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]; at Republican convention, [>]; trip to London, [>], [>]; engagement of, [>]; wedding of, [>]; at parents’ home during WWI, [>]; and birthday-party argument, [>]–[>]; in California, [>]; Mary Hoyt Wiborg’s financial appeal to, [>]; death of, [>]
Wiborg, Sara. See Murphy, Sara Sherman Wiborg
Wiborg, Susan (grandmother of SWM), [>]
Wilder, Thornton, [>]
Wilhelm II (kaiser of Germany), [>]
Wilson, Edmund, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Wilson, Elena, [>]
Wilson, Mrs. Orme, [>]
Within the Quota (Murphy-Porter ballet), [>]–[>], [>], [>] n
Wood Memorial Day Nursery, SWM at, [>]–[>]
Woollcott, Alexander, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; at Antibes, [>], [>], [>]; and Patrick, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; Milton quotation in letter to, [>]; and The Man Who Came to Dinner, [>]; GCM on beauty of mind to, [>]; death of, [>], [>]; GCM letter to, [>]
Woolley, Monty (Edwin Montillion), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
World War I, [>]–[>]; GCM’s service in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; and Murphys’ overseas donations, [>]
World War II: prelude to, [>]; outbreak of, [>]; Murphys’ efforts in, [>], [>]–[>]; Lager’s escape from, [>]–[>]; France occupied, [>]; Mark Cross window displays on, [>]–[>]; GCM attempts service in, [>]; Hemingway’s account of, [>]
Wright brothers, and SWM, [>]
Yale University, GCM in, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Zelli, Joe, [>]
Text Credits
F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript material, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. Published with permission of the Princeton University Library.
Excerpt from “pencil manuscript” early draft of Tender Is the Night. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, from Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Copyright 1933, 1934 Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed © 1961, 1962 By Frances S. F. Lanahan.
Excerpts from letters of August 23, 1929, and September 9, 1929, to Ernest Hemingway; and August 15, 1936, to Sara W. Murphy. Excerpted with permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, from The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Andrew Turnbull. Copyright © 1963 by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan. Copyright renewed © 1991 by Joanne J. Turnbull, Joanne T. Turnbull, Frances L. Turnbull, and Eleanor Lanahan, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Samuel J. Lanahan, Sr., Trustees Under Agreement Dated July 3, 1975, Created by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith.
Excerpts from a letter of July 1928 to Ernest Hemingway and September 21, 1939, to Gerald C. Murphy, found in JFK Library and in Honoria Donnelly Collection, respectively. Excerpted with permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, from F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Copyright © 1994 by the Trustees Under Agreement Dated July 3, 1975, Created by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith.
The excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “General Plan” for Tender Is the Night is reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.
Ernest Hemingway papers, courtesy of The Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library; Letters from Ernest Hemingway to Sara and Gerald Murphy, Dawn Powell, and Archibald MacLeish, © 1992, 1998 The Ernest Hemingway Foundation.
Letters of Ernest Hemingway to Sara and Gerald Murphy, Dawn Powell, and Archibald MacLeish. Reprinted by permission of John, Patrick, and Gregory Hemingway.
Letters of Ernest Hemingway to Dr. C. E. Hemingway, March 20, 1925; to F. Scott Fitzgerald, December 31, 1925, and September 4, 1929, excerpted with permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, from Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961, edited by Carlos Baker. Copyright © 1981 The Ernest Hemingway Foundation, Inc.
Excerpts from the unpublished letters and diaries of Dawn Powell published with the permission of the Estate of Dawn Powell.
Excerpts from letters from Gerald Murphy to Alan Jarvis, Alan Jarvis Papers, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
Letters from Ada MacLeish to Maurice Firuski, Berg Collection of English & American Literature, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Archibald MacLeish Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, quoted by permission of the Estate of Archibald MacLeish.
Excerpt from J.B. by Archibald MacLeish. Copyright © 1956, 1957, 1958 by Archibald MacLeish. Copyright © renewed 1986 by William H. MacLeish and Mary H. Grimm. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
Excerpts from “Ars Poetica,” “Cinema of Man,” “Sketch for a Portrait of Mine. G—— M——,” from Collected Poems 1917–1982 by Archibald MacLeish. Copyright © 1985 by The Estate of Archibald MacLeish. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Esther Murphy/Muriel Draper papers, The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Letters and diary entries by Gerald and Sara Murphy, reprinted by permission of Honoria Murphy Donnelly; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; Robert Benchley Collection, Twentieth Century Archives, Boston University.
Excerpts from letters from Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley, November 7, 1929, and to Gerald and Sara Murphy, June 8, 1934: The author wishes to thank the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for authorizing the use of Dorothy Parkers work.
Excerpts from letters of Fernand Léger to Gerald and Sara Murphy: © 1998 Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY/ADAGP, Paris.
Letters and notebooks in the Musée Picasso, courtesy of the Archives Picasso, Paris, and Conte Henri de Beaumont.
Letter from Erik Satie to Vincent Huidobro, Fundación Vincente Huidobro, Santiago de Chile.
Telegram and Hallelujah! screenplay excerpts in the King Vidor papers, Doheny Library, University of Southern California, King Vidor Collection, USC Cinema-Television Library.
Unpublished manuscript of “The Man of Taste,” Philip Barry Papers, Georgetown University Library.
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
With the following exceptions, all photographs in this book are from the collection of Honoria Murphy Donnelly and are its property. Used by permission.
Portrait of Sara Murphy, by Pablo Picasso. Private collection, Switzerland; © 1996 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), N.Y. Photograph © 1996 The Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Femme au collier encoudée, by Pablo Picasso. Property of the Musée Picasso. Used by permission.
Photographs of Archibald and Ada MacLeish, Gerald Murphy in Chinese robes, and Gerald Murphy and Alexander Woollcott, Steele Camp, and Honoria Murphy and John Shelton are all by Richard Myers. Used by permission of Frances Myers Brennan.
Photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Used by permission of Corbis-Bettmann.
Photograph of Gerald and Sara Murphy, Emest and Hadley Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Property of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Library. Used by permission.
Patrick Murphy by Fernand Léger. Collection of Honoria Murphy Donnelly. Used by permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), N.Y.
Photograph of Marc Platt, and of Frederic Franklin and Mia Slavenska in Ghost Town, are used by courtesy of the Dance Collection, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Photograph of Dawn Powell used by permission of Tim Page and Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Watch by Gerald Murphy, courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, gift of the artist.
Cocktail by Gerald Murphy, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase, with funds from Evelyn and Leonard A. Lauder, Thomas H. Lee and the Modern Painting and Sculpture Committee.
Wasp and Pear by Gerald Murphy (1927). Oil on canvas, 36¾ × 38⅝" (93.3 × 97.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Archibald MacLeish. Photograph © 1998 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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br /> About the Author
AMANDA VAILL, formerly executive editor at Viking Penguin, is now a full-time writer and critic whose work has appeared in Esquire, GQ, New York, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. She lives in New York.