“From the first he loved Princeton - its lazy beauty, its half-grasped significance,” he wrote of one of the characters in “This Side of Paradise.” He might as well have been writing about himself.
He dreamed of the Gothic spires and gargoyles on its campus long before he dreamed of East Egg and the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. Scott Fitzgerald’s manuscripts from the library at Princeton University.įitzgerald is one of Princeton’s demigods - in a turbulent undergraduate career there, he withdrew twice, the second time to join the Army in World War I. He explained in an author’s note at the end of “Camino Island,” published in June, that he did not want to inspire “some misguided soul” to try a caper like the one that opens the book - stealing F. John Grisham wrote his latest page-turner without visiting the scene of the crime.
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