Revealing and unusual <strong>Scott Fitzgerald</strong> follows the fascinating life of one ofAmericas most enduring authors from his early years in St. Paul an... » 

Revealing and unusual Scott Fitzgerald follows the fascinating life of one ofAmericas most enduring authors from his early years in St. Paul and atPrinceton to New York in the twenties the French Riviera Baltimore andfinally Hollywood. Andrew Turnbull tells the story behind F. Scott FitzgeraldsThis Side of Paradise revised and finally published when he was twentyfourmaking him instantly famous and his tender love affair with Zelda Sayre fromtheir glittering early life to the years Zelda spent in and out of sanatoriums.A literary generation too comes alive including Ernest Hemingway EdmundWilson the Murphys and Edith Wharton.Fitzgerald lived on Turnbulls family estate in Baltimore in the early 1930sand there befriended young Andrew then age eleven. Turnbulls personalrelationship with Fitzgerald and the hundreds of interviews with those who knewhim elegantly capture the dramatic tragic story of F. Scott and the glow andpathos of his flamboyant life. «