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Matthew J. Bruccoli

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born

August 21, 1931 in The United States

died

June 04, 2008

gender

male

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Matthew Bruccoli was Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and a world-renowned expert on the life and works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

After hearing a radio broadcast of Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, he was hooked and immediately purchased a copy of The Great Gatsby. He has authored many books on Fitzgerald, including what is considered to be the best biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

While studying Fitzgerald, Bruccoli collected a large amount of Fitzgerald memorabilia. The collection was eventually donated under a multiyear gift-purchase agreement to the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper library. The collection has an estimated worth...more

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Books by Matthew J. Bruccoli

Average rating: 3.95 · 7,013 ratings · 764 reviews · 170 distinct works

	Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald 4.08 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Romantic Egoists: A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor), Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (Editor), Scottie Fitzgerald Smith (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Dangerous Friendship 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: A Literary Reference 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Reader's Companion to F. Scott Fitgerald's Tender Is the Night by Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Scott and Ernest: The Authority of Failure and the Authority of Success 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Composition of Tender is the Night 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1963	My rating:
	Some Sort of Epic Grandeur 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	F. Scott Fitzgerald in His Own Time: A Miscellany 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1971	My rating:
	New Essays on the Great Gatsby by Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor), Emory Elliot (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating: