[60] Several of Fitzgerald's friends opposed the match, as they deemed Zelda ill-suited for him. "[181] Fitzgerald's relations with Moran further exacerbated the Fitzgeralds' marital difficulties and, after merely two months in Jazz Age Hollywood, the unhappy couple departed for Delaware in March 1927. What do you want? Author of. "[140], Work on The Great Gatsby slowed while the Fitzgeralds sojourned on the French Riviera, where a marital crisis developed. Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 - June 18, 1986) was an American writer and journalist and the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.She worked for The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Northern Virginia Sun, and others, and was a prominent member of the Democratic Party.She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1992. [304], Nevertheless, Mencken conceded that Fitzgerald came the closest to capturing the wealthy's "idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and triviality, their glittering swinishness". He returned to Princeton the next fall, but he had now lost all the positions he coveted, and in November 1917 he left to join the army. [94], In Winter 1921, his wife became pregnant as Fitzgerald worked on his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, and the couple traveled to his home in St. Paul, Minnesota, to have the child. [333][334] In this fashion, he quickly became one of the highest-paid magazine writers of his era and he earned $4,000 per story from the Saturday Evening Post at the apex of his fame. [383], Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, who met Fitzgerald during his years abroad in Paris, likened him to "a stupid old woman with whom someone has left a diamond; she is extremely proud of the diamond and shows it to everyone who comes by, and everyone is surprised that such an ignorant old woman should possess so valuable a jewel". [143] The couple never spoke of the incident,[144] but the episode led to a permanent breach in their marriage. [63][64] Although he received a small raise for creating a catchy slogan, "We keep you clean in Muscatine", for an Iowa laundry,[65] Fitzgerald subsisted in relative poverty. [174] In Hollywood, the Fitzgeralds attended parties where they danced the black bottom and mingled with film stars. riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again. [399] When his friend Burton Rascoe asked Zelda to review the book for the New-York Tribune as a publicity stunt,[400] she wrotepartly in jestthat it "seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and also scraps of letters, which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. [f] It would take decades for the novel to gain its present acclaim and popularity. Were all very shy. [245] After visiting several bookstores, he realized they had stopped carrying his works. "[290] they nonetheless contended that his fiction lacked engagement with the salient socio-political issues of his time,[383] and he lacked a conscious awareness of how to use his considerable talent as an author. If you want to know what America's like, you read The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald, in full Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California), American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby (1925). The F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers (C0187) is a comprehensive literary archive containing the original manuscripts, working drafts, corrected galleys, personal and professional correspondence, autobiographical scrapbooks, photographs, and other original materials of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), Princeton Class of 1917. 1174 likes. Here are some of the coolest quotes on life by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His debut novel, The Fitzgeralds' French identity card photos, 1929. In the 1930s, Fitzgerald's popularity had decreased and he was suffering financially. [109] They remarked to friends that their marriage would not last much longer. [8] Fitzgerald spent the first decade of his childhood primarily in Buffalo with a brief interlude in Syracuse between January 1901 and September 1903. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were the darlings of the Jazz Age late nights, lots of liquor, and brilliant wit to . [117], Following Fitzgerald's adaptation of his story "The Vegetable" into a play, in October 1922, he and Zelda moved to Great Neck, Long Island, to be near Broadway. I think he got it just right, she says. [34][35] While awaiting deployment to the Western front where he hoped to die in combat,[35] he was stationed in a training camp at Fort Leavenworth under the command of Captain Dwight Eisenhower, the future general of the Army and United States President. F. Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre on April 3, 1920. [201] Scribner's published Zelda's novel in October 1932, but it was a commercial and critical failure. [138] Initially titled Trimalchioan allusion to the Latin work Satyriconthe plot followed the rise of a parvenu who seeks wealth to win the woman he loves. They fell deeply in love, and, as soon as he could, Fitzgerald headed for New York determined to achieve instant success and to marry Zelda. [424], "Scott Fitzgerald" and "Francis Fitzgerald" redirect here. