Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: September 1982
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780684719153
Subjects: Fitzgerald, F. Scott; 1896-1940; Biography/Autobiography; 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; (Francis Scott),; 20th century; Authors, American; Biography
First sentence: WE BEGIN with the McQuillans, for they are the source of energy in this story.
Description: Revealing and unusual, Scott Fitzgerald follows the fascinating life of one of America's most enduring authors, from his early years in St. Paul and at Princeton to New York in the twenties, the French Riviera, Baltimore, and finally Hollywood. Andrew Turnbull tells the story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, revised and finally published when he was twenty-four, making him instantly famous, and his tender love affair with Zelda Sayre, from their glittering early life to the years Zelda spent in and out of sanatoriums. A literary generation, too, comes alive, including Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, the Murphys, and Edith Wharton. Fitzgerald lived on Turnbull's family estate in Baltimore in the early 1930s and there befriended young Andrew, then age eleven. Turnbull's personal relationship with Fitzgerald and the hundreds of interviews with those who knew him elegantly capture the dramatic, tragic story of F. Scott and the glow and pathos of his flamboyant life.