TURNBULL, ANDREW — Scott Fitzgerald a Biography

UK, The Bodley Head. 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22cm. Book, 320 perfectly presented pp Turnbull's biography follows Fitzgerald's life from his early years in St. Paul and at Princeton to New York in the twenties, the French Riviera, Baltimore, and finally Hollywood. He tells the story behind Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise - revised and published when he was twenty-four, making him instantly famous - and his tender love affair with Zelda Sayre, from their glittering early life to the years Zelda spent in and out of sanatoriums. Excellent/Excellent.