This week in history -- on September 24, 1896 -- F. Scott Fitzgerald was born to a wealthy family in St. Paul, Minnesota. For a glimpse into the worldview of the great American writer -- from both his fiction and his letters -- start with these nine quotes.(READ MORE)
While writers are often depicted as tortured and victims of their self-inflicted maladies, Flannery O'Connor bucks the trends. Living an ordinary life but penning extraordinary tales, O'Connor's legacy remains a rarity on the writing scene. (READ MORE)
Olivia Laing is on a personal and literary quest in The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, which follows the influence of alcohol in the lives of John Berryman, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. (READ MORE)
Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe, was born on this day in 1884. (READ MORE)
If you want the real stories behind The Great Gatsby about the self-made tycoon who couldn't stop yearning for that green light at the end of the dock, check out these memoirs and biographies of members of Fitzgerald’s Lost Generation.(READ MORE)
