1952 National Book Award for Nonfiction (Finalist)
The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a biography of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald written by Arthur Mizener.[1] Published in 1951 by Houghton Mifflin, it was the first published biography of Fitzgerald and is credited with renewing public interest in its subject.[2][1] It dealt frankly with Scott's alcoholism and depression as well as his wife Zelda's schizophrenia including her suicidal and homicidal tendencies. The title alludes to Fitzgerald's debut novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), that launched him to fame.
In this landmark biography, Mizener proposed the now popular interpretations of Fitzgerald's magnum opusThe Great Gatsby as a criticism of the American Dream and the character of Jay Gatsby as the dream's false prophet.[3][4] He popularized these interpretations in a series of talks titled "The Great Gatsby and the American Dream."[4] These interpretations about the novel are now often taught in high schools without accreditation to Mizener.
Although Mizener's biography became a commercial success, Fitzgerald's friends such as literary critic Edmund Wilson and others believed the work distorted Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's relationship and personalities for the worse.[5][6] "Arthur Mizener had never known Fitzgerald," Wilson later publicly wrote, "and did not in certain respects perhaps very well understand him."[7] Consequently, scholars deemed Andrew Turnbull's 1962 biography Scott Fitzgerald to be a significant correction of the biographical record.
^ abThe New York Times 1988.
^Flanagan 1951, pp. 115–117.
^Mizener 1965, p. 193.
^ abThe Cornell Daily Sun 1960, p. 1.
^Wilson 1957, pp. 475–476.
^Baughman 1996.
^Wilson 1959, pp. 115–23; Wilson 1965, p. 24.
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