Matthew Bruccoli
Writer, Author
1931 – 2008
Who was Matthew Bruccoli?
Matthew Joseph Bruccoli was an American professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He was the preeminent expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald. He also wrote about writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and John O'Hara, and was editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Bruccoli's interest in Fitzgerald began in 1947 when he heard a radio broadcast of Fitzgerald's short story "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". That week he tracked down a copy of The Great Gatsby, "and I have been reading it ever since," he told interviewers. Bruccoli graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1949, and studied at Cornell University where one of his professors was Vladimir Nabokov and at Yale University where he was a founder member of the fledgling Manuscript Society, graduating in 1953. He was awarded a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1960. Bruccoli, who also taught at the University of Virginia and the Ohio State University, spent nearly four decades teaching at the University of South Carolina.
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- Born
- Aug 21, 1931
The Bronx - Also known as
- Matthew J Bruccoli
- Matthew Joseph Bruccoli
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctorate, University of Virginia
English Studies
( - 1960) - Bachelor's degree, Yale University
( - 1953) - The Bronx High School of Science
( - 1949)
- Doctorate, University of Virginia
- Employment
- University of South Carolina
- Lived in
- Columbia
(1969 - 2008/06/04)
- Columbia
- Died
- Jun 4, 2008
Columbia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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