Fitzgerald's Ledger includes a year-by-year accounting of his earnings from 1919—his first year as a professional writer—through 1936. He stopped maintaining this record when he went to work for the movies in 1937.
This accounting is indispensable for understanding the shape of Fitzgerald's career as a professional writer—that is, the relationship between his magazine work and his novels. The record shows that his magazine stories brought most of his income. Moreover, by today's standards for a successful writer, he did not earn a great deal of money. Fitzgerald's earnings for 1919-36 were $386,382.96 after commissions—a total that includes movie work and all ancillary rights—for an average of $21,466 per year. During this period sales and serializations of his nine books brought $74,515. This Side of Paradise earned $14,375 plus $10,000 for movie rights; The Beautiful and Damned, $22,297 plus $2,250 for movie rights; The Great Gatsby, $8,397 plus $6,864 from the play and $18,910 for movie rights; Tender Is the Night, $16,307. The figure for Tender Is the Night is uncertain because it is impossible to untangle the loans and advances against this novel. His first three volumes of stories brought a total of $11,270.
Fitzgerald's books did not enjoy steady backlist sales. In 1929, the year The Saturday Evening Post raised his story price to $4,000, his total royalties on seven books were $31.77.
Editorial note: These figures are after agent's commissions were deducted. Bracketed material has been supplied. Fitzgerald's arithmetic has not been corrected.
|
Stories |
Babes in the Woods [Smart Set] |
$ 30.00 |
|
The Debutante (Play) [Smart Set] |
35.00 |
|
|
The Four Fists [Scribner's] |
150.00 |
|
|
The Cut Glass Bowl [Scribner's] |
150.00 |
|
|
Porcelain + Pink (Play) [Smart Set] |
35.00 |
|
|
Dalyrimple goes Wrong [Smart Set] |
40.00 |
|
|
Benediction [Smart Set] |
40.00 |
|
|
Head and Shoulders [Saturday Evening Post] |
360.00 |
|
|
A Dirge (Poem) [Judge] |
4.00 |
|
|
Mr. Icky (Play) [Smart Set] |
35.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Earnings |
879.00 |
|
Stories |
The Ice Palace [Saturday Evening Post] |
$ 360.00 |
|
Myra Meets His Family [Saturday Evening Post] |
360.00 |
|
|
The Camels Back [Saturday Evening Post] |
450.00 |
|
|
Bernice Bobs her Hair [Saturday Evening Post] |
450.00 |
|
|
The Off-Shore Pirate [Saturday Evening Post] |
450.00 |
|
|
The Smilers [Smart Set] |
35.00 |
|
|
May Day [Smart Set] |
200.00 |
|
|
Tarquin of Cheapside [Smart Set] |
50.00 |
|
|
The Jellybean [Metropolitan] |
810.00 |
|
|
The Russet Witch [Metropolitan] |
810.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
3,975.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Movies |
Head and Shoulders [Metro] |
2,250.00 |
|
Myra Meets His Family [Fox] |
900.00 |
|
|
The Off Shore Pirate [Metro] |
2,025.00 |
|
|
Option on my output [Metro] |
2,700.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
7,425.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other Writings |
This is a Magazine [Vanity Fair] |
75.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
75.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
From Books |
This Side of Paradise |
6,200.00 |
|
Flappers and Philosophers |
500.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
6,700.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
$18,175.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ommission—The Lees of Happiness [Chicago Tribune] |
675.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
$18,850.00 |
|
Stories |
The Popular Girl [Saturday Evening Post] |
$ 1,350.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
1,350.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Serial |
The Beautiful + Damned [Metropolitan] |
6,300.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
6,300.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other Writings |
Jemina [Vanity Fair] |
100.00 |
|
The Baltimore Anti-Christ [Bookman] |
13-50 |
|
|
The Far-seeing Skeptics [Smart Set] |
5.00 |
|
|
Brass [Bookman] |
7.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
135-50 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
From Books |
This Side of Paradise |
5,636.68 |
|
Flappers and Philosophers |
2,730.00 |
|
|
The Beautiful and Damned (advance) |
2,813.19 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
11,179.68 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
English Advance |
(Add Syndication Jelly Bean $5.00) |
100.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
$19,065.18 |
|
Stories |
The Diamond as big as the Ritz [Smart Set] |
270.00 |
|
Benjamin Button [Collier's] |
900.00 |
|
|
Two for a Cent [Metropolitan] |
810.00 |
|
|
Winter Dreams [Metropolitan] |
