F. Scott Fitzgerald: Letters and essays

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks

Despite his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career highs (and lows) and her institutional confinement, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other lasted for more than twenty-two years – and is well documented in the 333 letters - three-quarters of them previously unpublished or out of print – collected here. Edited by the noted Fitzgerald scholars, Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, they are illustrated with a selection of familiar and unpublished photographs.

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The Crack-Up Edited by Edmund Wilson

The Crack-Up is a collection of essays that Fitzgerald published as he reached his nadir: His latest novel Tender is the Night had been a critical and financial failure, his wife had been institutionalized and the magazine short story market had dried up: "...until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again."

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A Life in Letters: A New Collection Edited and Annotated by Matthew J. Bruccoli

This correspondence - edited by eminent Fitzgerald scholar Bruccoli - offers an accessible self-portrait of the writer. Early letters to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, and friends, Edmund Wilson and Ernest Hemingway, document Fitzgerald's devotion to craft, exemplified by The Great Gatsby, as well as the novelist's ever-present financial problems.

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Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence Edited by Jackson R. Bryer

Maxwell Perkins was a well-known editor at literary institution Scribner's. He was Fitzgerald's editor, mentor and creditor. Their correspondence offers not only a lot of literary gossip, but also rare insights into Fitzgerald's devotion to his craft.

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As Ever, Scott Fitz- Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli

A collection of letters between Fitzgerald and his literary agent Harold Ober. Their correspondence ranges from 1919 to 1940.

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