A short autobiography

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896-1940 (Author). West, James L. W. (Added Author).

Summary: A revelatory anthology of 19 personal essays and articles by the 20th-century literary master spans his career and includes a 1920 article written shortly after This Side of Paradise made him famous and a 1940 assessment of the times in which he lived.

Record details

ISBN: 9781439199060 (pbk.)
ISBN: 143919906X (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781439199077 (ebk.)
ISBN: 1439199078 (ebk.)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 204 p. ; 20 cm.
Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2011.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Who's who--and why (1920) -- An interview with Mr. Fitzgerald / by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920) -- Three cities (1921) -- What I think and feel at 25 (1922) -- Imagination--and a few mothers (1923) -- How to live on $36,000 a year (1924) -- How to live on practically nothing a year (1924) -- "Wait until you have children of your own!" (1924) -- How to waste material-- a not on my generation (1926) -- Princeton (1927) -- A short autobiography (with acknowledgements to Nathan) (1929) -- Girls believe in girls (1930) -- Salesmanship in the Champs-Élysées (1930) -- The death of my father (unfinished) (1931) -- One hundred false starts (1933) -- Author's house (1936) -- Afternoon of an author (1936) -- An author's mother (1936) -- My generation (1939/1940) -- Annotations.