Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald (Literary Conversations Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1578066042 ISBN 13: 9781578066049

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2003

Synopsis

Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald assembles over thirty interviews with one of America's greatest novelists, the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.

Although most of these are not standard interviews in the modern sense, the quotes from Fitzgerald and the contemporary journalistic reaction to him reveal much about his writing techniques, artistic wisdom, and life. Editors Matthew J. Bruccoli, the foremost Fitzgerald scholar, and Judith S. Baughman have collected the most usable and articulate pieces on Fitzgerald, including a three-part 1922 interview conducted for the St. Paul Daily News.

Fitzgerald (1896-1940) died before the authorial interview became a literary subgenre after World War II. Although Fitzgerald enjoyed his celebrity, as is clear in these pieces, he had a poor sense of public relations and provided interviewers with opportunities to trivialize him. As a result, Fitzgerald was often treated condescendingly in the press. Seven of his interviews-five printed before 1924-have flapper in their headlines. In the Jazz Age-a term Fitzgerald coined-he was regarded as a spokesman for rebellious youth, as a playboy, as an authority on sex and marriage, as an expert on Prohibition, and as an immensely popular writer for his work published in the Saturday Evening Post. Yet his literary ambitions were sizable and his impact on American fiction immeasurable.

About this title

About the Authors

Matthew J. Bruccoli is Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He has written or edited thirty volumes on F. Scott Fitzgerald, including the standard biography, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur. He is also editor of Conversations with Ernest Hemingway and coeditor of Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Conversations with John le Carre, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

Judith S. Baughman works in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina. She is coeditor of Conversations with John le Carre and Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578066042
• ISBN 13: 9781578066049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 133
• Editor: Bruccoli Matthew J., Baughman Judith S.