Murphy, Sara (1883–1975)
Murphy, Sara (1883–1975)
American expatriate. Born Sara Wiborg, Nov 7, 1883, in Cincinnati, Ohio; died Oct 10, 1975, in Arlington, VA; dau. of Frank Bestow Wiborg (a wealthy industrialist); educated in Germany and at the Spence School; m. Gerald Murphy (painter and later president of Mark Cross Co.), 1916 (died 1964); children: Honoria Murphy Donnelly, and 2 sons, Patrick and Baoth, who died in 1930s.
Wealthy expatriate American, living in Paris with husband, who became the center of a social circle that included a number of major artists and writers of the Lost Generation; resided in Cap d'Antibes (1917–31), then moved to the Hamptons, on Long Island; with husband, served as the basis for the characters Nicole and Dick Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night.
See also Calvin Tomkins, Living Well is the Best Revenge (1971); Honoria Donnelly with Richard Billings, Sara & Gerald: Villa America and After (1983); Amanda Vail, Everybody Was so Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story (1998).