Which Fitzgerald novel features the Hollywood producer Monroe Stahr?

The Fitzgerald novel featuring Hollywood producer Monroe Stahr is The Love of the Last Tycoon. Stahr is the central figure in Fitzgerald’s unfinished Hollywood novel, set in the American film industry of the 1930s. He is a powerful, intensely driven studio executive whose professional rival is Pat Brady.

The novel was published posthumously in 1941 as The Last Tycoon, edited by Edmund Wilson after Fitzgerald’s death. A 1993 scholarly edition, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, used Fitzgerald’s earlier working title, The Love of the Last Tycoon. Both titles therefore refer to versions of the same unfinished work, though The Last Tycoon remains the title most commonly associated with the original posthumous publication.

Monroe Stahr was modeled largely on Irving Thalberg, the influential MGM production chief whom Fitzgerald met in Hollywood. Fitzgerald began developing the project in the early 1930s and drew on his own experiences in the film business. Stahr’s relationship with Kathleen Moore and his conflict with studio power structures form the novel’s emotional and industrial core.