Amanda Vaill's vivid new biography builds on Tomkins's work to provide a full-length account of the Murphys' remarkable life together.Īs well as good times, that life included suffering endured with great courage. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos all based fictional characters on the Murphys Picasso painted them and Calvin Tomkins rekindled their glamour for a younger generation in his affectionate 1971 portrait, Living Well Is the Best Revenge. He became an important painter she made everyday life a work of art. Born to wealth and privilege, they fled the stuffy confines of upper-class America to reinvent themselves in France as legendary party givers and enthusiastic participants in the modernist revolution of the 1920s. Gerald and Sara Murphy were the golden couple of the Lost Generation.
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