Sara Murphy

American expatriate

Also known as: Sara Sherman Murphy, Sara Sherman Wiborg

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Sara Murphy was a wealthy American expatriate who, along with her husband Gerald Murphy, lived in Paris and Antibes, France, during the 1920s and early 1930s. They were known for hosting and befriending prominent artists and writers of the era, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Pablo Picasso. Fitzgerald's novel Tender Is the Night was dedicated to the Murphys, with its main characters based on them. Gerald Murphy was also a painter and stage designer, contributing to ballets. The couple returned to America in 1933.1

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