Myrtle Wilson -- Aint we got fun -- Flat as one of Aunt Jemima's pancakes -- Rich girls don't marry poor boys -- The Rough Crossing -- Last of the belles -- The Left Bank -- An Oxford man -- How to live on practically nothing -- A northern mans dream of the South -- Cliff diving -- The sensible thing -- Passion at first glance -- Repeating the past -- The book by Goddard -- The American dream -- Jozan -- A perfect food -- Smooth as two cats -- A beautiful little fool -- Jumping off the cliff -- The beautiful and the damned -- You never loved him -- Absolution -- The foul dust -- The confusion of a simple mind -- The death car -- That awful thing -- Waiting for Gatsby -- The germs of bitterness -- Finding Gatsby -- Writing Gatsby

"The story of how The Great Gatsby was written has not been told except as embedded chapters of much larger biographies. This story is one of heartbreak, infidelity, struggle, alcoholism, financial hardship, and one man's perseverance to be faithful to the raw diamond of his talent in circumstances that would have crushed others"--