Graham was a Hollywood gossip column writer transplanted from England where she had lived in an orphanage until age 14 when her education ended and she was launched into a hostile world with only a pretty face. She married a British major who turned out to be loving but broke and probably gay and moved to the US seeking her fortune as a writer.  In 1937 she met F.Scott Fitzgerald who was pursuing a career as a screenwriter after his novels had flamed out and were no longer in print. While failing as a screenwriter, he worked on The Last Tycoon and the education of Graham, his lover until his death at age 40 in 1940.  The book provides a fascinating glimpse of Fitzgerald’s personal life and his keen intellect as he develops a curriculum and teaches it to his ‘Eliza’.  The book gives an interesting counterpoint to Harold Bloom’s How to Read and Why, including a pairing of novels , poetry, and plays with 10 “lines of study’ from music, history, art and furniture, foreign literature, and philosophy leading up to Spengler.  Fitzgerald’s Princeton roots show forth as he recommends a list of 40 books, then a revised list, and finally a ‘substitute list’.  Very interesting.