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Reading Between Her Lines
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20050127
Author:Jonathan Yardley
THE PERFECT HOUR
The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love
By James L.W. West III
Random House. 240 pp. $24.95
On a January evening in 1915, Scott Fitzgerald, an 18-year-old sophomore at Princeton University, met Ginevra King, a 16-year-old sophomore at Westover, a finishing school for girls in Connecticut. The occasion was a party in St. Paul, Minn., at the house of the schoolmate whom Ginevra, a resident of Chicago, was visiting over the winter holidays. Sparks flew. To her diary later that same night Ginevra confided, "Scott perfectly darling. Am dipped about," and ...
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