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This essay deals with three memoirs on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham's Beloved Infidel (1958), Tony Buttitta's After the Good Gay Times (1974), and Frances Kroll Ring's Against the Current (1985). These texts are representative examples of an interesting sub-genre of memoir I have labeled the “secondary memoir,” which takes as its focus the author's time with some other person, giving us a “moderated image” of that person, in this case F. Scott Fitzgerald. The secondary memoirs on Fitzgerald have been critically neglected and deserve scholarly attention, though they do present some problems. Although we might question the objectivity (or, conversely, the subjectivity) of each, these secondary memoirs present an image of Fitzgerald more comprehensive than the passing mentions in the memoirs of Cowley and Stein, and more sincere than the apparently contrived scenes in the memoirs of Hemingway and Callaghan. Graham, Buttitta, and Ring elegantly fill in the gaps, moderating between the rigid lines of serious scholarly study of Fitzgerald's life and the loose, superficial scribbles of the Fitzgerald myth.

THE NOVELIST F.Scott [F Scott] Fitzgerald was a love addict - and so are as many as one in 20 of us. Love and romance addiction are the latest interpersonal problems being selected for therapy in Britain. Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous has groups that offer a 12-step treatment programme for those wanting to deal with their problem. The cornerstone of its recovery programme is an acceptance that the sufferers are powerless to deal with their love addiction and that their lives have become unmanageable.

For me, it happened as I read a tale of the joys of aging written by Sheilah Graham. The Hollywood gossip columnist wrote about a house in Palm Beach and pleasure trips abroad. Almost incidentally, she added: \"This is a small matter, but it gives me satisfaction to pay half-fare on buses andtrains and only $2 at the movies.\" Click. \"The transfers from the working-age population to the elderly,\" Samuel Preston of the University of Pennsylvania explains, \"are also transfers away from children, since the working ages bear far more responsibility for child-rearing than do the elderly.\" As for Medicare, some reformers recommend raising money from the 40 percent of elderly who pay income taxes and using it to lower Medicare premiums for low-income people. Other politicians, from Moynihan to Reagan, want to raise the personal tax exemption for all but the highest income brackets to $2,000 as an aid to families with children.

As for Medicare, some reformers recommend raising money from the 40 percent of elderly who pay income taxes and using it to lower Medicare premiums for low-income people. Other politicians, from Moynihan to Reagan, want to raise the personal tax exemption for all but the highest income brackets to $2,000 as an aid to families with children.

The story starts with a cash-strapped [F Scott Fitzgerald] leaving North Carolina -- where [Zelda] is confined to a sanatorium -- for Hollywood, an institution with its own constraints: \"Just being there,\" he ruminates, \"was a compromise.\" Buried inside the MGM Writers' Building (nicknamed the \"Iron Lung\"), he is transferred from one ill-fated script to the next -- no longer the \"golden wunderkind\" who wrote Gatsby, but a \"helpless\" hack, harried by bosses and binging on gin. Contrasting Fitzgerald's decline with the film industry's golden age, O'[Nan] conveys the writer's lifelong sense of estrangement: \"A poor boy from a rich neighbourhood, a midwesterner in the east, an easterner out west\", he was always a \"wanderer far from home\". Throughout the book, Scott's life is in flux; ironically, one of his few fixed landmarks is Zelda. Adrift in the world, the two are locked into a pattern they can't escape: their repeatedly broken promise that \"she would be sane. He would be sober\".

The title is from \"The Great Gatsby,\" Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece: \"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.\" \"He was a very handsome man,\" Ring recalled in a 1993 Los Angeles Times interview. \"He looked very pale and he had sort of faded blond hair and blue-green eyes. He sat me down and it was a lovely room. It was a country farmhouse, and the sun was coming in, and he had me open a drawer - and it was filled with empty gin bottles.\" \"If one of his characters bothered him, he poked and prodded and analyzed until the person came into focus - much like a sculptor adding a bit of clay, digging out another bit, tearing down and rebuilding,\" Ring later wrote. \"This fearless attack on his own manuscript made a lasting impression on me. He was his own best editor.\"

Sheilah Graham, 84, the legendary Hollywood gossip columnist, whose own life was as vivid and storied as those she wrote about, died of heart failure November 17, 1988.

[SHEILAH GRAHAM], the legendary Hollywood gossip columnist who with Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper formed what came to be known as the \"Unholy Trio,\" has died in a hospital here. She was 84.

Sheilah Graham, the last of the self-styled \"Unholy Trio\" ofgossip columnists who sparked fear in the hearts of actors and theirstudio bosses alike, died Thursday in a Palm Beach, Fla., hospital. The onetime mistress of F. Scott Fitzgerald who wrote of their tortured affair in \"Beloved Infidel,\" a best-selling book made into a 1959 film, was either 80 or 76, depending on differing biographical sources. Her daughter, Wendy Fairey, said that she was 84. She later switched her allegiance to journalism. She met Fitzgerald at a Hollywood party. They reportedly fell in love almost instantly, despite her knowing that Fitzgerald was committed to his institutionalized wife, Zelda, as long as she was alive.