Tells The Story Of Fitzgerald's Sudden Descent At Age Thirty Nine From A Life Of Success And Glamor To One Of Emptiness And Despair, And His Determined Recovery. This Revealing Collection Of Essays And Letters Renders The Tale Of A Man Whose Personality Still Charms Us All And Whose Reckless Gaiety And Genius Made Him A Living Symbol Of The Jazz Age. Echoes Of The Jazz Age -- My Lost City -- Ring -- Show Mr. And Mrs. F. To Number -- -- Auction- Model 1934 -- Sleeping And Waking -- The Crack-up -- Early Success -- The Notebooks: Anecdotes; Bright Clippings; Conversation And Things Overheard; Descriptions Of Things And Atmosphere; Epigrams, Wisecracks And Jokes; Feelings And Emotions (without Girls); Descriptions Of Girls; Decriptions Of Humanity (physical); Ideas; Jingles And Songs; Karacters; Literary; Moments (what People Do); Nonsense And Stray Phrases; Observations; Rough Stuff; Scenes And Situations; Titles; Unclassified; Vernacular; Youth And Army -- Letters To Friends -- Letters To Frances Scott Fitzgerald -- Three Letters About 'the Great Gatsby' -- A Letter From John Dos Passos -- A Letter From Thomas Wolfe -- F. Scott Fitzgerald / Paul Rosenfeld -- The Moral Of Scott Fitzgerald / Glenway Westcott -- A Note Of Fitzgerald / John Dos Passos -- The Hours / John Peale Bishop. F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Edited By Edmund Wilson. A New Directions Book. Includes Bibliographical References.