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A Life in Letters

Page 63

by F. Scott Fitzgerald


  “How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year” (Fitzgerald), 261

  “How to Live on $36,000 a Year” (Fitzgerald), 261

  “How to Waste Material” (Fitzgerald), 261

  How to Write (Stein), 216

  How to Write Short Stories (Lardner), 75n

  Howard, Sidney, 84, 92, 191, 377n

  Hoyt, Nancy, 194

  Hughes, Richard, 172n

  Hughes, Rupert, 111

  Hugo, Victor, 395

  “Hull House”’ (Wilson), 227

  Hume, Cyril, 81, 132

  Huneker, James Gibbons, 57

  Hunter, Esther, 191

  Hunter, Glen, 191

  Huysmans, Joris Karl, 465

  Hyman, Bernie, 424, 429, 435

  I Can Get It for You Wholesale (Weidman), 389n

  “I Got Shoes” (Fitzgerald), 260

  I Thought of Daisy (Wilson), 160n

  Ibsen, Henrik, 451, 457

  “Ice Palace, The” (Fitzgerald), 26, 42

  Icebound (Davis), 117, 119

  “I’d Die for You” (Fitzgerald), 291n, 292

  “Image on the Heart” (Fitzgerald), 291n, 299

  “Imagination—And a Few Mothers” (Fitzgerald), 261

  “In a Little Town” (“The Dance”) (Fitzgerald), 260

  “In Another Country” (Hemingway), 149n

  Indelible (Paul), 376

  “Infidelity” (movie script), 325, 347, 348–49, 353, 357, 419, 424, 435

  Ingram, Rex, 126

  “In the Holidays” (Fitzgerald), 333

  In Name Only (movie), 435

  In Ole Virginia (Page), 57

  In Our Time (Hemingway), 82n, 132, 134, 143n, 145n, 166n, 259n, 368

  In Princeton Town (Edgar), 172n

  Innocent Voyage, The (Hughes), 172

  “Institutional Humanitarianism” (Fitzgerald), 333n

  Intermezzo (movie), 446

  “Interne” (Fitzgerald), 260

  “Intimate Strangers, The” (Fitzgerald), 62, 323

  “Jacob’s Ladder” (Fitzgerald), 260

  James, Henry, 55n, 57, 110, 119, 122, 130, 137, 240, 273

  James, Will, 89n, 93n

  Jarrett, Cora, 346n

  “Jellybean, The” (Fitzgerald), 69

  Jennie Gerhardt (Dreiser), 36

  Johns Hopkins University, xxii, 175, 235n

  Liberal Club, 265n

  Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, 178, 203, 208–14, 219–22, 228–33

