A probing look at Fitzgerald's life from scholar Ruth Prigozy, F. Scott Fitzgerald also contains a wealth of compelling visual material: paintings by Zelda Fitzgerald, photographs of the location where Scott and Zelda became engaged, rare first-edition book jackets, and photographs of the circle of friends—including Gerald and Sara Murphy, Maxwell Perkins, and Thomas Wolfe—so integral to the novels that epitomized the Jazz Age.

Ruth Prigozy is Professor of English at Hofstra University and Executive Director and Co-Founder of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. She is the author of F. Scott Fitzgerald: An Illustrated Life, editor of The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and co-editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Perspective. She has also written many articles on Fitzgerald, Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, D. W. Griffith, and Billy Wilder among others.