Mathew J. Bruccoli
Emily Brown Jefferies Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Office: 404 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-8193
bruccoli@mailbox.sc.edu
Education
B.A., Yale, 1953
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1960
Specialization Areas
- Twentieth-Century American
- History of the Book and Authorship
- Literary Biography
Recent Courses
See Course
Descriptions for detailed information.
Current Research Project(s)
My fields are F. Scott Fitzgerald, the twentieth-century American novel, the profession of authorship, the history of publishing, and bibliography and text.
Books in Press
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, editor (Signet, 2006)
Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series: Plumes by Lawrence Stallings, Zero Hour by Georg Grabenhorst, and The Somme by A. D. Gristwood, series editor (University of South Carolina Press, 2006)
John O'Hara, Hello Hollywood Good-bye: Stories of Movie People, editor (Carroll & Graf, 2007)
Books in Progress
F. Scott Fitzgerald at Auction,@ author
Thomas Wolfe's Undergraduate Publications,@ editor with Aldo Magi
Thomas Wolfe's "The Four Lost Men": Annotated Edition of the Complete Text,@ editor with Arlyn Bruccoli
Selected Publications Since 1999
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: A Documentary Volume, editor (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale, 2000)
http://www.gale.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=DLB&edition=
Trimalchio by F. Scott Fitzgerald; editor (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000) http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/Sp00/3360.html
O Lost by Thomas Wolfe; editor with Arlyn Bruccoli (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000)
http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/Fw00/3369.html
"To Loot My Life Clean": The Thomas Wolfe/Maxwell Perkins Correspondence, editor with Park Bucker(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000)
http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/Fw00/3355.html
James Gould Cozzens: An Exhibition from the Bruccoli Collection, September-November 2000, compiler; project sponsored by the University of South Carolina Center for Literary Biography (Columbia, S.C.: Thomas Cooper Library, 2000)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Before Gatsby: Twenty-Six Stories, editor with Judith S. Baughman(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001)
http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2001/3371.html
Classes on F. Scott Fitzgerald, author (Columbia: Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, 2001)
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 2000, editor with George Garrett (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/The Gale Group, 2001)
http://www.gale.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=DLB&edition=
Hemingway and the Thirties: A Symposium and Exhibition from the Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Collection, compiler with Patrick Scott (Columbia: Thomas Cooper Library/University of South Carolina, 2001)
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/hemingway/hemhome.html
The Last Romantic: A Poet among Publishers (John Hall Wheelock), editor with Judith S. Baughman(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002)
http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2002/3463.html
Classes on Ernest Hemingway, author (Columbia: Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, 2002)
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 2001, editor with George Garrett (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Thomson/Gale, 2002)
http://www.gale.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imrint=000&titleCode=DLB&edition=
Joseph Heller: A Descriptive Bibliography, author with Park Bucker (New Castle, Del., and Pittsburgh: Oak Knoll Press & University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002)
http://www.oakknoll.com/results.php?s_ShowPics=1&search_val=%22Joseph+Heller%22&search_fld=All&x=14&y=4
Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 2002, editor with George Garrett (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Thomson/Gale, 2003)
http://www.gale.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=DLB&edition=
Catch as Catch Can: The Collected Stories and Other Writings by Joseph Heller, editor with Park Bucker (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003)
http://www.simonsays.com/content/search_summary.cfm?string=%22Catch+as+Catch+Can
F. Scott Fitzgerald=s Tender Is the Night, editor with George Parker Anderson (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Thomson/Gale, 2003)
http://www.gale.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=DLB&edition=
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald, editor with Judith S. Baughman (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003)
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/fall2003/conv_f_scott_fitzgerald.html
The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor, editor with Judith S. Baughman (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004)
http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2004/3548.html
The Easiest Thing in the World: The Uncollected Fiction of George V. Higgins, editor (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004)
http://www.pgw.com/catalog/search.asp
Conversations with John le Carré, editor with Judith S. Baughman(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004)
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/fall2004/conversation_john_lecarre.html
James Gould Cozzens: A Documentary Volume, editor (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Thomson/Gale, 2004)
http://www.gale.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=DLB&edition=
Hemingway and the Mechanism of Fame, editor with Judith S. Baughman (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005)
http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2006/3599.html
Getting It Wrong: Resetting The Great Gatsby, author (Columbia, S.C., 2005)
Thomas Wolfe=s Friendship with Henry Volkening: The Documents, editor with Arlyn Bruccoli (Bloomington, Ind.: Thomas Wolfe Society, 2005)
http://www.thomaswolfe.org/publications/
22 Collections: An Exhibition From the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collections In the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina (Columbia: Thomas Cooper Library, 2005)
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/exhibit.html
John O=Hara: A Documentary Volume, editor (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Thomson/Gale, 2006)
http://www.gale.com/servlet/BrowseSeriesServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=DLB&edition=
Selected Series Editorships
Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography, 35 vols. to date (Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969- )
Dictionary of Literary Biography, 375 vols. to date (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale, 1978- )
Understanding Contemporary American Literature, 75 vols. to date
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985- )
Understanding Contemporary British Literature, 35 vols. to date
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991- )
Gale Study Guides to Great Literature, 18 vols.(Detroit: Manly/The Gale Group, 1999-2002)