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by F. Scott Fitzgerald


  Oppidan, The (Leslie), 480

  Ordeal of Mark Twain, The (Brooks), 122n

  Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The (Meredith), 57

  Ordway, Josephine, 170

  Ordway, Kid, 271

  Ordway, Louis, 8

  Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele, 126

  O’Sullivan, Maureen, 334

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

  “Our Irresponsible Rich?” (“What Kind of Husbands Do ‘Jimmies’ Make?”) (Fitzgerald), 261

  “Our Type” (Fitzgerald), 124

  “Outside the Cabinet Makers” (Fitzgerald), 168, 260, 279

  Overman, Lynne, 190

  Owens, Isabel, 265, 267, 283n, 286, 290, 292, 364, 405, 419

  Oxford University, 40

  Page, Thomas Nelson, 57, 58, 430

  Paine, Albert Bigelow, 49

  Paramore, E. E., Jr. (“Ted”), 49, 52, 191, 339, 347, 391, 429

  Paramount Pictures, 265, 299, 326, 384, 425, 456, 464

  Paris That’s Not in the Guidebooks, The (Woon), 143n

  Parker, Austin, 290n

  Parker, Dorothy, 169, 188, 194, 200, 254, 262, 290, 462, 470n

  Parrish, Anne, 129

  Parrot, Stephen, 21

  “Passionate Eskimo, The” (Fitzgerald), 299

  “Pat Hobby” stories (Fitzgerald), 326, 414, 415, 425, 428, 433, 434, 439, 454

  Paul, Elliot, 376

  “Paul’s Case” (Cather), 100

  Pavlova, Anna, 296

  Payot publishing company, 176

  “Pearl and the Fur, The” (Fitzgerald), 333

  Peau de Chagrin, Le (Balzac), 465

  Peck & Peck, 433

  Penciled Frown, The (Gray), 131

  Pendennis (Thackeray), 115n

  Penney, Tom, 5

  Penrod (Tarkington), 260

  Père Goriot, Le (Balzac), 455

  Perelman, Laura, 395, 443

  Perelman, S. J., 394–95, 443

  Perennial Bachelor, The (Parrish), 129, 132

  Perfect Tribute, The (Andrews), 137

  Perkins, Jane, 460

  Perkins, Maxwell, xx, 25, 55, 69, 83, 114, 142, 149, 152, 161, 168, 169, 201, 248, 253, 259, 273, 274, 277, 282, 302n, 309, 317, 319, 322, 329, 375, 389, 417, 460n, 471, 472, 481

  letters to, 28–33, 44, 48, 59–60, 62, 64, 65, 67, 75–76, 78–80, 82, 84–86, 88–97, 105–9, 113, 115–22, 124–25, 127, 131–34, 136–39, 145, 158–62, 171–76, 181–82, 186, 199–200, 208, 226, 235–49, 259–62, 271–73, 277–81, 307–8, 311–13, 315, 317–19, 335–36, 353–54, 358–61, 373–76, 392, 398–400, 415–16, 420, 427, 444–46, 474

  letters to FSF from, 86–88

  telegrams to, 211–12, 242, 310, 315–16, 395, 414

  Pershing, General John Joseph, 63

  Petronius, 85n

  Philadelphia Ledger, 60

  “Philippe, Count of Darkness” (Fitzgerald), 279n, 281, 290, 299, 323, 360, 374, 376

