The Crack-Up Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson (Editor) The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays -- as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton... more », T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos -- tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss.« less