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STAFF REPORTS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bruccoli has written and edited
approximately 70 books
about Fitzgerald and other
American writers.
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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.
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"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
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For more specific details about
events, call Judy Baughman at
777-3744.
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