Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
By (Author) Scott Donaldson
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st October 2012
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
813.52
Physical Properties
Paperback
296
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 23mm
Description
Fool for Love is Scott Donaldson's masterful biography of F. Scott Fitzgeraldwritten from a fresh and highly intimate perspective. Fool for Love follows Fitzgerald from his birthplace in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Princeton and upward into the highest reaches of literary and public successand ultimately to Fitzgerald's untimely death in Hollywood at the age of forty-four, broke and nearly forgotten.
Reviews
"The most penetrating psychological examination of the author ever written." James L. W. West III, editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
"A stunning portrait. Full of intriguing insights. Donaldson comes close to what the inner man must have been."Publishers Weekly
"Written with great polish and researched as fully as any work on Fitzgerald."CHOICE
Author Bio
Scott Donaldson is one of the nations leading literary biographers. Among his many books are By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway; Archibald MacLeish: An American Life, winner of the Ambassador Book Award for Biography; and Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship.
