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Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. With a Genealogical Afterword by Scottie Fitzgerald Smith. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. While believing that Fitzgerald's life was a quest for heroism and that the writer himself was heroic, Bruccoli does much in his biography to revise the popular mythology surrounding Fitzgerald's life and to correct the factual errors of previous biographers. This study is the most carefully researched of the many books on Fitzgerald's life.

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