To Shane Leslie, George Jean Nathan and Maxwell Perkins in appreciation of much literary help and encouragement.
– The Beautiful and The Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Shane Leslie was an Irish author and cousin to Winston Churchill.
George Jean Nathan, a drama critic, inspired the character Addison De Witt in All About Eve.
Maxwell Perkins edited several of Fitzgerald’s novels, in addition to those of Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway.
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