Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (38 page)

10. M
AX
P
ERKINS
, 1920s:

He had “a talent for diplomacy in difficult human situations, and a kind of nobility of spirit.”
(John F. Kennedy Library)

11. H
AROLD
O
BER
,
C
. 1930:

“He was tall and lean, with deep-set, serious blue eyes, a big nose, a high color.”
(Harold Ober Associates)

12. F
ITZGERALD
AND
Z
ELDA
, F
EBRUARY
1921:

They had the same blond hair, fair skin, straight nose and thin lips, and looked enough alike to be brother and sister.
(Princeton University Library)

13. R
ING
L
ARDNER
, C
HICAGO
,
C
. 1910:

“A tall sallow mournful man with a higharched nose . . . dark hollow eyes and hollow cheeks.”
(Ring Lardner, Jr.)

14. T
OMMY
H
ITCHCOCK
,
C
. 1933:

“He was tall and his body was hard but overspare save for the bunched force gathered in his shoulders and upper arms.”
(Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock)

15. F
ITZGERALD
, N
ICE
,
C
. 1924:

Handsome, confident and poised, Fitzgerald was at the height of his powers while writing
The Great Gatsby. (Courtney Vaughan)

16. P
AMPLONA
, J
ULY
1925:

Hemingway was balanced uneasily between his chic future wife Pauline Pfeiffer (
center
) and his matronly current wife Hadley (
right
), while Gerald and Sara Murphy, attended by three Spanish shoeshine boys, drank with them.
(John F. Kennedy Library)

17. H
EMINGWAY
, P
RINCETON
, O
CTOBER
1931:

A Herculean Hemingway, smartly dressed in a double-breasted wool suit, glowered at the camera for an unusually good snapshot.
(John F. Kennedy Library)

18. F
ITZGERALD
, Z
ELDA
AND
S
COTTIE
(biting her lip and looking a bit nervous), C
HRISTMAS
, 1925:

The elegantly dressed family were doing a music hall turn in their Paris apartment.
(Princeton University Library)

19. L
OIS
M
ORAN
,
C
. 1930:

“Her fine forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks.”
(Timothy Young)

20. B
IJOU
O’C
ONOR
(
RIGHT
) with her father, Sir Francis Elliot, c. 1925:

Bijou, who resembled Edith Sitwell, was thin, chic and
jolie-laide,
with fine features and soft brown eyes.
(Sir William Young)