The publication of The Beautiful and Damned confirmed F.
Brilliant and scathing, it is a dazzling tale of lost youth and dissipation that spares no one--least of all the protagonists who resemble, in substance if not circumstance, Fitzge.
The story chronicles the courtship, fraught marriage, and social demise of Anthony Patch, the presumptive heir to a tycoon\'s fortune, and Gloria Gilbert, a ravishing society girl.
Scott Fitzgerald\'s place in the pantheon of great American writers.
The publication of The Beautiful and Damned confirmed F