Matthew J. Bruccoli

The standard work on Fitzgerald, revised, enlarged, and updated

6 x 9, 600 pages
66 halftones
paper, ISBN 1-57003-455-9, $29.95t

ABOUT THE BOOK

Since its first publication in 1981, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur has stood apart from other biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald for its thoroughness and volume of information. It is regarded today as the basic work on Fitzgerald and the preeminent source for the study of the novelist. In this second revised edition, Matthew J. Bruccoli provides new evidence discovered since its original edition. This new edition of Some Sort of Epic Grandeur improves, augments, and updates the standard biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mattew J. Bruccoli, the Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is the leading authority on F. Scott Fitzgerald. He has written and edited more than fifty volumes in the field of American literature, a score of them dealing with Fitzgerald.

REVIEWS

"Matthew J. Bruccoli is always able to look through the events themselves to the essential fact about Fitzgerald: his existence as an artist, and not only to how it came about, but what it came to. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur is exactly what Fitzgerald had. It is a perfect title for this book, for the grandeur is there, in the struggle to create memorable work. I fully expect that this will be the indispensable biography of a very great American writer, for the spirit of the man is in the facts, and these, as gathered and marshalled by Bruccoli over 30 years, are all we will ever need. But more important, they are what we need."—James Dickey

"Impeccably researched...both comprehensive and judicious... Bruccoli brings Fitzgerald vividily alive."—Newsweek

"This masterpiece contains exactly what we need to know about this dazzling figure."—Publishers Weekly

"It is difficult to imagine any work on Fitzgerald and his literary product that will supplant this one."—The New Yorker

"Indispensable and definitive."—The Times Literary Supplement

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Hemingway and The Mechanism of Fame: Statements, Public Letters, Introductions, Forewords, Prefaces, Blurbs, Reviews, and Endorsements
The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor
The Last Romantic: An Oral Autobiography by John Hall Wheelock
Before Gatsby: The First 26 Short Stories
O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life
To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence
Trimalchio by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence
Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!: A Facsimile of the 1914 Acting Script and the Musical Score with Illustrations from the Original Production
Readers Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship