Discussion:F. Scott Fitzgerald's Taxes and life
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Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 21 October 2009 |
| Absolutely fascinating to me: | |
| 22 October 2009 | |
| I hope some biographers will take note of what value the tax return has for this kind of insight, though some returns might themselves belong under the category of fiction.
One thing that throws me, if his income was so consistent, it doesn't seem like he would have had any problems paying for Zelda's doctors and the sanitorium. So, I would guess that his income tapered off later in life. I thought I had heard somewhere that he spent some drunken time in LA writing for the movies, and my understanding was that he was poor at that time. Of course, Faulker was out there too at the same time, and he was also a man that liked his liquor, so maybe he was the one that was broke. P.S. for an alcoholic with an aptitude for investing, you have to give hats off to Tennessee Williams. Or maybe his brother he always claimed he hated handled it for him? Somehow, with all his problems, he ended up with 10mil. to give the University of the South. | |
Walking Spanish (talk|edits) said: | 18 November 2009 |
| Crow, there is an interesting article in last week's New Yorker (11/16) about Fitzgerald's years as a Hollywood hack writer. For all his success as a novelist, he had no talent for screenwriting whatsoever. Although he was paid $1,250 per week, nothing that he wrote or worked on was ever produced.
It also mentions that, despite his near-constant inebriation, "he kept meticulous records; he made numerous lists; and he recorded every penny earned, borrowed and paid back." (Where are these clients now?) | |
