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Tag Archives: Zelda Fitzgerald
Recommended: Biographies
For starters: My recommended Fiction books My recommended Non-Fiction books BIOGRAPHIES: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph Ellis I’ve written a lot about Joseph Ellis’ work here. While I love David McCullough’s work so much, Ellis is … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Books, Directors, Founding Fathers, James Joyce, Theatre, writers
Tagged A. Scott Berg, Abigail Adams, Alexander Hamilton, American Sphinx, Benjamin Franklin, Biography, Bruce Springsteen, Charles Lindbergh, Charlotte Bronte, David McCullough, Dean Martin, Edie Sedgwick, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ellen Terry, Elvis Presley, Emily Bronte, George Washington, Henry Irving, His Excellency, Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes, James Dean, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Adams, John Wayne, Joseph Cornell, Joseph Ellis, Marlon Brando, Mitford sisters, Montgomery Clift, Nick Tosches, Nureyev, Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Bosworth, Patricia Highsmith, Richard Ellmann, Ron Chernow, Sam Cooke, Simon Callow, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Jefferson, Truman Capote, W.B. Yeats, Zelda Fitzgerald
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Bookshelf Tour #7
Moving on to biographies. Please ignore my wretched ceiling. I had nothing to do with it. I also lost the top shelf of my bookshelves when I moved here in February. Still room for a row of books though. I … Continue reading
The Books: The Crack-Up, ‘Auction – Model, 1934’, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On the essays shelf: The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald The byline here again, like with ‘Show Mr. and Mrs. F–‘ is “F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald”, dated July of 1934. This is an interesting piece. A couple auctions off … Continue reading
The Books: The Crack-Up, ‘Show Mr. and Mrs F –’, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On the essays shelf: The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald The byline here is “F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald”, and the date is “May-June 1934”. They got married in 1920. He was newly famous because of his first novel. They … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald
So you see that old libel that we were cynics and skeptics was nonsense from the beginning. On the contrary we were the great believers. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, “My Generation” Fitzgerald was one of those writers I liked right … Continue reading
Posted in On This Day, writers
Tagged F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Zelda Fitzgerald
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Happy Birthday, Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald’s description of her life in the 1920s: Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef’s headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house … Continue reading
The Books: Zelda: A Biography, by Nancy Milford
Daily Book Excerpt: Biography Next biography on the biography shelf is Zelda: A Biography, by Nancy Milford How can a girl say again, “I do not want to be respectable because respectable girls are not attractive,” and how can she … Continue reading
Midnight in Paris Re-Release: A Nostalgia For a Life He Had Never Lived
This article originally appeared on Capital New York. Midnight in Paris opened in May. So far, it has made over $50 million in the United States alone, making it Woody Allen’s biggest box office success. Sony Pictures has decided to … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Zelda Fitzgerald
Excerpt of letter from Zelda to Scott Fitzgerald, included in the wonderful biography Zelda: A Biography: Scott – there’s nothing in all the world I want but you – and your precious love – All the material things are nothing. … Continue reading
Joan Acocella: Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints
Joan Acocella has been a staff writer for The New Yorker for I don’t know how many years, and I am just now starting to pay attention to her. She writes mainly about dance (her dance columns are amazing – … Continue reading
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Tagged Joan Acocella, Primo Levi, Stefan Zweig, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, Zelda Fitzgerald
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