A LIFE IN LETTERS is the most comprehensive volume of Fitzgerald's letters to have been published in the UK; many appear in print here for the first time. Spanning over thirty years, these letters chronicle Fitzgerald's artistic and emotional development through his own words. What emerges is not only the familiar Fitzgerald - the hard-drinking, glamorous decadent of the Jazz Age - but also the writer expressing deep concerns about his art, and the man whose relationships with family and friends were often fraught with conflict and insecurity.