Although he produced a limited body of work, Andrew Turnbull achieved scholarly recognition as the biographer of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. His humanistic insights into two of America's most prominent Jazz Age writers have enabled his books to become standard references for readers interested in the authors of such modern masterpieces as The Great Gatsby (1925) and Look Homeward, Angel (1929). "When I began the research for this book in the spring of 1957," Turnbull wrote of Scott Fitzgerald (1962), "I knew my focus would be Fitzgerald's personality. Since the revival of interest in him, there had been extensive criticism of him and exegesis of his work, but the man remained elusive, as he had been in life. My desire was to get back to the sources, to ponder the written evidence and probe the memories of those who had known him." Turnbull's strength is his ability to capture the...