The Perfect Hour
The Perfect Hour
By James L. W. West III
Ginevra King was a rich, ravishing 16-year-old when F. Scott Fitzgerald fell in love with her in 1915. She was young enough to have lost her last two baby teeth only a few days before they met. She was young enough to write diary entries full of exclamation points ("Wonderful letter from Scott again to-day!") but old enough to be exquisitely immortalized in one of the greatest American novels. Had this schoolgirl socialite not bewitched the 18-year-old Fitzgerald and filled him with such longing, there would not have been a Daisy Buchanan to break Jay Gatsby's heart.