F. Scott Fitzgerald’s status as a symbol of Jazz Age excess hurt his career during the Depression years. Tender Is the Night received mixed reviews, which didn’t help his alcoholism and deteriorating health. When Carl Van Vechten took this photo of Fitzgerald in June 1937, the author had...
While E.B. White was mourning the demise of the smoky nightclub, art and design criticLewis Mumfordcontinued his tirade against the pretentious and mediocre buildings that were popping up all over the city, including the new Federal Court Building on Centre Street that was, in Mumford’s words...
ALL THAT JAZZ…Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald(pictured here in 1926) embodied the riotous days of the Roaring Twenties. (beinecke.library.yale.edu) In 1932, during her stay at the Phipps Clinic (Johns Hopkins), Zelda experienced a burst of creativity, writing an entire autobiographical novel ...