Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

This immensely pleasurable biography of two interwoven, tragic figures, John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, “unabashedly, cheerfully celebrates the lasting power of literature” (Christoph Irmscher, Wall Street Journal)

In this radiant dual biography, Jonathan Bate explores the fascinating parallel lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, writers who worked separately—on different continents, a century apart, in distinct genres—but whose lives uncannily echoed.

Not only was Fitzgerald ...