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"Epic indeed, this is the definitive biography of Fitzgerald, plain and simple. There's no reason to own another." —Library Journal
 
The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." These works and more elevated F. Scott Fitzgerald to his place as one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. After struggling to become a screenwriter in Hollywood, Fitzgerald was working on The Last Tycoon when he died of a heart attack in 1940. He was only forty-four years old.
 
Fitzgerald left behind his own mythology. He was a prince charming, a drunken author, a spoiled genius, the personification of the Jazz Age, and a sacrificial victim of the Depression. Here, Matthew J. Bruccoli strips away the façade of this flawed literary hero. He focuses on Fitzgerald as a writer by tracing the development of his major works and his professional career. Beginning with his Midwest upbringing and first published works as a teenager, this biography follows Fitzgerald's life through the successful debut of This Side of Paradise, his turbulent marriage to Zelda Sayre, his time in Europe among The Lost Generation, the disappointing release of The Great Gatsby, and his ignominious fall. As former US poet laureate James Dickey said, "the spirit of the man is in the facts, and these, as gathered and marshalled by Bruccoli over thirty years, are all we will ever need. But more important, they are what we need."
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09YL545M7
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 28, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 10.7 MB
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 807 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1504075251
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #184,260 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #244 in Biographies & Memoirs of Authors #270 in Biographies of the Rich & Famous #322 in Biographies of Actors & Entertainers
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