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The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

It begins with a foreword by Charles Scribner II and a preface written by Bruccoli, after which the stories follow in chronological order of publication.


1924 in Wales

Freddie Welsh meets and spars with F. Scott Fitzgerald; the encounter would eventually give rise to a theory that Fitzgerald used Welsh as a model for The Great Gatsby.

Abe Sherman

A literary critic as well and he knew notable writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Manchester, and H.L. Mencken.

Battle of Chancellorsville

The battle serves as the background for one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's first short stories, published in the February 1935 Esquire Magazine, entitled "The Night at Chancellorsville".

Beautiful and Damned

Drawing its title from F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, it focuses on the turbulent relationship he shared with his wife Zelda during the Jazz Age.

Camp Taylor, Louisville

F. Scott Fitzgerald was stationed at Camp Taylor and mentions it in his novel The Great Gatsby.

Chateau Marmont Hotel

Hunter S. Thompson, Annie Leibovitz, Dorothy Parker, Bruce Weber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tim Burton, Jay McInerney, Sofia Coppola, among others, all have produced work from within the hotel's walls.

Dellwood, Minnesota

Notable residents of Dellwood include the late Herb Brooks, coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team; the late F. Scott Fitzgerald; Jesse Ventura, former Independent Governor of Minnesota and Pro Wrestler; Will Rogers, owner of Seasons Tique; and several original 3M corporation families.

Edith Cummings

In 1915, Cummings met a young student at Princeton named F. Scott Fitzgerald, who had fallen in love with her friend Ginevra and would later immortalize them both.

Flappers and Philosophers

Flappers and Philosophers is the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920.

Floc'h

on a collection of cartoons inspired by the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jamais deux sans trois.

Flushing River

The pollution was chronicled by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, wherein Nick Carraway observed the "valley of ashes" on his train ride between Manhattan and Long Island.

George Remus

It has been claimed that he was the inspiration for the title character Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Great Gatsby curve

The name of the curve refers, somewhat ironically, to Jay Gatsby (born Gatz), the character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.

Hearts a Mess

The song also appears on the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's 2013 film adaptation of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby.

Hershel Parker

In the 1970s Parker pioneered the study of lost authority in standard American novels by Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer and others.

James Wedgwood Drawbell

Among other things Drawbell wrote three autobiographies, which, in addition to being valuable and often minute accounts of the changing age, also contain unique and insightful recollections of his encounters with famous people from all walks of life—ranging from great men of letters such as Fitzgerald to politicians such as Hitler.

Mabel Mercer

In 1928, she was an unknown member of the black chorus in the London production of Show Boat, but she had become the toast of Paris by the 1930s, with admirers who included Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Cole Porter.

Malcolm Cowley

As one of the dozens of creative literary and artistic figures who migrated during the 1920s to Paris, France and congregated in Montparnasse, Cowley returned to live in France for three years, where he worked with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby and others.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Over the years, she built friendships with fellow writers Ernest Hemingway whom she met in 1936 and traded praises with about their writing, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald whom she also met in 1936 when Fitzgerald was recuperating in the mountains in North Carolina, Robert Frost, and Margaret Mitchell.

McCall's

McCall's published fiction by such well-known authors as Alice Adams, Ray Bradbury, Gelett Burgess, Willa Cather, Jack Finney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Barbara Garson, John Steinbeck, Tim O'Brien, Anne Tyler and Kurt Vonnegut.

Mircea Ivanescu

His translations from universal literature into Romanian include James Joyce, Franz Kafka, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Nancy Milford

Milford is best known for her book Zelda about F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Fitzgerald.

Nicholas I of Montenegro

King Nikolas and the Kingdom of Montenegro are remembered briefly in F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby, where its eponymous main character reminisces on how for his accomplishments and heroic endeavors during the First World War the King confers unto him the highest honor of the Kingdom the Orderi di Danilo.

Order of Prince Danilo I

In the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby, the main character, Jay Gatsby, was also awarded the Order of Prince Danilo I "For Valor Extraordinary".

Paul Morand

He attended soirees which such American cultural notables as Carl Van Vechten, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, Louise Bryant and her future husband, diplomat William Bullitt.

Peignoir

A peignoir is notably featured in the opening stanza of the poem "Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens and in opening chapters of the novel Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, where it is described in the context of beach attire.

Peter Taub

In 2008, the MCA Stage hosted the Chicago-debut of New York-based Elevator Repair Service and its performance of Gatz, a seven-hour reading and reenactment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

Prudence Heward

While studying at the Académie Colarossi, she frequented Le Dome Café in Montparnasse, the favorite haunt of North American writers and artists and the place where Canadian writer Morley Callaghan came with his friends Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

R. W. B. Lewis

The book traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue, Lewis exposes its continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.

Tales of the Jazz Age

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Ted Coy

Coy was a boyhood hero of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the character Ted Fay in Fitzgerald's 1928 short story The Freshest Boy was loosely based on Coy.

The Logic of Sense

The book introduces Deleuze's philosophy of the event and of becoming and includes textual analyses of works by Lewis Carroll, Seneca, Pierre Klossowski, Michel Tournier, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Émile Zola and Sigmund Freud.

The Passing of the Great Race

Author F. Scott Fitzgerald made a lightly disguised reference to Grant in The Great Gatsby.

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

In the American novel The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the rich man Tom Buchanan says that "civilization's going to pieces", based upon his reading of The Rise of the Coloured Empires, by "this man Goddard"; allusions to Lothrop Stoddard's book of scientific racism, and to Henry H. Goddard, a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist.

Thomas Beer

His fiction may have influenced such modernists as William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Thomas Wolfe

The editing was done by Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's, the most prominent book editor of the time, who also worked with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Tommy Hitchcock, Jr.

Author F. Scott Fitzgerald modeled two characters in his books on Tommy Hitchcock, Jr.: Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1925) and the Tommy Barban character in Tender Is the Night (1934).

Virgil Mihaiu

In 2002 he received a doctorate for his monograph on F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Westover School

Ginevra King Pirie (Class of 1917, deceased), Chicago socialite who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's inspiration for the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby.

Willets Point, Queens

The "Valley of Ashes" described in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is said to have been inspired by Willets Point.


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