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920-1926 . [259], On learning of her father's death, Scottie telephoned Graham from Vassar and asked she not attend the funeral for social propriety. [a][3] His mother was Mary "Molly" McQuillan Fitzgerald, the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer. This telling of Fitzgerald's story of American Dream hustle, the decadence of the nouveau riche and the utility of deception is bursting with extravagant scenery and costuming , shot in 3-D and held together with opulent scenes . [110] After their eviction from the Commodore Hotel in May 1920, the couple spent the summer in a cottage in Westport, Connecticut, near Long Island Sound. [375][376] In particular, Jay Gatsby, whom other characters belittle as "Mr. Nobody from Nowhere",[377] functions as a cipher because of his obscure origins, his unclear ethno-religious identity and his indeterminate class status. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. [70] Unable to earn a successful living, Fitzgerald publicly threatened to jump to his death from a window ledge of the Yale Club,[d][72] and he carried a revolver daily while contemplating suicide. "These people! There are so many horrible people we could be related to, and [Fitzgeralds] a great one, she says. [153] For the rest of his life, The Great Gatsby experienced tepid sales. The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, was F. Scott Fitzgerald's third novel.As he was beginning to draft it in the summer of 1923, Fitzgerald informed one critic he knew that it would be 'the great American novel'; that critic found the idea absurd, but today Fitzgerald's masterpiece routinely tops lists of the greatest American novels ever written and is regularly hailed as the . [327], Due to this change, although Fitzgerald showed a mastery of "verbal nuance, flexible rhythm, dramatic construction and essential tragi-comedy" in Tender Is the Night,[289] many reviewers dismissed the work for its disengagement with the political issues of the era. She has painted portraits, illustrated childrens books, animated commercials and created films, including The Naked Hitch-Hiker, which won the 2006 Goldstone Award at the Vermont International Film Festival; and an animated documentary about Alcoholics Anonymous called One Alcoholic to Another, which she made with Orly Yadin. It was in an English course at Sarah Lawrence College. [354] Mere weeks after Fitzgerald's death in 1940, Westbrook Pegler wrote in a column for The New York World-Telegram that the author's passing recalled "memories of a queer bunch of undisciplined and self-indulgent brats who were determined not to pull their weight in the boat and wanted the world to drop everything and sit down and bawl with them. Scott produced four novels and four short story collections; Zelda painted and wrote one novel, Save Me the Waltz. He inspired Budd Schulberg's novel The Disenchanted (1950),[283] later adapted into a Broadway play starring Jason Robards. Born on September 24, 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to a middle-class Catholic family, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was named after his distant cousin, Francis Scott Key, who wrote in 1814 the lyrics for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner". At both St. Paul Academy (190810) and Newman School (191113), he tried too hard and made himself unpopular, but at Princeton University he came close to realizing his dream of a brilliant success. [168], Hemingway alleged that Zelda sought to destroy her husband, and she purportedly taunted Fitzgerald over his penis' size. . See details. But author F. Scott Fitzgerald went to his grave thinking it was a flop. It sold well enough to warrant additional print runs reaching 50,000 copies. Born on September 24, 1986 to a wealthy merchant family, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald showed signs of an . [289] Summarizing Fitzgerald's artistic journey from apprentice novelist to magisterial author, Burke Van Allen observed that no other American novelist had shown such "a constantly growing mastery of his equipment, and a regularly increasing sensitivity to the esthetic values in life. [49] While stationed there, the Allied Powers signed an armistice with Germany, and the war ended. The Great Gatsby is seen by critics and the general public as F. Scott Fitzgerald's quintessential novel, and is the novel he is most famous for. [344][345] Due to this thematic focus, his works became a sensation among college students, and the press depicted him as the standard-bearer for "youth in revolt". [340][341] In contrast to the older Lost Generation to which Fitzgerald and Hemingway belonged, the Jazz Age generation were younger Americans who had been adolescents during World War I and were largely untouched by the devastating conflict's psychological and material horrors. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless. [217] In September 1936, journalist Michel Mok of the New York Post publicly reported Fitzgerald's alcoholism and career failure in a nationally syndicated article. "[331], Realizing that slick magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and Esquire were more likely to publish stories that pandered to young love and featured saccharine dnouements, Fitzgerald became adept at tailoring his short fiction to the vicissitudes of commercial tastes. [238][422] Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda have appeared as characters in the films Midnight in Paris (2011) and Genius (2016). troops. [120] Mired in debt by the play's failure, Fitzgerald wrote short stories to restore his finances. The Great Gatsby. [167] This "whoring", as Hemingway called these sales, emerged as a sore point in their friendship. [193] A year later, when Mencken met Zelda for the last time, he described her mental illness as immediately evident to any onlooker and her mind