Author and early twentieth celebrity, F. Scott Fitzgerald described Tender is the Night as his most important novel. He worked on the novel for nine years and wrote at least
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This Great Gatsby Cover Tells It All
A powerful snowstorm in January 2018 permitted me the opportunity, as the Coordinator of the Classic Book Club near Richmond, VA, to re-schedule our discussion of The Great Gatsby to
Roaring 20’s Slang and Murray’s Jelly Bean Story Translated – Part IV
Yesterday, I taught my first F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Roaring Twenties class at the University of Richmond’s, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Our class, of over fifty students, had a
F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Decade That Changed America – Part II
F. Scott Fitzgerald was both a keen active observer and a full participant in many of the most exciting changes that were taking place in the 1920’s. He stated that
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Roaring Twenties (Part I)
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was named after his cousin, Francis Scott Key—the composer of the “Star-Spangled Banner. He was born in Minnesota to a fairly well-off Catholic family. He
