In response to: How Princetonians Saved ‘The Great Gatsby’
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July 2025
On the cover: Wilton Virgo ’00 and his classmates celebrate during the P-rade.
On the cover: Wilton Virgo ’00 and his classmates celebrate during the P-rade.
Fitzgerald is my favorite writer!
I’ve read and studied almost everything about him and by him. He is so much more than Princeton. He’s so much part of his life’s love, Zelda — also a great writer. Gatsby is without a doubt the “great American novel” of the 20th century (Twain’s Huckleberry Finn of the 19th century).
Every element of 1920s America simply and beautifully points to Gatsby. To use a now outmoded characterization, it is a genuine Masterpiece. And F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of our most elegant and gifted stylists to ever apply pen to paper. Oh had he lived to finish Last Tycoon and go on to write more …