Public domain photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1937,
by Carl Van Vechten
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
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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, 2006.
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 (U of Texas 1991).
Bryer, Jackson. Review of The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Approaches in Criticism (U 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, 1996.
Fischbach, Christopher. A review of Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby (Cambridge UP), edited by James L.W. West III. Reviewed in Rain Taxi, Fall 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." Twentieth Century Literature, 2003.
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, 1997.
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]. U 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." U of S. Carolina Fitzgerald Centenary web site.
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, 1999.
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 UP). London Review of Books, 21 September 2000.
Will, Barbara. "The Great Gatsby and the obscene word." College Literature, 2005.
introduction & teaching resources
The Great Gatsby. Selected for "The Big Read," Erika Koss, editor. Contents: Readers Guide contains Introduction, Historical Context, About the Author, Other Works/Adaptations, Discussion Questions, Bibliography; Teacher's Guide contains Schedule/Lesson Plans, Capstone Project Ideas, Essay Topics; and an audio radio program. National Endowment for the Arts.
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 U of South Carolina site.
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."
An F. Scott Fitzgerald timeline created by Minnesota Public Radio.
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 brief review of some F. Scott Fitzgerald titles emphasizes how enjoyable they are. Review by Robert Westbrook.
The U of S. Carolina Fitzgerald Centenary web site.
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(removed) Bruccoli, Matthew J. http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2002/3455.htmlSome Sort of Epic Grandeur (U of S. Carolina P). "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.
(removed) Bryer, Jackson and Phillip Sipiora. http://www.cas.usf.edu/~sipiora/hem_fit/hem1.html 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. HREF="http://www.cas.usf.edu/~sipiora/hem_fit/hem2.html Additional comments and questions.
(removed) Cunningham, Frank E. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200001/ai_n8887596 "F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Problem of Film Adaptation." Literature Film Quarterly, 1/1/00.
(removed) Flanagan, Thomas. http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?20001221038R "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 (moved or removed).
(removed) Jolliff, William G. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2455/is_1_35/ai_74440222 "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, 1998.
(removed) Mangum, Bryant. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2455/is_n2_v30/ai_14081641 A review of Mangum's A Fortune Yet: Money in the Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories. Studies in Short Fiction, 1993, reviewed by Thomas K. Meier.
(removed) http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/m&s.html An online exhibition of original editions and dustjackets of Sinclair Lewis and F.Scott Fitzgerald with a short essay on the novels. George Mason U Library Special Collections.
(removed) Monteiro, George.
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