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| Illustrations | |
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| Note for the Second Revised Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Taps At Reveille, 21 December 1940 | |
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| The Romantic Egotist, 1896-1913 | |
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| Backgrounds and Childhood (1896-1908) | |
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| A Summit Avenue Boyhood (1908-1911) | |
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| The Newman School (1911-1913) | |
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| Spires and Gargoyles, 1913-1917 | |
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| A Princeton Freshman (1913-1914) | |
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| Sophomore Year (1914-1915) | |
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| Junior Year (1915-1916) | |
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| Another Junior Year (1916-1917) | |
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| The Last of the Belles, 1917-1920 | |
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| The Army and "The Romantic Egotist" (1917-1918) | |
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| Zelda Sayre (1918) | |
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| New York: Failure and Heartbreak (Spring 1919) | |
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| Return to St. Paul (Summer 1919) | |
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| The Emergence of a Professional (Fall 1919) | |
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| Zelda Recaptured (Winter 1919-1920) | |
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| Early Success, 1920-1925 | |
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| A Famous First Novel (April 1920) | |
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| This Side of Paradise (April 1920) | |
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| A Jazz-Age Marriage (Spring 1920) | |
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| Westport (Summer 1920) | |
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| New York and First Trip Abroad (Fall 1920-Summer 1921) | |
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| St. Paul and Revising The Beautiful and Damned (Summer 1921) | |
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| Birth of Scottie (Fall 1921) | |
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| The Beautiful and Damned (March 1922) | |
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| Writing The Vegetable (Spring-Summer 1922) | |
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| Great Neck and Ring Lardner (Fall 1922-Fall 1923) | |
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| Alcohol and the Failure of The Vegetable (1923) | |
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| "How to Live on $36,000 a Year" (Winter 1923-Spring 1924) | |
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| Second Trip Abroad: Valescure and Betrayal (Summer 1924) | |
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| Rome and Capri (Fall 1924-Spring 1925) | |
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| The Great Gatsby (April 1925) | |
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| The Drunkard's Holiday, 1925-1931 | |
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| Paris and Ernest Hemingway (Spring 1925) | |
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| Paris and Antibes (Spring-Summer 1925) | |
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| Paris and Planning a Fourth Novel (Fall 1925-Spring 1926) | |
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| Juan-les-Pins (Spring-Fall 1926) | |
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| Hollywood and "Ellerslie" (January 1927-Spring 1928) | |
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| Third Trip Abroad: A Summer in Paris (1928) | |
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| Fourth Trip Abroad (Spring 1929) | |
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| Paris and Cannes (Summer 1929) | |
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| Paris: Zelda's Collapse (Fall 1929-Spring 1930) | |
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| Prangins (Summer-Fall 1930) | |
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| Switzerland and Recovery (Fall 1930-Summer 1931) | |
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| The Long Way Out, 1931-1934 | |
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| Montgomery and Hollywood: Relapse (Fall-Winter 1931) | |
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| "La Paix" and Save Me the Waltz (Spring-Fall 1932) | |
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| Work on Tender Is the Night (Summer 1932) | |
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| Competition and Scandalabra (1932-1933) | |
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| A Novel of Deterioration (1933-1934) | |
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| Publication of Tender Is the Night (April 1934) | |
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| Reception of Tender Is the Night (1934) | |
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| Baltimore (1934) | |
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| In the Darkest Hour, 1934-1937 | |
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| False Starts (1934) | |
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| North Carolina (1935) | |
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| The Crack-Up (1935-1936) | |
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| Debts (1936-1937) | |
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| The Last of the Novelists, 1937-1940 | |
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| Hollywood (Summer 1937) | |
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| Sheilah Graham and M-G-M (Summer-Winter 1937) | |
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| Screenwriting (1937-1938) | |
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| College of One (1938-1939) | |
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| Free-lancing in Hollywood (1939) | |
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| Planning The Love of the Last Tycoon (Fall 1939) | |
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| Debts and Esquire Stories (1940) | |
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| Writing The Love of the Last Tycoon (1940) | |
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| Endings (1940) | |
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| Consequences | |
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| Afterword: The Colonial Ancestors of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | |
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| Summary Movie Treatment for Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Warren | |
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| From Fitzgerald's Ledger | |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald's Publications, Zelda Fitzgerald's Publications, Principal Works about Fitzgerald | |
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| Literary Works Published 1913-1940 | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |