F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

A selective list of articles on American novelist and story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer or editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites

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Literary criticism

Barrett, Laura. "From wonderland to wasteland: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Great Gatsby, and the new American fairy tale." Papers on Language and Literature, 22-MAR-06

Bruccoli, Matthew J. Professor Bruccoli examines the editor's role in correcting factual errors in a realistic text, using The Great Gatsby as an example. Essays in Honor of William B. Todd (Univ. of Texas, 1991)

Bruccoli, Matthew J. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur (Univ. of S.Carolina Press) "Since its first publication in 1981, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur has stood apart from other biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald for its thoroughness and volume of information. It is regarded today as the basic work on Fitzgerald and the preeminent source for the study of the novelist." Publisher's web site.

Bryer, Jackson and Phillip Sipiora. Transcript of a conference on the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Professor Sipiora: "It is usually acknowledged that Fitzgerald is among the first rank of short story writers, and it would not be unfair to consider him the peer of Chekhov, Tolstoi, Poe, and Hemingway in terms of sheer quality and quantity of output." Professor Bryer: "I think that Fitzgerald's best short story is "Babylon Revisited," with perhaps "May Day" and "Winter Dreams" as runners-up." 10/18/95. Additional comments and questions

Bryer, Jackson. Review of The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Approaches in Criticism (Univ. of Michigan, 1982). First page of article only.

Callahan, John F. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's evolving American Dream: the 'pursuit of happiness' in The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, and The Last Tycoon." Twentieth Century Literature, 9/22/96

Cunningham, Frank E. "F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Problem of Film Adaptation." In Literature Film Quarterly, 1/1/00

Daniel, Anne M. An introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Literary Encyclopedia. "Of all the American Modernist writers with tragic lives, F. Scott Fitzgerald holds the franchise. A glittering success as a writer when he was just twenty-four, Fitzgerald died still a young man, at forty-four, most of his works out of print and his status as one of the finest and most popular American writers yet to be established."

Fischbach, Christopher. A review of Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby (Cambridge Univ. Press), edited by James L.W. West III. Reviewed in Rain Taxi, Fall 2000

Flanagan, Thomas. "Fitzgerald's Radiant World." A substantial review of Novels and Stories, 1920-1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Library of America); Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by James L.W. West (Cambridge Univ. Press) and Trimalchio by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Facsimile Edition of the Original Galley Proofs edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. The NY Review of Books, 10/21/2000

Hollington, Michael. Fitzgerald's French "Everyone knows that F. Scott Fitzgerald came from St. Paul, Minnesota, but fewer are aware that the city was originally French-Canadian." In Twentieth Century Literature, 3/22/03

Jolliff, William G. "The Damnation of Bryan Dalyrimple—and Theron Ware: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Debt to Harold Frederic." On F. Scott Fitzgerald's debt to the fin de siecle American naturalists. Studies in Short Fiction, 1/1/98

Kazin, Alfred. A 1951 review of Alfred Kazin's F. Scott Fitzgerald The Man and His Work. The NYTimes

Mangum, Bryant. A review of Mangum's A Fortune Yet: Money in the Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories. Studies in Short Fiction, 3/22/93 reviewed by Thomas K. Meier

Margolies, Alan. "The Maturing of F. Scott Fitzgerald." Margolies addresses contemporary criticisms of Fitzgerald for racist portrayals of Jews and African Americans in his fiction. Twentieth Century Literature, 3/22/97

Moss, Robert F. On the notes made by Ross MacDonald in his copy of The Great Gatsby, and Fitzgerald's influence on MacDonald [crime fiction writer Ross MacDonald]. Univ. of S. Carolina Fitzgerald Centenary web site

Nowlin, Michael. "The world's rarest work": Modernism and masculinity in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. College Literature, Spring 1998

Schreier, Benjamin. "Desire's second act: 'race' and The Great Gatsby's cynical Americanism." Twentieth Century Literature, Summer, 2007

Scribner, Charles. On the publishing history of The Great Gatsby particularly Francis Cugat's painting for the jacket, "the most celebrated--and widely disseminated--jacket art in twentieth-century American literature, and perhaps of all time." Univ. of S. Carolina Fitzgerald Centenary web site

Turnbull, Andrew, ed. A review of The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Andrew Turnbull. NYTimes (1963)

Ullrich, David W. "Memorials and monuments: historical method and the construction of memory in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Ice Palace." Studies in Short Fiction, 9/22/99

West, James L.W. "Daisy packs her bags," by Zachary Leader, a discussion of Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby' ed. James L.W. West III (Cambridge Univ. Press). London Review of Books, 21 September 2000

Will, Barbara. "The Great Gatsby and the obscene word." College Literature, 22-SEP-05

Introductory, teaching resources, web sites

A Teacher's Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald from textbook publisher Heath.

Teaching resources for F. Scott Fitzgerald from C-Span, from their 2002 American Writers series.

A web site on teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Annenberg/PBS project "American Passages."

A substantial biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald from the University of South Carolina site

An F. Scott Fitzgerald timeline created by Minnesota Public Radio

An online exhibition of original editions and dustjackets of Sinclair Lewis and F.Scott Fitzgerald with a short essay on the novels. From the George Mason University Library Special Collections

Newspaper articles, television shows

Fitzgerald's obituary at age 44, NY Times 12/23/1940

The transcript of a PBS Newshour interview with Fitzgerald biographer Matthew Bruccoli and author Joseph Heller on the 100^th anniversary of Fitzgerald's birth

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. "Of the many new writers that sprang into notice with the advent of the post-war period, Scott Fitzgerald has remained the steadiest performer and the most entertaining." By Edwin Clark in The Independent (London), 10/14/05

A brief review of some F. Scott Fitzgerald titles emphasizes how enjoyable they are. Review by Robert Westbrook.

A reassessment of Fitzgerald ten years after his death by Margo Jefferson, in the NY Times

New York Times articles on The Great Gatsby A review of The Great Gatsby from 1925; A review of the published facsimile manuscript of The Great Gatsby; Vincent Canby's negative review of the 1974 movie version of The Great Gatsby; On the 1924 novel, "Trimalchio," that Fitzgerald completed and then tore apart to create The Great Gatsby; A reassessment of The Great Gatsby written in 1960

New York Times reviews of This Side of Paradise (1920); The Beautiful and the Damned (1922); Tales of the Jazz Age (1922); Tender is the Night (1934); The Last Tycoon (1941); The Crack Up (1945)

Web Sites and Bibliographies

Consult this New York Times page for additional material on Fitzgerald including reviews of books on Fitzgerald and audio files.Newspaper article about Scribner's gift of its Fitzgerald archives to Princeton (1967)On a major Fitzgerald archive owned by Matthew J. Bruccoli, a Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

The Univ. of S. Carolina Fitzgerald Centenary web site

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