
Title
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Essays from the Edge: The Jazz Age Novelist’s Chronicle of His Mental Collapse, Much derided by His Critics, Anticipated the Rise of Autobiographical Writing in America
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Sympathetic study of Fitzgerald’s “Crack-Up” essays detailing his mental collapse. The revelatory nature of the essays drew the ire of Fitzgerald’s literary contemporaries, including Hemingway.
Published in
American Scholar
Volume
81
Issue
2
Date
Spring 2012
Pages
104-111
COinS
Citation
Hampl, Patricia. “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Essays from the Edge: The Jazz Age Novelist’s Chronicle of His Mental Collapse, Much derided by His Critics, Anticipated the Rise of Autobiographical Writing in America.” American Scholar 81, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 104-11.