French Riviera arriving on the Côte d'Azur. Edith Wharton wrote "The Age of Innocence" (1920) at a villa near Hyères, winning the Pulitzer Prize for the novel (the first woman to do so). Dancer Isadora Duncan frequented Cannes and Nice, but died in 1927 when her scarf caught in a wheel of the Amilcar motor car in which she was a passenger and strangled her. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald first visited with his wife Zelda in 1924, stopping at Hyères, Cannes and Monte Carlo – eventually staying at Saint-Raphaël, where he wrote much of "The Great Gatsby" and began "Tender is
Susan Scarf Merrell Bond: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relationships" in 1997. A graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts & Sciences, Susan Scarf Merrell received her MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College and currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. She is also Director of the Southampton Writers Conference. Married to architect James Merrell, she is the daughter of best-selling journalist Maggie Scarf and economist Herbert Scarf. She has two sisters, Martha Samuelson and Betsy S. Stone. Susan Scarf Merrell Susan Scarf Merrell is an American author specializing in the novel, short story, and essay. Her