Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) was the most influential literary critic of his generation. He was managing editor of Vanity Fair, Associate Editor of The New Republic, and a book reviewer for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Axel’s Castle, his 1931 study of Symbolism, and To the Finland Station, a sweeping history of European socialism, are among his most highly-regarded titles.

cover image of the book The Crack-Up

The Crack-Up

A self-portrait of a great writer’s rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s signature blend of romance and realism, The Crack-Up tells the story of his sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. This revealing collection of Fitzgerald’s most visceral essays – and of letters to and from his friends Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, and Edmund Wilson (who compiled this volume shortly after Fitzgerald’s death) – tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness took him down.

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