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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 disappo

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Author

Matthew J. Bruccoli

Publisher

Open Road Media/Open Road

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781504075251

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

4.19 / 5 (368 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14