Happy 124th birthday to Scott Fitzgerald, born #otd in 1896. The best decision of my professional life was to center it around his works and the interwar period he chronicled.
This year also marks the centenary of his literary career, which kicked off with the proverbial bang in 1920 - in honor of which I’ve done an essay for the latest issue of @nybooks ($) nybooks.com/articles/2020/…
I’ve written scores of essays about him and his work, but here’s one that isn’t paywalled, and includes my favorite photograph of him. newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
Also pleased to say that a newly revised edition of the Cambridge Companion to Scott Fitzgerald is in the works, & I've done the Gatsby essay for it, keeping company with the v best Fitzgerald scholars today, incl @KirkCurnutt @venetianblonde @eetempleton @pipmcgowan
Between now and the Gatsby centenary in 2025 we are all going to be veeery busy #Fitzing, and there will be lots of great stuff emerging. So happy #Fitzday!
Postscript on the 2015 Fitzgerald Conference (to which @ScottFilmCritic gave the immortal name “Fitzstock”) and featuring a fabulous illustration that I covet. ft.com/content/759c45…
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