Scott Fitzgerald Anecdote From The Smithsonian

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F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940

  F. Scott Fitzgerald and social satirist Sinclair Lewis
  were the writers of the 1920s generation who came
  closest to being Edith Wharton's literary heirs.

  Fitzgerald and Wharton first met at Scribner's
  in New York, and in 1923 Fitzgerald wrote
  the dialogue for the film version of Wharton's
  The Glimpses of the Moon.

  When The Great Gatsby came out in 1925,
  he sent her an inscribed copy, to which
  she replied with an appreciative letter
  that showed she had read his works
  with care and understanding.

  In the postscript, she invited him to tea
  at Saint-Brice. Having stopped along the way
  to fortify himself, Fitzgerald was not entirely sober
  when he arrived, and to cover his social insecurity,
  he resorted to bravado,  announcing that
  he and his wife had spent a night
  in a Paris bordello.

 

  In her best grande-dame manner,
  Mrs. Wharton coolly responded,
"Yes, and then what?"  

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  The photograph of Edith Wharton is from here.
  
  She is Mrs. CarPeo's favorite author and one
  of my wedding vows is to read a Wharton 
  novel before death do me part.



 

  However, were I not to be reading my first 
  Sinclair Lewis novel–DODSWORTH–
  I never would have googled onto 
  this FSF anecdote.
   

 The photograph of Sinclair Lewis is from here
 and a quote from DODSWORTH is there.


 The 1935 portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald
 was painted by David Silvette.


 For more information about the film version
 of  "Glimpses Of The Moon," 
 do the clicky thing here. 

The next Fitzgerald page is there.
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