Valley of Ashes

This is really my final piece for this blog. I must have decided to title this blog "Valley of Ashes" because the landscape that F...

One prominent theme in Fitzgerald's stories and novels is the ability for characters to make themselves over. After Fitzgerald wrote a l...

Fitzgerald wrote several letters to his sister Annabel. One letter included instructions to his sister Annabel. She was unattractive, in con...

This is a terrific teaching tool for teachers. I created my own trading cards at the Trading Cards website by ReadWriteThink.org. Actually,...

Below are quotes from Fitzgerald and his novel that capture the author's portrayal of his contemporaries or "the lost generation...

The narrator of The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway who closely resembles the his creator, F. Scott Fitzgerald: Nick Carraway comes from a ...

Many works play on the same themes and characteristics of The Great Gatsby. Many claim that novels like The Hotel New Hampshire, Tom Wolfe...

1. Scott and Zelda: Their Style Lives 2. A Life in Letters: A New Collection Edited and Annotated by Matthew J. Bruccoli 3. Short and Sweet...

At the supper party in Paris where, thanks to the publisher and bookseller Sylvia Beach, he first met Joyce, Fitzgerald impetuously offered ...

Found this in the “New York Times Books” section. It means “a broad adjective and can be applied to the Roaring 20's, to zany authors,...

Fitzgerald's 322 books are now cataloged in Librarything . Some interesting titles: - The Land of Plenty by Robert Cantwell - The Life o...