It was F. Scott Fitzgeralds work for the popular magazines, particularly The Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, and The Smart Age, that provided him with most of his income and his initial fame. These early stories established all of the major themes later seen in the authors novels. Potts examines Fitzgeralds two-decade relationship with the readers and editors of contemporary periodicals, provides a profile of the various publications, analyzes every story the author wrote for these periodicals, briefly summarizes them, notes the presence of technical details when significant., compares them to competitive stories and authors being published in the same magazines, clarifies their importance to contemporary America, and suggests the relevance of form and content to the demands of each publication. - Back cover.