{"product_id":"the-romantic-egoists-a-pictorial-autobiography-from-the-scrapbooks-and-albums-of-f-scott-and-zelda-fitzgerald-9781570035296","title":"The Romantic Egoists: A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA most intriguing perspective on a legendary literary couple\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pictorial autobiography of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald documents two lives that have become legendary.\u003ci\u003e The Romantic Egoists\u003c\/i\u003e draws almost entirely from the scrapbooks and photograph albums that the Fitzgeralds scrupulously kept as their personal record and provides a wealth of illustrative material not previously available.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a unique way this book gives Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's own story. The variety is surprising: Fitzgerald's thoughts about his early loves in St. Paul, Minnesota; a photograph of the country club in Montgomery, Alabama, where the two met; reviews of \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise;\u003c\/i\u003e poems to the couple from Ring Lardner; snapshots of their trips abroad; Fitzgerald's careful accounting of his earnings; a photograph of the house on Long Island where \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e was conceived; postcards with Fitzgerald's drawings for his daughter. These rare photos and memorabilia combine into a narrative augmented by selections from Scott's and Zelda's own writings, conveying the spirit of particular moments in their lives. As Scottie Fitzgerald Smith writes in her introduction, \"We've tried hard to balance the literary with the personal, and the familiar with the more obscure... to make it their book, rather than a book about them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late \u003cb\u003eJoan P. Kerr\u003c\/b\u003e (1921-1996), a founding editor of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, was a specialist in American art and photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473848144146,"sku":"9781570035296","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ef692c30-021a-4ce5-ac24-1ca67d7dade1.jpg?v=1730204661","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-romantic-egoists-a-pictorial-autobiography-from-the-scrapbooks-and-albums-of-f-scott-and-zelda-fitzgerald-9781570035296","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}