F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway might have been contemporaries, but our understanding of their work often rests on simple differences. Hemingway wrestled with war, fraternity, and the violence of nature. Fitzgerald satirized money and class and the never-ending pursuit of a material tomorrow. Through the provocative arguments of Scott Donaldson, however, the affinities between these two authors become brilliantly clear. The result is a reorientation of how we read twentieth-century American literature.

Known for his penetrating studies of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Donaldson traces the creative genius of these authors and the surprising overlaps among their works. Fitzgerald and Hemingway both wrote fiction out of their experiences rather than about them. Therefore Donaldson pursues both biography and criticism in these essays, with a deep commitment to close reading. He traces the influence of celebrity culture on the legacies of both writers, matches an analysis of Hemingway's Spanish Civil War writings to a treatment of Fitzgerald's left-leaning tendencies, and contrasts the averted gaze in Hemingway's fiction with the role of possessions in The Great Gatsby. He devotes several essays to four novels, Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms, and others to lesser-known short stories. Based on years of research in the Fitzgerald and Hemingway archives and brimming with Donaldson's trademark wit and insight, this irresistible anthology moves the study of American literature in bold new directions.

Introduction
Part One: The Search for Home
1. St. Paul Boy
2. Fitzgerald's Romance with the South
Part Two: Love, Money, and Class
3. This Side of Paradise: Fitzgerald's Coming of Age Novel
4. Possessions in The Great Gatsby: Reading Gatsby Closely
5. The Trouble with Nick: Reading Gatsby Closely
6. Money and Marriage in Fitzgerald's Stories
7. A Short History of Tender Is the Night
Part Three: Fitzgerald and His Times
8. Fitzgerald's Nonfiction
9. The Crisis of "The Crack-Up"
10. Fitzgerald's Political Development
Part Four: Requiem
11. A Death in Hollywood: F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered
Part Five: Getting Started
12. Hemingway of The Star
Part Six: The Craftsman at Work
13. "A Very Short Story" as Therapy
14. Preparing for the End of "A Canary for One"
15. The Averted Gaze in Hemingway's Fiction
Part Seven: The Two Great Novels
16. Hemingway's Morality of Compensation
17. Humor as a Measure of Character
18. A Farewell to Arms as Love Story
19. Frederic's Escape and the Pose of Passivity
Part Eight: Censorship
20. Censorship and A Farewell to Arms
21. Protecting the Troops from Hemingway: An Episode in Censorship
Part Nine: Literature and Politics
22. The Last Great Cause: Hemingway's Spanish Civil War Writing
Part Ten: Last Things
23. Hemingway and Suicide
24. Hemingway and Fame
Bibliography
Index