Explores many of the important social, historical and cultural contexts surrounding the life and works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The Historical Guides to American Authors is an interdisciplinary, historically sensitive series that combines close attention to the United States' most widely

Although F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the most recognizable literary figures of the twentieth century, his legendary life - including his tempestuous roma

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Cover

How and why Fitzgerald's novel, initially called a failure, has come to be considered a masterwork of American literature and part of the fabric of the culture.