Includes: "An Example of Suicide", "Long Island" and "The Swamp Garden"
Subject (Topic):
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Material consists of one autograph manuscript draft, signed and corrected, and one typescript carbon draft of a short story. Typescript draft inscribed in an unidentified hand: "written before 1928". Accompanied by a typescript note by Fitzgerald's agent Harold Ober providing a synopsis of the story.
Description:
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American author. and Purchased from William Reese Co. (Sotheby's sale, 2012 June 15, lot 99) on the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2012.
Subject (Name):
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 and Ober, Harold, 1881-1959
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Letters to George Ellsworth, accompanied by a letter from Noel S. about Brinig's No Marriage in Paradise, two book jackets, a promotional piece for Singermann, and photographs of Ellsworth and of Brinig. Brinig's letters, most written from New York City, are detailed accounts of the life of a gay man in New York. Brinig writes of parties, friends, plays and movies he's seen, and of his attempts to get his work published. People mentioned in his letters include Eric Ambler, Erskine Caldwell, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Lynn Riggs, Cady Wells, and Tennessee Williams.
Description:
Gift of Robert MacLeod, 1994. and Myron Brinig, American novelist, was born in Minneapolis on December 22, 1896. He grew up in Butte, Montana and many of his most noted works, including Singermann (1929), Wide Open Town (1931), and The Sisters (1937), were set in Montana. As an adult, Brinig lived in Taos, New Mexico and in New York City. He died in New York on May 13, 1991.
Subject (Geographic):
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs
Subject (Name):
Brinig, Myron, 1897-1991 and Ellsworth, George
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century--Archives and Gay men--United States