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    in
Collier’s
, 333

    
The Coward
, 27

    
The Crack-Up
, 299, 301–02, SIS

    “Crazy Sunday,” 352, 372

    “The Cruise of the Rolling Junk,” 72

    
The Debutante
, 29–30, 55

    “The Diamond As Big As the Ritz,” 352

    
Doctor Diver’s Holiday; The Drunkard’s Holiday
, see
Tender Is the Night
below

    “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” 301

    
The Education of a Personage
, see
This Side of Paradise
below

    in
Esquire
, 301, 313, 332

    
Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!
, 28

    
Flappers and Philosophers
, 75

    
The Flight of the Rocket
, see
The Beautiful and Damned
above

    
Gabriel’s Trombone
, see
The Vegetable
below

    “The Girl with Talent” (with Zelda), 150

    
Gold-hatted Gatsby
, see
The Great Gatsby
below

    
The Great Gatsby
(early titles,
Trimalchio in West Egg; Gold-hatted Gatsby; The High-bouncing Lover)
, 84, 102, 110. 112, 113, 115, 116, 181, 234, 352

    “Head and Shoulders,” 58, 59

    
The High-bouncing Lover
, see
The Great Gatsby
above

    “The Ice Palace,” 81

    “Jacob’s Ladder,” 129–30

    “The Jelly Bean,” xiv, 35, 71, 81

    
The Last Tycoon
(early title,
The Love of the Last Tycoon)
, 315, 333, 348, 351, 352, 353

    Ledger, 34, 37, 45, 50, 58, 78, 84, 87, 96, 98, 102, 103, 110, 111, 112, 125, 132, 140, 142, 192, 214, 260, 296, 303, 308

    
Letters
, 314

    “Looking Back Eight Years” (with Zelda), 132–33

    
The Love of the Last Tycoon
, see
The Last Tycoon
above

    “A Luckless Santa Claus,” 79

    “May Day,” 61, 352

    in
Metropolitan Magazine
, 81, 87

    
“A Millionaire’s Girl” (with Zelda), 150, 225

    “My Lost City,” 301

    in
Nassau Literary Magazine
, 28, 29

    in
The New Yorker
, 118–19

    “The Offshore Pirate,” 100, 196

    “One Hundred False Starts,” 267

    “One Trip Abroad,” 172–73

    “Our Own Movie Queen” (with Zelda), 102

    “The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw,” 30–31

    “The Rich Boy,” 352

    
The Romantic Egoist
, see
This Side of Paradise
below

    in the
Saturday Evening Post
, 58, 150, 214, 216, 267

    in
Scribner’s Magazine
, 281, 284

    “The Sensible Thing,” 56, 202

    “Sentiment—and the Use of Rouge,” 31

    “Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number

    —” (with Zelda), 296, 298, 299–300

    “Sleeping and Waking,” 301

    in
The Smart Set
, 49, 58

    “A Snobbish Story,” 172

    “Southern Girl” (with Zelda), 152

    
Tales of the Jazz Age
, 94, 102

    
Taps at Reveille
, 298

    
Tender Is the Night
(early titles,
Doctor Diver’s Holiday; The Drunkard’s Holiday)
, 139–10, 152, 153, 172, 190, 217–19, 224, 234, 260, 261, 266, 267, 268. 281, 284–85, 286–87, 292, 293–94, 298, 349

    
This Side of Paradise
(early titles.
The Romantic Egoist; The Education of a Personage)
, 31–33, 44, 54, 55, 57, 58, 61, 62, 66, 67, 100, 216, 234

    “Thoughtbook” (diary), 26

    
Trimalchio in West Egg
, see
The Great Gatsby
above

    
The Vegetable
(early title,
Gabriel’s Trombone)
, 92, 102, 103

    views on, 267, 275, 347

    with Zelda, 102, 132–33, 150, 152, 223, 296, 298, 299–301

    Zelda as heroine, 44, 55, 77, 83, 88, 89, 90, 92, 100, 114–15, 152, 169, 238, 284, 349

    Zelda on, 57, 89, 90, 196, 286, 293–94, 352–53

    Zelda’s diaries and letters used, 35, 44, 55, 58, 71, 76, 81, 89, 102, 177–78, 284–85

      and Zelda:

    courtship, 32, 33–36, 40–44, 45, 48–49, 52, 55–61

    divorce, possibility of, 275

    failure to have more children, 154, 163

    marriage, 62, 174, 175–76

    meeting, 24–25

      Zelda on, 24, 34, 351, 373

      on Zelda, 35, 60, 73–74, 77, 89, 101, 210–11

      on Zelda’s writing, 216, 217, 220, 221, 222, 255–56, 261, 272–73, 274, 275, 342

Fitzgerald, Mrs. F. Scott (Zelda Sayre):

      abortion, 88

      Biggs, Judge John, Jr., on, 291

      birth, 7

      Bishop, John Peale, on, 47

      breakdown: Craig House (Beacon, N.Y.), 256–57, 288–96

    Highland Hospital (Asheville, N.C.), 308–38, 371, 374. 382–83

    Malmaison Hospital (near Paris), 158

    nervousness and early signs, 50, 95–94, 117–18, 124–25, 152, 157–58

    own account of her life, 248–52

    Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic (Baltimore, Md.), 209–22, 225, 241, 247–57, 283–84, 286–88

