Word: reworkings
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Others thought that after the typical Fitzgerald ending of Fitzgerald's life, a Fitzgerald novel reworked by somebody else might come as something of an anticlimax. They wondered who could rework it anyway. Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), Fitzgerald's great & good friend, for whose literary recognition he generously pled in his introduction to the Modern Library edition of The Great Gatsby, was dead too. At the home of Nathanael West and his wife, Eileen McKenney, Fitzgerald attended his last party (and his first in many a day) on Friday, Dec. 13. Day after Fitzgerald died...