A wonderful newsletter I subscribe to is Help a Reporter. They connect writers with worldwide opportunities and often share a bit of history to kickoff your morning - right up my alley ;) thank you!
Today they shared an anniversary for one of my all time favs - Hemingway's bestie (or more in reality and not my dream world, Frenemy -
According to Help a Reporter, "The initial printing sold out in three days and, quite suddenly, the 23-year-old Fitzgerald was rocketed into fame and fortune". From reading a lot on Zelda and F. Scott's background and relationship - it was often mentioned how F. Scott based most the characters on people from his own life. Now finally earning a bit of money, what was the first thing he spent it on? To have his love back by his side of course. He sent for Zelda and they married a week later on April 3rd, 1920. Which fits them so perfectly as 1920 was the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of the famed Jazz Age, a term coincidentally coined by F. Scott himself!
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