Margaux Hemingway

Margaux Hemingway enters the diary through New York’s business-dinner circuit, where she is seen with Steven Greenberg. Two appearances place them together, while a later report from Dolly Fox introduces uncertainty about Greenberg’s romantic attentions. The diary records these encounters without establishing the terms of Margaux’s relationship with him or offering her own perspective.

First appearance with Steven Greenberg

At a business dinner Paige arranged for Janet Sartin and Steven Greenberg, Margaux arrived as Greenberg’s date. He had picked up the diarist and Paige in his limousine; when they went outside, they saw Greenberg and Margaux kissing in the car, and the couple appeared embarrassed at being noticed. The party then continued at Mr. Chow’s. The brief observation presents Margaux and Greenberg as a pair in public while also registering a private moment interrupted by other dinner guests.

A second dinner

Margaux appeared with Greenberg again at a business dinner Paige held at Café Condotti. Rupert Smith drove the group to the restaurant, at 38 East 58th Street. The diarist was surprised to find Jed Johnson there: he had designed the restaurant, which displayed the diarist’s Grape prints. Margaux’s presence alongside Greenberg at this separate gathering makes their association recurrent, though the entry does not explain its status.

Dolly Fox’s account

A later note adds a complication. Dolly Fox, who was dating Greenberg, asked the diarist to find out what was happening between him and Margaux. Fox said Greenberg had picked her up at eight in the evening and stayed with her until five, and that he wanted to see her again on Tuesday. The diary therefore places Fox’s account beside the earlier scenes of Margaux and Greenberg together, but does not resolve the overlap or confirm what either relationship meant to its participants.

Margaux in the diary

These entries preserve Margaux chiefly as a named presence in other people’s social arrangements: Greenberg’s date at two dinners and the subject of Fox’s question about his romantic life. The record is concrete about where she appeared and who accompanied her, but silent about her own account. That imbalance matters: the reader sees a recurring pairing and hears a competing report, not a settled explanation of Margaux’s relationship with Greenberg.