Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald

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D.S. Ellis, 1985 - Biography & Autobiography - 151 pages
The memoir of the woman who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal secretary for the last 20 months of his life. Includes insight on Fitzgerald as a Hollywood screenwriter; his work on The Last Tycoon, his final, unfinished novel; and his relationships with his wife, Zelda, and his lover, Sheilah Graham.

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Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frances Kroll Ring
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About the author (1985)

Frances Kroll Ring was born on May 17, 1916, in the Bronx, where she attended Morris High School. She was the personal secretary to F. Scott Fitzgerald for the last 20 months of his life and a longtime source of information for biographers, documentary filmmakers, students and fans. She wrote the memoir: Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1985. Ring began working for the author in 1939. She is credited with typing drafts of The Last Tycoon and served as a sounding board for Fitzgerald as he was writing the book. She died on June 18, 2015; she was 99 years old.

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TitleAgainst the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald
AuthorFrances Kroll Ring
Editionillustrated
PublisherD.S. Ellis, 1985
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 7, 2008
ISBN0887390013, 9780887390012
Length151 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
  
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