  Pictorial Review, 299, 333, 394

  Picture of Dorian Grey, The (Wilde), 383, 465

  Pierrefeu, Jean de, 146n

  Pilgrimage of Henry James, The (Brooks), 122n

  Pinero, Arthur Wing, 451

  Piracy (Arlen), 108

  Plato, 387

  “Plato in Italy” (Bishop), 104n

  Plumes (Stallings), 82

  Plutarch, 263

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 45

  Poet Lore, 12, 15

  Points of Honor (Boyd), 127, 132n

  Pons, Lily, 295

  Pope, Alexander, 61n

  “Popular Girl, The” (Fitzgerald), 54

  “Porcelain and Pink” (Fitzgerald), 25, 59

  Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (Rosenfeld), 68

  Porter, Cole, 289

  Porter, David Dixon, 320

  Porter, Gene Stratton, 111

  Portrait of a Lady, The (James), 111

  Portraits: Real and Imaginary (Boyd), 86n, 100, 112

  “Pot of Basil” (Keats), 460

  Pound, Ezra, 82

  Predestined (Whitman), 56–58, 111n

  Prejudices (Mencken), 111, 480

  Present-Day American Stories, 17n, 218

  “Presumption” (Fitzgerald), 260

  Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 144n, 282

  “Princeton” (Fitzgerald), 261

  Princeton Alumni Weekly, 436

  Princeton Tiger, xix

  Princeton University, xix, xx, 2–3, 16–20, 31, 41, 45, 62, 65, 78n, 85, 99, 147, 233, 243, 269–70, 338, 340, 345, 367, 369, 371, 372, 374, 384, 391, 440, 455, 460, 469–71, 479, 481

  letter to president of, 37, 40

  letters written from, 7–14

  Triangle Club, 2, 3, 99, 439, 442, 479

  Princeton University Library Chronicle, 321n

  “Prisoner of Chillon, The” (Byron), 184

  Procter & Gamble, xix

  Professor’s House, The (Cather), 132n

  Proust, Marcel, 158, 161, 175

  Puccini, Giacomo, 469

  Pulitzer Prize, 84n, 119n

  “Pusher-in-the-Face, The” (Fitzgerald), 261

  Radiguet, Raymond, 80, 93n, 108, 125, 158

  Raffles (movie), 406n, 415, 435

  “Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les” (Fitzgerald), 80, 121

  Ramsey Milholland (Tarkington), 31

  Random House, 367n, 474

  Rascoe, Burton, 54, 61, 99, 117, 119, 120, 152, 155

  “Raven, The” (Poe), 184

  Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 247, 249, 313, 358–59

  Rebecca (movie), 393, 425, 435, 444

  Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane), 430–31

  Redbook magazine, 72, 83, 96, 125, 136, 139, 141, 265, 272, 284, 289, 290, 291, 333, 394

  Red-Headed Woman (movie), 177

  Reed, John, 455

  Renan, Ernest, 455

  Rennie, Thomas, 219–22, 228

  Republic Studios, 431

  Reynolds, Paul Revere, 25, 44, 48, 59, 85, 94, 107, 136, 138, 152, 154, 158, 170, 331, 400

