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.on your own, why not get a reporting job some-where.After all not many people write as well asDonahoe, Charles W.(Sap) (1896 1973) Fitz- you do.We re living in one of the damnedestgerald s classmate at the NEWMAN SCHOOL, where tragic moments in history if you want to go tohe played football and edited The NEWMAN NEWS, pieces I think it s absolutely O.K.but I think youand at PRINCETON, where he was a member of the ought to write a first rate novel about it (andClass of 1917.In the summer of 1915, after his you probably will) instead of spilling it in littlesophomore year at Princeton, Fitzgerald visited the pieces for Arnold Gingrich (October? 1936; CU,Donahoe family s ranch in Montana, which pro- p.311).vided the setting for  The Diamond as Big as the After Fitzgerald s death Dos Passos expressedRitz (June 1922).In October 1918, Fitzgerald sent admiration for The Last Tycoon in his 1945 Crack-Donahoe five carbon-copy typescript chapters for Up essay, concluding,  Even in their unfinished The Romantic Egotist ; these chapters are all that state these fragments, I believe, are of sufficientsurvive of this early version of This Side of Paradise.dimensions to raise the level of American fictionDonahoe was one of Fitzgerald s permanent heroes.to follow in some such way as Marlowe s blankFitzgerald described him without naming him in verse line raised the whole level of Elizabethan Pasting It Together (March 1936):  another man verse (p.343).represented my sense of the  good life, though I saw See Townsend Ludington, John Dos Passos: Ahim once in a decade.But in difficult situations I Twentieth Century Odyssey (New York: Dutton,had tried to think what he would have thought, how 1980).he would have acted (CU, p.79).Dreiser, Theodore (1871 1945) NaturalisticDos Passos, John (1896 1970) Innovative Ameri- American novelist of whom Fitzgerald said,  Drei-can novelist; friend of Fitzgerald.His works include ser is rough, No Social grace at all, but my God, 288 Dwan, Allanwhat a storyteller! He s the best of our generation! See W.A.Swanberg, Dreiser (New York: Scrib-(SHEILAH GRAHAM, College of One, p.84).ners, 1965).Dreiser s treatment of the deterioration ofHurstwood in Sister Carrie (1900) which Fitzger- Dwan, Allan (1885 1981) Movie director whoald described as  almost the first piece of Ameri- lived on Long Island; Fitzgerald listed him as acan realism (College of One, p.83) influenced source for Chapter III of The Great Gatsby.Fitzger-Fitzgerald s depiction of Anthony Patch in The ald noted in his Ledger for July 1923:  Parties atBeautiful and Damned, and An American Tragedy Allen Dwans (p.177).In 1923 Fitzgerald wrote(1925) was a possible source for the murder plot of the titles for Dwan s silent film of EDITH WHAR-an early version of Tender Is the Night.Fitzgerald TON s novel Glimpses of the Moon (1922).Dwanand Dreiser met at a party that Dreiser gave in accompanied the Fitzgeralds and RING and EllisNEW YORK CITY in spring 1923.LARDNER to the opening of The Vegetable. Eearnings Fitzgerald s earnings have been much sold 15,000 copies that Depression year.The totalexaggerated, for it is generally believed that he made royalties on the four novels that were publishedand squandered a fortune.He was unquestionably during Fitzgerald s lifetime were about $41,000.extravagant, but his income, though substantial by The subsidiary income from Fitzgerald s novels1920s and 1930s standards, was not prodigious.The was meager by present standards.There were nocareful record he maintained in his Ledger reveals mass-market paperbacks before 1939 and no bookthat his total income from 1919 to 1936, before clubs before 1926.Movie rights brought compara-he moved to HOLLYWOOD, was $374,922.58 (after tively little: $10,000 for TSOP (not produced anddeducting agent HAROLD OBER s 10 percent com- it is uncertain whether all of the money was paid)mission on magazine sales); this amounts to an and $2,500 for B&D.The most subsidiary incomeannual average of $20,829 over 18 years of writ- came from GG: about $6,900 from the play bying.It is impossible to convert the buying power Owen Davis and $16,200 for the movie rightsof Fitzgerald s dollars into the value of 1990s dol- against $7,161 from the book sales.lars.Multiples of 8 or 10 are often used in which Most of Fitzgerald s income came from his 160case Fitzgerald s $20,000 would be worth $160,000 stories and most of that from his 65 SATURDAY$200,000 today.Comparative figures: members of EVENING POST stories.Before he went to work forthe House and Senate were paid $10,000 per year the movies in 1937 the year after he sold hisduring the 1920s, and the average salary for a public last Post story magazine purchases of 116 storiesschool teacher was $1,445 in 1929.brought Fitzgerald $241,453 of which $175,410None of Fitzgerald s novels was a true best came from the Post.The royalties from his four col-seller.This Side of Paradise sold 47,075 copies in lections added $12,400 to his short-story income [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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