A selective bibliography of open access articles on F. Scott Fitzgerald, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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)
Callahan, John F. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's evolving American Dream: the 'pursuit of happiness' in 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."
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. Article discusses the notes made by Ross MacDonald in his copy of The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald's influence on MacDonald. Reprinted at Univ. of S. Carolina Fitzgerald Centenary web site
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." Reprinted at Univ. of S. Carolina Fitzgerald Centenary web site
Turnbull, Andrew, ed. A review of The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Andrew Turnbull, from the 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
The transcript of a PBS Newshour interview with Fitzgerald biographer Matthew Bruccoli and author Joseph Heller on the 100th anniversary of Fitzgerald's birth.
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."
Clark, Edwin. 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." 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.
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.
A reassessment of Fitzgerald ten years after his death by Margo Jefferson, in the NY Times
Fitzgerald's obituary Dec. 23, 1940 New York Times
A substantial (for the web) biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald from the University of South Carolina site.
An F. Scott Fitzgerald timeline created by Minnesota Public Radio.
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
A review of Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby Cambridge University Press. Reviewed by Christopher Fischbach in Rain Taxi, Fall 2000.
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)
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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