West of Sunset by Stewart O'NanLearn more about West of Sunset.
Set in Hollywood in the late 1930s, this novel follows a washed-up Fitzgerald as he tries his luck as a script doctor at MGM, falling in love with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham and hanging out with the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Dorothy Parker and, yes, Ernest Hemingway.
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