Scott Donaldson (1928–2020)

In this book, Scott Donaldson traces the conjoining and eventual diverging career paths of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, describing in detail how their friendship, both personal and literary, came together as part of the Lost Generation in Paris but quickly fell apart somewhere between The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Using the subjects' own words (via letters, diaries, and conversations with others), Donaldson meticulously recounts how both writers achieved literary stardom while show more simultaneously battling, and eventual succumbing to, their personal demons. show less

Well worth reading if you are interested in the relationship between these two men. Rather than a tell-all book this focuses on the more scholarly and psychological ideas regarding their literary and extremely competitive friendship. It does show both men in what seems to me a more honest light than the mythical ideas surrounding them.

A well written insightful book on the life of a complex man.
Ernest Hemingway's life in Spain resulted in some wonderful stories, I particularly liked Death in the Afternoon.
Very highly recommended.
I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review.