The introductory essay in this volume serves as a meditation on Fitzgerald's enduring relevance, pointing out how the major themes persisting across his workwealth, success, love, youth, and tragedy are also enduring themes within the American consciousness. Other essays discuss Fitzgerald's interpretation of the American Dream, his place within American popular culture and survey the critical reception of the novels and short stories to demonstrate the rise, fall, and resurgence of Fitzgerald's reputation as a major American author. Finally, novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg offers a personal reminiscence of his brief, hectic friendship with Fitzgerald as the two struggled to complete a screenplay in the late 1930's.

On F. Scott Fitzgerald / --Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald / -- The Paris review perspective / -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's American dream / -- Within and without: F. Scott Fitzgerald and American consumer culture / -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's critical reception / -- The curious adaptation of Benjamin Button: from Fitzgerald's satire to Fincher's sentimentality / -- Youth culture and the spectacle of waste: This side of paradise and The beautiful and damned / -- F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in American popular culture / -- Scott Fitzgerald's romance with the south / -- Fitzgerald's brave new world / -- American Riviera: style and expatriation in Tender is the night / -- Tender is the night and the calculus of modern war / -- A stricken field: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and medievalism during the thirties / -- Will the real Pat Hobby please stand up? / -- F. Scott Fitzgerald / -- Fitzgerald: the authority of failure / -- Remembering Scott / Budd Schulberg. On F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Paris review perspective -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's American dream -- Within and without: F. Scott Fitzgerald and American consumer culture -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's critical reception -- The curious adaptation of Benjamin Button: from Fitzgerald's satire to Fincher's sentimentality -- Youth culture and the spectacle of waste: This side of paradise and The beautiful and damned -- F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in American popular culture -- Scott Fitzgerald's romance with the south -- Fitzgerald's brave new world -- American Riviera: style and expatriation in Tender is the night -- Tender is the night and the calculus of modern war -- A stricken field: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and medievalism during the thirties -- Will the real Pat Hobby please stand up -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Fitzgerald: the authority of failure -- Remembering Scott.