F. Scott Fitzgerald died before he could finish this novel [The Last Tycoon]... Its central character, the great film producer Monroe Stahr, is based on Irving Thalberg and, like Fitzgerald, is a desperately sick man, disenchanted with life, but striving still to work. This volume contains a fascinating synopsis of the conclusion of the novel put together from the author's notes.
Originally published: New York : Scribner,1941. First published in Great Britain by Grey Walls 1949. Cover illustration by Denis Piper. Rare Books copy: "Reprinted 1962" on verso of title-page.
Source of Acquisition:
Rare Books copy: Gift of James L. W. West III; 2014.
