The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

In 1922, F Scott Fitzgerald sent to his agent Harold Ober what he called the funniest story every written, The Curious Case of Benjamin nicole kidman baby sling Button. Ober had difficulty placing it, but eventually sold it to Colliers magazine for an astonishing $1,000. Inspired apparently by Mark Twain, but never of much interest to Fitzgerald scholars, this tale is about Benjamin Button, born an old man in Baltimore in 1860 to a wealthy hardware dealer.