F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1945

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Essay Collection
- Letter(s)
Multigenre/Miscellaneous

Resources

The Crack-Up (1945) was a volume that drew together previously uncollected material by and about F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). It includes eight articles; many extracts from his notebooks; letters to friends and to his daughter, Frances Scott (“Scottie”) Fitzgerald (1921-86); three letters from older writers about The Great Gatsby (1925); two letters from writers of his own generation; and three essays, and two poems, about Fitzgerald. The collection was edited by Fitzgerald’s friend from his undergraduate days at Princeton University, the leading critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), who also provided its “Dedication” in the form of a poem. In the volume’s title article, Fitzgerald described Wilson as the man …

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "The Crack-Up". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 November 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34719, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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