61, 79–80, 113–14, 131, 137, 138–39, 200, 216, 290, 309, 310. See also Hall–Mills double murder

  Mills, James, 21, 47, 54, 138, 182, 205, 206, 240, 270, 290

  Minnesota, 66

  Mizener, Arthur, 129, 343

  Mok, Michael, 323

  money, 38

  Monte Carlo, 279

  Moore, George Gordon, 36

  Moran, Lois, 312–13

  Morgan, J. P., 37

  Morning Telegraph, 183

  The Mother of All Living (Keable), 113–14

  Mott, Wilbur A., 124
, 151, 152, 162, 180–181, 182, 190, 205, 206

  Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway), 306

  Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), 81–82

  Murphy, Esther, 269, 274

  Murphy, Gerald, 274, 306–7, 320, 324, 334, 335

  Murphy, Sara, 274, 307, 320, 324, 335

  “My Generation” (Fitzgerald), 332, 373n

  “My Lost City” (Fitzgerald), 142–43, 251

  narrators, unreliable, 186, 213, 214, 215

  Nathan, George Jean, 78, 81, 225–26, 265

  The Nation, 218

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 201–2

  National Crime Syndicate, 194

  Nazi Party, 156

  New Brunswick, New Jersey, xv, xvii, 12, 46, 48, 55, 60, 79, 84, 94, 98, 113, 114, 125, 138, 181, 189, 190, 192, 206, 217, 239–40, 277, 310

  New Jersey State Constabulary, 79

  New Republic, 153

  New York, 8, 9, 11–12, 13, 14, 22, 48–50, 60, 83, 98, 105–6

  New York Daily Mirror, 309, 312

  New York Daily News, 309

  New Yorker, 37, 50, 164, 166, 305, 310, 312, 326

  New York Post, 234

  New York Times, xxiii, 12, 21, 23–24, 30, 47, 49, 52, 61, 74–75, 87–88, 94, 95, 99, 100, 105–6, 119–20, 126, 132, 138, 144, 156, 162, 182, 194, 198, 201, 202–3, 210, 211–12, 214–15, 234, 238, 239, 243, 249, 252, 254–55, 264, 269–70, 275, 297, 321, 334

  New York Tribune, 15, 23, 39–40, 59, 95, 118, 152, 155, 158, 182–83, 190, 192, 198, 199, 205, 230–31, 239, 298–99

  New York World, 10, 21, 27–28, 53, 54, 63, 94, 95, 113, 114, 139–40, 152, 154, 181, 188, 190, 196, 199, 200, 205, 211, 217, 236, 242, 243, 246, 296

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 108

  night clubs and cabarets, 108, 119–20, 123, 229

  “1922” (Parker), 165

  North, Florence, 80, 80

  North Dakota, 194

  Nostromo (Conrad), 215

  Ober, Harold, 180, 235, 277, 335

  O’Hara, John, 334, 343

  “On Being an American” (Mencken), 117

  “Owl-Eyes” (character), 74, 90, 176, 362n

  Palmer, Bee, 101

  Paramore, Ted, 31–32, 82, 96, 123–24, 126, 325

  “Park Avenue girls,” 38

  Parker, Dorothy, 46, 62, 164, 165–66, 335

  Parties (Van Vechten), 120, 218–19

  parties of the Jazz Age, xxiii, 64, 67, 71–73, 83, 87–88, 93–94, 96–97, 102, 103–4, 112, 161, 164–65, 176–77, 206–9, 217, 218–19, 224–25, 228–29, 265, 306, 317

  Paterson, Isabel, 298–99, 300

  Perkins, Max, 75, 83, 135–36, 159–60, 284–85, 289, 306, 335

  Phillips, Clara, 242

  Phillips Farm, 13, 48, 79, 85, 124, 125, 158, 192, 193

  The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (Mencken), 149

  Picture-Play magazine, 245

  Piper, John (Piper Murder Case), 163

  Pirandello, Luigi, 106

  Ponzi, Charles, 234

  “Porcelain and Pink” (Fitzgerald), 116

  Portraits (Boyd), 228

  Post, Emily, 24–25

  Princeton University, 116, 188–89, 344, 362n, 364n

  prohibition, 14–15, 58, 63, 67, 89, 110, 119–20, 121–22, 123, 127, 156, 194, 195, 198, 210, 229

  Prohibition Enforcement Agency, 122

  Proust, Marcel, 189, 214

  publications of Fitzgerald

  “Absolution,” 38, 173–74, 307

  All the Sad Young Men, 101, 307

  “Babylon Revisited,” 308, 317

  The Beautiful and Damned, xxii, 9, 18, 26–27, 39, 65, 67, 77, 104, 116, 144, 150, 166, 198, 214, 236–38, 268, 278, 316

  The Crack-Up and Other Essays (Wilson, ed.), 341

  “Crack-Up” essays (Esquire), 322, 324

  “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” 159

  “The Dance,” 102

  “Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar,” 203–5, 367n

  “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” xvi–xvii, 34

  Flappers and Philosophers, 268

  The Great Gatsby. See specific characters

  “How to Live on Practically Nothing A Year,” 275

  “How to Waste Material—A Note on My Generation,” 253

  “The Invasion of the Sanctuary,” 268

  “Jacob’s Ladder,” 277

  The Last Tycoon, 325, 330–33, 341

  “My Generation,” 332, 373n

  “My Lost City,” 142–43, 251

  “Porcelain and Pink,” 116

  “Recklessness,” 235, 367n

  “The Rich Boy,” 295, 307

  “The Sensible Thing,” 65, 143, 307

  “Short Autobiography,” 126–27, 268

  “The Swimmers,” 98, 314, 345

  “10 Best Books I Have Read,” 215

  Tales of the Jazz Age, 20, 33–34, 39, 116, 144, 159, 234

  Tender Is the Night, 77, 86, 179, 227, 277, 283, 312

  This Side of Paradise, 9, 10, 17, 25, 28–29, 39, 65, 77, 116, 171, 268, 271, 298, 318, 327