  Johnson, Mary, 430

  Johnson, Nunnally, 208, 462

  Johnson, Owen, 111

  Jolsen, Al, 99

  Jones, Henry Festing, 32n

  “Josephine” stories (Fitzgerald), 177, 183, 195, 201, 236, 260, 261, 374

  Josephson, Matthew, 304

  Journal of a Disappointed Man, The (Barbellion), 35

  Journey’s End (movie), 431

  Joyce, James, 35, 68, 108, 124, 156, 158, 171, 174, 188, 240, 389, 472

  Jozan, Edouard, 71, 191, 209, 211

  Jude the Obscure (Hardy), 118

  Jung, Carl, 202

  Jurgen (Cabell), 36

  Kafka, Franz, 389, 391, 474

  Kahn, Maude, 126

  Kalman, C. O., 64–65, 191, 271

  letters to, 310–11, 323–24

  telegram to, 309

  Kalman, Xandra, 191, 195, 271, 324

  Kangaroo (Lawrence), 471

  Kapital, Das (Marx), 436

  Katz, San, 395, 424

  Kaufman, George S., 408

  Kaye-Smith, Sheila, 117, 118

  Keable, Robert, 89n

  Keats, John, 303, 341, 357, 457, 460–61

  Kennedy, Margaret, 108n

  Kennerley, Mitchell, 122

  Keon, Barbara, 382

  Kerr, Robert, 75, 102

  Key, Francis Scott, xix, 51, 271n

  “Killers, The” (Hemingway), 147, 151, 359

  King, G. C., 18

  King, Ginevra, 3, 8, 9, 91n, 104, 338, 340, 457

  Kingsley, Charles, 108

  Kipling, Rudyard, 276, 389, 434

  Kirkland, Jack, 290, 292, 311

  Kitty Foyle (Morley), 457

  movie of, 428, 435

  Knave of Hearts, The (Saunders), 131

  Knight, Richard, 193

  Knopf, Alfred A., publishers, 108, 127, 128, 133, 135n, 174, 245

  Knopf, Blanche, 47, 134–35

  Knopf, Edwin, 332–34, 360, 367, 375, 404, 406, 424, 425, 429–31, 435

  Krafft-Ebing, Baron Richard von, 276

  Kroll, Frances, 439, 451, 461, 475

  Lackin, Dr., 191

  Ladies’ Home Journal, 261

  Lady into Fox (Garnett), 263n

  Laments for the Living (Parker), 200

  Lanahan, Samuel J., 473

  Lardner, Ellis, 109, 120, 125, 153, 191

  Lardner, Ring W., 63, 65, 75, 77–79, 81, 83, 89, 91–93, 95–97, 100, 105–9, 117, 119, 120, 124, 125, 127, 132, 138, 140, 158, 161, 171, 191, 217, 218, 226, 259, 261, 318, 320, 481

  death of, 239

  poem to, 153

  Lasky, Jesse L., 334

  “Last of the Belles, The” (Fitzgerald), 260

  Law, Mary, 453

  Lawrence, D. H., 113, 181, 389, 471, 472

  Lazarus, Jeff, 425, 429, 435

  LeBaron (producer), 425

  Lee, Grant and Sherman (Burne), 390

  LeGallienne, Eva, 192

  Léger, Fernand, 209

  Lemmon, Elizabeth, 273, 275, 277–79, 281, 446

  Lenhart, Philip, 251–52

  Lenin, V., I, 226, 227

  Lenôtre, André, 387

  Leonard, Benny, 142n

  Leslie, Mrs. Shane, 21

  Leslie, Shane, 2, 12, 32n, 57, 124, 132, 190, 480

  letters to, 14–15, 18–22

  “Let’s Go Out and Play” (Fitzgerald), 289n

  Letter, The (Maugham), 475n

  Lewis, Sinclair, 46, 77, 84, 91n, 92, 100, 103, 104, 110, 119, 132, 232

  Liberator, 97

  Liberty magazine, 81n, 83–85, 121, 132, 140, 141, 146, 148, 174, 182, 215, 240, 261, 333n, 399, 401, 404

  Life of Christ, The (Renan), 455

  Life magazine, 372, 384

  Lillie, Beatrice, 337

  Lincoln, Abraham, 462n

  Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 390n

  Linda Condon (Hergesheimer), 111

  Lindbergh, Charles A., 154

  “Lines Written in Dejection” (Shelley), 81

  Lipstick (movie), 72, 149n

  Literary Digest, 168

  Literary Guild, 236, 279, 373, 414

  Literary Review, 121, 165

  Literary Spotlight, The (Wilson), 112

  Littauer, Kenneth, 323, 397–98, 402–3, 408–12, 414, 416–17, 420, 422n

  “Little Brother of the Flapper, The” (Fitzgerald), 261

  Little French Girl, The (Sedgwick), 97

  Little Review, 132

  Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, The (Fox), 57

  Liveright, Horace, 108, 113, 114

  Llona, Victor, 134

  Locke, William J., 194

  London Daily Telegraph, 273

  London Times, 47, 273

  London Venture, The (Arlen), 108

  Long, Ray, 83, 85, 121, 152, 182

  “Long Way Out, The” (Fitzgerald), 333n

  Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe), 185, 275

  Loos, Anita, 193

  Lorimer, George Horace, 54, 121, 152, 157, 201, 210, 323n, 360, 394, 402, 420, 443–44