  Rhodes, Hal, 192

  Rhodes, Harrison, 104

  Rice, Grantland, 99

  “Rich Boy, The” (Fitzgerald), 72, 114, 120, 127, 143, 163, 171

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 256

  Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 31n, 36

  Ritz Brothers, 335, 365

  Rives de Prangins clinic (Switzerland), xxi, 177, 196n, 205n, 207, 225

  R.K.O. Radio Pictures, 425

  Rogers, Ginger, 334

  Roman, Eric, 185n

  Romantic Egoist, The (Fitzgerald), xix, 3, 4, 15, 17, 19, 28, 29, 480

  “Room 32” (“The Guest in Room Nineteen”) (Fitzgerald), 333

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 57

  Root, Robert K., 269

  Rosenfeld, Paul, 68, 109, 112, 154

  Ross, Cary, 175, 249n

  Rothstein, Arnold, 91 n

  “Rough Crossing, The” (Fitzgerald), 162, 260

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 12, 45

  Rousseau, Ted, 193

  “Rover Boys” series (Stratemeyer), 320

  Rumsey, Charles Cary, 191

  Russell, Rosalind, 334

  Safari (movie), 425

  Safety First (Fitzgerald, 3

  Sailor’s Return, The (Garnett), 132

  St. Matthew, 455

  St. Nicholas magazine, 5

  St. Paul Academy, xix, 1, 45, 243

  St. Paul Academy Now & Then, 2, 243n

  St. Paul Daily News, 49

  Saint’s Progress (Galsworthy), 57

  “Salesmanship in the Champs Elysees” (Fitzgerald), 261

  Salt (Norris), 34, 36, 91

  “Salute to Lucy and Elsie” (Fitzgerald), 405n

  Samuel Drummond (Boyd), 120, 127

  Sanctuary (Faulkner), 275

  Sandburg, Carl, 68

  Sanderson, 21

  Santley, Joseph, 63

  Sargent, John Singer, 288

  Saroyan, William, 303, 474

  Saturday Eve
ning Post, xx, xxi, In, 21, 36, 41, 54n, 73, 76, 80–81–83, 93, 94, 96, 108, 111, 112, 120, 121, 130, 136, 139, 140, 141, 150–52, 154, 158, 160, 169, 172, 177, 182, 183, 195n, 208, 212, 214, 215, 217, 220, 221, 226, 233n, 234, 236, 238–41, 261, 265, 272, 274, 284, 292, 293, 294n, 298, 300, 301n, 312, 323, 333, 360, 393–94, 402, 413, 422, 424, 427, 443–44, 450, 458, 466

  Saturday Review of Literature, 61n

  Satyricon (Petronius), 85n

  Saunders, Louise (Mrs. Maxwell Perkins), 87–92, 131, 133, 158, 218, 257, 354

  Save Me the Waltz (Z. Fitzgerald), xxii, 178, 208n, 209–13, 217–20, 226, 273, 296

  Sayre, A. D. (ZF’s father), 2, 51, 148, 177, 178, 210, 451

  letter to, 202–4

  Sayre, Anthony, 256

  Sayre, Mrs. A. D. (ZF’s mother), 51, 177, 210, 256, 351, 358, 413, 418, 437, 451, 458, 464

  letter to, 202–4

  “Scandal” (Cather), 100

  “Scandal Detectives, The” (Fitzgerald), 73

  Schoop, Trudi, 297

  Schulberg, Budd, 326, 385, 386, 429, 447, 474

  Schulberg, Sonja, 336

  Schulberg, Victoria, 447

  Scott-Moncrieff, C. K., 387

  Screenland magazine, 81

  Scribner, Charles, II (b. 1854), 33, 79, 90, 91, 93, 95, 109, 200, 480, 481

  death of, 181

  letters to, 41, 56–58, 69

  Scribner, Charles, III (b. 1891), 392, 416

  Scribner’s, Charles, Sons, xix, 3, 4, 17, 19, 20, 21, 25, 29, 34, 41, 44, 56, 60n, 64n, 69, 83–84, 87, 93, 95n, 98, 102, 114–16, 121, 131n, 131–33, 147n, 148, 158n, 161, 164n, 171n, 175n, 185n, 218, 226, 250, 273n, 275n, 277, 278, 302n, 310, 312n, 324, 329, 354n, 358n, 389, 398, 400, 417, 458, 469n, 480, 481

  advertising department of, 105n, 122n

  London office of, 108

  Scribner’s Magazine, 32n, 35, 36, 37n, 50, 54, 62, 76, 147n, 149, 158, 159n, 162, 164n, 175n, 178, 236n, 238, 241n, 253n, 261, 279n

