Allen, Frederick L., Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's, HarperCollins, 2000 (rev. ed.).

First published in 1931 and reissued in 2000, Only Yesterday is, as the book's subtitle suggests, an informal account of the decade that has come to be known as the "Roaring Twenties." The book has a special focus on the rising market and its subsequent crash and gives a good account of the atmosphere of the times in which Fitzgerald was writing.

Berg, A. Scott, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, Riverhead Books, 1977.

Winner of the National Book Award, Berg's biography of Fitzgerald's editor reveals the profound influence Perkins had not only on Fitzgerald but also on Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and many of their contemporaries.

Bruccoli, Matthew J., Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, University of South Carolina Press, 2002 (rev. ed.).

First published in 1981, Bruccoli's biography of Fitzgerald...