Film Review

Benjamin Button's First and Second Acts

First Act by Ruth Prigozy
Fitzgerald wrote “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” in 1920, after his initial collection of stories, Flappers and Philosophers, had just been published. The story was rejected by Metropolitan magazine but ultimately picked up by Collier's for $1000. Fitzgerald then placed it in his next collection, Tales of the Jazz Age, which came out in 1922. The collection was severely criticized, and he ended with a profit of slightly less than $3500,
Second Act by Robert Beuka
On Oscar night, 2009, as the presenter tore into the envelope containing the Academy Award winner for best adapted screenplay, Fitzgerald fans may have been wondering whether they were about to witness another twist in the odd saga of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood. From the frustrating second career that resulted in only one screenwriting credit, the funny but largely forgotten Pat Hobby stories, and the potential
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The Fourteenth Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference in Rockville, MD

The fourteenth annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference will be held on October 17, 2009, on the campus of Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland.

Julia Alverez will receive the Fitzgerald Award.

For more information, call 301-309-9461 or visit the Web site.

2009 Fitzgerald Conference in Baltimore - Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 - Register Now

Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore, the site of the F. Scott Fitzgerald 2009 Conference.

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“It is so rich with memories—it is nice to look up the street and see the statue of my great uncle and to know … that many ancestors of mine have walked in the old town by the bay.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Join the Society!

Anyone interested in the works and life of
F. Scott Fitzgerald is welcome.

The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society customarily meets in locations biographically and artistically significant to F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and this year's is no exception. The 10th International Conference will take place from September 30 through October 3, 2009, in Baltimore, Maryland. To attend, please print out, complete and mail us the registration form.

Fitzgerald’s memories reflect both his family’s Maryland heritage and the time he spent in Baltimore on and off from 1932 to 1937. During this period he completed Tender Is the Night while living in a rented home called “La Paix” in nearby Towson; Tender was preceded by Zelda's novel Save Me the Waltz and her play “Scandalabra,” produced

 

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Baltimore Conference

Conference Schedule

Registration form - print and mail by Aug. 1

Teacher's Day registration form

Featured Speakers

Graduate Students Kuehl Travel Fellowship

Baltimore conference sponsors include:

The Johns Hopkins University Press

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The Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University