The Romantic Egoists, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Signed by Scottie Fitzgerald
[Signed, Presentation by Scottie Fitzgerald] Bruccoli, Matthew J. (ed.). The Romantic Egoists, A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. First Edition. 1974. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. This copy is warmly inscribed by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s daughter to his literary assistant, Frances Kroll Ring. The inscription reads, “Much love to Frances—happy memories--+ hope there’ll be many more. From Scottie, December, 1974.”
This large-format pictorial autobiography relates the story of one of the great American literary myths via the very materials from it was made: photographs, letters, clippings, manuscripts, drawings, invitations, and scrapbook fragments preserved by Scott and Zelda themselves. It is at once a literary document, a family album, and a social history of the couple who came to embody the brilliance and crack-up of the Jazz Age. The effect is unusually intimate: not a biography looking back from a safe distance, but a life assembled from the glittering debris of its own moment. This copy is signed to Frances Kroll Ring who was Fitzgerald’s assistant at the time of his death and became a vital source for his biographers.
“For a man who seems to have been congenitally incapable of balancing a budget, it is extraordinary how meticulous my father was about making and keeping personal records.”
--Scottie Fitzgerald Smith