Among the numerous biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli's Some Sort of Epic Grandeur (1981) stands out as the definitive account of the author's life. Bruccoli contends that Fitzgerald's conflicted feelings, especially his love/hate relationship with wealth, along with his heavy drinking and marital issues, hindered him from fully dedicating his creative energies to his work.

The Great Gatsby (1925) remains Fitzgerald's most celebrated novel, with some critics asserting that it might be the greatest American novel ever written. In this work, Fitzgerald poetically narrates the tale of bootlegger and idealist Jay Gatsby's aspiration to rekindle his romance with Daisy Fay, his past lover, and the tragic repercussions of a car accident for which Gatsby takes the blame.

In his posthumously published memoir A Moveable Feast (1964), novelist Ernest Hemingway recounts his experiences with American literary expatriates in Paris during the early 1920s, including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, and Fitzgerald. The book vividly and impressionistically portrays the expatriate scene of Paris as depicted in "Babylon Revisited" and features an extensive, though unflattering, depiction of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda.

Nathaniel West's The Day of the Locust (1939) delves into the sordid world of early Hollywood studios, where Fitzgerald worked on screenplays in the 1930s. West examines the vices of various Californian subcultures of the time in a novel that has come to symbolize misguided pursuits of the American Dream.

Joseph Moncure March's epic poem The Wild Party (1928) narrates the downfall of a vaudeville dancer, capturing the essence of the Jazz Age.

Man Ray's Paris Portraits 1921-1939 is a collection of photographs by American artist Man Ray, who moved to Paris in the early 1920s and was instrumental in founding the Dadaist and Surrealist art movements. His photographs encapsulate the spirit of the artists and writers residing in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s.