Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald

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 simultaneously battling, and eventual succumbing to, their personal demons.

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.