The Crack-Up

The Crack-Up, essay by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published serially in Esquire magazine in 1936 and posthumously, in book form, in The Crack-Up: With Other Uncollected Pieces, Note-Books, and Unpublished Letters (1945). This confessional essay documents Fitzgerald’s spiritual and physical deterioration in the mid-1930s.

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Article Title: The Crack-Up

Website Name: Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Date Published: 03 September 2017

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Access Date: March 14, 2025