Intimate Lies: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham Her Son's Story
by Robert Westbrook
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This text provides an account of the turbulent romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham. In July 1937 Scott Fitzgerald was broken in spirit, desperate for money and headed for Hollywood for work as a screenwriter - his one last shot at staying sober and re-establishing himself as a writer. There he met the young Sheilah Graham, a fledgling columnist who had transformed herself from a Jewish orphan from London's East End to a British aristocrat, determined to eradicate all traces of show more her squalid youth. Scott was fascinated by the gutsy Graham, she instinctively understood him and his demons and, together, they sought refuge from the glittering ferment of late-1930s Hollywood among friends such as Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash. show lessTags
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Mr. Westbrook gives an up close an personal look at F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years. Using the diaries of his mother, Shelia Graham, Mr. Westbrook reveals the true lifestyle of Fitzgerald in Hollywood in the 1930's. After this book you will wonder how Fitzgerald could complete and article must less a book. You do discover how his imagination ran wild with all of the events around him and where he orginated his story lines. Fitzgerald wrote fiction that upon close examination was about the people that surrounded him. It was an enjoyable read that interrupted my research on Scott and Zelda.
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- Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
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- PS3511 .I9 .Z92 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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