  Seabrook, William, 320

  Sedgwick, Anne Douglas, 97n

  Seldes, Amanda, 123

  Seldes, Gilbert, 79, 81, 99, 101, 108, 117, 122, 124, 127, 191, 258

  letter to, 123

  Selznick, David O., 377–82, 393, 425, 429, 435

  “Sensible Thing, The” (Fitzgerald), 80, 121

  Sentimental Tommy (Barrie), 57

  Sereze, Mlle., 265, 268

  Seven Days Whipping (Biggs), 174

  “Seven Lively Arts, The” (Seldes), 79

  Seventeen (Tarkington), 403

  Seymore, McNiell, 215

  “Shadow Laurels” (Fitzgerald), 3

  Shaftesbury, Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, 155

  Shakespeare, William, 45, 46, 234, 263, 370, 371, 460

  Shakespeare & Company bookshop (Paris), 156n

  Shaw, George Bernard, 12, 20, 33, 45, 50, 76, 306n, 451, 457

  Shearer, Norma, 297, 337, 408, 468

  Sheean, Vincent, 318

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 45, 75, 81

  Shenton, Edward, 244n

  Sheppard-Pratt Hospital (Baltimore), 178, 179

  Sherman, Stuart P., 97

  Shop Around the Corner, The (movie), 446

  “Short Autobiography, A” (Fitzgerald), 261

  “Short Trip Home, A” (Fitzgerald), 260

  Siddis, Boris, 41

  Sidney, Sir Philip, 371

  Silas Marner (Eliot), 118

  Simon, Cupie, 104

  Simon & Schuster, 389n

  Simon Called Peter (Keable), 89

  Simple Souls (Turner), 57

  Simpson, Wallis Warfield (Duchess of Windsor), 318

  Sinclair, Upton, 51

  Sinister Street (MacKenzie), 20n, 47

  Sister Carrie (Dreiser), 91

  Sixty Four-Ninety Four (Mottram), 147

  Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 383

  Skolsky, Sidney, 347

  Smart Set, The, magazine, xx, 25–27, 36, 49, 50, 52, 54, 58, 62, 112, 129, 190, 490

  Smith, Constance, 292

  Smith, Newman, 189, 358, 413

  Smith, Mrs. Perry, 364

  Smith, Rosalind Sayre, 265–68, 336–38, 358, 363, 413, 418, 420

  Smith, T. R., 114, 115, 190

  Smith College, 372

  Smits, Lee J., 131n

  “Snows of Kilimanjaro, The” (Hemingway), 302n, 353, 445

  So Big (Ferber), 91n, 119n

  Soldiers of Fortune (Davis), 57, 58

  Some Do Not (Ford), 104, 132

  Some People (Nicolson), 154

  Sons and Lovers (Lawrence), 455

  Soul of a Bishop, The (Wells), 20

  South Moon Under (Rawlings), 247, 358

  “Southern Girl” (FSF & Z. Fitzgerald), 168

  Southern Illinois University Press, 345n

  Spafford, Robert, 281n, 290, 292, 295n

  Spanish Civil War, 389n

  Spanish Earth, The (movie), 332n

  Spanish Farm, The (Mottram), 147

  Spectator, The, 273

  Spengler, Oswald, 161

  Spessivtzewa, Olga, 295n, 296

  Sprague, Annabel Fitzgerald, 1

  letters to, 7–10, 304, 306

  Spring Flight, The (Smits), 131

  Squires, Mildred, 208–14, 228, 232

  Stagecoach (movie), 430

  Stahl (producer), 425, 435

  Stalin, Joseph, 449

  Stallings, Laurence, 82, 107, 108, 110, 127n, 132, 157, 174, 341

  Stearns, Harold, 144, 159, 161

  Steegmuller, Francis, 389n

  Steffan, Jean, 421

  Stein, Gertrude, 80, 85, 92, 93, 108, 109, 117, 119, 132, 171, 240, 390, 457n, 470

  letters to, 115, 216, 274

  Steinbeck, John, 373, 389, 445, 471

  Stendhal, 76, 253, 430

  Stern, G. B., 273

  Stevens, Willie, 146

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 20, 57

  Stewart, Donald Ogden, 46, 49, 81, 123, 138, 190, 304, 435, 449

  Stockton, Ellen, 14

  Stolen Story, The (Williams), 57

  “Stories from a Swiss clinic” (Z. Fitzgerald), 201

  Story of Mary MacLane, The (MacLane), 320n

  Story of the Other Wise Man, The (Van Dyke), 137n

  Story of San Michele, The (Munthe), 181n

  Stout, Wesley Wimans, 323

  Stover at Yale (Johnson), 111

  Strachey, Lytton, 389

  Strange Fugitive (Callaghan), 182n

  Strange Interlude (O’Neill), 440, 457

  “Strange Sanctuary” (Fitzgerald), 333n

  Strange Tales magazine, 215

  Stranger in Soul Country, The (Biggs), 174

  Stratemeyer, Edward, 320n

  Strater, Henry, 40

  Stromberg, Hunt, 347–49, 353, 360, 424, 429, 435

  Stuard, Charlie, 12

  Sturges, Preston, 459n

  Suckow, Ruth, 92, 113, 115, 127, 132

  Suitt, R. Burke, 350, 355–57, 418–19

  Sullavan, Margaret, 339, 344, 352

  Sumner, John S., 198

  Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 138, 142, 144, 148, 151, 408

