Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Near fine in a near fine bright dust jacket. Pablo Picasso, too, was inspired by the couple, painting Sara several times in 1923. Set mainly in the French Riviera, specifically in the Côte d’Azur, Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden chronicles the relationship of a couple who also bear similarities to the Murphys. Fitzgerald’s characters Nicole and Dick Diver of Tender Is the Night are widely recognized as having been based on the Murphys, mainly because the obvious physical similarities, although many of their mutual friends saw similarities to Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald themselves. The Murphys were rumored to have been the inspiration for characters in both Fitzgerald’s Tender Is The Night and Hemingway’s Garden of Eden. The activities of the Murphys, however, fueled the same renaissance in arts and letters as did the excitement of Paris, especially among the cafés of Montparnasse. Prior to their arrival on the French Riviera, the fashionable only wintered there, abandoning the region during the high summer months.

Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Cole Porter, John Dos Passos, and Robert Benchley. The group included a number of great artists and writers of the Lost Generation including Ernest Hemingway, Zelda and F. Association copy, with one of Hemingway’s calling cards tipped which is inscribed by him, “Dearest Sara you might like this one Ernest.” The recipient, Sara Murphy and her husband Gerald Clery Murphy were expatriate Americans who moved to France in the 1920s and, through their generous hospitality and flair for parties, created a vibrant social circle of artists and writers on the French Riviera. New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1952.įirst edition of Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works.

The old man and the sea 1st edition