Matthew J. Bruccoli





Matthew J. Bruccoli

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August 21, 1931 in The United States

died
June 04, 2008

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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


Average rating: 3.95 · 7,013 ratings · 764 reviews · 170 distinct works
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur:...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions
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Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The G...
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Scott and Ernest: The Autho...
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The Composition of Tender i...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1963
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Some Sort of Epic Grandeur
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in His ...
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New Essays on the Great Gatsby
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