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Gatsby Girls Edition!
Looking At All Things Gatsby 
The Great Gatsby recently took home two Academy Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design. Because the film has a couple of gold statues attached to it, we thought it would be a good idea to show you All Things Gatsby that TruLOVE Stories has to offer! We have videos about the life and times of Gatsby, a collection of vintage artwork from the Saturday Evening Post and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby Girls audio book is now on sale! Enjoy the Gatsby Girls Edition of the TruLOVE Stories Newsletter!
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A Marriage on Fire 
F. Scott Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre while he was stationed in Alabama, serving in the United States Army during the First World War--just as Jay Gatsby first meets Daisy in the backstory to The Great Gatsby. In the novel, Gatsby loses Daisy to Tom Buchanan for a while, but unlike Gatsby, Fitzgerald was able to marry his love...two weeks after Scribner agreed to publish his first novel, This Side of Paradise, which finally convinced the 20-year-old debutante of his ability to provide for her.
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Watch the Kirk Curnutt Interviews 
Join the lively discussion of the stories in Fitzgerald's Gatsby Girls between Kirk Curnutt, professor and chair of English at Troy University's Montgomery Campus in Montgomery, Alabama, and Ashley Gordon of Reading for the Rest of Us.
Watch All The Videos Here
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Fifty Fitzgerald Fun Facts 
--In 1922, F. Scott wrote his only play, The Vegetable. It was not a hit.
--Hemingway detested Zelda and called her "insane."
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Gatsby Girls Discussion Guide 
F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of America's greatest writers. Because his short stories were published in the
Saturday Evening Post, one of the country's most popular magazines, he became one of the public's favorite authors. This discussion guide has been created for book club groups or others who are interested in exploring the F. Scott Fitzgerald short stories collected in the book, Gatsby Girls.
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