With other Uncollected Pieces, Note-Books and Unpublished Letters.
Together with Letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos.
And Essays and Poems by Paul Rosenfeld, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson.
Fitzgerald died in 1940 at the age of 44. Shortly afterward his close friend, Edmund Wilson, put together this selection of his writings, the nearest thing to an autobiography that Fitzgerald ever wrote. Here are his personal essays - candid to the point of starkness - his notebooks, his vigorous and revealing letters, as well as contributions by such friends as T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and John Dos Passos. This is the story of Fitzgerald's "crack-up", his quick descent from success to failure and despair and his determined recovery. Above all it is the story of a man whose personality still charms us all and whose reckless gaiety and genius made him the living symbol of his era.
