fitzgerald

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The fitzgerald tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about F. Scott Fitzgerald, particularly focusing on a disputed 1928 incident at Ellerslie, Delaware, where an accidental firearm discharge reportedly occurred during a weekend party. Content examines eyewitness accounts, contemporary reporting, and later retellings, including Edmund Wilson's first-hand report and Isabel Wilder's recollections. The tag explores the tension between memory and fact in historical narratives about Fitzgerald's life.
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    Fitzgerald Wilder Gun Incident at Ellerslie: 1928 Memory vs Fact

    A weekend party, a shaken nephew, and a sister’s solemn recollection: the question of whether F. Scott Fitzgerald once “pulled a gun” on Thornton Wilder is less a single, provable incident than a tangle of eyewitness memory, contemporary reporting, and later retellings — anchored, however, by a...
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