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the Fitzgerald list-serve or at jfbyrne@aol.com no later than January 5, 2010. Please include complete contact information (name, mail address, e-mail address, telephone number and institutional affiliation) along with a one paragraph description of what you hope to do in the presentation. I then will put together a list of presenters, a description of the workshop and activities each is to

present, and an overall description of what we hope to achieve. The proposal is due at NCTE by January 20, but we will not be notified of acceptance or rejection until later in spring. Consequently, this posting does not represent an official invitation to speak at the NCTE convention. If the proposal is accepted, however, NCTE will send an invitation and registration materials to each speaker. NCTE also will prohibit presenters for the workshop from making an

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additional presentation during the regular concurrent conference sessions.

Please Note: If you are not already a member of NCTE you will need to join in order to be a conference participant. You will also need to pay the registration fee. Please see the NCTE website www.NCTE.org for additional information on the conference and membership.
Hope to see you in Orlando!

10th International Fitzgerald Conference Held in Baltimore Deemed Rewarding by Attendees

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

The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society customarily meets in locations biographically and artistically significant to F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and the 2009 conference was no exception. The 10th International Conference was held September 30 through October 3, 2009, in Baltimore, Maryland.

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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