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Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy was born on November 7, 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the wealthy Wiborg family. Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat Year 1883 ( MDCCCLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Her father, Frank, was a self-made millionaire by the age of 40, and her mother was a member of the noted Sherman family, daughter of Hioy Sherman and counting Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman as an uncle. Originally raised in Cincinnati, Sara Wiborg and her family moved to Germany for several years when she was a teenager, so her father could concentrate on the European expansion of his company. Upon returning to the United States, the Wiborgs eventually spent most of their time in New York City and, later, East Hampton, of which they were one of the first wealthy families to build a house there. The City of New York East Hampton is a Village in Suffolk County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island.

In East Hampton the young Sara Wiborg met her future husband, Gerald Murphy, who was the heir to the Mark Cross company. Gerald Clery Murphy ( March 25, 1888 &ndash October 17, 1964) was a Boston-born American artist who was active as a painter in Europe from Five years her junior, for many years Sara and Gerald were more familiar companions than romantically attached. After marrying and having three children, in 1921 Sara and Gerald moved to Paris, to escape the strictures of New York and their families' mutual dissatisfaction with their marriage, eventually buying a house on the French Riviera, where they became the center of a large social circle of artists and writers of later fame in the 20th century, especially Zelda and F. The French Riviera (Côte d'Azur Occitan: Còsta Azzura) is one of the most famous resort areas in the world extending along the Mediterranean Sea west Gerald and Sara Murphy were wealthy Expatriate Americans who moved to the French Riviera in the early 20th century and who with their generous Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and Pablo Picasso.

Pablo Picasso, a friend of Sara's, painted her in several of his 1923 works:

Nicole and Dick Diver of Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald are widely recognized as based on the Murphys, based on marked physical similarities, although many friends of the Murphys, as well as the Murphys themselves, saw as much or more of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald's relationship and personalities in the couple than the Murphys. Tender Is the Night is an English language novel by F Scott Fitzgerald. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24 1896 – December 21 1940 was an American writer of Novels and Short stories, whose works are evocative of the Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24 1900 – March 10 1948 born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery Alabama, was a novelist and the wife of writer F Ernest Hemingway's couple in The Garden of Eden is not explicitly based on them, but given the similarities and the setting, Nice, there is clearly some basis for such an assumption. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 — July 2 1961 was an American novelist short-story writer, and Journalist. The Garden of Eden is the second posthumously released Novel of Ernest Hemingway, published in 1986. Nice (nis Niçard Occitan: Niça norm or Nissa, Italian: Nizza or Nizza Marittima, Greek Interestingly, guests of the Murphys would often swim at Eden Roc, an event emulated in The Garden of Eden. Eden Roc is also the name of an album by the Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi Eden Roc is a Census-designated place (CDP in

Sara died on October 10, 1975 in Arlington, Virginia, 11 years after her husband. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state

Amanda Vaill's biography of Gerald and Sara Murphy, Everybody Was So Young, was published in 1998.

On July 12, 2007, a play by Crispin Whittell entitled Villa America, based entirely on the relationships between Sara and Gerald Murphy and luminaries of the early 20th century (such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso) had its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Actress Jennifer Mudge originated the role of Sara Murphy. Villa America Webpage

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