810.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
2,790.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Movie |
The Beautiful and Damned [Warner Bros.] |
2,250.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Other Writings |
On Being Twenty five [American] |
800.00 |
|
Little Brother of the Flapper [unlocated] |
900.00 |
|
|
The Moment of Revolt [McCall's] |
250.00 |
|
|
Canadian Winter Dreams |
90.00 |
|
|
”Love Legend” (review) [New York Evening Post] |
5.00 |
|
|
”The Oppidan” (review) [New York Tribune] |
3.00 |
|
|
”Margie Wins the Game” (review) [New York Tribune] |
5.00 |
|
|
Movies and the Publisher [unlocated] |
5.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
7,098.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
English Rights |
Forty seven pounds |
212.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
From Books |
This Side of Paradise |
1,200.00 |
|
Flappers and Philosophers |
350.00 |
|
|
The Beautiful and Damned |
12,133.00 |
|
|
Tales of the Jazz Age |
3,056.00 |
|
|
The Vegetable (advance) |
1,236.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total (all these book figures estimated) |
17,775.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
$25,135.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Zeldas Earnings |
The Super-Flapper [unlocated] |
$ 500.00 |
|
The Moment of Revolt [McCall's] |
250.00 |
|
|
Review of Beautiful + Damned [New York Tribune] |
15.00 |
|
|
Eulogy on the Flapper [Metropolitan] |
50.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
$ 815.00 |
|
Stories |
Option from Hearsts [1923 stories] |
$ 1,350.00 |
|
”Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar” [Hearst's International] |
1,350.00 |
|
|
Hot and Cold Blood [Hearst's International] |
1,350.00 |
|
|
”Diamond Dick” [Hearst's International] |
1,350.00 |
|
|
”Our Own Movie Queen” (half Zelda) [Chicago Tribune] |
900.00 |
|
|
Gretchen's Forty Winks [Saturday Evening Post] |
1,080.00 |
|
|
Winter Dreams (English Rights) |
112.50 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
7,492.50 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Movies |
This Side of Paradise [Famous Players] |
10,000.00 |
|
The Camel's Back [Warner Bros.] |
1,000.00 |
|
|
Grit [Film Guild] |
2,000.00 |
|
|
Titles for Glimpses of the Moon [Famous Players] |
500.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
13,500.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Play Advance |
|
450.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Other Writings |
Imagination and a few Mothers [Ladies Home Journal] |
900.00 |
|
The Cruise of the Rolling Junk [Motor] |
270.00 |
|
|
Making Monogamy Work [Metropolitan Newspaper Service] |
270.00 |
|
|
Our Irresponsible Rich [Metropolitan Newspaper Service] |
315.00 |
|
|
The Most Disgraceful Thing I Ever Did [Vanity Fair] |
20.00 |
|
|
Review of Being Respectable [Literary Digest International Book Review] |
15.00 |
|
|
” “ Many Marriages [New York Herald] |
5.00 |
|
|
” “ Through the Wheat [New York Evening Post] |
5.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
1,800.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Books |
Syndicate Returns |
67.28 |
|
This Side of Paradise |
880.00 |
|
|
Flappers and Philosophers |
98.00 |
|
|
The Beautiful and Damned |
292.00 |
|
|
Tales of the Jazz Age |
270.43 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total (figures estimated) |
1,510.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Advance on New Novel (The Great Gatsby) |
3,939.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
5,450.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
$28,759.78 |
|
Stories |
The Baby Party [Hearst's International] |
1,350.00 |
|
The Sensible Thing [Liberty] |
1,575.00 |
|
|
Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les [McCall's] |
1,575.00 |
|
|
The Third Casket [Saturday Evening Post] |
1,575.00 |
|
|
One of My Oldest Friends [Woman's Home Companion] |
1,575.00 |
|
|
The Pusher-in-the Face [Woman's Home Companion] |
1,575.00 |
|
|
The Unspeakable Egg [Saturday Evening Post] |
1,575.00 |
|
|
John Jackson's Arcady [Saturday Evening Post] |
1,575.00 |
|
|
Love in the Night [Saturday Evening Post] |
1,575.00 |
|
|
The Adjuster [Red Book] |
1,800.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
15,750.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
English Rights |
The Third Casket |
|
|
The Sensible Thing |
|
|
|
Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
241.20 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Articles |
Wait till You Have Children of Your Own [Woman's Home Companion] |
900.00 |
|
How to Live on $36,000 a Year [Saturday Evening Post] |
900.00 |
|
|
How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year [Saturday Evening Post] |
1,080.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
2,880.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Syndicate |
|
103.52 |
|
|
|
|
|
Other Rights From Books (inc. English and Syndicate) |
The Third Casket (German Rights) |
17.50 |
|
This Side of Paradise |
325.00 |
|
|
Flappers and Philosophers |
16.00 |
|
|
The Beautiful and Damned |
527.00 |
|
|
Tales of the Jazz Age |
7.00 |
|
|
The Great Gatsby (further advance) |
325.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,200.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
$20,192.22 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ommission — Absolution [American Mercury] |
118.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
$20,310.22 |
|
Stories |
Not in the Guide Book [Woman's Home Companion] |
1,575.00 |
|
A Penny Spent [Saturday Evening Post] |
1,800.00 |
|
|
The Rich Boy [Red Book] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
Presumption [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,250.00 |
|
|
The Adolescent Marriage [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,250.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
$11,025.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Books |
This Side of Paradise |
26.24 |
|
Flappers and Philosophers |
21.65 |
|
|
The Beautiful and Damned |
144.30 |
|
|
Tales of the Jazz Age |
20.54 |
|
|
The Great Gatsby |
1,981.85 |
|
|
All the Sad Young Men (advance) |
2,717.33 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
4,906.61 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Misselaneous |
Advance on Gatsby play |
900.00 |
|
Gatsby second serial [Famous Story] |
900.00 |
|
|
Old New England Farmhouse [College Humor] |
180.00 |
|
|
Syndicate |
282.00 |
|
|
Gretchen's Forty Winks (English) |
60.00 |
|
|
Love in the Night (English) |
80.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
2,402.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
$18,333.61 |
|
Stories |
Your Way and Mine [Woman's Home Companion] |
1,575.00 |
|
The Dance [Red Book] |
1,800.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
3.375.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
English Rights |
Love in the Night (see previous page |
78.00 |
|
One of Our Oldest Friends |
83.45 |
|
|
A Penny Spent |
61.92 |
|
|
The Adolescent Marriage |
64.80 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
288.17 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Syndicate ect |
Adjuster, Pusher in the Face, Oldest Friends |
222.68 |
|
|
|
|
|
Article |
How to Waste Material [Bookman] |
90.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Books (inc. English) |
This Side of Paradise |
44.00 |
|
Flappers and Philosophers |
35.80 |
|
|
The Beautiful and Damned |
33.10 |
|
|
Tales of the Jazz Age |
21.20 |
|
|
The Great Gatsby |
508.25 |
|
|
All the Sad Young Men |
1,181.05 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
2,033.20 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Foreign |
Danish and Swedish Rights to Gatsby |
213.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Moving Picture |
The Great Gatsby [Famous Players] |
13,500.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Play (The Great Gatsby) |
New York Run |
2,616.98 |
|
Chicago “ |
2.673.97 |
|
|
Road “ |
673.26 |
|
|
(Detroit, Brklyn, Bait., St. Louis, Chi, Denver, Phila) |
5,964.21 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
$25,686.05 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Love in the Night (English) |
97.75 |
|
Stories |
Jacob's Ladder [Saturday Evening Post] |
$ 2,700.00 |
|
The Love Boat [Saturday Evening Post] |
3.150.00 |
|
|
A Short Trip Home [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
The Bowl [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
Magnetism [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
15,300.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Movies |
California work on “Lipstick” [M-G-M] |
3,500.00 |
|
Additional Payment “Gatsby” |
2,910.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
6,410.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other Writings and Rights |
Princeton [College Humor] |
450.00 |
|
Editorial Photoplay (Zelda) [”Paint and Powder, Smart Set] |
450.00 |
|
|
Park Avenue (”) [Harper's Bazaar] |
300.00 |
|
|
Looking Back 8 Years ( “ ) [College Humor] |
300.00 |
|
|
English “Presumption” |
68.98 |
|
|
German “Rags Martin Jones” |
25.00 |
|
|
Golden BK “Pusher in Face” |
99.00 |
|
|
Anthology “Pusher in Face” |
22.50 |
|
|
Anthology “Jellybean” |
26.67 |
|
|
Syndicate “Your Way + Mine” ect |
137.44 |
|
|
German Rights to Gatsby |
141.00 |
|
|
All English Book Royalties |
