Anne Margaret Daniel

Borne back ceaselessly into the past

He disliked the restlessness of life with Zelda, and longed to enjoy his Maryland heritage in peace with his family

issue 24 June 2017

‘I do not like the idea of the biographical book,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald told his editor Max Perkins in 1936. Fitzgerald may not have liked it, but he certainly let himself in for it. As he wrote, with a grin, in 1937: ‘Most of what has happened to me is in my novels and short stories, that is, all the parts that could go into print.’

Of all the male American modernist writers with tragic lives, including Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane and Eugene O’Neill, F.

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