Monday, June 8, 2009
Books The Secret of Fitzgerald's Success
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM
The L.A. Times has a great profile of Frances Kroll Ring, F. Scott Fitzgerald's last secretary. She's 92 now, and she got the job in 1939, right after Fitzgerald saw Zelda for the last time.
Toward the end of the interview, Fitzgerald asked Ring to open a drawer in his bedroom; "Instead of shirts or underwear or whatever one might expect to find in a bureau drawer, there were gin bottles," she writes in her book.It's not clear, exactly, whether Fitzgerald was warning her about what she was getting into or letting her know what he was trying to overcome. One possibility is that it was another test, another indication of the need for discretion, of the type of closeness that working with him would require. "He told me he was going to do a novel about Hollywood," Ring says. "That was another thing: Could he trust me? Because he didn't want anyone to know what he was doing."
It's an interesting profile, and you should read it.
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Who is this Fitzgerald guy?
Is he some kind of late 90s tech guru who made a fortune?
If not, why should we care?
Is he some kind of late 90s tech guru who made a fortune?
If not, why should we care?
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