A Midwestern boyhood, 1899-1917 -- Kansas City and the war, 1917-1918 -- Hadley, 1919-1921 -- Paris, 1922-1923 -- European reporter, 1922-1923 -- A writer's life, 1924 -- Duff Twysden and Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 -- Pauline, 1926 -- Accidents, 1927-1928 -- Key West, 1928-1929 -- The public image, 1930-1932 -- Jane Mason, 1932-1936 -- Africa, 1933-1934 -- In the Caribbean, 1934-1946 -- Martha and the Spanish War, 1936-1938 -- The end of something, 1939-1940 -- Finca Viǵia and China, 1940-1942 -- Our man in Havana, 1942-1944 -- To the Siegfried line, 1944-1945 -- Mary, 1945-1948 -- Adriana, 1948-1950 -- The lost hero: Across the river and into the trees, 1950 -- Death in the family, 1951-1953 -- Second safari, 1953-1954 -- The dangerous summers, 1955-1959 -- The Mayo Clinic, 1960-1961 -- Suicide and aftermath.