This biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald investigates the relationship between his novels and his magazine work, documents his finances, and discusses his disastrous marriage to Zelda and difficult relationship with Hemingway. "This consummately skillful portrait is Scott Fitzgerald to the life. In 1920, the publication of This Side of Paradise, his first novel, thrust him upon America's literary horizon. Twenty years later, physically burned out, fearful...

Personal snapshots, letters, press clippings, extracts from reviews, and other material from family scrapbooks provide an intimate and definitive autobiography of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.