Letter, 1950 March 15th, Faber and Faber Limited, London to Jerry B. Weingart, University Heights, Ohio.

ArchivalResource

Letter, 1950 March 15th, Faber and Faber Limited, London to Jerry B. Weingart, University Heights, Ohio.

T.S. Eliot responds to a question from Weingart about a quotable statement from Eliot on Fitzgerald. Eliot responds, "I don't know Fitzgerald's shorter stories very well but my admiration for The Great Gatsby has not diminished with time."

1 l. ; 21 cm.

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cd1rnc (corporateBody)

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64r8k15 (person)

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

Weingart, Jerry B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jd6g91 (person)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fk35tp (person)

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born Sept. 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. He began writing while a student at Princeton University. He met his wife, Zelda, while serving in the US Army stationed in Alabama. His novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and he became an instant success. He published he Great Gatsby in 1925. Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940 of a heart attack at age 44 while living in Los Angeles and working for the film industry....