--- Victoria Esposito-Shea
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victoria@esposito-shea.com> wrote:
> interestingly enough, one of
> the real-life models for Gatsby was supposed to
have
> been "Legs" Diamond,
> who of course became the protag of William
Kennedy's
> first Albany novel
> (and my favorite of his books that I've
read).
This may already have been mentioned, and it's been a long
time since I've read Gatsby, so I won't remember the names,
but...
There is a organized crime / gambler / bookie type figure in
the novel that Fitzgerald largely based, it is said, on the
real-life figure of the man (whose name I also can't
remember) who supposedly organized the throwing of the World
Series by Shoeless Joe Jackson, et al. (as portrayed in the
film Eight Men Out).
I know what you're thinking: could George be a little more
vague? The answer is yes, I can...but I don't want to look
like a show-off.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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