Matthew J. Bruccoli
Born
in The United States
August 21, 1931
Died
June 04, 2008
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Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1981
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The Romantic Egoists: A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
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1974
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Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Dangerous Friendship
5 editions
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1994
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: A Literary Reference
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1999
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New Essays on The Great Gatsby
2 editions
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published
1985
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Hardboiled Mystery Writers: A Literary Reference
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2002
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Scott and Ernest: The Authority of Failure and the Authority of Success
3 editions
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1978
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Reader's Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night
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1996
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The O'Hara Concern: A Biography of John O'Hara
3 editions
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1975
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The Composition of Tender is the Night
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1963
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“The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of themselves in their work. Moreover, literary ambition has a way of turning into literary competition; if fame is the spur, envy may be a concomitant.”
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“You can imagine Herman Melville coming to his publisher with his new manuscript. They ask him what it's about, and he says, 'It's about a one-legged captain who's had his leg bitten off by a whale.' It wouldn't have sounded that promising. Fitzgerald wrote Gatsby, he was told you couldn't write seriously about a bootlegger. If a man cares intensely enough about tiddley winks, his book about tiddley winks ill be a great novel.”
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“The women are realistic about love and marriage. His men – not his women – render allegiance to the notion of the world well lost for love”
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