Gershwin [Paperback]

This still unrivaled biography portrays with precision and insight the tragically brief life—from the Brooklyn tenements to Broadway, Hollywood, and Carnegie Hall—of George Gershwin (1898–1937), a man whose music (Lady Be Good, Of Thee I Sing, Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F, An American in Paris, Porgy and Bess) and career—like F. Scott Fitzgerald's—embodied the glamorous success and lost possibilities of the Jazz Age.

Edward Jablonskiis the author ofThe Gershwin Years: George and Ira(with Lawrence D. Stewart—available from Da Capo/ Perseus Books Group),Arlen: Happy with the Blues, Alan Jay Lerner, and many others. He lives in New York City.