Critic and scholar Sarah Churchwell – a native of Chicago’s North Shore(like Gatsby’s “Tom Buchanan”) – has written the most significant book about the artistry of F. Scott Fitzgerald in many a year…
Churchwell is a graduate of Vassar and Princeton. She is a professor of American Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich,England. She also hosts a radio talk show on the BBC.
Ms. Churchwell has written with her signature wit and erudition before on such undry, unacademic subjects as the cult of Marilyn Monroe. With her “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem,and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, she has displayed amazing insight into a work whose iconic significance to American letters has only grown with each passing year. This is a breakthrough book for Churchwell but also for the general reader, who will readily appreciate her literary detective work. Continue reading
