Review
“In this valuable book. . . neither one of the author’s subjects emerges triumphantly or unscathed. . . . Scott and Ernest is a judicious book. It is that, mainly because its author is perhaps the first student of the Fitzgerald/Hemingway friendship to write out of disinterested loyalty to the truth about two literary giants he continues to admire unabashedly, no matter how the facts have fallen out.”
—New Republic
“Bruccoli examines the friendship of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, which began with Fitzgerald’s recommendation of Hemingway’s writing to Maxwell Perkins of Scribners [sic] and ended at Fitzgerald’s death. Bruccoli ‘has drawn on the 28 letters that Scott wrote his friend. He paraphrases Ernest’s 26 surviving letters to Scott… Also included are jottings from Scott’s notebooks, his. . . chronology of their meetings from 1925–37, and comment by Perkins, Morley Callaghan, and others’.”—Choice
About the Author
Matthew J. Bruccoli is Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.