95.32 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
2,096.11 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Books |
This Side of Paradise |
13.03 |
|
The Beautiful and Damned |
14.80 |
|
|
The Great Gatsby |
55.65 |
|
|
Flappers and Philosophers |
26.70 |
|
|
Tales of the Jazz Age |
16.35 |
|
|
All the Sad Young Men |
43.05 |
|
|
Advance on New Novel Serial [Tender Is the Night] |
5,752.06
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
5.911.64 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
29.737.87 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tax Unpaid 1926 |
|
|
Adolescent Marriage |
$ 64.80 |
|
|
Gatsby Road |
320.15 |
|
|
|
384.95 |
|
Stories |
The Scandal Detectives [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
The Freshest Boy [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
A Night at the Fair [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
He Thinks he's Wonderful [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
The Captured Shadow [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
The Perfect Life [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
The Georgia Belle [”The Last of the Belles,” Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
22,050.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other Writings |
Outside the Cabinet Makers [Century] |
135.00 |
|
Who Can Fall in Love after Thirty (Zelda) [College Humor] |
180.00 |
|
|
Syndicate (Wheeler) |
12.15 |
|
|
Magnetism (English) |
78.25 |
|
|
Bell Syndicate |
2.23 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
406.67 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Advertisement |
[Woodbury Soap] |
1,000.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
Books |
This Side of Paradise |
22.05 |
|
The Beautiful and Damned |
22.40 |
|
|
Flappers + Philosophers |
12.30 |
|
|
Tales of the Jazz Age |
12.90 |
|
|
The Vegetable |
8.60 |
|
|
The Great Gatsby |
44.15 |
|
|
All the Sad Young Men |
25.05 |
|
|
Further Advance on New Novel Serial |
2,129.03 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
2,272.96 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
25,732.96 |
|
Stories |
Forging Ahead [Saturday Evening Post] |
$ 3,150.00 |
|
Basil + Cleopatra [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
Rough Crossing [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
Majesty [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
At Your Age [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
The Swimmers [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
Two Wrongs [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
First Blood [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
27,000.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Zelda's Sketches |
Original Follies Girl [College Humor] |
360.00 |
|
Poor Working Girl [College Humor] |
450.00 |
|
|
Southern Girl [College Humor] |
450.00 |
|
|
Girl the Prince Liked [College Humor] |
450.00 |
|
|
Girl with Talent [College Humor] |
720.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
2,430.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Misselaneous |
Talkie Rights B+D |
900.00 |
|
Girls Believe in Girls [Liberty] |
1,350.00 |
|
|
Advertisement [Woodbury Soap] |
500.00 |
|
|
Short Autobiography [New Yorker] |
90.00 |
|
|
Golden Bk. “One of My Oldest” |
90.00 |
|
|
English “Outside Cabinet” |
34.56 |
|
|
Reprints |
21.85 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
2,986.41 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Books |
This Side of Paradise |
4.80 |
|
Flappers + Philosophers |
11.70 |
|
|
The Beautiful + Damned |
3.60 |
|
|
Tales of the Jazz Age |
3.00 |
|
|
Great Gatsby |
5.10 |
|
|
All Sad Young Men |
2.10 |
|
|
Vegetable |
1.13 |
|
|
English Gatsby |
.34 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
31.77 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grand Total |
$32,448.18 |
|
Stories |
A Nice Quiet Place [Saturday Evening Post] |
$ 3,600.00 |
|
The Bridal Party [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
A Woman with a Past [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
One Trip Abroad [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
A Snobbish Story [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
The Hotel Child [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
Babylon Revisited [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
25,200.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other Items |
Salesmanship in the Champs Elysee [New Yorker] |
|
|
At Your Age—Modern Library |
|
|
|
Two for a Cent—Golden Book |
|
|
|
Jacob's Ladder English |
|
|
|
Reprints |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
341.10 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Zelda's Writings |
