Family Portrait
Bread Pudding and Other Memories: A Boyhood on the Farm
Spring Rain Winter Snow
Jugo Meets a Poet
Answers Instead: A Life in Haiku
Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond (Contemporary Sports Issues)
Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
The 1960s: American Popular Culture Through History
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
Sitting Bull: A Biography
Legends of American Indian Resistance
Baseball in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching the National Pastime
Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction
The Sister Fidelma Mysteries: Essays on the Historical Novels of Peter Tremayne
Approaches to Teaching Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
Abandoned farmhouse: And other haiku
The Furrow's Edge
Anniversary Haiku
Ways of Looking: Poems of the Farm
Rain Falling Quietly
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems
The Breaking of Glass Horses and Other Poems
Family Portrait
My Struggling Soil
How Sky Holds the Sun
A Fine, Safe Journey: Poems about Haying and Other Matters
To Sadie at 18 Months and Other Poems
Unbeaten Man
Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons Learned from Maine's Greatest Generation
One of the most widely read writers in the high school curriculum, F. Scott Fitzgerald is the author of the great American novel, The Great Gatsby. While other biographies provide extensive information about Fitzgerald's life and achievements, this volume meets the need of high school students for a concise, accessible, and informative discussion of Fitzgerald and his works. Chapters survey the various periods in his career, and the volume closes with a timeline and bibliography.
Probably the best candidate for the author of the great American novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald is primarily known for his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. He had fallen out of favor by the time of his death in 1940, while Ernest Hemingway attained worldwide fame. But there has been a tremendous renewal of interest in his works, and he is one of the most important writers in the high school English curriculum. While there are other biographies of Fitzgerald, this work meets the need of high school students for a concise, accessible, and informative survey of Fitzgerald's life and career.