  Los Angeles Times, 359

  “Lost Decade, The” (Fitzgerald), 396, 404n

  Lost Lady, A (Cather), 91, 100, 101n, 110

  “Love Boat, The” (Fitzgerald), 260

  Love of the Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald), xxii, 208, 326, 392n, 408–12, 414, 422n, 424n, 446, 466, 467–70, 481

  Love Nest and Other Stories, The (Lardner), 105n, 138n

  “Love in the Night” (Fitzgerald), 93

 
Lovett, Adele, 257

  Lowell, Amy, 460

  Lower Depths, The (Gogol), 395

  Ludendorff, Erich, 154, 176

  Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 257

  Lunacharsky, Anatoly, 227

  Lundberg, Holger, 161

  Luther, Martin, 20

  M. Beaucaire (Tarkington), 402

  McAlmon, Robert, 130, 155, 171, 173–74, 198, 264n

  MacArthur, Charles, 187, 192, 290, 303, 337

  McCalls magazine, 54, 121, 136, 141, 173, 261, 299

  McCarthy, Mary, 391

  McCormack, Hazel, 80–81, 112–13

  McCormick, John, 63, 340

  McDaniel, Hattie, 431

  McGee, William F., 91

  McKaig, Alexander, 47, 190, 191

  MacKay, Clarence, 191n

  Mackay, Ellen, 131

  McKenna, Kenneth, 429

  McKenna, Stephen, 144

  Mackenzie, Compton, 12, 13n, 17, 49, 53, 101, 480

  Mackie, William, 190

  MacLane, Mary, 320

  MacLeish, Ada, 264

  MacLeish, Archibald, 126, 131, 147, 192, 288, 298, 463

  McMien, Neysa, 63

  MacMurray, Fred, 387

  McNaughts magazine, 139

  McQuillan, Annabel, 309

  McTeague (Norris), 471

  Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 90, 332

  Madame Curie (movie), 325, 367, 373, 375, 383, 390, 424, 435

  Magnate, The: William Boyce Thompson and His Time (Hagedorn), 291n

  Main Street (Lewis), 46

  “Majesty” (Fitzgerald), 260

  “Make Yourself at Home” (Fitzgerald), 333

  Making of Americans, The (Stein), 80n, 115, 132

  “Making Monogamy Work” (Fitzgerald), 261

  Mallarmé, Stéphane, 227

  Malmaison clinic (France), 177, 185, 195, 205, 206

  Malraux, André, 389, 420, 462

  Manalive (Chesterton), 20

  Manchester Guardian, 273

  Manhattan Transfer (Dos Passos), 104n, 132n, 134n

  Mankiewicz, Herman, 360

  Mankiewicz, Joseph, 342–45, 424, 435

  Manners, Diana, 144

  Mannes, David, 126

  Mannes, Marya, 129–30

  Mannix, Eddie, 395, 424, 429

  Man’s Fate (Malraux), 389

  Man’s Hope (Malraux), 389, 462

  Mansfield, Katherine, 129, 161

  Many Thousands Gone (Bishop), 175n

  March, Fredric, 334

  March, Iris, 155

  Marie Antoinette (movie), 325

  Mark Twain: A Biography (Paine), 49n

  Martens, John S., 278

  Martin, Townsend, 12, 17, 58, 100, 101, 104, 189–91

  Marx, Karl, 45, 388

  Marx, Sam, 425

  Marxism, 227, 387, 449, 460

  Massine, Léonide, 186, 297

  Maugham, W. Somerset, 472, 475

  Maurice, Eleanor, 78, 190

  Maurois, André, 75n, 185

  “May Day” (Fitzgerald), xx, 26, 480

  Mayer, Louis B., 391, 409, 424, 449

  Meacham, Gordon, 369

  Meller, Raquel, 192

  Melville, Herman, 69

  Memoirs of Fanny Hill, The (Cleland) 135

  Men Seen (Rosenfeld), 112

  Men Without Women (Hemingway), 152, 154, 157n, 259n

  Mencken, H. L., 46n, 47–49, 54–56, 62, 68, 84, 92, 97, 108, 109, 113, 127, 129, 157, 160, 190, 200, 232, 238, 446, 480

  inscriptions to, 39, 42, 103

  letters to, 110–12, 255–56

  Mencken, Sara, 256

  Mercer, General Hugh, 155

  Meredith, Bess, 294

  Meredith, George, 57

  Merton of the Movies (movie), 297

  Metro Pictures, 37

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, xxii, 177, 208, 297n, 320n, 325, 332n, 342n, 347, 360, 373n, 374, 375, 377n, 385, 391n, 404, 407, 424, 429, 434–35

