F Scott Fitzgerald

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button F Scott Fitzgerald

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This story was propelled by a comment of Mark Twain's such that it was a pity that the best piece of life came toward the start and the most exceedingly terrible part toward the end. By attempting the analysis upon just one man in a flawlessly typical world I have hardly given his thought a reasonable preliminary. Half a month in the wake of finishing it, I found a practically indistinguishable plot in Samuel Butler's "Journals."

The story was distributed in "Collier's" the previous summer and incited this surprising letter from an unknown admirer in Cincinnati:

"Sir- -

I have perused the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to state that as a short story essayist you would cause a decent insane person I to have seen numerous pieces of cheddar in my life however of all the pieces of cheddar I have ever observed you are the greatest piece. I prefer not to squander a piece of stationary on you however I will."(This book is available for lending.)