The Millionaire's Girl [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
Miss Bessie [”Miss Ella,” Scribner's] |
150.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
3,750.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Books |
This Side of Paradise |
10.20 |
|
Flappers + Philosophers |
10.05 |
|
|
The Beautiful + Damned |
4.80 |
|
|
Tales of the Jazz Age |
8.40 |
|
|
The Vegetable |
1.12 |
|
|
The Great Gatsby |
15.60 |
|
|
All the Sad Young Men (+ Presentday Stories) |
51.80 |
|
|
Further Advances (Serial new novel + 1 583.06 against bk. |
3,701.97 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
3,820.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grand Total |
$33,090.10 |
|
Stories |
Indecision [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
A New Leaf [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
Flight and Pursuit [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
Emotional Bankruptcy [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
Between Three and Four [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
A Change of Class [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
Half a Dozen of the Other [”Six of One,” Redbook] |
2,700.00 |
|
|
A Freeze Out [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
Diagnosis [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
31,500.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other Items |
Treatment Metro Goldwyn Mayer [Red-Headed Woman] |
5,400.00 |
|
Echoes of the Jazz Age [Scribner's] |
500.00 |
|
|
Vegetable Performance |
22.50 |
|
|
New Leaf (English) |
59.00 |
|
|
Flight + Pursuit (English) |
126.00 |
|
|
John Jackson's Arcady |
2.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
6,109.50 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Books |
This Side of Paradise |
12.90 |
|
Flappers + Philosophers |
4.30 |
|
|
The Beautiful + Damned |
4.40 |
|
|
Tales of the Jazz Age |
3.90 |
|
|
The Vegetable |
1.13 |
|
|
The Great Gatsby |
17.90 |
|
|
All the Sad Young Men |
7.90 |
|
|
Advance against Bk. |
44.15 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
100.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Less: Not paid in 1931 by Metro |
-155.35 |
|
Grand Total |
37,554.00 |
|
|
New Yorker sketch |
45.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
37,599.00 |
|
Stories |
Crazy Sunday [American Mercury] |
$ 200.00 |
|
Family in the Wind [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
What a Hansome Pair [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,250.00 |
|
|
The Rubber Check [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,700.00 |
|
|
Interne [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,150.00 |
|
|
On Schedule [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,700.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
14,805.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other Items |
Reprint of The New Leaf |
|
|
Walter Baker Royalty |
|
|
|
Flight + Pursuit (English) |
|
|
|
Couple of Nuts (Zelda) [Scribner's] |
|
|
|
The Gourmets (Zelda) [unlocated; possibly “The Continental Angle,” New Yorker] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total on all these |
313.40 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Books |
All Royalties |
20.00 |
|
Advance on Novel |
480.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
500.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grand Total |
15,823.40 |
Stories |
More than just a House [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,700.00 |
|
I Got Shoes [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,250.00 |
|
|
The Family Bus [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,700.00 |
|
|
Articles |
My Lost City [unpublished] |
900.00 |
|
One Hundred False Starts [Saturday Evening Post] |
1,080.00 |
|
|
Books |
Tender and Taps Advance and new advance of 1,690.21 |
4,200.00 |
|
Other Books |
30.00 |
|
|
Save me the Waltz |
120.00 |
|
|
Sound Rights |
The Great Gatsby |
2,250.00 |
|
Other Items |
Two for a Cent (English) |
34.81 |
|
New Leaf (Home Mag. English) |
63.03 |
|
|
John Jackson (Royalties |
19.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16,328.03 |
|
Stories |
No Flowers [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,700.00 |
|
New Types [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,700.00 |
|
|
Her Last Case [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,700.00 |
|
|
In the Darkest Hour [Redbook] |
1,125.00 |
|
|
The Count of Darkness [Redbook] |
1,350.00 |
|
|
A Kingdom in the Dark [Redbook] |
1,350.00 |
|
|
The Fiend [Esquire] |
250.00 |
|
|
The Night before Chancellorsville [Esquire] |
