On , a 23-year-old writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald had his first novel, This Side of Paradise, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. The book was an instant hit, turning the young ...
Chicago Tribune: Vintage Chicago Tribune: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Big Four’
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” — which was published 100 years ago today — might not have happened without “The Big Four.” Born in the late 1890s, the four Lake Forest daughters of prominent ...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Big Four’
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” It was destined to be the definitive literary monument of the Roaring ’20s, a decade of fortunes ...
St. Paul - Last weekend, some resilient Minneapolis theatergoers sat through a thespian marathon - a six-hour production in which a 13-member ensemble spoke every word off. Scott Fitzgerald's "The ...
America Magazine: ‘The Great Gatsby’ got a bad review in America. A century later, how do we see F. Scott Fitzgerald?
F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1937. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Courtesy of Library of Congress) Book reviewers in America often didn’t get a byline in the magazine’s first few decades. That is a shame ...
‘The Great Gatsby’ got a bad review in America. A century later, how do we see F. Scott Fitzgerald?
NOLA.com: Blakeview: Author F. Scott Fitzgerald had a brief, pre-fame stint in New Orleans
With the Broadway musical version of “The Great Gatsby” playing this week at the Saenger Theatre, we take a closer look at author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s connection to New Orleans. The city’s place in ...