  Metropolitan Magazine, 53, 121

  Metropolitan Syndicate, 261

  Meusel, Irish, 99

  Meyer, Adolf, 203, 211, 214, 219, 228–33, 438

  Meyer, Wallace, 105

  “Mightier Than the Sword” (Fitzgerald), 428

  Mill on the Floss, The (Eliot), 118

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 47, 52n

  Miller, Marilyn, 99

  “Millionaire’s Girl, A” (Z. Fitzgerald), 182

  Milton, John, 155, 472

  Mistinguet, 126

  Moby-Dick (Melville), 69

  Modern Library, 56, 171, 218, 219, 237, 240, 245, 272, 300, 306n, 360, 375–76, 439

  Modern Monthly, 280

  Mok, Michel, 308–9

  Moll Flanders (Defoe), 384

  Monk, George, 155

  Monnier, Adrienne, 156

  Montgomery, Robert, 334

  Moon-Calf (Dell), 48

  Moore, George, 21

  Moore, Grace, 192

  Moran, Lois, 187, 193, 211, 473

  Morand, Paul, 193

  “More Than Just a House” (Fitzgerald), 260

  Morgan, Frank, 337

  Morgenthau, George, 130

  Morley, Christopher, 457n

  Morley, Frank, 61

  Mother’s Recompense, The (Wharton), 132n

  Motor magazine, 261

  Motter, Bill, 191

  Mottram, R. H., 147

  Mountbatten, Lord Louis, 132–33

  Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway), 143n

  Movie Weekly, 40n

  “Mr. Icky” (Fitzgerald), 60, 61

  “Mr. Knife and Miss Fork” (Crevel), 176

  “Mrs. Vietch” (Howard), 92

  Mumford, Lewis, 389n

  Munsey, Frank A., 248

  Munthe, Axel, 181n

  Murphy, Baoth, 298n

  Murphy, Esther, 126

  Murphy, Gerald, xxi, 72, 123, 126, 129, 147, 160, 169, 187, 188, 192, 194, 263, 287, 288, 298, 299, 317, 346, 413, 419, 420, 445, 451, 466, 471, 480

  letters to, 407–8, 458–59, 462–63

  telegram to, 406–7

  Murphy, Sara, xxi, 72, 123, 126, 129, 147, 160, 169, 187, 188, 192, 194, 263, 317, 346, 413, 420, 466, 471, 480

