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Matthew J. Bruccoli
American writer, editor and literary historian
Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (August 21, – June 4, )[1][2] was an American professor of English at the University of South Carolina.
He was an expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald; his biography of Fitzgerald, published in , was considered the standard biography for decades. He also wrote about other writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and John O'Hara, and was editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Early life and education
Matthew Joseph Bruccoli was born in in The Bronx, New York to Joseph Bruccoli and Mary Gervasi.[3] He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in He studied at Cornell University, where one of his professors was the noted author Vladimir Nabokov,[4] and at Yale University.
On campus, he was a founding member of the fledgling Manuscript Society, graduating in [3] In , he received a PhD in English literature studies fro