    Prangins (Les Rives de Prangins, near Geneva), 160–91

    Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital (near Baltimore), 261, 276, 296–308, 318

    suicide attempts, 111, 156, 304, 318

    Valmont clinic (Switz.), 159–60, 168

      Callaghan, Morley, on, 149

      Campbell, C. Lawton, on, 61, 68, 78, 81, 82, 104–05

      childhood, 7–8, 9–12

    on herself as a child, 8, 12

      
clothes, attitude toward, 12–13, 66, 67, 93, 137

      Cowley, Malcolm, on, 264, 281–82

      dance, interest in, 11, 14, 22, 24, 46, 81, 99, 120, 135–36, 138, 141, 142–43, 147, 149, 150, 155, 156–57, 158, 159, 193, 320

    Murphy, Gerald, on, 141–42

      on dance, 141, 175, 226, 227, 241–42, 250, 252

      death, 382–83

      diving incident, 66, 97

      Dos Passos, John, on, 93–94, 133

      drinking, 16, 51, 74, 75, 80, 87, 98, 100, 125, 133, 135

      and Egorova, Madame Lubov, 140, 141, 147–8, 158, 165–66, 169

      Egorova on, 166

      on Egorova, 168, 250, 252

      and father, 8, 11, 17, 18, 20, 33 views on, 174, 197

      Faulkner read by, 204

      flowers, importance of, 231–32, 241, 242, 293, 331, 369, 381

      on Flynn, Nora, 380

      as a girl, 12–16, 18, 19–23

    flirtatiousness and popularity with men, 19–20, 20–21, 22, 33, 36, 38–39, 43–44, 44–45, 47, 48, 49–50, 51–52

    social convention, reaction to, 10, 17, 18, 21

      health, 121, 125

    asthma, 198, 210, 376

    colitis, 113, 118, 121

    eczema, 169, 176, 177, 178, 179, 198, 208, 210

    eyesight, 194, 198, 213

      Hearne, Mrs. Laurie Guthrie, on, 334–35

      Hemingway, Ernest, dislike of, 116–17, 122, 148–9, 211, 225–26

      Hemingway, Ernest, on, 114, 115

      Hemingway, Hadley, on, 114, 115, 116, 117,

      Joyce read by, 187

      and Jozan, Edouard, 108, 109–10, 111–12, 114, 175, 216, 222, 226, 239–40, 349, 355, 364, 366

      Jozan, Edouard, on, 108–09

      Kalman, Mrs. C. O., on, 92–93

      on Knight, Richard, 249

      and Lardner, Ring, 95–96, 103

      letters: Addison, Mrs. Eleanor Browder, 140

    Bishop, John Peale, 257–58

    Fitzgerald, Mrs. Edward, 38, 39

    Forel, Dr. Oscar, 185

    Fowler, Ludlow, 70, 74, 85

    mother, 47, 164, 382

    Murphy, Sara, 135

    Nathan, George Jean, 71

    Ober, Anne, 371, 373, 375–76

    Ober, Harold, 350, 370

    Perkins, Maxwell, 262, 264, 269

    Rennie, Dr. Thomas, 292–93

    Scott, 37, 38, 39–40, 41–42, 42–43, 44, 47–48, 49, 50–51, 55, 56, 57, 58–60, 61–62, 76, 163–64, 164–65, 166–67, 167–69, 169–70, 173–74, 176–77, 178, 181–83, 183–85, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 195–96, 196–97, 197–98, 199, 200–01, 202, 205–06, 212, 214, 215, 216, 220, 221–22, 224, 241, 252–53, 254–55, 259–60, 287–88, 288–89, 290, 293–94, 294–95, 296–97, 303, 304–05, 307, 314, 322, 324, 325, 326, 327–28, 329–30, 330–31, 332–33, 335, 336, 337–38, 341–42, 344, 345, 347, 348, 354

