WQ_VOL9_A_1985_Periodical_27

WQ_VOL9_A_1985_Periodical_27

Jef- Fs Scott Redeemed frey Hart, in Comnzentary (Mar. 19851,
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, of Great Gatsfame, died in Hollywood in 1940; at age 44, he was an alcoholic with a fading literary reputation. Hart, who teaches English at Dartmouth College, thinks a reassessment of the au- thor's last years is overdue.
Hart sees signs of a special maturity in Fitzgerald's later work, in- cluding the screenplays he wrote for Hollywood at the end of his career. His work...

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