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Ring worked for Fitzgerald for 20 months in 1939 and 1940.<ref name="latimes1">{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-frances-kroll-ring-20150626-story.html |title=Frances Kroll Ring dies at 99; secretary and assistant to author F. Scott Fitzgerald |work=LA Times |date= |accessdate=2015-09-08}}</ref> She typed drafts of ''[[The Last Tycoon]]'' and served as a sounding board as he worked on the story; she also did the same for two other projects he was working on, the Pat Hobby stories and a screenplay based on his story “Babylon Revisited.”<ref name="bostonglobe1">{{cite web|author=Stuart Lavietes |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2015/06/25/frances-kroll-ring-secretary-fitzgerald-dies/0U2iVNIcRavgUTMAS0ctyO/story.html |title=Frances Kroll Ring, secretary to Fitzgerald, dies at 99 |publisher=The Boston Globe |date=2015-06-26 |accessdate=2015-09-08}}</ref> |
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Ring wrote that she paid Dr. [[Clarence H. Nelson]]'s bill ($25) after Fitzgerald's death.<ref>Frances Kroll Ring. Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald. Figueroa Press (June 2005) p120</ref> Fitzgerald had consulted Dr. Nelson complaining of “aches around the elbow and shoulder. . . whenever I have had a great orgy of cokes or coffee."<ref>Robert Westbrook. Intimate lies: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham : her son's story. HarperCollins Publisher, Jul 6, 1995 p 397</ref> On Feb 7, 1940, Fitzgerald wrote to Dr. Nelson, telling him that he was not drinking and would pay his medical bill soon.<ref>The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Laurel edition. 1966 p 623</ref> Fitzgerald died suddenly of a [[myocardial infarct]] in the apartment of [[Sheilah Graham]], December 21, 1940, 5:15 pm, and Dr. Nelson signed the death certificate.<ref>Matthew J. |
Ring wrote that she paid Dr. [[Clarence H. Nelson]]'s bill ($25) after Fitzgerald's death.<ref>Frances Kroll Ring. Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald. Figueroa Press (June 2005) p120</ref> Fitzgerald had consulted Dr. Nelson complaining of “aches around the elbow and shoulder. . . whenever I have had a great orgy of cokes or coffee."<ref>Robert Westbrook. Intimate lies: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham : her son's story. HarperCollins Publisher, Jul 6, 1995 p 397</ref> On Feb 7, 1940, Fitzgerald wrote to Dr. Nelson, telling him that he was not drinking and would pay his medical bill soon.<ref>The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Laurel edition. 1966 p 623</ref> Fitzgerald died suddenly of a [[myocardial infarct]] in the apartment of [[Sheilah Graham]], December 21, 1940, 5:15 pm, and Dr. Nelson signed the death certificate.<ref>{{Citation | last = Bruccoli | first = Matthew J. | author-link = Matthew J. Bruccoli | title = Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald | edition = 2nd rev. | date = July 2002 | orig-year = 1981 | publisher = [[University of South Carolina Press]] | location = Columbia, South Carolina | isbn = 978-1-57003-455-8 | url = https://archive.org/details/somesortofepicgr0000bruc_p7y5 | via = Internet Archive | url-access = registration | page = 489}}</ref> Ring selected a gray casket for Fitzgerald's burial.<ref name="latimes1"/> |
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In 1985, Ring published a memoir titled ''Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald''; the title is from a sentence in Fitzgerald's ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' - "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."<ref name="latimes1"/> The memoir was eventually made into a movie, ''[[Last Call (2002 film)|Last Call]]'', starring [[Jeremy Irons]] as Fitzgerald and [[Neve Campbell]] as young Frances Kroll.<ref name="Jewish"/> |
In 1985, Ring published a memoir titled ''Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald''; the title is from a sentence in Fitzgerald's ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' - "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."<ref name="latimes1"/> The memoir was eventually made into a movie, ''[[Last Call (2002 film)|Last Call]]'', starring [[Jeremy Irons]] as Fitzgerald and [[Neve Campbell]] as young Frances Kroll.<ref name="Jewish"/> |
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Kroll has a cameo appearance as her older self in the closing scene of the movie where she is looking in a bookstore window. |
Kroll has a cameo appearance as her older self in the closing scene of the movie where she is looking in a bookstore window. |
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Ring was also the editor of the Automobile Club of Southern California's ''Westways'' magazine, and brought some of the best writers of the time to it, including [[Anais Nin]] and [[Wallace Stegner]].<ref name="latimes1"/> She also worked as a story reader for Paramount and a book reviewer.<ref name="bostonglobe1"/> |
Ring was also the editor of the [[Automobile Club of Southern California]]'s ''Westways'' magazine, and brought some of the best writers of the time to it, including [[Anais Nin]] and [[Wallace Stegner]].<ref name="latimes1"/> She also worked as a story reader for Paramount and a book reviewer.<ref name="bostonglobe1"/> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Latest revision as of 23:45, 28 March 2023
Frances Kroll Ring (May 17, 1916 – June 18, 2015) was the last secretary and personal assistant to F. Scott Fitzgerald before his death.[1]
Biography[edit]
Ring worked for Fitzgerald for 20 months in 1939 and 1940.[2] She typed drafts of The Last Tycoon and served as a sounding board as he worked on the story; she also did the same for two other projects he was working on, the Pat Hobby stories and a screenplay based on his story “Babylon Revisited.”[3]
Ring wrote that she paid Dr. Clarence H. Nelson's bill ($25) after Fitzgerald's death.[4] Fitzgerald had consulted Dr. Nelson complaining of “aches around the elbow and shoulder. . . whenever I have had a great orgy of cokes or coffee."[5] On Feb 7, 1940, Fitzgerald wrote to Dr. Nelson, telling him that he was not drinking and would pay his medical bill soon.[6] Fitzgerald died suddenly of a myocardial infarct in the apartment of Sheilah Graham, December 21, 1940, 5:15 pm, and Dr. Nelson signed the death certificate.[7] Ring selected a gray casket for Fitzgerald's burial.[2]
In 1985, Ring published a memoir titled Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald; the title is from a sentence in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby - "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."[2] The memoir was eventually made into a movie, Last Call, starring Jeremy Irons as Fitzgerald and Neve Campbell as young Frances Kroll.[1] Kroll has a cameo appearance as her older self in the closing scene of the movie where she is looking in a bookstore window. Ring was also the editor of the Automobile Club of Southern California's Westways magazine, and brought some of the best writers of the time to it, including Anais Nin and Wallace Stegner.[2] She also worked as a story reader for Paramount and a book reviewer.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Frances Kroll Ring, 1916 - 2015 | Jewish Women's Archive". Jwa.org. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
- ^ a b c d "Frances Kroll Ring dies at 99; secretary and assistant to author F. Scott Fitzgerald". LA Times. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
- ^ a b Stuart Lavietes (2015-06-26). "Frances Kroll Ring, secretary to Fitzgerald, dies at 99". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
- ^ Frances Kroll Ring. Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald. Figueroa Press (June 2005) p120
- ^ Robert Westbrook. Intimate lies: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham : her son's story. HarperCollins Publisher, Jul 6, 1995 p 397
- ^ The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Laurel edition. 1966 p 623
- ^ Bruccoli, Matthew J. (July 2002) [1981], Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2nd rev. ed.), Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, p. 489, ISBN 978-1-57003-455-8 – via Internet Archive
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