F. Scott Fitzgerald : a composite biography / Niklas Salmose and David Rennie, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salmose, Niklas, editor.

Rennie, David A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Criticism and interpretation.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2024]

Summary:

"A comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author "There never was a good biography of a novelist," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Crack-Up. "There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good." Fitzgerald, a good novelist by any measure, has tested this challenge to the biographer's art. A new star illuminating the literary scene; a chronicler of the Jazz Age in all its brilliance and tarnish; a romantic symbol of the American century; an acute observer of society's best and worst, and of his own star-crossed career; a midlife burnout at forty-four, leaving an unfinished masterpiece in his wake-he was a man of many aspects, a writer whose complexity and multitudes this composite biography finally aptly portrays. Bringing together twenty-three leading writers and scholars on Fitzgerald, each focusing on two years of his life, this volume takes its cue from Henry James's remark, cited by preeminent Fitzgerald biographer Scott Donaldson: "The whole of anything is never told; you can only take what groups together." F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography presents a new way of "grouping together" biographical material and perspectives, considering from various angles the author's best-known works as well as understudied writings, including neglected stories and forays into autobiography such as "What I Think and Feel at 25" and "How to Live on $36,000 a Year." The glamor and fame that made F. Scott and Zelda mythic figures of their time appear here alongside the personal experiences that he occasionally included in his writing: the beginnings as well as the poignant end; the literary relationships that informed and framed his work, set against solitary effort, fame, and failures. This remarkable study of F. Scott Fitzgerald, by twenty-three experts, reflects the multifaceted whole of a "life in many parts" in new and revelatory ways "-- Provided by publisher.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald was a man of many aspects, a writer whose complexity and multitudes this composite biography finally aptly portrays. Bringing together twenty-three leading writers and scholars on Fitzgerald, each focusing on two years of his life, this volume presents a new way of grouping together biographical material and perspectives, considering from various angles the author's best-known works as well as understudied writings, personal experiences, and literary relationships"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

F. Scott Fitzgerald : a composite biography

1896-1897 / Helen Turner

1898-1899 / Martina Mastandrea

1900-1901 / Philip McGowan

1902-1903 / Joel Kabot

1904-1905 / Ross Tangedal

1906-1907 / Kayla Forrest

1908-1909 / David Page

1910-1911 / Sara Kosiba

1912-1913 / Ronald Berman

1914-1915 / David Rennie

1916-1917 / James L. W. West III

1918-1919 / Niklas Salmose

1920-1921 / Walter Raubicheck

1922-1923 / Bryant Mangum

1924-1925 / Marie-Agnes Gay

1926-1927 / Jade Broughton Adams

1928-1929 / Catherine Delesalle-Nancey

1930-1931 / Kirk Curnutt

1932-1933 / Scott Donaldson

1934-1935 / William Blazek

1936-1937 / Elisabeth Bouzonviller

1938-1939 / Arne Lunde

1940 / Jackson R. Bryer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Salmose, Niklas F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN:

9781452969992

OCLC:

1440044550