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The Professions of Authorship

Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

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The Professions of Authorship

Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

A tribute to a man whose life's work has centered on the study of authorship and who is a scholar and book collector of the first magnitude, The Professions of Authorship examines the business of writing, publishing, and selling books - or what George V. Higgins describes in this volume as a "perplexing, disorganized, chameleonic enterprise". Twenty-three authors, publishing professionals, and scholars who share Matthew J. Bruccoli's love and knowledge of books offer candid observations and opinions about the past, present, and future of publishing. In doing so, they unravel many of the mysteries surrounding this tradition-bound endeavor.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570031444

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9781570031441

O Lost

A Story of the Buried Life

By: Thomas Wolfe,Arlyn Bruccoli,Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

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O Lost

A Story of the Buried Life

By: Thomas Wolfe,Arlyn Bruccoli,Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

Sixty-six thousand words were omitted for reasons of propriety and publishing economics, as well as to remove material deemed expendable by Perkins. Published for the first time on October 3, 2000 - the centenary of Wolfe's birth - O Lost presents the complete text of the novel's manuscript.".

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570033692

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9781570033698

Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

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Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

“Epic indeed, this is the definitive biography of Fitzgerald, plain and simple. There’s no reason to own another.” —Library Journal The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” These works and more elevated F. Scott Fitzgerald to his place as one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. After struggling to become a screenwriter in Hollywood, Fitzgerald was working on The Last Tycoon when he died of a heart attack in 1940. He was only forty-four years old. Fitzgerald left behind his own mythology. He was a prince charming, a drunken author, a spoiled genius, the personification of the Jazz Age, and a sacrificial victim of the Depression. Here, Matthew J. Bruccoli strips away the façade of this flawed literary hero. He focuses on Fitzgerald as a writer by tracing the development of his major works and his professional career. Beginning with his Midwest upbringing and first published works as a teenager, this biography follows Fitzgerald’s life through the successful debut of This Side of Paradise, his turbulent marriage to Zelda Sayre, his time in Europe among The Lost Generation, the disappointing release of The Great Gatsby, and his ignominious fall. As former US poet laureate James Dickey said, “the spirit of the man is in the facts, and these, as gathered and marshalled by Bruccoli over thirty years, are all we will ever need. But more important, they are what we need.”

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Open Road Media

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1504075250

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9781504075251

The O’Hara Concern

A Biography of John O’Hara

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

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The O’Hara Concern

A Biography of John O’Hara

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

The definitive biography of short story writer John O’Hara.

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472

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822974711

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9780822974710

F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Marketplace

The Auction and Dealer Catalogues, 1935-2006

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli,Judith Baughman

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F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Marketplace

The Auction and Dealer Catalogues, 1935-2006

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli,Judith Baughman

As a student in the 1950s, Matthew J. Bruccoli began collecting books by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a practice that culminated in the development of the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald at the University of South Carolina, an unrivaled research archive of materials by and relating to the now-celebrated author. In F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Marketplace, Bruccoli chronicles Fitzgerald's posthumous rise in literary reputation--and the corresponding rise in collectibility of all things Fitzgerald--as evidenced by listings from auction house and antiquarian bookseller catalogues. Of keen interest to bibliophiles and scholars of American literature, this volume serves as a thoughtful examination of the revival of interest in Fitzgerald's life and work over the past seven decades.

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324

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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157003799X

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9781570037993

The Composition of Tender is the Night

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

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The Composition of Tender is the Night

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

Working with the complete collection of Tender is the Night manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Matthew J. Bruccoli reconstructs seventeen drafts and three versions of the novel to answer questions about F. Scott Fitzgerald's major work that have long puzzled critics of modern literature. In 1934, nine years after the appearance of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald permitted publication of Tender is the Night. Disappointed by its critical reception, Fitzgerald suggested that the structure of the novel should be drastically rearranged. In 1951, eleven years after his death, Charles Scribner's Sons brought out an edition that incorporated Fitzgerald's changes. Controversy arose over the merits of the two published versions and over the "nine lost years" in Fitzgerald's life between his two great novels, years of rewriting before publication of Tender is the Night that resulted in six cartons of notes and drafts. After analyzing this wealth of material, Bruccoli reconstructs every working stage in the novel and reaches his own conclusions about which edition is the most valid.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822975548

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9780822975540

Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

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The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Professions of Authorship

Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

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Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli

By: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

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1570031444

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Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 2000

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

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Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 2000

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

Updates entries already published and supplements the Dictionary of Literary Biography series with entries on newly prominent writers.

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Dictionary of Literary Biograp

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0787625221

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Book's by Matthew J. Bruccoli

The Professions of Authorship

The Professions of Authorship

O Lost

O Lost

Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

The O’Hara Concern

The O’Hara Concern

F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Marketplace

F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Marketplace

The Composition of Tender is the Night

The Composition of Tender is the Night

Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

The Professions of Authorship

The Professions of Authorship

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 2000

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 2000

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