F. Scott Fitzgerald
The lonely grave of an American great: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final resting place
Posted by staff / May 16, 2013Wandering a graveyard in Rockville, Maryland, you may come upon a common tombstone and wonder if your eyes are deceiving you or you just stumbled upon the final resting place of one America’s great writers. Number two would be the correct, and sobering, answer. When he died in 1940 Fitzgerald regarded himself as an utter …
Read More5 money lessons from Gatsby
Posted by staff / May 13, 2013Kristin Colella at MainStreet.com has tackled the enduring issues that the modern take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic, Gatsby, can teach us. But first, here’s how she summarizes the movie: Set during the summer of 1922, “The Great Gatsby” is told through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner who recently moved to Long …
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