The Crack-Up

A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism.

The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays―as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos―tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."

• Tender Is the Night
• The Beautiful and Damned (Vintage Classics)
• I'd Die For You: And Other Lost Stories
• The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
• The Love of the Last Tycoon
• The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
• Tales of the Jazz Age: Stories (Vintage Classics)
• Flappers and Philosophers: Stories (Vintage Classics)
• Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• I'd Die For You: And Other Lost Stories