as "only half sane. [323], The realization that Fitzgerald had improved as a novelist to point that Gatsby was a masterwork was immediately evident to certain members of the literary world. [289] Although his peers eventually hailed him as possessing "the best narrative gift of the century," this narrative gift was not perceived as immediately evident in his earliest writings. Thisthe promise and failure of the American Dreamis a common theme in Fitzgeralds work. [248] To the studio's annoyance, Fitzgerald ignored scriptwriting rules and included descriptions more fitting for a novel. [139] "The whole idea of Gatsby", he later explained, "is the unfairness of a poor young man not being able to marry a girl with money. [395][396] While writing This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald quoted verbatim entire letters sent to him by his Catholic mentor, Father Sigourney Fay. [69] While Prohibition-era New York City was experiencing the burgeoning Jazz Age, Fitzgerald felt defeated and rudderless: two women had rejected him in succession; he detested his advertising job; his stories failed to sell; he couldn't afford new clothes, and his future seemed bleak. [265] At the time of his death, the Roman Catholic Church denied the family's request that Fitzgerald, a non-practicing Catholic, be buried in the family plot in the Catholic Saint Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. [403] The lovers are reunited only after Fitzgerald has attained enough money to take her away from her adulterous husband. Generations of biographers and . Now were pen pals. [346] "No generation of Americans has had a chronicler so persuasive and unmaudlin" as Fitzgerald, Van Allen wrote in 1934, and no author was so identified with the generation recorded. [12] Although his alcoholic father was now destitute, his mother's inheritance supplemented the family income and allowed them to continue living a middle-class lifestyle. Fitzgerald began to drink too much, and Zelda suddenly, ominously, began to practice ballet dancing night and day. [142] Before any confrontation could occur, Jozanwho had no intention of marrying Zeldaleft the Riviera, and the Fitzgeralds never saw him again. [10] As a boy, Fitzgerald was described by his peers as unusually intelligent with a keen interest in literature. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, to parents Edward and Mary (Mollie) McQuillan Fitzgerald. [71], In July, Fitzgerald quit his advertising job and returned to St. [56][57], Upon his discharge on February14, 1919, he moved to New York City, where he unsuccessfully begged the editors of various newspapers for a job. [220] In the 1930s, as his health deteriorated, Fitzgerald had told Hemingway of his fear of dying from congested lungs. [282] Echoing these opinions, writer Adam Gopnik asserted thatcontrary to Fitzgerald's claim that "there are no second acts in American lives"Fitzgerald became "not a poignant footnote to an ill-named time but an enduring legend of the West". The next decade of the Fitzgeralds lives was disorderly and unhappy. "The Great Gatsby" was not what Fitzgerald fans were expecting from him. [125] While striving to emulate the rich, he found their privileged lifestyle morally disquieting. He relied on loans from his agent, Harold Ober, and publisher Perkins. Please try again. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. The book sells half a million copies each year, totaling over 25 million copies sold since it was published. The grave of The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald lies next to a major thoroughfare for commuters between Rockville, Md., and Washington, D.C. Jess Gitner/NPR. [135] He continued writing his third novel, which would eventually become his magnum opus The Great Gatsby. post your service, apartments They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. [205] The novel did not sell well upon publication, with approximately 12,000 sold in the first three months,[206] but, like The Great Gatsby, the book's reputation has since grown significantly.[207]. What he achieved was an advertising job at $90 a month. [184] In Spring 1929, the couple returned to Europe. Oftentimes the family trees listed as still in progress have derived from research into famous people who have a kinship to this person. [145] Jozan later dismissed the entire incident and claimed no infidelity or romance had occurred: "They both had a need of drama, they made it up and perhaps they were the victims of their own unsettled and a little unhealthy imagination. [317][318], With the publication of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald had refined his prose style and plot construction, and the literati now hailed him as a master of his craft. He was married . [112] As she emerged from the anesthesia, he recorded Zelda saying, "Oh, God, goofo [sic] I'm drunk. [171] Zelda found condoms he had purchased before any encounter occurred, and a bitter quarrel ensued, resulting in lingering jealousy. As Luhrmann noted on Colbert, Lanahan is an elegant lady but shes also endearingly down to earth. [180], Jealous of Fitzgerald and Moran, an irate Zelda set fire to her own expensive clothing in a bathtub as a self-destructive act. During this period, he became friends with writer Gertrude Stein, bookseller Sylvia Beach, novelist James Joyce, poet Ezra Pound and other members of the American expatriate community in Paris,[158] some of whom would later be identified with the Lost Generation. [398] When reading This Side of Paradise, Fay wrote to Fitzgerald that the use of his own biographical experiences told in confidence to the young author "gave him a queer feeling. It was the first time shed really learned about her grandfather, who died in 1940, before she was born. [41] At a country club, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre, a 17-year-old Southern belle and the affluent granddaughter of a Confederate senator whose extended family owned the White House of the Confederacy. [213] The cost of his opulent lifestyle and Zelda's medical bills quickly caught up, placing him in constant debt. According to biographer Andrew Turnbull, "one day, drinking martinis in the upstairs lounge, [Fitzgerald] announced that he was going to jump out of the window. [266] When Zelda died in a fire at the Highland Hospital in 1948, she was buried next to him at Rockville Union. Montral en Lumire Festival Is Back In Full Force, 7. 