Maybe that's why she
was attracted to telling the page-turning story of Sheilah Graham, who spent her childhood in a harrowing orphanage in London
and became one of Hollywood's first gossip columnists during the glamorous 1930s.
When I stumbled across the story of Sheilah Graham, a woman who was 90% Gatsby-esque self-invention
and F. Scott Fitzgerald's lover at what tuned out to be the end of his young life, I got excited and mentioned the idea of writing about her and Fitzgerald to my agent.
SK: For a few months I read and read: Sheilah's columns
and memoirs(there are a bunch and the telling of her life wiggles a bit,) biographies of Fitzgerald and Graham, newspaper clips, books and articles about England in the first half of the 20th century as well as the Golden Age of Hollywood and its stars.