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

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) --

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