  The Vegetable, 116, 117, 118, 119, 144, 170, 171, 268, 285, 307

  “What I Think and Feel at 25,” 25

  “Winter Dreams,” xv, 142, 307

  See also This Side of Paradise; The Beautiful and Damned

  Queens, 50–53, 52, 103, 129, 263, 356n

  racism, 129–30, 201–2, 345

  radio, 100–101

  Rappe, Virginia, 103

  Rascoe, Burton, 39–40, 59, 62, 74, 77, 81, 90, 91, 96, 118, 158–59, 168, 182, 212, 213–14, 215–16, 219, 235, 237, 247, 256, 257, 262, 263, 267, 268, 299–301, 302, 324, 365n

  Rascoe, Hazel, 213–14, 365n

  “Recklessness” (Fitzgerald), 235, 367n

  religion, 173

  Remus, George, 129, 210–11, 212

  “Rhapsody in Blue” (Gershwin), 161

  “The Rich Boy” (Fitzgerald), 295, 307

  Riehl, Arthur, 309–10

  Rosenthal, Herman “Rosy,” 135, 136

  Ross, Harold, 164

  Rothstein, Arnold, 134–36, 157, 194

  Rum Row flotilla, 15

  Rumsey, Charles Cary “Pad,” 35–36, 39, 232

  Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 35, 39, 250, 265

  Runyon, Damon, 310

  Russell, Nellie Lo, 181–82, 200, 277

  Sandburg, Carl, 247

  Saturday Evening Post, 78, 155, 191, 275

  Satyricon (Petronius), 82–84, 153, 168

  Scandalabra (Z. Fitzgerald), 121

  Schliemann, Heinrich, 156

  Schneider, Raymond, 53–54, 85–86, 94, 95, 98–99, 190

  Schulberg, Budd, 343

  Scofflaw Cocktail, 89

  Scribner’s, 34, 118, 236, 296

  Seaman, Robert L., 196

  Seldes, Gilbert, 59, 269, 279, 298

  “The Sensible Thing” (Fitzgerald), 65, 143, 307

  Sherwood Automobiles, 105

  “Short Autobiography” (Fitzgerald), 126–27, 268

  Silvé, René, 275, 283

  Simon Called Peter (Keable), 113–14, 115–16, 153, 290

  Sipel, George “Pig Man,” 191–92

  Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello), 106

  Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 197–98

  slang of the Jazz Age, 16–17, 140, 159–60, 200, 247–49

  Smith, Thomas R., 40, 82, 187

  “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Hemingway), 322, 371n

  Some Sort of Epic Grandeur (Bruccoli), 167

  speakeasies, 36–37, 63–64, 119–20, 121, 122

  Spiritualism, 230

  “The Star-Spa
ngled Banner,” 182–83

  Stein, Gertrude, 305

  Stevens, Henry H., 55, 181

  Stevens, Wallace, 188

  Stevens, Willie, 20, 22, 47, 137, 271, 309–12, 343

  Stewart, Donald Ogden, 279

  Stoddard, Lothrop, 155

  St. Paul, Minnesota, 20, 127

  St. Vincent Millay, Edna, 31

  Sumner, John S. (Society for the Suppression of Vice), 82, 115, 116, 240

  The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), 306

  Swann’s Way (Proust), 214

  Swanson, Gloria, 102–3

  swastikas, 156

  “The Swimmers” (Fitzgerald), 98, 314, 345

  Swope, Herbert Bayard, 90–91, 93, 132, 134–35, 164–65, 177

  Swope, Margaret, 86, 135, 164, 177, 204

  Tales of the Jazz Age (Fitzgerald), 20, 33–34, 39, 116, 144, 159, 234

  taxis, 13, 155–56

  Taylor, Cecilia, 335

  Taylor, Deems, xxv, 94, 164, 180, 301, 332

  Taylor, William Desmond, 103, 270

  “10 Best Books I Have Read” (Fitzgerald), 215

  Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald), 77, 86, 179, 227, 277, 283, 312, 320–21, 333, 344

  “That Shakespearian Rag,” 170

  This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 9, 10, 17, 25, 28–29, 39, 65, 77, 116, 171, 268, 271, 298, 318, 327

  Thomson, Sir Basil, 137–38

  Time, 326

  time and time-keeping, 175, 176, 303–4

  Town Tattle (fictional newspaper), 66, 110

  Town Topics, 55–56, 66, 80, 101, 110, 152, 153, 242, 265

  traffic signals, 48–50, 175

  train journeys, 9–10

  Trilling, Lionel, 341

  Turnbull, Andrew, 334–35

  Turner, Frederick Jackson, 197–98

  Twain, Mark, 38

  Ulysses (Joyce), xvi, 82, 103, 116, 118, 168–69, 214, 215–16

  Vanity Fair, 268

  Van Vechten, Carl, 19, 81, 120–21, 131, 158–59, 161, 187, 188, 212–13, 218, 263, 269, 313

  The Vegetable (Fitzgerald), xxi, 1, 20, 78, 116–17, 118, 119, 144, 171, 268, 282

  Verne, Jules, 196

  vigilante justice, 217

  violence and sexual infidelity, 139, 211

  Volstead Act, 14, 120, 210, 229

 

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