Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been perceived as the tragic other half of the Scott and Zelda legend. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband's success. Her writing can be experienced on its own terms in Matthew Bruccoli's meticulously edited Zelda Fitzgerald: The Collected Writings.

The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald

Scottie Fitzgerald Smith

Joan Paterson Kerr

Collects photographs, news clippings, and other memorabilia from the Fitzgeralds' own scrapbooks with excerpts from their writings.

A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

The Romantic Egoists

The standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and updated; 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. In this second revised edition, Matthew J. Bruccoli provides new evidence discovered since its original edition. This new edition of Some Sort of Epic Grandeur improves, augments, and updates the standard biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

Re-creating the author’s intention from the manuscripts, this study shows that Fitzgerald regarded none of his material as final but, rather, as material toward a novel quite possibly about the Ameri­can Dream—a respectful study of the American business hero. Mr. Bruccoli’s transcription and anal­yses of the manuscripts and notes for the unfinished novel serve two related purposes: they enable us to gauge the state of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work-in-progress at the time of his death and thereby to reassess this work properly. Examination of Fitzgerald’s drafts re­veal that he regarded none of this mate­rial as finished. There are no final drafts—only latest working drafts. After Chapter One there are no chapters, and even this is marked for rewrite. And Fitzgerald’s undated last outline pro­vides only topics or ideas for the thir­teen unwritten episodes. The Last Tycoon has always been read as a Hollywood novel—a novel about the movies. It is far from certain that the title was final, but it is clear that Fitzgerald conceived Monroe Stahr as a “tycoon.” Fitzgerald’s tentative title “The Love of the Last Tycoon: A West­ern” is instructive: it connects Stahr with all the other poor boys who went West to seek their fortunes. “I am the last of the novelists for a long time now,” Fitzgerald wrote in a note for The Last Tycoon. His statement does not refer to technique or to form, Mr. Bruccoli claims; it can be under­stood only in terms of theme and char­acter. Stahr exemplifies Fitzgerald’s be­lief in the American Dream—decency, honor, courage, responsibility, and the possibilities of the American life—and Fitzgerald regarded himself as the last of the American novelists writing on this great theme.

F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Last Tycoon

"The Last of the Novelists"

A tribute to a man whose life's work has centered on the study of authorship and who is a scholar and book collector of the first magnitude, The Professions of Authorship examines the business of writing, publishing, and selling books - or what George V. Higgins describes in this volume as a "perplexing, disorganized, chameleonic enterprise". Twenty-three authors, publishing professionals, and scholars who share Matthew J. Bruccoli's love and knowledge of books offer candid observations and opinions about the past, present, and future of publishing. In doing so, they unravel many of the mysteries surrounding this tradition-bound endeavor.

Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

The Professions of Authorship

Thomas Wolfe

Arlyn Bruccoli

Sixty-six thousand words were omitted for reasons of propriety and publishing economics, as well as to remove material deemed expendable by Perkins. Published for the first time on October 3, 2000 - the centenary of Wolfe's birth - O Lost presents the complete text of the novel's manuscript.".

A Story of the Buried Life

O Lost

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jacques Tournier

L'auteur de Gatsby le Magnifique et de Tendre est la nuit a écrit plus de cent soixante nouvelles, qu'il vendait aux journaux à grand tirage pour assurer son train de vie. Les quatorze récits de ce recueil témoignent avec éclat qu'il ne sacrifia pour aucune de ces exigences d'écrivain, prodiguant des trésors d'art et de sensibilité. Jeunes hommes pauvres et jolies héritières romantiques, perdants et gagnants, heureux et damnés, milliardaires sarcastiques et parvenus émouvants : on retrouve ici tous les types de l'univers fitzgeraldien et les thèmes qui le hantèrent, la fragilité du bonheur, le désenchantement, les blessures secrètes, les implacables barrières que l'argent et la classe sociale opposent à l'amour et au bonheur.

Love boat et autres nouvelles

Zelda Sayre married F.Scott Fitzgerald in 1920. This collection of her writings demonstrates that she was a notable author herself, as well as a profound influence on Scott's work. The book has an introduction by the novelist Mary Gordon, and is edited and annotated by Matthew J. Bruccoli.

The Collected Writings

In 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald sent the typescript for his novel titled Trimalchio to his editor. In the following months Fitzgerald rewrote the text in galley proof and selected a retitled it - The Great Gatsby. This text shows how Fitzgerald progressed from the first draft to the finished novel.

A Facsimile Edition of the Original Galley Proofs for The Great Gatsby

Trimalchio

Richard Layman

C. E. Frazer Clark

Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual

Ross Macdonald/Kenneth Millar, a Descriptive Bibliography

An illustrated guide to the mystery genre's hardest hitting writers focuses on the three men who created a uniquely American brand of detective fiction--Raymond Chandler, Dashiell HAmmett, and Ross Macdonald, the creators of such famed fictional private detectives as PHilip Marlowe, Sam Spade, and Lew Archer. Original.

Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald : a Literary Reference

Hardboiled Mystery Writers

A Descriptive Bibliography

Supplement to F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Authority of Failure and the Authority of Success

Scott and Ernest

George Parker Anderson

Provides resources for a fuller understanding of Fitzgerald's masterpiece. It assembles and organizes evidence not otherwise available in one place, allowing readers to more fully comprehend reading this masterpiece. Discusses the impact of Fitzgerald's drinking during the time he worked on this novel, and the final version in which he re-ordered the story in straight chronological order that was posthumously published in 1951.

A Documentary Volume

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night

Covers life and career of American fiction writer John O'Hara, whose novels and short stories centered on American life from the 1920's through the 1940's.

John O'Hara

Judith Baughman

Bruccoli's substantial introduction reconstructs the composition, publication, and initial reception of the novel Fitzgerald forecast so enthusiastically when he wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins in 1925. Bruccoli chronicles the novel's varied commencements, explains Fitzgerald's final approach to the novel, and addresses key criticisms of the work. Noting that discussion of Tender Is the Night habitually returns to its initial reception, Bruccoli refutes the common belief that the novel failed in 1934 because of a critical conspiracy. He describes Fitzgerald's brooding over the novel's stillbirth and his unsuccessful efforts to republish it in amended form. Comparing Fitzgerald's plan for restructuring the novel with Malcolm Cowley's 1951 edition, Bruccoli assesses the limited impact of the revised novel.

Reader's Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night

Thomas Cooper Library

This book provides a descriptive inventory of the major components in the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. The collection documents the literary career and thought of one of America's greatest novelists. The catalogue includes a listing of editions of all English-language printings of books by Fitzgerald including proof and review copies and the collection's many books inscribed by the author. Fitzgerald manuscripts, revised typescripts, correspondence, and business documents are also cited, as well as Fitzgerald screenplays and Princetoniana. There is a separate section on Zelda Fitzgerald. Highlights of the collection include the only set of unrevised galleys for The Great Gatsby, titled Trimalchio; one of the two existing acting scripts for Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!; Fitzgerald's annotated copy of James Joyce's Ulysses; a copy of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls inscribed to Fitzgerald; and Fitzgerald memorabilia such as his engraved whiskey flask, a briefcase, and other family materials. Each item is described in detail--including title, publication information, and call number, where relevant, and explanatory notes. Many items in the collection, including all Fitzgerald inscriptions, are illustrated. The Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald at the University of South Carolina provides a valuable resource not only for Fitzgerald scholars, but also for those interested in Fitzgerald's friends and literary associates (including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ring Lardner, John Dos Passos, and Maxwell Perkins) and in American culture between the world wars.

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