250.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12,475.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
All Books |
|
58.35 |
|
|
|
|
|
Misselaneous |
Ring Lardner [New Republic] |
50.00 |
|
Preface to Gatsby [Modern Library] |
50.00 |
|
|
Broadcast of Diamond |
45.00 |
|
|
Family in the Wind (Swedish) |
12.27 |
|
|
Your Age (Modern) |
3.16 |
|
|
Show Mr + Mrs F. [Esquire] |
200.00 |
|
|
Auction—Model 1934 [Esquire] |
200.00 |
|
|
Modern American Prose |
37.50 |
|
|
Smart Set Anthology |
12.50 |
|
|
Chatto + Windus |
156.31 |
|
|
American Short Story |
1.02 |
|
|
Gatsby Modern Library |
250.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,017.76 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Scribner Advance |
On New Work |
6,481.98 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,032.33 |
|
Stories |
The Intimate Strangers [McCall's] |
2,700.00 |
|
Zone of Accident [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,700.00 |
|
|
What You Don't Know [”Fate in Her Hands,” American] |
2,700.00 |
|
|
Too Cute for Words [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,700.00 |
|
|
Gods of the Darkness [Redbook] |
1,350.00 |
|
|
The Esquimo Boy [”The Passionate Eskimo,” Liberty] |
1,350.00 |
|
|
The Image on the Heart [McCall's] |
1,125.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14,725.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Misselaneous |
Lamp in a Window [New Yorker] |
22.50 |
|
Modern Library Royalty |
17.89 |
|
|
English Sale—The Fiend |
41.93 |
|
|
Columbia Broadcast “Lets go Out” |
630.00 |
|
|
Shaggy's Morning [Esquire] |
250.00 |
|
|
Same—London |
31.00 |
|
|
Sleeping + Waking [Esquire] |
250.00 |
|
|
Your Age |
10.88 |
|
|
Crack Up [Esquire] |
250.00 |
|
|
Paste Together [Esquire] |
250.00 |
|
|
Brittish Fiend |
41.93 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,796.13 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
All Books |
and Advance |
$ 342.03 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16,845.16 |
|
Stories |
Outside the House [”Inside the House,” Saturday Evening Post] |
$ 3,000.00 |
|
Make Yourself at Home [Pictorial Review; possibly published as “Strange Sanctuary,” Liberty] |
2,500.00 |
|
|
The Pearl + the Fur [unpublished, Pictorial Review] |
1,000.00 |
|
|
Trouble [Saturday Evening Post] |
2,000.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
— 10% |
7,650.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Esquire Pieces |
Handle with Care |
250.00 |
|
Three Acts of Music |
“ |
|
|
The Ants at Princeton |
“ |
|
|
Author's House |
“ |
|
|
Afternoon of an Author |
“ |
|
|
An Author's Mother |
“ |
|
|
I Didn't Get Over |
“ |
|
|
Please Send me in, Coach |
“ |
|
|
An Alcoholic Case |
“ |
|
|
|
2,250.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Misscelaneous |
Modern Library, British + Danish, John Jackson ect |
199.79 |
|
|
|
|
|
All Books |
|
81.18 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
10,180.97 |
|
Stories |
The Goon [Esquire] |
|
|
The Long Way Out [Esquire] |
|
|
|
In the Holidays [Esquire] |
|
|
|
Room 13 [Esquire] |
|
|
|
Financing Finnegan [Esquire] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Misselaneous |
Obit on Parnassus [New Yorker] |
|
|
Book of Ones Own [New Yorker] |
|
|
|
Early Success [American Cavalcade] |
|
|
|
Foreign Sales (Gatsby) |
|
|
|
Random House |
|
|
|
Scribners (All Books) |
|
[Fitzgerald stopped maintaining his Ledger when he went to California in June I937.]
|
1922 |
Four articles [”The Super-Flapper,” unpublished; ”Friend Husband's Latest,” New York Tribune; ”Eulogy on the Flapper,” Metropolitan; ”Does a Moment of Revolt Come Sometime to Every Married Man?” McCall's] |
$815.00 |
|
1923 |
Our Own Movie Queen (Story—half mine) [Chicago Sunday Tribune] |
450.00 |
|
1927 |
Editorial Photoplay (unpublished) [”Paint and Powder,” Smart Set] |
450.00 |
|
Park Avenue [Harper's Bazaar] |
300.00 |
|
|
Looking Back Eight Years [College Humor] |
300.00 |
|
|
1928 |
Who Can Fall in Love After Thirty [College Humor] |
180.00 |
|
1929 |
The Original Follies Girl [College Humor] |
360.00 |
|
The Poor Working Girl (unpublished) [College Humor] |
450.00 |
|
|
The Southern Girl [College Humor] |
450.00 |
|
|
The Girl the Prince Liked [College Humor] |
450.00 |
|
|
The Girl with Talent [College Humor] |
720.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
5,075.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1930 |
The Millionaire's Girl [Saturday Evening Post] |
3,600.00 |
|
Miss Bessie [”Miss Ella,” Scribner's] |
135.00 |
|
|
1931 |
The Continental Angle [New Yorker] |
|
|
1932 |
A Couple of Nuts [Scribner's] |
|
|
1932 |
Save Me the Waltze [novel] |
|
|
1934 |
Show Mr + Mrs F. to Number— [Esquire] |
|
|
1934 |
Auction Model 1934 [Esquire] |
|