The Crack-Up

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The Crack-Up is a posthumous collection of essays, letters, and notes by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and compiled by his lifelong friend, Edmund Wilson for publication by New Directions Publishing in 1945. Three of the essays are collected together under the title "The Crack-Up" and were first published in Esquire magazine in 1936. All of the essays were written by Fitzgerald between the years 1931-37. The three essays titled together as "The Crack-Up" were written as Fitzgerald suffered from his nervous breakdown and what he called emotional bankruptcy.

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