F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Pat Hobby Stories

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 1940

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

Resources

The Pat Hobby Stories (1962) consists of seventeen tales about a barely employable forty-nine-year old Hollywood hack screenwriter whose schemes to better himself usually collapse or backfire. The Hobby stories originally appeared in the magazine Esquire between January 1940 and May 1941; five of them were published posthumously. Fitzgerald’s first biographer, Arthur Mizener (1907-88), included three Hobby stories in his selection of Fitzgerald’s fictional and non-fictional prose, Afternoon of an Author (1957), but the whole run was not published until 1962, in a volume edited and introduced by Arnold Gingrich (1903-76), the creator of Esquire and its editor until 1961. Esquire was Fitzgerald’s …

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "The Pat Hobby Stories". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 February 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7354, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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