Matthew J. Bruccoli
Birth date: August 21, 1931
Died: June 04, 2008
Matthew J. Bruccoli's Books
I have a whole new appreciation for F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing now, having read his doubts, worries, exacting notes to his publisher, concerns that nobody would "get" it. This man who seems so sure of himself in all of his novels is a worrier, scared, desperate to be a good writer (even after his...
Life has begun again as it got crisp in the fall (eventually) and I decided it was time to revisit Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, prompted by his 120th birthday and an event celebrating the occasion at the Free Library of Philadelphia. I admit I sit comfortably in the choir who sing t...
Some of the passages are downright gorgeous, but they don't rectify how flat these characters are. Maybe that's the point. Regardless, it didn't live up to the hype, nor to previous works of Fitzgerald I've read before. This is one of those books that's much more fun to dissect and discuss than to r...
I liked this book in high school, but didn't enjoy it so much the second time around.
A scrapbook of photographs, newspaper clippings, and stories from the Fitzgerald family, as compiled by their daughter, Scottie.First, I’ve come to see my parents through my own pair of spectacles rather than through the eyes of others; and second, I’ve paid a tribute to them which was long overdue....
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume...
Facts on File Bibliography of Fiction, 1...
Fitzgerald-Hemingway Annual 1969 - Matth...
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume...
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