It was Christmas Eve in the studio. By eleven o'clock in the morning, Santa Claus had called on most of the huge population according to each one's deserts.
Sumptuous gifts from producers to stars, and from agents to producers arrived at offices and studio bungalows: on every stage one heard of the roguish gifts of casts to directors or directors to casts; champagne had gone out from publicity office to the press. And tips of fifties, tens and fives from producers, directors and writers fell like manna upon the white collar class.
Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish is a 1940 short story by American author F Scott Fitzgerald. - AsNotedIn
After F Scott Fitzgerald saw Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish in print, he wrote to Esquire magazine's editor and co-founder, Arnold Gingrich:
I felt in spite of the title being appropriate to the season it was rather too bad to begin the Pat Hobby series with that story because it characterizes him in a rather less sympathetic way than most of the others. Of course, he's a complete rat but it seems to make him a little sinister which he essentially is not. Do you intend to use the other stories in approximately the order in which they were written?
Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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1939/10/14 | FSF to Esquire: Here's another Pat Hobby story. Again will your usual emolument to me be telegraphic? | ||||||
1940/01/01 | F Scott Fitzgerald | Author | "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish" by is published in Esquire. | ||||
1940/01/01 | Esquire | Publisher | "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish" by is published in Esquire. |
Particulars for Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish (short story): | |||
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Season | Christmas | the annual Christian festival celebrating Christ's birth, late December in the Western Church | |
Holiday | Christmas Eve | The night before Christmas, December 24th | |
Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
Art Type | Short Story | short form narrative fiction |
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Original Language: | English |
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