The Price of Paradise: The Magazine Career of F. Scott Fitzgerald

This study is an effort to remedy the critical oversight of Fitzgerald's magazine career by examining in detail Fitzgerald's relationship with the readers and editors of contemporary periodicals over the course of two decades. It will provide profiles of the various publications in which Fitzgerald appeared in the course of his career, focusing particular attention on contents and editorial parameters. It will analyze the pieces that Fitzgerald wrote for these periodicals and the readership they served, toward the end of "determining the extent to which the content and form have been influenced by the requirements or preferences" of the editors. And it will do something else that no other study has compare Fitzgerald's work with that of the writers who shared the pages of the popular press with him. In doing so, this study will reevaluate Fitzgerald as artist, professional, and public figure, and place at least one important and under-investigated facet of his career into perspective with its whole. -Stephen W. Potts (excerpt from Introduction)