F. Scott Fitzgerald / Ruth Prigozy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prigozy, Ruth.

Series:

Overlook illustrated lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

158 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2001.

Summary:

F. Scott Fitzgerald's life reads like one of his own stories: a young man of great promise marries into wealth, but beneath the golden surface lie alcoholism, debt, insecurity, and in Fitzgerald's particular case, the mental instability of his beautiful, unconventional wife, Zelda. In the face of these sorrows, Fitzgerald wrote brilliant, diamond-sharp prose and in The Great Gatsby he captured for all time the dark side of the American Dream.

Many of the photos in this volume have never before been published, including a photo of the location where Fitzgerald and Zelda became engaged, along with rare first edition book jackets, paintings by Zelda, and photos of friends and colleagues, among them Maxwell Perkins, Gerald and Sara Murphy, and Fitzgerald's great rival Ernest Hemingway. Acclaimed Fitzgerald scholar Ruth Prigozy provides fresh insight into the life of the novelist who, in both his work and life, captured the rise and fall of the Jazz Age.

Contents:

I. Prologue: the Afterlife of F. Scott Fitzgerald 3

II. Prologue: 21 December 1940 7

The Early Years: St Paul and the Young Writer 9

Princeton, Ginevra King 25

This Side of Paradise, Zelda Sayre, Early Success, Great Neck 35

Europe, Edouard Jozan, the Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway 68

Hollywood, Ellerslie, Travels, Zelda's Breakdown 89

Relapses, La Paix, Tender is the Night 102

Debt, Despair, the Crack-Up 112

Hollywood, Sheilah Graham, the Last Tycoon 119.

Notes:

"Published by arrangement with Penguin Books Ltd."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149).

ISBN:

1585672653

OCLC:

49058635