255 So. , John MALLORY, Isabeau de DAMPIERRE , John de FIENNES, Alinor de PROVENCE , Henri III d'ANGLETERRE. Tiffany & Co., the Plaza Hotel, Brooks Brothers theyve all unveiled Gatsby collections. September 24, 1896. Lanahan, who prefers not to reveal her age but coyly admits shes over 60, is one of two trustees of the Fitzgerald estate, meaning she has a say in who is granted rights to works such as The Great Gatsby and that she has a financial stake in its reproduction and licensing. [396] Fitzgerald acquiesced to this request, but the passages were restored in later reprints after Fitzgerald's death. By Eleanor Lanahan. Best known for The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934)two keystones of modernist fictionFrancis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was the poet laureate of the "Jazz Age," a term he popularized to convey the post-World War I era's newfound prosperity, consumerism, and shifting . . [222] By 1935, alcoholism disrupted Fitzgerald's writing and limited his mental acuity. Zelda Fitzgerald in 1928. [284] Fitzgerald detested the house and deemed it an architectural monstrosity. The family moved to France in 1924 where he started writing The Great Gatsby. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is F. Scott Fitzgerald's full name. [73] Having returned to his hometown as a failure, Fitzgerald became a social recluse and lived on the top floor of his parents' home at 599Summit Avenue, on Cathedral Hill. In the novel "The Great Gatsby", Fitzgerald used class divisions to show how the upper class, middle class and lower class lived in the 1920's. Each had their role in the 1920's. The upper class was what everyone wanted to be and what everyone strived for. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined. While abroad in Europe, Fitzgerald wrote and published, In France, Fitzgerald became close friends with writers. On October 26, 1921, their daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald was born. Fitzgerald is the quintessential American writer. "[280], The Great Gatsby's popularity led to widespread interest in Fitzgerald himself. Published May 15, 2013 at 11:15 a.m. Though they loved these roles, they were frightened by them, too, as the ending of Fitzgeralds second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), shows. [380] Consequently, Gatsby's ascent is deemed a threat not only due to his status as nouveau riche, but because he is perceived as an outsider. [249] In his spare time, he worked on his fifth novel, The Last Tycoon,[l] based on film executive Irving Thalberg. How Does Fitzgerald Present The West Egg In The Great Gatsby. [332], From 1920 until his death, Fitzgerald published nearly four pieces per year in the magazine and, in 1931 alone, he earned nearly $40,000 (equivalent to $712,735 in 2021) by churning out seventeen short stories in quick succession. [78] Critics such as H. L. Mencken hailed the work as the best American novel of the year,[79] and newspaper columnists described the work as the first realistic American college novel. [403] In her story, she is trapped in a loveless marriage with a wealthy man, yet still pines for Fitzgerald, a former lover from her past. [14] At 13, Fitzgerald had his first piece of fiction published in the school newspaper. [296] Although Fitzgerald imitated the plot of Mackenzie's novel, his debut work differed remarkably due to its experimental style. Introduction. The names Scott and Zelda can summon taxis at dusk, conjure gleaming hotel lobbies and smoky speakeasies, flappers, yellow phaetons, white suits, large tips . Gym Time for Toddlers: Five Places to Play Indoors During Mud Season, 4. He had written all but two of the stories before 1920. Fitzgerald was the only son of an unsuccessful, aristocratic father and an energetic, provincial mother. [319][320] Readers complimented him that Gatsby "is compact, economical, polished in the technique of the novel,"[300] and his writing now contained "some of the nicest little touches of contemporary observation you could imagineso light, so delicate, so sharp". Half the time he thought of himself as the heir of his fathers tradition, which included the author of The Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, after whom he was named, and half the time as straight 1850 potato-famine Irish. As a result he had typically ambivalent American feelings about American life, which seemed to him at once vulgar and dazzlingly promising. [423] Other depictions of Fitzgerald include the TV movies Zelda (1993), F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1976), The Last of the Belles (1974), and the TV series Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015). Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is the author of the twentieth century American classic, The Great Gatsby. [289], Remarking upon the cultural association between Fitzgerald and the flaming youth of the Jazz Age, Gertrude Stein wrote in her memoir The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas that the author's fiction essentially created this new generation in the public's mind. [141] She spent afternoons swimming at the beach and evenings dancing at the casinos with him. [352], As Fitzgerald's writings made him "the outstanding aggressor in the little warfare" between "the flaming youth against the old guard,"[353] a number of social conservatives later rejoiced when he died. Corrections? [157], Surveying these posthumous attacks, John Dos Passos opined that many literary critics in popular newspapers lacked the basic discernment about the art of writing. Fitzgerald then married Zelda Sayra. Which is, of course, for sale, says Lanahan. "[322] Gertrude Stein posited that Fitzgerald had surpassed contemporary writers such as Hemingway due to his masterful ability to write in natural sentences. [g][198] Despite his annoyance, he insisted upon few revisions to the work,[h] and he persuaded Perkins to publish Zelda's novel. [248] His work on Three Comrades (1938) became his sole screenplay credit. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)[339], For much of his literary career, cultural commentators hailed Fitzgerald as the foremost chronicler of the Jazz Age generation whose lives were defined by the societal transition towards modernity. This is my immediate dutywithout this I am nothing. [183] Fitzgerald returned to his fourth novel but proved unable to make any progress due to his alcoholism and poor work ethic. What did F. Scott Fitzgerald write about? [365] Although scholars posit different explanations for the continuation of class differences in the United States, there is a consensus regarding Fitzgerald's belief in its underlying permanence. [6] Edward's first cousin twice removed, Mary Surratt, was hanged in 1865 for conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. All of his divided nature is in this novel, the naive Midwesterner afire with the possibilities of the American Dream in its hero, Jay Gatsby, and the compassionate Yale gentleman in its narrator, Nick Carraway. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul Minnesota on September 24, 1896. [7], One year after Fitzgerald's birth, his father's wicker-furniture manufacturing business failed, and the family moved to Buffalo, New York where his father joined Procter & Gamble as a salesman. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24th, 1896, in St. Paul, the first surviving child of Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan Fitzgerald. His second novel The Beautiful and Damned was filmed in 1922 and 2010. Since the director made the movie in Australia one of the few countries where the copyright does not apply he didnt need to acquire rights, Lanahan explains. [271] Margaret Marshall in The Nation dismissed Fitzgerald as a Jazz Age scribe "who did not fulfill his early promisehis was a fair-weather talent which was not adequate to the stormy age into which it happened, ironically, to emerge. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota in the United States. [304] Having read and digested these criticisms of his debut novel, Fitzgerald sought to improve upon the form and construction of his prose in his next work and to venture into a new genre of fiction altogether. They are different from you and me. Fitzgerald also dramatizes the grim failures of . [96] Fitzgerald likened their juvenile behavior in New York City to two "small children in a great bright unexplored barn. [374], Consequently, many of Fitzgerald's characters are defined by their sense of "otherness". His private life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France, became almost . In an effort to abstain from alcohol, Fitzgerald drank large amounts of Coca-Cola and ate many sweets. You'll at least have one favorite after you finish reading this list. Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. Twelve volumes have been published. [248] Both assignments went uncredited. [193] In his private diary, Mencken noted Zelda "went insane in Paris a year or so ago, and is still plainly more or less off her base. [186] During an automobile trip to Paris along the mountainous roads of the Grande Corniche, Zelda seized the car's steering wheel and tried to kill herself along with Fitzgerald and their nine-year-old daughter by driving over a cliff. "[244] As Graham had read none of his works, Fitzgerald attempted to buy her a set of his novels. [47] Three days after Ginevra married a wealthy Chicago businessman, Fitzgerald professed his affections for Zelda in September 1918. "[272] His New York Times obituary deemed his work forever tied to an era "when gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession". F. Scott Fitzgerald is related to the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, or F. Scott . Pre-order Price Guarantee. in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA , United States, Died on December 21, 1940 [153] By the end of the year, the book had sold fewer than 23,000 copies. [175] At one party they outraged guests Ronald Colman and Constance Talmadge by a prank: They requested their watches and, retreating into the kitchen, boiled the expensive timepieces in a pot of tomato sauce. [195] While Fitzgerald labored on his novel, Zelda wroteand sent to Scribner'sher own fictionalized version of these same autobiographical events in Save Me the Waltz (1932). 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