WHEN Fitzgerald met her, Zelda Sayre was just eighteen, a beautiful girl with marvelous golden hair and that air of innocent assurance attractive Southern girls have. The Sayres were an ...

That’s the trajectory of Robert Garnett’s latest biography, Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald, which showcases the second half of Fitzgerald’s life when the bright flame of his ...

In one of his epigraphs to this compact book on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Krystal invokes Lytton Strachey’s advice to the successful biographer: Instead of the “direct method of a scrupulous ...

First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel “The Great Gatsby” has been transformed into a compelling biography and cultural history. I’m not sure any other character in ...

My fascination with F. Scott Fitzgerald started with a conversation I had with my cousin. She attended Princeton, where Fitzgerald went, and wrote her senior these about him. And it was, in fact, ...

IN the spring of 1924 Fitzgerald and Zelda Neck suddenly decided that their life in Great Neck was impossible, financially and socially, and that they would go to France and “live on practically ...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age ...

Cross-Stitch author Barrera blends memoir and biography to deliver a unique portrait of Mexican author Elena Garro (1916–1988), who helped pioneer magical realism. Garro married Continue reading » The ...

How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel took over pop culture. By Michael Barbaro, A.O. Scott, Rob Szypko, Michael Benoist, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano, Diane Wong, Dan Powell and Chris Wood A hundred ...