Traces the troubled life of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, from his spoiled, yet insecure childhood through his difficult marriage and writing career to his early death.

Discusses the theme and characters in Fitzgerald's novel and includes excerpts from the book and background information on the author.

In 1937 Hollywood, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham's star is on the rise, while literary wonder boy F. Scott Fitzgerald's career is slowly drowning in booze. But the once-famous author, desperate to make money penning scripts for the silver screen, is charismatic enough to attract the gorgeous Miss Graham, a woman who exposes the secrets of others while carefully guarding her own. Like Fitzgerald's hero Jay Gatsby, Graham has meticulously constructed...

Examines the history of literature from the oral tradition of prehistoric people to modern times. The elements of good literature are described and a brief history of this art form is given.

This highly acclaimed biographical drama blends in glimpses of F. Scott Fitzgerald's real life with his wife Zelda in the early 1920s, and also his days as a soldier, with dramatized scenes from his short story "The Last of the Belles."

This book ranges in time from the Fitzgeralds' courtship in Montgomery, Alabama, through the early years of impassioned creative fervor in the New York literary and theatrical world, to the dangerous summers on the French Riviera with Sara and Gerald Murphy, the heated rivalry with Hemingway in a Paris swarming with expatriots, and the desolate lost hopes of Fitzgerald's final years in Hollywood.

When Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson is found in the woods nearby. Then a diamond hairpin is found in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of the millionaire. Daisy Buchanan once thought she might marry Gatsby, before her family was torn apart...