  letters to, 287–89, 298–99, 407–8, 458–59, 463

  Murray, Mae, 63

  Murry, John Middleton, 68, 303

  Mussolini, Benito, 469n

  My Ántonia (Cather), 100, 110

  “My Life and Loves” (What of It?) (Lardner), 79

  “My Lost City” (Fitzgerald), 261, 333n

  Myers, Alice Lee, 358

  Myers, Dick, 257

  “Myra Meets His Family” (Fitzgerald), 25, 36

  “Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage,

  The” (Fitzgerald), 2, 243

  Namara, Marguerite, 126

  Nassau Literary Magazine, xix, 3, 62, 481

  Nathan, George Jean, 49, 58, 104, 190, 490

  Nation, The, 117, 127, 278

  Nazism, 449

  Neall, Adelaide, 160, 301, 444

  Nelson, Clarence, 432

  Nemtchinova, 194

  New Criterion, 124

  “New Leaf, A” (Fitzgerald), 260, 272

  New Machiavelli, The (Wells), 20

  New Republic, The, 35, 46n, 127, 201, 227, 239

  “New Types” (Fitzgerald), 299

  “New York” (“My Lost City”) (Fitzgerald), 333

  New Yorker, The, 127, 132, 173, 226, 261, 295, 372, 373, 384, 457, 470, 472

  New York Herald, 52n, 61

  New York Post, 308n

  New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, 198n

  New York Stock Exchange, 455n

  New York Times, The, 51, 61, 108, 127

  Book Review, 121

  New York Tribune, 108, 258

  New York World, 85, 107n, 121, 127, 132, 172

  Newlin, Jack, 12

  Newman School, xix, 2, 13n, 45, 78n, 243, 480

  “Nice Quiet Place, A” (Fitzgerald), 182

  Nichols, Anne, 131n
r />   Nichols, Dudley, 430

  Nicolson, Harold, 154n

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 115, 472

  Nigger of the Narcissus, The (Conrad), 252, 256, 263

  “Night Before Chancellorsville, The” (Fitzgerald), 430

  “Nightmare” (Fitzgerald), 215

  Nikitina, 186

  Ninotchka (movie), 446

  “No Harm Trying” (Fitzgerald), 454

  No More Parades (Ford), 132

  Norris, Charles G., 34, 36

  Norris, Frank, 56, 57, 276, 471

  “Not in the Guide Book” (Fitzgerald), 93

  Note-Books of Samuel Butler, The (Jones, ed.), 32n, 35

  “Now I Lay Me” (Hemingway), 151, 152, 154

  Noyes, Larry, 11, 29

  Oates, Titus, 155

  Ober, Anne, 309n, 317, 331, 346, 364, 394, 399, 402, 419, 480

  letters to, 334–36, 340–41, 351–53

  Ober, Harold, xx, xxii, 25, 44n, 132, 173, 181, 182, 186, 238–40, 247, 307, 337, 338, 360, 364, 365, 395, 397–99, 402, 405, 416, 419, 427, 445, 453, 481

  letters to, 36, 50, 53–54, 81–84, 93–94, 96, 114, 135–36, 139–41, 149, 162, 167–68, 170–73, 182–84, 200–201, 214–16, 273–74, 283–84, 289–300, 308–9, 316–17, 319–23, 329, 331, 340, 346–47, 367–68, 372, 375, 392–94, 400–404, 406, 413–14

  telegrams to, 148, 150–51, 153, 156, 170, 248, 294, 322, 375, 395–96

  Ober, Richard, 295

  Obre-Goldbeck-de Vallombrosa, Ruth, 168, 192

  O’Brien, Edward J., 62, 95, 353, 434

  Octopus, The (Norris), 471

  “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (Keats), 460

  “Ode to a Nightingale” (Keats), 341, 460

  “Ode to the West Wind” (Shelley), 81

  Odets, Clifford, 390

  Odyssey of a Nice Girl, The (Suckow), 132n

  Of Human Bondage (Maugham), 472

  Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), 471

  Of Thee I Sing (Kaufman), 408n

  Of Time and the River (Wolfe), 277n, 472

  “Offshore Pirate, The” (Fitzgerald), xx, 26, 42, 62, 111

  “Offside Play” (Fitzgerald), 321n, 333

  Oglebay, Kate, 346n

  O’Hara, John, 233–34, 302–4

  O’Kelley, 21

  “Old Vicarage, Grantchester, The” (Brooke), 81n, 285n

  Old Wives Tale, The (Bennett), 34, 383

  Oliver, Egbert S., 243

  Oliver Twist (Dickens), 368

  Olivier, Laurence, 453

  “On Being Twenty-five” (“What I Think and Feel at Twenty-five”) (Fitzgerald), 261

  “On an Ocean Wave” (Fitzgerald), 434

  “One Hundred False Starts” (Fitzgerald), 261

  “One of My Oldest Friends” (Fitzgerald), 261

  “One Trip Abroad” (Fitzgerald), 260

  “One Trip Across” (Hemingway), 262n

  O’Neill, Eugene, 61n, 77, 118, 457

  O’Neill, George, 62

  “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn” (Wolfe), 445

  Open All Night (Morand), 193n

  Opfer, Ivan, 124

  Oppenheim, E. Phillips, 126, 247

 

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