This volume of more than three hundred letters, selected from some seven thousand gathered around the world, is the first to provide a comprehensive collection of Thornton Wilder's correspondence. Wilder was known as a man who knew everybody, and these letters vividly document the range of his friendships. Readers will find him roller-skating with Walt Disney, attending an inaugural reception for FDR at the White House, describing his life as a soldier in two World Wars, mentoring younger writers, dining out with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor, and savoring his association with colorful local citizens during his twenty-month stay as a self-styled “hermit” in an Arizona mining town.
Through Wilder's correspondence, readers can eavesdrop on his conversations with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein. Noël Coward, Max Reinhardt, Gene Tunney, Alexander Woollcott, Laurence Olivier, Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin, Aaron Copeland, Paul Hindemith, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Albee, and Mia Farrow. Equally absorbing are Wilder's intimate letters to his family. 
The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Wilder was a born storyteller and dramatist; we see that talent emerging in scenes and incidental dialogue in his letters. With characteristic exuberance, he draws on his vast reservoir of learning and his incessant reading to inform, encourage, instruct, and entertain. In this collection, Thornton Wilder speaks for himself in his own unique, enduring voice.

The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder

Biographies & Memoirs

Bryer, Jackson R.

Wilder, Robin Gibbs

WILDER, Thornton

Arts & Literature

Harper

Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writer’s correspondence. 
The author of such classics as Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder was a born storyteller and dramatist—rare talents on glorious display in this volume of more than three hundred letters he penned to a vast array of famous friends and beloved relatives. Through Wilder's correspondence, readers can eavesdrop on his conversations with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Noël Coward, Gene Tunney, Laurence Olivier, Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Albee, and Mia Farrow. Equally absorbing are Wilder's intimate letters to his family. 
Wilder tells of roller-skating with Walt Disney, remembers an inaugural reception for FDR at the White House, describes his life as a soldier in two World Wars, and recalls dining out with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. In these pages, Thornton Wilder speaks for himself in his own unique, enduring voice—informing, encouraging, instructing, and entertaining with his characteristic wit, heart, and exuberance.

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Harper-perennial

Often overshadowed by his major novels, Fitzgerald's short stories demonstrate the same originality and inventive range, as he chronicles with wry and astute observation the temper of the hedonistic 1920s. Here is the only critical edition of Tales of the Jazz Age available in paperback as first published. It was Fitzgerald's second collection of stories, and it contains some of the best of his short fiction, including "May Day" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," two of his greatest, and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," recently adapted into a full-length movie. The collection also highlights Fitzgerald's ability to work in a variety of forms--parody, a one-act play, fantasy--with unrivalled versatility. Fitzgerald scholar Jackson R. Bryer provides an in-depth appreciation of the stories and examines the making of the volume and its reception. The volume also includes an up-to-date bibliography, a chronology of the author's life and work, and explanatory notes identifying contemporary references and allusions. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Tales of the Jazz Age (Oxford World's Classics)

Fitzgerald,F.Scott

United States

Oxford University Press

F. Scott Fitzgerald produced 179 short stories in his prolific literary  career. Although consistently popular with the reading public and widely  anthologized, these works have suffered a strangely stony critical  reception. Disparaged by some as mere potboilers and dismissed by others  as a listless footnote to the novelist’s oeuvre, they remain the most  seriously neglected aspect of Fitzgerald scholarship. It is in response  to this absence of worthwhile commentary that editor Jackson R. Bryer  sets forth here to redress what he calls a deplorable imbalance.  Gathering together a variety of insightful essays on Fitzgerald’s short  stories in a volume sure to excite students of American and contemporary  literature, Bryer and his distinguished contributors begin to fill an  unjustifiable critical void. The result is a unique collection, one that  focuses attention on an unexplored body of work and becomes, in the  process, eloquent witness to the depth, artistry, and resonant beauty of  Fitzgerald’s short fiction.

The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Approaches in Criticism

History & Criticism

University of Wisconsin Press

Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for over twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, we have the story of their love in the couple's own letters. Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda consists of more than 75 percent previously unpublished or out-of-print letters as well as extensive narrative on the Fitzgeralds' marriage by Fitzgerald scholars Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks. Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda features black-and-white and color photographs, and a candid introduction by Eleanor Lanahan, the Fitzgeralds' granddaughter.

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Barks, Cathy W.

St. Martin's: Griffin

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American Women Writers: Bibliographical Essays

Duke, Maurice

Greenwood

Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career highs (and lows) and her institutional confinement, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for more than twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, the story of the love of these two glamorous and hugely talented writers can be given in their own letters. Introduced by an extensive narrative of the Fitzgeralds' marriage, the 333 letters - three-quarters of them previously unpublished or out of print - have been edited by the noted Fitzgerald scholars, Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks. They are illustrated throughout with a generous selection of familiar and unpublished photographs.

Barks, Cathy W. (Eds.)

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The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder

The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder

Tales of the Jazz Age (Oxford World's Classics)

The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Approaches in Criticism

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

American Women Writers: Bibliographical Essays

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald