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Fitzgerald < STAFF REPORTS TTnriJ -t r\s\i 1 i ui5ts luum anniversary celebration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's birth in September will be highlighted by a talk by Joseph Heller and the opening of a collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald work and materials. Heller, author of Catch 22. Something Happened. Good As Gold and Closing Time will speak at a banquet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24. It will be held at the Capital City Club and is sponsored by the Thomas Cooper Qrvrinfv a wvvivwj, u xx iviiuo giuap JLUi USC libraries. The Fitzgerald exhibition, which will open at Thomas Cooper Library on Sept. 25, is valued at nearly $2 million. The collection was acquired by USC from Dr. Matthew J. Bruccoli, an F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar, USC's Emily Brown Jefferies, a professor of English, and Jefferies wife, Arlyn. Bruccoli said, "I couldn't find a coffin big enough to hold me and these 10.000 Dieces of Daner and I MOV ON I APA Brand Nei Bedroom , to the Gol Excellent Lex Deluxe Clubh Sparkling Poc Hour Fitne Private Gat (803) Monday - Friday 10 am -" Wednesday, Ju exhibit to b( 2,000 books." The collection features one of two known copies of "Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!," which Fitzgerald wrote for the Princeton University Triangle Club while a student there. It also includes Fitzgerald's manuscripts and letters, first-edition autograph< books, and such memorabilia a Fitzgerald's briefcase, whisky flasks, military commission records and a prep school track meaai. Bruccoli said he is most prouc of the original galley proofs of The Great Gatsfry. He said, "Fitzgerald rewrote 'Gatsby,' and he did it in galleys." He said the collection is a research archive that will bene fit scholars around the world. "It is valuable, not only because of the Fitzgerald materials, but also because of the books by and about Fitzgerald's friends and contemporaries, sucn as Hemingway, Lardner, Wolfe and Dos Passos." Bruccoli said his fascination rE-IN I BB A Al ynnn RTMI n Large 1,2 < Apartment He den Hills Coi ington Schools AI IAA UU9C >1 ss Center led Community 356-801 J pm Saturday & Sunday Noon ne 19,1996 BWHH The G > hold nt rmr %M/ UJ\J with Fitzgerald began when he was a high school student and heard a radio dramatization of "The Diamond As Big As The Ritz." "I had never heard of Fitzgerald," he said. "I grew up in a house without books, but I ?d wanted to familiarize myself s with as many authors and their works as possible, so I asked my high school librarian about Fitzgerald." Bruccoli said he acquired a 1 copy of The Great Gatsbv. and has been passionate about Fitzgerald ever since. "It was that first chapter; the description of the Buchanans' lawn that caught me," he said. -fie put words together like no author I'd ever read before." Bruccoli said he purchased a dust-jacketed, first printing of The Great Gatsbv when he was a graduate student at the > University of Virginia. "My wife and I paid $35 for it, and we could afford to do it only in $5 installments. Today, that same copy is worth at least SPECI/ ID HE\ ENT H St 3 >mes Adjacent jntry Club Chimney Ridge is adjacent the Golden Hills Country Cli on tne soutn side ot U.S. 3/ and Palmetto Park Boulevai (Turn at Columbia Eye Clinii DO Ci A P - 5 pm amecock Mar Mia wi> 9 r. 9cvii nugoraia uemenary September, features Items donated t J. Bruccoli and his wife Arlyn. The lt? $7,000." Bruccoli has written and edited approximately 70 books about Fitzgerald and other American writers. HP rprpntlv oHitorl tVio Fitzgerald novels The Great Gatsbv. Tender Is The Night and The Last Tycoon for scholarly and classroom use. Bruccoli said the collection is not finished. i from ILS >J N 1 OMES '8 f -W Jf ilMNEY II A RT M E N T II J n, J lJ SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK celebration, which will take place In >y USC English professor Dr. Matthew >ms are valued at about $2 million. "I'm not through," he said. "This will continue to grow after I'm gone." Information about USC's centenary celebration, Fitzgerald and the House of Scribner can be accessed on the World Wide Web at http://www.csd.scarolino t rrAi?ol ^ Ar?/l/w V* 4*v?1 xiu.wuu/ aiu/iiiucA.lltilll. For more specific details about events, call Judy Baughman at 777-3744. =1 46 >! i i ? ***'" fS . I Ridge HOMES