  Surratt, Mary, 462

  Swaine, H. N., 393

  Swann, Rita, 337

  Swanson, Gloria, 101, 337

  Swanson, H. N., 170, 171, 320n, 321, 396, 397, 402, 404–6, 429, 434n, 435

  Swarthout, Gladys, 340

  “Swimmers, The” (Fitzgerald), 260

  Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 45, 390

  Swinnerton, Frank, 132

  Swope, Herbert Bayard, 63, 191

  Sykes, Gerald, 175

  Symbolists, 256n

  Tales of the Jazz Age (Fitzgerald), 27, 59–60, 62, 63

  Talmadge, Constance, 149

  Taps at Reveille (Fitzgerald), 178, 259n, 278, 279

  Tarkington, Booth, 17, 31n, 49, 53, 62, 119, 260, 402–3, 439

  “Tarquin of Cheapside” (Fitzgerald), 62

  Tate, Allen, 199

  Taylor, Cecilia Delihant, 63
, 187, 265, 322, 461–62

  Taylor, Deems, 63, 126–27

  Taylor, Robert, 334, 339

  “Temperature” (Fitzgerald), 402, 404

  Temple, Shirley, 335, 456, 459, 464, 467

  Ten Days That Shook the World (Reed), 455

  Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald), xxii, 187n, 195n, 242–58, 262–64, 279, 288, 301, 303, 354, 373–74, 392, 412, 414, 416, 446, 466, 474

  British publisher of, 174n, 245

  dramatization of, 248, 281, 290, 292, 311, 346

  financial disappointment of, 312, 404

  illustrations for, 244

  inscriptions in, 254, 447

  Modern Library and, 300, 306n, 375–76

  movie of, 248, 272, 295, 329

  omnibus volume including, 360

  publication of, 179, 237, 274

  review of, 273

  serialization of, 178, 235–36, 238–39, 243–45

  translations of, 278

  writing of, 156n, 235, 242–43, 278, 467

  Terry, Alice, 126

  Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Hardy), 118

  Thackeray, William Makepeace, 13n, 115n, 144n, 390n

  Thalberg, Irving, 208, 297, 330, 409, 411, 468

  Theatre Guild, 58n, 61

  These Glamour Girls (movie), 425

  They Cried a Little (Schulberg), 336n

  They Knew What They Wanted (Howard), 84n

  “They Never Grow Older” (Fitzgerald), 308n, 316n

  Thirteenth Commandment, The (Hughes), 111n

  This Mad Ideal (Dell), 132n

  This Quarter, 133, 201

  This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), xx, 13n, 25, 37n, 40, 57, 61, 67, 76, 84, 86, 105, 112, 115, 126, 142, 275, 306, 338, 359–61, 368, 402, 452, 474

  British publisher of, 48

  inscriptions in, 38, 39, 359

  movie of, 64

  omnibus volume including, 360

  out of print, 360, 373–76

  publication of, 26, 281

  reviews of, 47

  translation of, 278

  writing of, 28–30

  Thompson, D. Mildred, 451

  Thompson, William Boyce, 291

  “Thousand and First Ship” (Fitzgerald), 295

  Three Comrades (movie), xxii, 49n, 325, 339n, 342–45, 347–49, 352, 375, 390, 424, 435

  “Three Hours Between Planes” (Fitzgerald), 428, 432, 434

  Three Lives (Stein), 109, 124, 132, 457n

  Three Mountains Press, 82n

  Three Soldiers (Dos Passos), 49, 51, 61

  Through the Wheat (Boyd), 60, 117, 124, 127, 174

  “Thumbs Up” (Fitzgerald), 316, 319, 321

  Tighe, Catherine, 9, 14, 142, 271

  Time magazine, 373

  Time Regained (Proust), 253

  Times Literary Supplement (London), 108

  Titan, The (Dreiser), 56

  To Have and Have Not (Hemingway), 324n, 470

  “Today Is Friday” (Hemingway), 147

  Todd, Mary, 446

  Toklas, Alice B., 274

  Tolstoy, Leo, 45

  Tone, Franchot, 339, 347

 

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