Sinópse: The moving story of how F. Scott Fitzgerald washed up, alcoholic and ill dedicated himself to devising a heartfelt course in literature for the woman he loved. In 1937, on the night of her engagement to the Marquess of Donegall, Sheilah Graham met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a party in Hollywood. Graham, a British-born journalist, broke off her engagement, and until Fitzgerald had a fatal heart attack in her apartment in 1940, the two writers lived the fervid, sometimes violent affair that is memorialized here with unprecedented intimacy. When they met, Fitzgerald s fame had waned. He battled crippling alcoholism while writing screenplays to support his daughter and institutionalized wife. Graham s star, however, was rising, to the point where she became Hollywood s highest-paid, best-read gossip columnist. But if Fitzgerald had lived out his crack-up in public, Graham kept her demons secret such as that she believed herself to be a fascinating fake who pulled the wool over Hollywood s eyes. Most poignantly, she keenly felt her lack of education, and Fitzgerald rose to the occasion. He became her passionate tutor, guiding her through a curriculum of his own design: a college of one. Graham loved him the more for it, writing the book as a tribute. As she explained, An unusual man s ideas on what constituted an education had to be preserved. It is a new chapter to add to what is already known about an author who has been microscopically investigated in all the other areas of his life. ” Afterword by Fairey, Wendy W