Note publique d'information : Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the
two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life.
Despite his early success with The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald battled against failure
and disappointment.This book, by the acclaimed biographer of Hemingway, is the first
to analyze frankly the meaning as well as the events of Fitzgerald's life and to illuminate
the recurrent patterns that reveal his inner self. Meyers emphasizes Fitzgerald's
alcoholism, Zelda's illnesses and her doctors, Fitzgerald's love affairs both before
and after her breakdown, and his wide-ranging friendships, from the polo star Tommy
Hitchcock to the Hollywood executive Irving Thalberg. His writer friends included
Ring Lardner, John Dos Passos, James Joyce, Edith Wharton, and Dorothy Parker. His
friend and lifelong hero, Ernest Hemingway, was a harsh critic of both his behavior
and his novels, but Fitzgerald accepted this with remarkable humility. Meyers portrays
the volatile connection between these two writers and Fitzgerald's marriage to the
schizophrenic Zelda with insight and poignancy. Meyers also discusses Fitzgerald's
fascinating relationship with his daughter, Scottie. Exercising a fine critical balance,
he details Fitzgerald's weaknesses but ultimately reveals a man capable of fierce
loyalty and great moral courage.
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