Daisy

Have you ever wondered what happened to Daisy Buchanan after the Great Gatsby was murdered in his swimming pool on Long Island in the summer of 1922? She and Tom Buchanan fled to Europe where they met almost everybody worth knowing in the roaring twenties: the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, Pablo Picasso, who painted her portrait, Gerald and Sara Murphy, as well as the Prince of Wales.

After years of interviews and with the help of Daisy’s diaries, her daughter, Pamela, has reconstructed Daisy’s life in Paris, in England, and in Spain where Daisy left the privileged life she had known to become involved on the loyalist side of the Spanish Civil War.

Pamela Buchanan was born in Lake Forest, Illinois, educated in France, England, and Switzerland, and lives in the South of France. She serves as emeritus trustee on the boards of the Buchanan Foundation of Chicago; the James Gatz Charitable Trust in Bismarck, North Dakota, and the Carraway Institute of St. Paul, Minnesota; all three of which she founded. Her previous books include: American Countess, an account of her first marriage, and Married to Figaro, an account of her second.