    Scottie, 127, 128, 129, 130, 180, 213–14, 331, 369–70, 372, 373–74, 382

      Smith, Mrs. Newman, 351

    Turnbull, Mrs. Bayard, 352, 354

    Van Vechten, Carl, 133–34

    Wilson, Edmund, 107–08, 350–51, 352–53, 372

      on love, 56

      McKaig, Alexander, on, 67–68, 70, 74, 75, 77, 78–79, 80–81

      on MacKenzie’s
Flasher’s Mead
, 48

      MacLeish, Mrs. Archibald, on, 120— 21

      on men, 44

      Mencken, H.L., on, 98

      and money, 98, 334

      on Montgomery, life in, 54

      and mother, 8, 11, 20, 47, 162, 174, 342, 345, 368, 375, 377

      mother on, 40, 43, 62

      Murphy, Gerald, on, 107, 110, 120, 121, 123, 124, 141–42, 154–55, 188, 189, 290

      
and Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 106–07, 111, 117, 118, 119, 123, 142, 154–55, 157, 190

      on Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 324

      Murphy, Sara, on, 110, 123, 124, 142

      on Murphy, Sara, 380

      and Nathan, George Jean, 71, 78

      newspaper and magazine publicity, 15, 51, 86, 96, 97, 100, 125, 265–64

      on New York, life in, 66, 237, 238

      on Norris’s
McTeague
, 60

      painting and drawing, 113, 137, 194, 212, 260, 281, 293, 303, 320, 326, 335–36, 369, 376, 378, 381

    comments and criticism, 290–91

    exhibitions, 283, 289–91, 293, 369

      Parker, Dorothy, on, 67, 68, 290–91

      philosophy of life, 92

      Piper, Henry Dan, on, 379–80

      Ray, Landon, on, 314, 374

      Ruth, Leon, on, 69

      and Scott:

    courtship, 32, 33–36, 40–44, 45, 48- 49, 52, 55–61

    divorce, possibility of, 275

    failure to have more children, 154, 163

    marriage, 62, 174, 175–76

    meeting, 24–25

      Scott on, 35, 60, 73–74, 77, 89, 101, 210–11

      on Scott, 24, 34, 351, 373

      and Scottie, 84, 101, 123, 125–26, 143, 163, 169, 180, 185, 207, 265, 286, 296, 317. 322, 324, 329–30, 345, 346, 350, 352, 370, 371

      on Scott’s writing, 196, 352–53

    
The Beautiful and Damned
, 89, 90, 91

    
The Last Tycoon
, 353

    
Tender Is the Night
, 286, 293–94

    
This Side of Paradise
, 57

      in Scott’s writing as heroine, 77, 100, 114–15

    
The Beautiful and Damned
(Gloria), 83, 88, 89, 90, 92, 238

    
Tender Is the Night
(Nicole), 152, 169, 284, 349

    
This Side of Paradise
(Rosalind), 44, 55, 100

      Seldes, Gilbert, on, 97

      and Stubbs, Francis, 38

      swimming, love of, 16–17, 53–54, 69, 84, 107, 125

      Taylor, Cecilia, on, 136–37

      Turnbull, Andrew, on, 258, 371

      Van Vechten, Carl, on, 98–99

      on Van Vechten, Carl, 249

      West, Rebecca, on, 99

      Wilson, Edmund, on, 25, 133

      women, views on, 21, 92, 93

      writing, 58, 100, 102, 132, 193–94, 195, 196, 199–200, 205, 212, 213, 215, 261, 265, 274, 295–96, 298–99, 302

    “Auction—Model 1934” (with Scott), 296, 298, 299, 300–01

    “The Big Top,” 367

    
Caesar’s Things
, 103, 234, 354–66, 372, 379–80

    “The Changing Beauty of Park Avenue” (with Scott), 132

    in
College Humor
, 149–50, 152, 176, 298

    “A Couple of Nuts,” 194–95, 223

    diaries, 38, 55, 71

    diaries and letters used by Scott, 35, 44, 55, 58, 71, 76, 81, 89, 102, 177–78, 284–85

    in
Esquire
, 298, 299

    “Eulogy on the Flapper,” 91–92

    “The Girl with Talent” (with Scott), 150

    “Looking Back Eight Years” (with Scott), 132–33

    in
Metropolitan Magazine
, 91–92

    “A Millionaire’s Girl” (with Scott), 150, 223

    “Miss Ella” (or “Miss Bessie”), 202–05, 213

    in
The New Yorker
, 118–19

    notebook, 319–21

    “Our Own Movie Queen” (with Scott), 102

    on own writing, 149, 196, 354

    “Over the Top with Pershing,” 20

    Perkins, Maxwell, on, 176

    in
Saturday Evening Post
, 150

    Save Me
the Waltz
, 17, 66, 68–69,
106, 107, 109–10, 112, 141, 215, 215, 216, 225–46, 259, 262–63, 264, 320, 355

    
Scandalabra
, 266, 276, 277–80

    Scott on, 216, 217, 220, 221, 222, 255–56, 261, 272–73, 274, 275, 342

    with Scott, 102, 132–33, 150, 152, 223, 296, 298, 299–301

    in
Scribner’s Magazine
, 202

    “Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number —”(with Scott), 296, 298, 299–300

    “Southern Girl” (with Scott), 152

    “Vamping Romeo,” 59

    “Where Do Happen Go?” 91

Flagg, James Montgomery, 132

Flynn, Mrs. Maurice (Nora), 312

      Zelda on, 380

Forel, Dr. Oscar, 159, 160, 161–62, 165–66, 167, 169, 174, 177, 178, 179, 188, 190, 205, 256–57

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